books by Billy Smith

books by Billy Smith

books:

Billy Smith

Life in Early Philadelphia: Documents from the Revolutionary and Early National Periods

Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995

Covering the period from about 1775 to 1810, this collection of historical documents examines the everyday lives of men and women from all walks of life. Taken together, the documents shed light on the experiences of 18th-century Philadelphians as they helped fashion an emerging American society.

The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation

Billy Collins

Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 2003

get excited about poetry
I am a high school English teacher and The Spoken Word Revolution has completely changed the way my students respond to poetry. Whenever I used to say we were going to look at a poem my students would groan. Now they come into the classroom reminding me that Friday is ...

61* : The Story of Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle and One Magical Summer

Ron Smith, Billy Crystal

McGraw-Hill/Contemporary, 2001

loved the movie and the book
Like me Billy Crystal is a big Yankee fan. We are about the same age, so we were young boys in 1961 (I was 14). Mantle was my idol and in 1956 I was rooting for him to break Babe Ruth's record. Crystal took his own first hand experience and added extensive research ...

Elvis and the Memphis Mafia

Alanna Nash, Billy Smith, ...

Aurum Press, 2005

Elvis book I couldn't put down!
This is one Elvis book that I couldn't put down!! Any Elvis fan should have this one in their collection. Filled with all kinds of details...although always remember you can't believe everything that you read. It is filled with accounts from members of the Memphis ...

The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant

Susan E. Klepp, Billy Gordon Smith

Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992

Read the Infortunate
This book is a great way to learn about early American life in the cities. It is well written in a very unique first person, and true. I read it in college and loved it, and i think that it would still be a good read for anyone highschool to adult. It's a quick read.

The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People 1750-1880
Billy Gordon Smith

Cornell University Press, 1994

This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. Billy G. Smith demonstrates how the "lower sort" (as they were called by their contemporaries) struggled to carve out meaningful lives during an era of vast change stretching from the Seven Years' War, ...

A Melancholy Scene of Devastation: The Public Response to the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic

Science History Publications/USA, 1997

Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008

As a category of historical analysis, class is dead--or so it has been reported over the past two decades. The contributors to Class Matters contest this demise. Although differing in their approaches, they all agree that socioeconomic inequality remains indispensable to our understanding of the transition from the early modern to modern era in ...

Amos, Obadiah, Jonah (New American Commentary)
Franklin S. Page, Billy K. Smith

B&H Publishing Group, 1995

An Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary

Michael Horowitz, Karen Walls, ...

Archon Books, 1988

Superb Annotated Bibliography
If you are a highly committed fan of Timothy Leary (like me), or if you are a researcher following his every literary footstep, or if you are a librarian considering adding a reference work on this important figure of the 1960s counterculture, you definitely will want ...

Country Tales Of A Southern Boy
Billy, Joe Smith

Thomas Max Publishing, 2007

Brunswick, Georgia's Billy Joe Smith serves up tales from his life with Southern-style humor in this collection of short stories.

Down and Out in Early America

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004

Presents evidence that many early Americans lived in poverty and endured financial insecurity.

The Lower Sort: Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800
Billy Gordon Smith

Cornell University Press, 1990

This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. Billy G. Smith demonstrates how the "lower sort" (as they were called by their contemporaries) struggled to carve out meaningful lives during an era of vast change stretching from the Seven Years' War, ...