Local history

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.

Shot All to Hell by Mark Lee Gardner recounts the thrilling life of Jesse James, Frank James, the Younger brothers, and the most famous bank robbery of all time.

In 1963, the Sunday after four black girls were killed by a bomb in a Birmingham church, George William Floyd, a Church of Christ minister, preached a sermon based on the Golden Rule.

In Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues James Gill and Howard Hunter examine New Orleans's complicated relationship with the history of the Confederacy pre- and post-Civil War.

Ivybridge, South Brent, and their surrounding villages and hamlets, occupy that part of South Devon which borders the outskirts of Plymouth to the west, and the southern slopes of Dartmoor to the north.

How could Northern California, the wealthiest and most politically progressive region in the United States, become one of the earliest epicenters of the foreclosure crisis?

Lymington has long been in need of an illustrated history worthy of its past.

The famous seaside resort of Weston-Super-Mare has long been a popular destination for holidaying families.

William Lewis Manly was a forty-niner, explorer, and humanitarian whose story most people have never heard.

Today, Loughborough is known for its university's sporting reputation and its industries, but the second-largest town in Leicestershire has a long and varied history.

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

With its strategically important location on the banks of the River Ribble, Preston is no stranger to wars and warfare.

For twenty years in the eighteenth century, Georgia - the last British colony in what became the United States - enjoyed a brief period of free labor, where workers were not enslaved and were paid.

When the Wabanaki were moved to reservations, they proved their resourcefulness by catering to the burgeoning tourist market during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Bar Harbor was called Eden.

Braintree and Bocking Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country.

Yorkshire is not only the largest county in England, it is also the most beautiful; just ask anyone living there.

Throughout the Gold Rush years and beyond, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of nineteenth-century Colorado.

The first book to explore, in depth, the complete range of paranormal phenomena reported in Cheltenham.

The first deep shafts sunk at Atherton were by John Fletcher.

The African American experience in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through ReconstructionThis book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginias Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.

The Mississippi Delta consistently ranks as having some of the worst health outcomes in the United States.

At the turn of the twentieth century, two distinct, yet at times overlapping, male same-sex sexual subcultures had emerged in the Pacific Northwest: one among the men and boys who toiled in the regions logging, fishing, mining, farming, and railroad-building industries; the other among the young urban white-collar workers of the emerging corporate order.

ALA TimesBestseller[A] compelling history of our citys last half century, as conveyed through the life of one of our most impactful leaders.

New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history.

The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's 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.

A timeless collection of pirate stories from Florida originally written in the late 1950s, this book includes stories of well-known and lesser known pirates and buccaneers and the treasure they left behind.

Cheshire at one time was an important contributor to the brewing industry, with the epicentre being Warrington.

Between Sidmouth and Beer lies one of England's most attractive coastlines.

The Eastern United States offers some of the best scenery in the country, and some of the most demanding for the railways.

The origins of the name Knutsford have been disputed by historians but there is an ancient and popular explanation.

This collection of essays profiles a diverse array of North Carolinians, all of whom had a hand in the founding of the state and the United States of America.

Public houses, taverns and inns have been around for hundreds of years.

Late nineteenth-century San Francisco was an ethnically diverse but male-dominated society bustling from a rowdy gold rush, earthquakes, and explosive economic growth.

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

Winner of the 2018 Louisiana Literary Award given by the Louisiana Library AssociationFor centuries, outlanders have openly denigrated Louisiana's coastal wetlands residents and their stubborn refusal to abandon the region's fragile prairies tremblants despite repeated natural and, more recently, man-made disasters.

He knew he was going blind.

Was it a "e;mercy killing?

William Henry Jackson was an explorer, photographer, and artist.

In the Yeovil Corporation's Official Guide Yeovil With its Surroundings, published in 1906, Chapter II entitled 'Describes Yeovil in the Past' begins: 'It has been said, and that, in Yeovil itself, that Yeovil has no history, and in a sense, no past i.

In ad 78/80 the Romans under Agricola established a base near the Solway Firth and called it Luguvalium.

Lancaster, the county town of Lancashire, achieved city status in 1937.

**Winner of the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (History, Other)**Lawman or Outlaw?

The once arid valleys and isolated coastal plains of California are today the center of fruit production in the United States.

Railroads, tourism, and government bureaucracy combined to create modern religion in the American West, argues David Walker in this innovative study of Mormonisms ascendency in the railroad era.

Of all the people documented by the Foxfire students since 1966, none has been more appealing to readers than Arie Carpenter.

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

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This unusual, richly illustrated guidebook details Florida's historic pioneer and cracker villages, describing the homes, work-ways and folk-ways of the states early settlers, through preserved and tangible objects and structures.

The North London town of Edgware has a parish dating back to the Middle Ages and links further back to the ancient Watling Street.

Always known as the Wilts & Berks Canal, never Wiltshire and Berkshire, the W&B has been derelict and abandoned for over a century, but plans exist to restore the waterway.