Local history

Inspired by a companion exhibition, Southern/Modern is the first book to survey progressive art created in the American South during the first half of the twentieth century.

Life was harsh and dangerous for the prospectors of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898-1899.

In Creating a Confederate Kentucky, Anne E.

After its establishment in 1872, Yellowstone National Park was sufficiently famous that numerous people risked bear maulings, Indian attacks, and geyser burns just to glimpse its wonders.

Colorado Springs has always held a special fascination for visitors.

Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership have remained intense.

By and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony.

In 1700, a young man named John Lawson left London and landed in Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to make a name for himself.

Miners, loggers, railroad men, and others flooded into the American West after the discovery of gold in 1848, and entertainers seeking to fill the demand for distraction from the workers' daily toil soon followed.

This book offers the first English translation of journals written by four leading figures in the Moravian Church who spent time in the British colony of Georgia between 1735 and 1737.

The city of Newport, lying on the River Usk in South Wales, has been an important port serving Wales since medieval times.

Secret Abergavenny offers a unique insight into the sleepy Welsh market town, proving that there's a lot more to the 'Gateway to Wales' than meets the eye.

After the Civil War, the New York City's East River was a massive unsolved and dangerous navigation problem.

The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Watermans Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers.

Imagine hiking along a wooded trail near San Francisco and stumbling upon the stone foundation of a crumbled building, the wooden slats of the walls caved in, the ironwork of the hinges still dangling on the burned out door.

Southend-on-Sea was only developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when it became a popular seaside resort, but behind its facade lie many little-known and fascinating stories.

Tales of intrigue in this book include unusual unsolved crimes, unidentified flying objects, spine-tingling ghost stories, well-documented sea creature sightings, and more.

Derbyshire Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country.

Southend Airport, one of the six main airports serving London, began life as a landing strip for pleasure flying.

Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition.

This unusual collection of photographs from the area of Walworth and its immediate surrounding area tell further stories on this fascinating part of South London.

A collection of folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Southwestern ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world.

The ancient town of Brecon was originally enclosed within the walls of a Norman castle.

In Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877-1932, author Mark A.

Wakefield was originally a settlement on the River Calder in West Yorkshire, first Anglo-Saxon, then Viking controlled.

This collection of essays provides an overview of research on the social uses of media.

The two bouts between Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston are widely considered the most anticipated and controversial fights in heavyweight boxing.

Wolverhampton was a Staffordshire market town in the Middle Ages but became a major industrial town during the Industrial Revolution, renowned for coal mining, metalworking and steel making.

Southampton has been a major port on England's south coast since the medieval era and sections of the ancient city walls remain today.

South Shields Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of one of England's finest cities.

Rhythm of the Heart is a compelling memoir about Kim Heacox's 30+ year relationship with the most iconic landscape in Alaska, a sister book to his 2005 Lyons book The Only Kayak, a PEN USA Literary Award finalist now in its seventh printing.

From the union of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers at the Georgia-Florida state line, the mighty Apalachicola River flows unimpeded for about 100 miles to the Gulf of Mexico.

'Llandudno is more stylish than either Rhyl or Blackpool and not dearer', observed Edwardian author Arnold Bennett.

The history of how North Atlantic America was revealed to the Europeans in the 16th and early 17th centuries is largely forgotten.

The town of Arundel in West Sussex is overlooked by Arundel Castle and the Roman Catholic cathedral, which was built through the support of the Duke of Norfolk, but the history of Arundel is built on much more than the castle and the dukes and earls.

On October 1, 1962, James Meredith was the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.

For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.

The Chester & Holyhead Railway was incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1844, and the promoters were thereby empowered to build an 85-mile line along the North Wales coast, the engineer for the line being Robert Stephenson.

This is a photographic record of the railways of Gloucestershire during a revolutionary period between 1959 and 1966.

The largest town in the county of Carmarthenshire, Llanelli has a long and illustrious history.

Basingstoke and Salisbury are important rail centres on what was originally the London & South Western Railway, and later the Southern Railway and finally the South Western Section of the Southern Region.

Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936.

Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States.

Las Vegasa Spanish word meaning The Meadows or The Grasslandswas established as a railroad town in 1905 and was officially incorporated in 1911.

Terry Boyle unveils the eccentric and bizarre in these mini-histories of Ontario's towns and cities: the imposter who ran the Rockwood Asylum in Kingston; Ian Fleming's inspiration for James Bond; the Prince of Wales's undignified crossing of Rice Lake; the tragic life of Joseph Brant; the man who advertised his wife's death before poisoning her; as well as Ontario's first bullfight and the answer to the question, "e;Why did so many lumberjacks sport beards?

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

The worlds first designated national park, Yellowstone is famous for its steaming geysers, bubbling mud pots, and wildlife-caused traffic jams.

Not every Wild West disagreement was settled with guns on a dusty street.