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Civic club of Carlisle Pennsylvania

Carlisle Old and New

Originally published in 1907, this illustrated book was put out by the Civic Club of Carlisle, Pennsylvania and covers the history of the area and many of its homes, buildings and people. (1907) 2017, vii, 173pp (185 total pages)...

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Beverly J. Bone

Carlisle (Images of America)

Carlisle is the county seat of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. It is about 18 miles west of Harrisburg, the state capital. Carlisle was planned and founded in 1751 when it was a pioneer town and became the gateway to the westward movement. It was a prominent military post in the French and Indian W...

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Jacqueline Fear-Segal

Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations (Indigenous Education)

The Carlisle Indian School (1879–1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt, the school’s founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man’s ways and values would be more efficient than f...

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Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football'sGreatest Battle

In this stunning work of narrative nonfiction, Lars Anderson recounts one of college football’s greatest contests: Carlisle vs. Army , the fateful 1912 gridiron clash that had far-reaching implications both real and symbolic. The story centers on three men: Glenn “Pop” Warner, who came to th...

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Carlisle's Duty: The Eleventh Carlisle & Holbrooke Naval Adventure (Carlisle and Holbrooke Naval Adventures)

North America’s French and Indian War may be over, but at the end of 1760 the wider Seven Years War is still raging in Europe and across the seas of the world. Nevertheless, the New England merchants are growing restless at the restrictions on their trade with the French islands, and one Rhode Isl...

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Carlisle Medical

The Doctor’s Heart Rosco is an emergency room doctor with a daughter who relies on him. who finds himself flirting with one of the ambulance EMTs and, to his surprise, he gets flirted with right back. Miguel is surprised the handsome ER doc even knows who he is. After he’s injured on the job, Mi...

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Carlisle & Ivy: A Deal For A Kiss

Nothing could hide her from me. The darkness is everywhere and it moves about in the mortal realm.... And then there's her. Bright and so easily seen. Mine. She calls to me like I prayed to the Gods she would. I should feel guilt for what I'm going to do. What I must do. She doesn't remember, but I ...

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Carlisle's Molly Pitcher: Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley

A fictionalized account of Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley’s life story, the most plausible“Molly Pitcher” from the American Revolution, based on the historical record....

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Carlisle & Ivy: A Deal for a Kiss (Discreet Series)

Nothing could hide her from me. The darkness is everywhere and it moves about in the mortal realm…. And then there’s her. Bright and so easily seen. Mine. She calls to me like I prayed to the Gods she would. I should feel guilt for what I’m going to do. What I must do. She doesn’t remembe...

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Dying for Vengeance: A Christopher Snow & Erin McCoy Mystery (Carlisle Crime Cases)

Carlisle Homicide Detective Erin McCoy battles the jitters as the first woman in Homicide partnered with Senior Detective Christopher Snow. On their first case, they track a serial killer who’s stalking family members embroiled in an inheritance dispute. The perp dispatches his victims with toxic ...

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Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Defeated the Army (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books)

In the autumn of 1912, the football team from Carlisle Indian Industrial School took the field at the U.S. Military Academy, home to the bigger, stronger, and better-equipped West Points Cadets. Sportswriters billed the game as a sort of rematch, pitting against each other the descendants of U.S. so...

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"A Very Correct Idea of Our School": A Photographic History of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

From its beginning, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918) was documented in photographs. The photographic record of the school was used to share with the wider world the progress and perceived successes of its process of assimilating Native American children and young adults, transformin...

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The Colonial Post-Captain: A Carlisle and Holbrooke Naval Adventure

The Western Mediterranean, 1756. An uneasy peace is about to be shattered as France’s greatest living general prepares an invasion force in Toulon; but where is it bound?Captain Carlisle hails from Virginia, a loyal colony of the British Crown. As the clouds of war gather, Carlisle’s small friga...

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Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak

Boarding School Voices is both an anthology of mostly unpublished writing by former students of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and a study of that writing. The boarding schools’ ethnocidal practices have become a metaphor for the worst evils of colonialism, a specifiable source for the ill...

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Gridiron Gypsies: The Complete History of the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

After pleading with Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt to be allowed to play football against other schools, the small complement of students old enough competed against college men from coast to coast. Some had never seen a real football before and most were learning English. Located in a small t...

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The National Archives and Records Administration

Records of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

This publication lists the categories of documents available at the National Archives, Washington, DC, for the Carlisle Indian School. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania was established in 1879 and was closed in 1918. It was the first Government operated non-reservation ...

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A Town In-Between: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the Early Mid-Atlantic Interior (Early American Studies)

Awarded the 2012 Philip S. Klein Book Prize from the Pennsylvania Historical Association In A Town In-Between , Judith Ridner reveals the influential, turbulent past of a modest, quiet American community. Today Carlisle, Pennsylvania, nestled in the Susquehanna Valley, is far from the nation's poli...

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Rocks and Shoals: The Seventh Carlisle & Holbrooke Naval Adventure (Carlisle and Holbrooke Naval Adventures)

With the fall of Louisbourg in 1758, the French in North America were firmly on the back foot. Pitt’s grand strategy for 1759 was to launch a three-pronged attack on Canada. One army would move north from Lake Champlain, and another smaller force would strike across the wilderness to Lake Ontario ...

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Joseph David Cress

Wicked Carlisle:: The Dark Side of the Cumberland Valley

With Wicked Carlisle, author Joe Cress revisits the criminal history of Cumberland County. Taking a more focused and less bloody approach, Cress will largely bring new stories of mischief to the table, though he will revisit the lighter side of two or three crimes from Murder and Mayhem in Cumberlan...

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The Leeward Islands Squadron: A Carlisle and Holbrooke Naval Adventure (Carlisle and Holbrooke Naval Adventures)

In late 1756, as the British government collapses in the aftermath of the loss of Minorca and the country and navy are thrown into political chaos, a small force of ships is sent to the West Indies to reinforce the Leeward Islands Squadron.Captain Edward Carlisle, a native of Virginia, and his first...

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