Local history

Among the greatest of tragedies of the American frontierthe Donner Party, the Alamo, Wounded Kneea little known but no less tragic event was the Texas Mier Expedition.

North Somerset has seen great changes in the last two centuries, and this evocative collection of old and new photographs shows how three of the county's communities, Portishead, Pill and Long Ashton, have altered and grown through time.

Leek is the principal town of the Staffordshire Moorlands and the most important centre on the south western edge of the Peak District.

In this book Durrill describes in graphic detail the disintegration, during the Civil War, of Southern plantation society in a North Carolina coastal county.

In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans on whaleships.

Mumbles and the Gower peninsula occupy a very special corner of Wales that has much history and folklore.

Part literary mystery, part an examination of what constitutes fiction versus reality, Ghostwriter is based on the true story of author Lawrence Wells, then 45, hired by the University of Mississippi in 1987 to ghostwrite a novel for a wealthy, eccentric donor ("e;Mrs.

As the US entered World War I in 1917, a burst of patriotism in New Orleans collided with civil liberties.

Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims.

In this follow up to the highly successful Kendal Through Time, author Norman Holloway showcases the town's countless attractions, using a mixture of old and new images to awaken fond memories in those who know and love this historic town.

Chatham, lying on the River Medway in Kent, grew up around its naval dockyard, various army barracks and fortifications.

The very important story of an interracial family that can be traced through multiple generations and into the 20th century.

Maine has a rich supernatural history and ghost stories from the state are as varied as they are prolific.

Trevor James recounts his experiences as a boy in a quiet market town in Devon.

In the mid-17th century, the Iroquois Confederacy launched a war for control of the burgeoning fur trade industry.

Arizona Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Arizona's history, like the story of Pearl Hart or the ghosts that live in the Hotel Vendome.

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

The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (1798-1839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century.

Nearly seventy years after the Civil War, Natchez, Mississippi, sold itself to Depression-era tourists as a place "e;Where the Old South Still Lives.

By 1941, a nascent statehood movement began to coalesce into an active and explicit secession campaign seeking to carve from Northern California and Southern Oregon a new State of Jefferson.

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.

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Arizona Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Arizona's history, like the story of Pearl Hart or the ghosts that live in the Hotel Vendome.

Official companion guide to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Civil War Trails initiative.

In the mid-17th century, the Iroquois Confederacy launched a war for control of the burgeoning fur trade industry.

Los Angeles, City of Angels.

When you ask most people about Liverpool, you could be forgiven for thinking that the city is only famous for its maritime history, its two successful football teams or for being the birthplace of The Beatles - but there is so much more to this amazing city than meets the casual eye.

In the spring of 1862, Union forces marched into neighboring Carteret and Craven Counties in southeastern North Carolina, marking the beginning of an occupation that would continue for the rest of the war.

Few countries went through the level of interest and development of pleasure piers like the United Kingdom.

From its origins as a clearing in the Wealden forest, the Saxon settlement of 'Tenet-warre-den' rose to a position of prominence with the fourteenth-century burgeoning of the English wool trade.

Written by the founder of the Hampshire Ghost Club, here is a chilling selection of paranormal encounters from the area.

Suffolk is still very much a rural county, but in Victorian & Edwardian times almost the whole population lived and worked on the land.

For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "e;the black Mecca.

Blackpool isn't a particularly old town and its rapid development has primarily been fuelled by tourism in the last 150 years or so.

As Southern California recovered from the collapse of the cattle industry in the 1860s, the arrival of railroadsattacked by newspapers as the greedy octopusand the expansion of citrus agriculture transformed the struggling region into a vast, idealized, and prosperous garden.

Secret Newham delves into the fascinating but often quirky and curious history of the towns that make up the borough of Newham in East London.

Manchester is a modern and cosmopolitan city that is also home to a range of old and traditional public houses.

On February 25, 1938, in the early days of the welfare system, the reviled poormaster Harry Barck-wielding power over who would receive public aid-died from a paper spike thrust into his heart.

The town of Richmond grew around the Tudor royal palace by the River Thames.

New York's Newsboys is a lively historical account of Charles Loring Brace's founding and development of the Children's Aid Society to combat a newly emerging social problem, youth homelessness, during the nineteenth century.

A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority "e;An artful, powerful book.

Hunt for Gold: Sunken Galleons in the New World is the engaging tale of the legendary oceanic explorers Bob ';Frogfoot' Weller and his wife Margaret.

From the camps and caves occupied by hunter-gatherer groups visiting the area during the last Ice Age, through the long barrows and camps of the first farmers, to the massive hillforts and enclosures built by Celtic chieftains in the centuries before the Roman Conquest, this book charts the story of Gloucestershires landscape and its inhabitants over a period spanning more than half a million years.

From the Daytona 500 to driving on the beaches, Bike Week to Spring Break, Historic Photos of Daytona Beach is a photographic history collected from the areas top archives.

The historic city of Chester in Cheshire, in the north-west of England, experienced tragedies and hardships during the two World Wars.

From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States.

Originally a collection of villages in Essex, Basildon was developed as a new town after the Second World War in 1949.

From peglegged Peter Stuyvesant to CBGBs, the story of the Bowery reflects the history of the city that grew up around it.

This fascinating account of the development of aviation in Alaska examines the daring missions of pilots who initially opened up the territory for military positioning and later for trade and tourism.

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reflects the dramatic increase in research on the topic of gender over the past thirty years, revealing that even the most familiar subjects take on new significance when viewed through the lens of gender.