books by John W. Morris

books by John W. Morris

books:

John W. Morris

Twelve Years in the Saddle with the Texas Rangers
W. J. L. Sullivan

University of Nebraska Press, 2001

Riding straight out of the pages of Western history, W. J. L. Sullivan arrives, hat firmly planted on his head, to tell in his own plain way about his time as a sergeant of the Texas Rangers. The years were 1889 to 1901, and there was lawlessness enough on the frontiers of Texas to occupy any able-bodied man with a horse, a six-shooter, and a ...

King Philip's War: Based On The Archives And Records Of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Rhode Island And Connecticut ...
George W. Ellis, John E. Morris

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

Historical Atlas of Oklahoma
John W. and McReynolds, Edwin C. Morris

University of Oklahoma Press, 1965

Civic Builders

Curtis W. Fentress, Robert Campbell, ...

Academy Press, 2002

Just the photography alone is worth the 5-star rating.
As a professional photographer, I love to look at architecture books. This one is truly gorgeous. I haven't read all the writings accompanying the photos but the few I've read (such as the one by Campbell, Boston Globe critic) are excellent.

Let Truth Be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith, His Life and Photographs

Ben Maddow

Aperture, 1998

He was probably a bastard, but I wish I'd met him
In the fall of 1985 I drove down from Northern New Jersey to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see the retrospective show of W. Eugene Smith's work for which this book was the catalog. I walked through the rooms and people stood in front of his Minamata photographs, ...

Historical Atlas of Oklahoma

John W. Morris, Charles R. Goins, ...

University of Oklahoma Press, 1985

(4th Edition Hardback) Excellent
(I'm reviewing the 4th Edition Hardcover) This atlas maps and details an astonishing number of facts about Oklahoma. There's something for everyone: political (e.g. "Constitutional Convention Delegate Districts, 1906" , geologilcal ("Geologic Formations), biological ...

Escaping Prison Myths: Selected Topics in the History of Federal Corrections
Paul W. Keve, Esther Heffernan

American University Press, 1994

This book describes and analyzes the key issues in the history of federal corrections in the United States: the origins and development of the first federal prisons; the role of women in federal corrections; the evolution of inmate rights; inmate classification and rehabilitation programs; prison administration and executive management; and the ...

Achieving and Sustaining Institutional Excellence for the First Year of College (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult ...
Betsy O. Barefoot, John N. Gardner, ...

Jossey-Bass, 2005

In 2002, the Policy Center on the First Year of College (supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and Lumina Foundation for Education) sponsored a project to recognize colleges and universities as "Institutions of Excellence" in their design and execution of the first year. Thirteen colleges and ...

History 31st Regiment: Illinois Volunteers Organized by John A. Logan (Shawnee Classics (Reprinted))
W. S. Morris, J.B. Kuykendall, ...

Southern Illinois University Press, 1998

The story of John A. Logan’s famed 31st Regiment Illinois Volunteers, told by three veterans, follows the regiment from the battles of Belmont, Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Kenesaw Mountain, and Atlanta through the March to the Sea and into North Carolina. "Few regiments," notes historian John Y. Simon in the foreword, "fought longer or more ...

King Philip's War
George W. Ellis, John E. Morris

Digital Scanning, 2001

KING PHILIP'S WAR is Ellis and Morris? renowned study of the Indian uprising that occurred after more than a half-century of peaceful co-existence with the English settlers. Metacomet, son of Massasoit of the Wampanoag tribe, led an uprising in 1675 that would later be known as King Philip?s War. The Natives? resistance to increased English ...