Floridas Coast-to-Coast Trail Guide is a guidebook designed specifically for the 250-mile dedicated bicycle/pedestrian trail that provides an uninterrupted cross-Florida trail from Titusville to St.
Cathedrals of War tells the story ofFlorida's coastal fortifications from Amelia Island on the Florida/Georgia border, to Key West, the Dry Tortugas, an atoll midway between Key West and Havana, Cuba and Pensacola on Florida's west coast.
A few weeks after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, James Montgomery sailed into Key West Harbor looking for black men to draft into the Union army.
Late at night around the campfires, Seminole children safely tucked into mosquito nets used to listen to the elders retelling the old stories and legends.
A timeless collection of pirate stories from Florida originally written in the late 1950s, this book includes stories of well-known and lesser known pirates and buccaneers and the treasure they left behind.
An Illustrated History of Palm Beach is a nostalgic journey through the history of the town of Palm Beach as told through the photographic collection of the Historical Society of Palm Beach County.
From the time the first humans reached the Florida peninsula more than 12,000 years ago through today's complex and diverse state, this timeline narrative sets Florida's fascinating history against the backdrop of world events.
The European explorers were the first to find the evidence of earlier civilizations who built monumental earthwork mounds, ceremonial complexes and cities in the Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys.
The Sultana was a sidewheel Mississippi steamboat carrying almost two thousand recently-released Union prisoners-of-war back north at the end of the Civil War.
In the Fall of 1949, a series of international events shattered the notion that the United States would return to its traditional small peacetime military posture following World War II.
THE VIVID, SCANDAL-FILLED STORY OF A SHREWD, RAGS-TO-RICHES MILLIONAIRESS AND THE RUTHLESS POLITICIAN WHO PURSUED HER, TOLD AGAINST THE EFFERVESCENT BACKDROP OF AMERICA'S GOLDEN CITYSAN FRANCISCO.
The all-volunteer force (AVF), created in conjunction with the end of the draft in 1973, has been the most significant development in modern American military history.
The incredible true story of a Galilean stonemason who changed the course of the world forever, beautifully told through the eyewitness accounts of those who knew him best.
In einer Welt, die von ständiger Veränderung geprägt ist, bleiben die Heiligen Jahre der katholischen Kirche ein kraftvolles Symbol für Besinnung, Buße und Erneuerung.
This work explores the religious experiences of five cloistered nuns in Bogota and Tunja, New Granada (present day Colombia), during the 17th and 18th centuries.
This volume features eighty-five of Obama's most impactful speeches, spanning more than a decade from his time in the Senate to his final day in the presidency.
*; Offers evidence from Jesse James's secret encoded diaries *; Examines Jesse James's close ties with other notorious outlaws, such as Johnny Ringo, Jesse Evans, and Billy the Kid *; Shows how Jesse James was related, by blood or marriage, to powerful people in law enforcement and politics, including the elite families behind the Copperheads and the Knights of the Golden Circle organizations Jesse James and many other Old West outlaws were much more than just wild cowboys.
The year-by-year chronology of landmark dates and events in the state's recorded history with an updated view of race, gender, and other social issues.
A sourcebook for understanding an uprising that continues to incite historical debateIn the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined forces to strike down their white owners and march en masse toward Spanish Florida and freedom.
In this pioneering study of the long and arduous struggle for civil rights in South Carolina, longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson details the lynchings, beatings, bombings, cross burnings, death threats, arson, and venomous hatred that black South Carolinians endured-as well as the astonishing courage, devotion, dignity, and compassion of those who risked their lives for equality.
A thanksgiving and lament for life on the South Carolina coast"e;Columbus knew no greater thrill than I, a ten-year-old discovering new creeks and branches and islands and mainland hideaways.
The effect of Saint Domingue's decolonization on the wider Atlantic worldThe slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic.
A comprehensive history of one of Charleston's most significant landmarksOn a hot summer day in 1929, the citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, participated in one of the largest celebrations in the city's history-the opening of the Cooper River Bridge.
A comprehensive study of the oyster shell building material of the South Carolina LowcountryBeaufort, South Carolina,is well known for its historical architecture, but perhaps none is quite as remarkable as those edifices formed by tabby, sometimes called coastal concrete, comprising a mixture of lime, sand, water, and oyster shells.
The "e;First Lady of American Folklore"e; explores the supernatural side of the Civil War with chilling tales of spectral soldiers and haunted battlefields.
