Local history

The Jazz Age, a phenomenon that shaped American leisure culture in the early twentieth century, coincided with the growth of Kansas City, Missouri, from frontier town to metropolitan city.

This book is the essential companion for those who wish to learn about and visit the Inner Hebridean islands of Eigg, Muck, Rum and Canna, known collectively as the Small Isles.

More so than other ecosystems, urban rivers typify our evolving relationship with nature.

The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia explores the creation, destruction, appropriation, and enduring legacy of one of early Americas most important places: the homelands of the Haudenosaunees (also known as the Iroquois Six Nations).

The Limits of Liberty chronicles the formation of the U.

Published through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W.

The Jazz Age, a phenomenon that shaped American leisure culture in the early twentieth century, coincided with the growth of Kansas City, Missouri, from frontier town to metropolitan city.

Winner of the 2022 W.

Published through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W.

Published through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W.

This work explores the interconnectivity of Southern Appalachia with other regions of the United States through a historical examination of nearly 40 health resorts that once operated in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Winner of the 2022 W.

Published through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W.

The Limits of Liberty chronicles the formation of the U.

The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia explores the creation, destruction, appropriation, and enduring legacy of one of early Americas most important places: the homelands of the Haudenosaunees (also known as the Iroquois Six Nations).

In Of Corn and Catholicism Andrea Maria McComb Sanchez examines the development of the patron saint feast days among Eastern Pueblo Indians of New Mexico from the seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century.

San Franciscos reputation for accommodating progressive and unconventional identities can find its roots in the waves of transients and migrants that flocked to San Francisco between the gold rush and World War I.

From its status as a busy industrial town producing and dealing in wool, carpets, machine tools and confectionery to its role in the world of banking as the home of Halifax plc (now part of HBOS), Halifax has a proud and distinctive identity.

The town of Barnet grew up in the twelfth century to the north of London.

Thanks to Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales, the path along the North Downs to Thomas Becket's shrine in Canterbury Cathedral is the most famous pilgrim route in the world.

In the century between 1850 and 1950 Bradford witnessed extraordinary growth and changes.

Kilmarnock is the largest town in Ayrshire.

Bexhill-on-Sea, often simply called Bexhill, is a seaside resort located on the south coast of England in East Sussex.

Weymouth Harbour was historically a major port, flanked by the two towns of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.

An extraordinary book, with its origin in the author's long-standing interest in monuments and memorials, arising from many years of wandering Scotland's hills and glens.

Long after other parts of Arizona had outlawed prostitution in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Tucson maintained its red-light districts, Maiden Lane and Gay Alley.

For William Allen White, the ideal Midwestern community was a utopian vision of what America could be: a prosperous, happy community built on equality, opportunity, and neighborly generosity.

For William Allen White, the ideal Midwestern community was a utopian vision of what America could be: a prosperous, happy community built on equality, opportunity, and neighborly generosity.

The Dunbars of Ackergill and Hempriggs emerged in the late 1600s as one of the largest landowners in Caithness.

Bedfordshire may be among England's smallest counties, but its 700,000 residents and increasing visitor numbers have a wealth of places to explore within its boundaries.

Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, has long been an important cultural and trading centre.

Berkhamsted is a lively town in the Chiltern Hills with a history stretching back to before the Anglo-Saxons.

Somerset is one of the most varied counties in the country.

With its own traditions and strong sense of identity and independence, the Forest of Dean appears as a separate, almost secret, part of Gloucestershire.

Portsmouth is primarily known for its long-term association with the Royal Navy, the naval dockyard at one time the world's largest employer of a civilian workforce.

For much of Eastbourne's history it was a collection of small settlements on the Sussex coast.

Bristol has been one of England's largest cities since it became a county in 1373.

The market town of Evesham grew up around its abbey, one of the largest in England.

The Yorkshire Dales, in northern England, combines river valleys, hills and historic settlements.

Liverpool's growth and prosperity throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was reflected in the rise of its shops as much as any other aspect of city life.

Bilbao y su ria experimentaron un notable crecimiento desde mediados del siglo XIX, intensificado a principios del XX, siguiendo una tradicion comercial de siglos anteriores.

Professional architects first began to arrive in California in the 1880s.

This work provides an in-depth examination of early healthcare and the evolution of professional nursing in the heart of Appalachia.

This work provides an in-depth examination of early healthcare and the evolution of professional nursing in the heart of Appalachia.

Although Jews and other ethnic and racial minorities were uncommon in the more remote regions of the frontier American West, this did not mean that early settlers lacked an interest in these groups, their behaviors, their cultures and their beliefs, as shown in the press.

Although Jews and other ethnic and racial minorities were uncommon in the more remote regions of the frontier American West, this did not mean that early settlers lacked an interest in these groups, their behaviors, their cultures and their beliefs, as shown in the press.

In modern times, men and women in America expect to lead long and fruitful lives.

In modern times, men and women in America expect to lead long and fruitful lives.

Somerset County, in southwestern Pennsylvania, lost more than 400 of its men in the American Civil War.

Drawing upon historical research and archaeological discoveries, Daphne Brooke brings to life the events and personalities of the ancient realm of Galloway from Roman times until the fifteenth century.