Local history

Virginia saw significant action during the War of 1812, from the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair to the defense of Norfolk against British invaders.

Located just seconds from the winding Tennessee border, the remote mountain settlement of Lost Cove, North Carolina was once described as where the "e;moonshiner frolics unmolested.

Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer.

Through photos and narrative, some of Texas' most dedicated scientists show you actual specimens of dinosaur material found in Texas, as well as dinosaur exhibits found throughout the state.

The Arizona Territory is known for saloons, gunfights, outlaws and strong women.

When Taso G.

The Global Southern Music Issue enhanced eBook includes all the tracks on Traveling Shoes, our special free CD and:The South meets Senegal as hip-hop goes Trans-Atlantic.

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The Battle of the Little Big Horn was the decisive engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877.

This Omnibus E-book brings together all four issues of Southern Cultures Volume 15, published in 2009.

There is a significant French heritage in North Carolina.

Drawing on six years of research, this book covers the military service and postwar lives of notable Confederate veterans who moved into Northern California at the end the Civil War.

This book presents a comprehensive history of the seven Apache tribes, tracing them from their genetic origins in Asia and their migration through the continent to the Southwest.

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Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach led the hunt for John Dillinger during the violent early 1930s.

In 1528, the Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions were shipwrecked and, looking for help, began an eight-year trek through the deserts of the American West.

The Civil War in 1861 found Southerners a minority throughout the West.

Set in the 1980s against a backdrop of the AIDS crisis, deindustrialization and the Reagan era, this book tells the story of one individual's defiant struggle against his community--the city of Kokomo, Indiana.

In 1899, one of America's wealthiest men assembled an interdisciplinary team of experts--many of whom would become legendary in their fields--to join him, entirely at his expense, on a voyage to the largely unknown territory of Alaska.

The signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 signified the end of the Vietnam War.

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Did the famous Davy Crockett surrender at the Alamo or die fighting like a tiger according to Texas tradition?

For the Mexican government to go to war with its more powerful northern neighbor in 1846 was folly.

Ohio sent eight presidents to the White House--one Whig and seven Republicans--from 1841 to 1923: William Harrison, U.

Based on years of research as well as interviews conducted with Circle in the Square's major contributing artists, this book records the entire history of this distinguished theatre from its nightclub origins to its current status as a Tony Award-winning Broadway institution.

Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anything of importance happened yesterday.

In an era of unique baseball stadiums, the Polo Grounds in New York stood out from the rest.

In 1922, a coal miner strike spread across the United States, swallowing the heavily-unionized mining town of Herrin, Illinois.

King Kamehameha the Great had 30 wives.

A comprehensive filmography, this book is composed of lengthy entries on about 75 films depicting legendary New Mexico outlaw Billy the Kid--from the lost Billy the Kid (1911) to the blockbuster Young Guns (1988) to the direct-to-video 1313: Billy the Kid(2012) and everything in between.

This biographical dictionary catalogs the Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Missouri and the western States and Territories during the Civil War.

The battle that unfolded at the Little Big Horn River on June 25, 1876, marked a watershed in the history of the Plains Indians.

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In 1893, Georgian horsemen from the Caucasus immigrated to the United States where for more than 30 years they performed in circuses and Wild West shows under the billing of "e;Russian Cossacks.

California was the mining center of the West for half a century.

John Davidson came to the North Carolina back country circa 1751 as a young man, with his sister and widowed mother.

The Westford Knight is a mysterious, controversial stone carving in Massachusetts.

Between 1908 and 1920, Roger C.

The first comprehensive book about the Washington, D.

The story of American repertory theatre actress Jolly Della Pringle (1870-1952) is an odyssey of travel, adventure, drama, romance and many changes in fortune.

Nebraska is not usually thought of as a focal point in the history of black baseball, yet the state has seen its share of contributions to the African American baseball experience.

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.

This is the first biography of the legendary officer Cipriano Baca, scion of a prestigious Spanish lineage tracing their heritage to the first settlers in Nuevo Mexico.

Virginia played an important role during World War I, supplying the Allied forces with food, horses and steel in 1915 and 1916.

Yellowstone National Park is the focal point of the 22-million-acre, multifaceted Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, located in northwestern Wyoming and in parts of eastern Idaho and Montana.

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

The Caraleigh neighborhood in south Raleigh was founded in 1892 with the opening of a cotton mill, fertilizer plant and workers' town.

In December 1883, five outlaws attempted to rob the A.

On a September night in 1958, three New Orleans college students went looking for a gay man to assault.

The Boston Police Department was formed by a man who had twice failed in business, ran a bar in the poorest district of Boston, and was charged with two assaults.