Local history

In this in-depth and detailed history, Timothy J.

Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth.

Indiana had the largest and most politically significant state organization in the massive national Ku Klux Klan movement of the 1920s.

While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complicated than it seems.

For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.

Indiana had the largest and most politically significant state organization in the massive national Ku Klux Klan movement of the 1920s.

In histories of enslavement and in Black womens history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality.

With an epic career that spanned two-thirds of the twentieth century, C.

While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complicated than it seems.

In histories of enslavement and in Black womens history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality.

With an epic career that spanned two-thirds of the twentieth century, C.

For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.

In the 1890s, the people of north-west Scotland grew tired of Government Commissions sent to consider a railway to Ullapool.

While Washington, D.

In 1730, Edmund Burt was sent to Scotland to work as a contractor for the government.

While Washington, D.

The U.

After World War II, Atlanta and Charlotte emerged as leading urban centers in the South, redefining the region through their competing metropolitan identities.

On October 3, 1873, the U.

For more than a century, the term Main Street has conjured up nostalgic images of American small-town life.

On October 3, 1873, the U.

Aaron McDuffie Moore (18631923) was born in rural Columbus County in eastern North Carolina at the close of the Civil War.

This collection of primary source material chronicles the Civil War experiences of North Carolinians from the secession crisis to the Confederate surrender at Bennett Place.

After World War II, Atlanta and Charlotte emerged as leading urban centers in the South, redefining the region through their competing metropolitan identities.

This collection of primary source material chronicles the Civil War experiences of North Carolinians from the secession crisis to the Confederate surrender at Bennett Place.

Aaron McDuffie Moore (18631923) was born in rural Columbus County in eastern North Carolina at the close of the Civil War.

For more than a century, the term Main Street has conjured up nostalgic images of American small-town life.

In 1918 Lord Leverhulme bought the island of Lewis with ambitious plans to massively expand its fishing industry and increase its population.

Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere.

Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936.

For at least two centuries, the Souths economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life.

For at least two centuries, the Souths economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life.

Challenging the conventional interpretation of Mary of Guise as the defender of Catholicism whose regime climaxed with the Reformation Rebellion, Pamela Ritchie shows that Mary was, on the contrary, a shrewd and effective politique, whose own dynastic interests and those of her daughter took precedence over her personal and religious convictions.

Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere.

From President Cleveland's alleged love child to the UFO highway, Idaho Myths and Legends of makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the Gem State's most fascinating and compelling stories.

Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936.

In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Marie Hernndez brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history.

In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Marie Hernndez brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history.

From President Cleveland's alleged love child to the UFO highway, Idaho Myths and Legends of makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the Gem State's most fascinating and compelling stories.

In this book, Lindley S.

From the assembled work of fifteen leading scholars emerges a complex and provocative portrait of lynching in the American South.

In this book, Lindley S.

From the assembled work of fifteen leading scholars emerges a complex and provocative portrait of lynching in the American South.

The Outer Hebrides lie 40 miles to the west of mainland Scotland, forming a barrier to the North Atlantic.

For many people, Tyninghame on the beautiful East Lothian coast means beaches, sea birds and salt marshes.

The foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina.

The foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina.

The biographies of more than 800 women form the basis for Elna Greens study of the suffrage and the antisuffrage movements in the South.

When UNC Press published Stella Gentry Sharpes Tobe in 1939, it was hailed as one of the first childrens books to offer a dignified portrayal of an African American child and his family.

The biographies of more than 800 women form the basis for Elna Greens study of the suffrage and the antisuffrage movements in the South.