Local history

The compelling history of a racially integrated, and now forgotten, community in northern Virginia Established by two Black entrepreneurs and their families, who provided the economic engine for its initial success, the village of Ilda flourished as a racially integrated community before the Jim Crow era.

Forty miles out into the Atlantic from the western isles of Scotland lies the archipelago of St Kilda.

Seen as a land of sunshine and opportunity, the Golden State was a mecca for the post-World War II generation, and dreams of the California good life came to dominate the imagination of many Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.

Nebraska Book Award, Biography Honor Most Americans familiar with General John J.

Plymouth's history has been strongly defined by its position on a natural harbour on England's south coast.

For the first time, the true story of "e;The Yellow Rose of Texas"e; is told in full, revealing a host of new insights and perspectives on one of America's most popular stories.

East Lothian, previously known as Haddingtonshire, has both benefitted and suffered from its strategic location between Scotland's capital city and England's northernmost county.

During the Great Depression, promoter, salesman, and pilot Richard Thorne McCully became an aviation pioneer, capturing much of the Maritime region from the air.

The Great Basin is a hydrographic region that includes most of Nevada and parts of five other Western states.

The story of the city of Newcastle, from its earliest origins in Roman Britain to the present day.

The market town of Petersfield lies on the edge of the beautiful South Downs, and it has much to thank its idyllic location for.

The Epidemic tells the story of how a vain and reckless businessman became responsible for a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town of Ithaca, New York.

In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations-dignified, collaborative, and illicit.

In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South.

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 this fresh and fascinating chronicle of Christianity in the contemporary South, historian and minister James Hudnut-Beumler draws on extensive interviews and his own personal journeys throughout the region over the past decade to present a comprehensive portrait of the South's long-dominant religion.

The lower Mississippi River winds past the city of New Orleans between enormous levees and a rim of sand, mud, and trees called "e;the batture.

Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world.

The 1950s, 60s, and 70s were defining moments in our nation's history, and San Francisco was at the forefront of the avant-garde artistic, intellectual, and cultural movements of the time.

Kentucky has a rich legacy of ghostly visitations.

Captain Klevenhagen was one of the best officers Texas ever had.

People have lived in the Frome area since prehistoric times and the present town dates back as far as the Saxon era.

Join Ross Andrews on a paranormal journey around not only the city of Oxford, but also the towns and villages of Oxfordshire.

Moving portraits of seventeen independent women who helped make Arizona what it is todayRemarkable Arizona Women profiles the lives of seventeen of the state's most fascinating figureswomen from across Arizona, from many different backgrounds, and from various walks of life.

Winner of the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (History, Arizona | 2021 Military Writers Society of America Silver Medal for History | 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Bronze Winner for Western Non-FictionWhen the U.

Using an historical perspective to enrich the journey, Wales: A Walk Through Time describes a unique walk through a remarkable country.

Although Bournemouth was only developed in the last 200 years, the town has a fascinating history.

In the early eighteenth century, Lochee consisted of a small community of weavers who had settled along the banks of a burn.

Gloucester's history stretches back almost 2,000 years to its foundation by the Romans.

Somerset is justly renowned for its varied landscapes from the wild uplands of Exmoor to the expanses of the Levels.

The Peak District is noted for its beautiful and varied scenery, its fascinating history, and its abundance of folktales.

Winner of the 2017 Eudora Welty PrizeSanctuaries of Segregation provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Jackson, Mississippi, church visit campaign of 1963-1964 and the efforts by segregationists to protect one of their last refuges.

From its humble thirteenth-century origins, Liverpool grew rapidly to become the greatest port in the British Empire outside London, but by 1980 the city was seemingly in terminal decline: its population had more than halved, its infrastructure and economy were decaying, and its political leaders were leading the city towards complete collapse.

Now with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author.

Yeovil rose to prominence in the 1800s as a major centre of glove-making.

Prohibition was imposed by eager temperance movements organizers who sought to shape public behavior through alcoholic beverage control in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

In our fast-paced lives, it can be hard to stop and appreciate all the great things about the places where we live.

In the Age of New Imperialism, Canada figured prominently in British imperial dreams and public debate.

This illustrated history portrays one of England's finest cities.

The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in the designs and dreams of Euro-Americans since the first Spanish journey up the river in the sixteenth century.

For 1,400 years Warwick has graced the Midlands with its fine castle, attractive architecture and sense of history.

Many Americans remember Senator Sam Ervin (1896-1985) as the affable, Bible-quoting, old country lawyer who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973.

While Hollywood deserves its reputation for much-maligned portrayals of southern highlanders on screen, the film industry also deserves credit for a long-standing tradition of more serious and meaningful depictions of Appalachia's people.

Bristol and Brunel, the two are inseparable.

Part personal memoir, part cultural history, West is a compendium of 'tales', telling the story of a unique geographical and literary landscape - the western Midlands of England.

The historic county of Norfolk has more than its fair share of strange tales.

Although perhaps overshadowed by the fame of the Great Western Railway's sea wall section of railway west of Exeter, the Chester & Holyhead Railway, opened in full by 1850, has much to offer as it wends its way west.

Rochester, Strood & the Hoo Peninsula From Old Photographs examines a diverse and fascinating area.

A thriving market town once situated in Berkshire, but now in Oxfordshire, Wallingford has a lot to offer both the local residents and the passers-by.

For thousands of years prior to Henry Hudsons voyage, the Hudson River was a vital commercial and strategic route for the indigenous peoples who settled near its banks.