Local history

This first major examination the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music.

PRISON PUZZLE PIECES (the first of a three volume series) is a non-fiction account of a corrections officer working in Stillwater Prison in Minnesota after he stopped traveling the country performing standup comedy and improv.

From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive history ever written on the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history.

Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens?

Tobacco War charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century.

The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling.

Silver Award Winner, 2016 Nautilus Book Award in Young Adult (YA) Non-FictionMoving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements of celebrity engineers and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge is the first book to primarily feature the voices of the workers themselves.

In American Venice: The Epic Story of San Antonios River, Lewis F.

Death by Fire and Ice tells the little-known story of the sinking of the steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound in January 1840.

An in-depth examination of the economic and social transition from slavery to capitalism during ReconstructionAt the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism.

How high energy consumption transformed postwar Phoenix and deepened inequalities in the American SouthwestIn 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders.

The visual legacy of Florestine Perrault Collins, who documented African American life in New OrleansFlorestine Perrault Collins (18951988) lived a fascinating and singular life.

Distributed by University Press of Florida on behalf of Florida HumanitiesFlorida Book Awards, Honorable Mention for Florida NonfictionCurated from the archives of FORUM, the award-winning magazine of Florida Humanities, this anthology presents 50 often surprising and always intriguing stories of life in Florida by some of the nations most talented writers and scholars.

Distributed by University Press of Florida on behalf of Florida HumanitiesFlorida Book Awards, Honorable Mention for Florida NonfictionCurated from the archives of FORUM, the award-winning magazine of Florida Humanities, this anthology presents 50 often surprising and always intriguing stories of life in Florida by some of the nations most talented writers and scholars.

What would Indigenous resurgence look like if the parameters were not set with a focus on the state, settlers, or an achievement of reconciliation?

What would Indigenous resurgence look like if the parameters were not set with a focus on the state, settlers, or an achievement of reconciliation?

The road to suffrage for the women of Leatherhead was often bumpy and unwelcomed by men and women alike.

The road to suffrage for the women of Leatherhead was often bumpy and unwelcomed by men and women alike.

Wall Street Journals Five Best Books About CultsThe true story of cult leader Cyrus Teed and his hollow earth theoryFor five days in December 1908 the body of Cyrus Teed lay in a bathtub at a beach house just south of Fort Myers, Florida.

In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not in independence but in voluntary claims of dependence.

It is the largest landholder in America, overseeing nearly an eighth of the country: 258 million acres located almost exclusively west of the Mississippi River, with even twice as much below the surface.

Kansas Boy: The Memoir of A.

This compelling study of a previously overlooked vice industry explores the larger structural forces that led to the growth of prostitution in Japan, the Pacific region, and the North American West at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Little attention has been paid to the settlement of Germans in Kansas, and Roberta Reb Allens Once We Were Strangers helps to fill that void.

Struggle and Suffrage in Nottingham is the story of many women across the generations and their struggle for equality.

In 1884, twenty-three-year-old Corabelle Fellows left her family in Washington, DC, and journeyed out West to teach Native children in Nebraska and Dakota Territory.

This is the new "e;pocket"e; version of the classic California Place Names, first published by California in 1949.

Lieutenant Colonel Edward J.

In 1824, Boston was a small farming community, about twenty-five miles south of Buffalo, New York.

In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.

In a little-known mountain range in southern New Mexico is an unremarkable mountain called Victorio Peak.

How one man brought the Olympics to Los Angeles, fueling the citys urban transformation.

By 1883 when the rail lines of the Northern Pacific reached the tiny town of Cinnabar, Montana Territory, newspaper and magazine stories of the wonders to be found in Yellowstone National Park had been firing the imaginations of eager potential visitors around the world for a decade.

'The literary equivalent of a great session.

One of the most colorful parts of American History is the time of train robberies and the daring outlaws who undertook them in the period covering from just after the Civil War to 1924.

Washington, DC, gleams with stately columns and neoclassical temples, a pulsing hub of political power and prowess.

This academic book, A Historical Study of the Grange, the Farm Bureau, and the Associated Farmers, 1929-1941 by Clarke A.

Florida Historical Society Harry T.

A sweeping history of the British village, both rural and urban, which makes a compelling case for why we need to protect our local communities, from bestselling author Simon JenkinsWe are a nation of villages, from the rural, picturesque hamlets of Castle Combe and Clovelly, to the tight-knit urban communities of Leeds terraces and Cricklewood s backyards.

What do Daniel O'Donnell, pint baby, iodine tablets, Irish reality television, moral panics around sex, Nadine Coyle's missing passport, housewives of the year, bachelor festivals and the Alive-O religion programme have in common?

In the Middle Ages King's Lynn (or Bishop's Lynn as it was known then) was one of England's most important ports.

An in-depth history that assesses the price of progress and the legacy of lost rural American communitiesNestled among the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in southwestern Virginia, Franklin County is the undisputed "e;Moonshine Capital of the World.

An in-depth history that assesses the price of progress and the legacy of lost rural American communitiesNestled among the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in southwestern Virginia, Franklin County is the undisputed "e;Moonshine Capital of the World.

This is a chronicle of 30 notorious New England murder cases spanning from the 1800s to 2000, from well-known cases that shocked the country to lesser-known cases that petrified the small towns they were committed in.

Weymouth has been a major sea port on England's south coast since the Middle Ages and although it became a popular resort through King George III's patronage and later when the railways arrived, the area also developed a strong military presence in the nineteenth century with barracks being built in Weymouth and a new naval dockyard developed on the nearby Isle of Portland.

Stoke-on-Trent in the century between 1850 and 1950 witnessed huge changes.

The Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal was completed in 1772 and links the Trent & Mersey Canal at Great Haywood in Staffordshire with the River Severn at Stourport in Worcestershire.

Cardiff has seen multiple changes in the last two decades.

The Wirral Peninsula has a fascinating history.