Huell Howser, the exuberant, hugely popular host of California Gold and other California public-television shows, was always exclaiming to the camera, "e;Louie, take a look at this!
With growing concerns about the security, cost, and ecological consequences of energy use, people around the world are becoming more conscious of the systems that meet their daily needs for food, heat, cooling, light, transportation, communication, waste disposal, medicine, and goods.
A fascinating look at the private lives of prosperous landowners in antebellum South CarolinaOffering a richly textured picture of early national South Carolina, Richardson-Sinkler Connections includes more than 150 letters and documents left by the prominent Richardson and Sinkler families, who lived in the Santee region between Charleston and Columbia.
The first people of African descent to live in what is now South Carolina, enslaved people living in the sixteenth century Spanish settlements of San Miguel de Gualdape and Santa Elena, arrived even before the first permanent English settlement was established in 1670.
In these thirteen tales, Layne Livingston Anderson takes the reader on a guided tour of historical sites in Arkansas, focusing on legends passed down through the oral tradition.
Critical Praise for Gene Smith On Until the Last Trumpet Sounds"e;The best recent compact study of the commander of the American Expeditionary Force of World War I.
The Civil War historian recounts a significant yet smaller battle in the Shenandoah Valley-showing how it changed the war and the lives of those present.
This book revises the picture of the glittering Chicago of impressive mansions and museums; it exposes the city's corrupt underbelly and the realities of life in an age which is often assumed to have been simpler and more moral than ours.
The first comprehensive narrative of the South Carolina state capitol and the history enshrined in its monuments from 1787 to the presentThe South Carolina State House grounds are a work in progress-a cultural landscape of human-built and natural components connected physically, conceptually, and aesthetically.
This "e;admirably detailed and thoroughly welcome history"e; provides a fascinating examination of a pivotal moment in the evolution of economic theory (The Economist).
One of the major figures in American history, Andrew Carnegie was a ruthless businessman who made his fortune in the steel industry and ultimately gave most of it away.
This "e;admirably detailed and thoroughly welcome history"e; provides a fascinating examination of a pivotal moment in the evolution of economic theory (The Economist).
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.
First published in 1946, this atmospheric memoir of the battle of the Atlantic offers one of the most original accounts of war at sea aboard a corvette, escorting convoys in both the North and South Atlantic.
Sacred Violence in Early America offers a sweeping reinterpretation of the violence endemic to seventeenth-century English colonization by reexamining some of the key moments of cultural and religious encounter in North America.
