Local history

A chilling true crime book that chronicles the wave of abductions that terrorized the U.

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt des japanischen Reisweins in *"Sake: Die Kunst des japanischen Reisweins – Die Kultur des japanischen Nationalgetränks"*.

Offering a one-of-a kind teaching resource for Texas history teachers, The Big Resource Guide to Teaching and Learning Texas History, by author and teacher Tracey Williams, includes everything to make Texas history come alive in the classroom.

In The Texas Miracle, author John Marshall offers a detailed examination of the largest political fraud in Texas since the Sharpstown scandal in the early 1970s.

Many people in Brazoria County, Texas, are unaware that a lumbering industry exists or has ever existed in the county.

In 1846, Joe Carson decides to sell his inn and move from Knoxville, Georgia, to Macon County, Georgia, near the future site of the town of Reynolds.

My Family in America since 1620 reaches back to the early years of the European presence in North America to tell how William Brewster, one of the leading Pilgrims on the Mayflower, came to America in 1620.

A nation that fails to protect its borders is not a nation at all.

Arkansas History: A Journey through TimeThe Growth of the Twenty-Fifth State of the Union from 1833 to 1957 places in the hands of students and teachers a curated compilation of excerpts from original sources that tell the story of Arkansas from the founding efforts of the first advocates for the states formation in 1833 through the confrontation at the Little Rock Central High School in 1957 that brought international attention to the American civil rights movement.

My Shenandoah, 1966 was originally planned to merely record an objective local history, but its enthusiastic fans will assure you the book developed well beyond that into a highly readable, engrossing work for everyone.

Greek immigrants came to Chicago in droves in the early 1900s, and most of them made immediate contributions to the city.

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Letters from the Globemaster Families: The Lost C-124 of Mount Gannett, Alaska gathers evidence and presents the most likely description of the final flight of a United States Air Force troop transport plane carrying fifty-two servicemen.

The tranquility of the magnificently restored Saint Andrews Parish Church, surrounded by stately oaks and ancient gravestones, belies a tumultuous past.

Between 1900 and 1910, many Danish families who had transitioned through Ellis Island to Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska boarded the immigrant cars for one more ride with their children, their plows, their horses, their cow, and their trunks.

The exhilaration of challenging and surviving rapids in a fragile canoe has made white water canoeing one of the fastest growing sports in Canada.

The exhilaration of challenging and surviving rapids in a fragile canoe has made white water canoeing one of the fastest growing sports in Canada.

The First World War destroyed the old European balance of power.

The Lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages presents a totally new approach to medieval Irish history.

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

During the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century a growing number of ordinary citizens had the feeling that all was not as it should be.

In nineteenth-century England, legal conceptions of work and family changed in fundamental ways.

In nineteenth-century England, legal conceptions of work and family changed in fundamental ways.

Toronto Trailblazers explores the influence of seven key women who, despite pervasive gender bias, helped advance a modern literary culture for Canada.

Toronto Trailblazers explores the influence of seven key women who, despite pervasive gender bias, helped advance a modern literary culture for Canada.

Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan provides a detailed yet approachable analysis of the mechanisms central to the birth of mass culture in Japan by tracing the creation, production, and circulation of two critically important family magazines: Kingu (King) and Ie no hikari (Light of the Home).

Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan provides a detailed yet approachable analysis of the mechanisms central to the birth of mass culture in Japan by tracing the creation, production, and circulation of two critically important family magazines: Kingu (King) and Ie no hikari (Light of the Home).

Originally published in 1950, Harold A.

Originally published in 1950, Harold A.

Interpretations of Canada's emerging identity have been largely based on a relatively small corpus of literary writing and landscape paintings, overlooking the influence of the British and American travel writers who published hundreds of books and articles that did much to fix the image of Canada in the popular imagination.

Interpretations of Canada's emerging identity have been largely based on a relatively small corpus of literary writing and landscape paintings, overlooking the influence of the British and American travel writers who published hundreds of books and articles that did much to fix the image of Canada in the popular imagination.

Suspect Others explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals in Suriname, a postcolonial Caribbean nation rife with racial and religious suspicion.

The SS Portland was a solid and luxurious ship, and its loss in 1898 in a violent storm with some 200 people aboard was later remembered as ';New England's Titanic.

Get a taste of New York's underworld by seeing where mobsters lived, worked, ate, played, and died.

WhispersI hear the whispers of my ancestors; what arethey saying?

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Undaunted Spirits is a delightful series of stories about the Iroquois and other American Indians at the end of the 19th century, Especially intriguing is the story if Montoso, a teenager who has the ability to join his mind or spirit with the other animals and birds.

Summerville ParkA Centennial History tells the story ofthe development of a community on the outskirts of Rome,Georgia, on the occasion of the neighborhoods 100thanniversary.

For north Georgian farmers in 1870, the cost of traveling over rough paths from farm to market by mule and wagon was prohibitive.

This academic book, A Historical Study of the Grange, the Farm Bureau, and the Associated Farmers, 19291941 by Clarke A.

In Spring 1983 the Los Angeles Times set out to produce is own State of the State report, five years after the passage of the notorious and widely imitated Proportion 13.

It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year.

Publishing to coincide with St Patrick's Day, we arrive in Dublin with the next installment in the Literary Landscapes series.

The Wars of the Roses (c.

Tucked away in the nations heartland, a boy was born the very summer the United States would enter the First World War.

When the first span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge opened July 30, 1952, it was a watershed moment in Marylands history.

More than 120 years after the White Caps terrorized Sevier County in East Tennessee, longtime residents still wont talk about the lawless band of vigilantes.

An intimate history of the Getty Museum from its early relatively modest days until it unexpectedly received the endowment that made it the worlds wealthiest museum and eventually a private foundation of worldwide influence.