In an auditorium in Belcourt, North Dakota, on a chilly October day in 1932, Robert Bruce and his fellow tribal citizens held the political fate of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in their hands.
Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1824-1931, is a portrait of the vanished steamboat dayswhen a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck's Slip on the East River in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge.
A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped the Emerald City, It Happened in Seattle describes everything from the battle of Seattle in 1856 to the Nisqually earthquake of 2001.
Step into the era when American wealth created landscapes that rivaled European royalty and discover the magnificent gardens that still captivate visitors today.
A truly powerful paean to the night sky CAROLINE EDEN, author of Black Sea________________________________________________________________ At a time of personal crisis, travel writer and dark sky advocate Megan Eaves-Egenes turned to the stars for solace.
Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in the Peach State.
Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1824-1931, is a portrait of the vanished steamboat dayswhen a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck's Slip on the East River in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge.
RECLAIMING THE MEANING, PURPOSE, AND POWER OF AMERICA'S FOUNDING DOCUMENTThe Declaration of Independence forever transforms our understanding of equality, liberty, and the proper role of government.
Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in the Peach State.
The serial literature current in Wales between 1789 and 1802 is the most important public repository of radical, loyalist and patriotic Welsh responses to the French Revolution and the Revolutionary Wars.
When it was originally published in 1963, this was the first full study in English of French economic planning in the 20th century and appeared at a time when the UK was beginning a similar experiment.
Nuclear power is a most fascinating research object; technological by nature, it involves a socio-cultural imagery embedded in the broader framework of a country's societal and political traditions and practices.
Crosses, candles, choir vestments, sanctuary flowers, and stained glass are common church features found in nearly all mainline denominations of American Christianity today.
From the early years of Western Expansion to the present day, our history is marked by the heroic exploits of the rescuer and the rescued in some of the most daunting geographic, meteorological, and otherwise life-threatening challenges.
Winner: Abel Wolman AwardNew York State Archives Annual Award for Excellence in ResearchMost historians have credited New Deal initiatives in economic regulation and social welfare policy with bringing about the modern American state.
From the early years of Western Expansion to the present day, our history is marked by the heroic exploits of the rescuer and the rescued in some of the most daunting geographic, meteorological, and otherwise life-threatening challenges.
';Brilliant' Financial Times ';Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own London June 1701, and a young widow wakes in a Paris hotel to find a man in her bed.
For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses not just their eyes to construct racial difference and define race.
