Local and family history, nostalgia

"e;Who would have thought you could create a cat bed from a washing-up bowl, design a doll's house from an old shoe box or make a flower pot from a margarine tub - all on live television!

Leah Trachtman-Palchan was an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life.

What does it mean to evoke a sense of home through song, or intentionally utilize nostalgia in songwriting?

It is a rule that no Trevelyan ever sucks up either to the press, or the chiefs, or the right people .

Since 1941 the Medal of Honor has been more often awarded to dead than to living men.

The image of Coventry in flames was one of the most haunting of the Second World War.

'It is a rule that no Trevelyan ever sucks up either to the press, or the chiefs, or the right people .

The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horsesmen lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out.

Norwich remained the second largest city in England until the eighteenth century.

Throughout the middle ages, Norwich was one of the most populous and celebrated cities in England.

Family names are an essential part of everyone's personal history.

"e;This collection of Hal Rothman's wide-ranging, brash, and brilliant essays on Las Vegas offers up a treasury of insights on the follies and possibilities of the New West.

The first woman to serve in both houses of the New Mexico legislature, Pauline Eisenstadt has witnessed many exciting moments in the state's political history and made much of that history herself.

Here is the first comprehensive history of the Colfax County area of northeastern New Mexico.

In Securing Paradise, Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in Hawai`i and the Philippines, jointly empowering the United States to assert its geostrategic and economic interests in the Pacific.

The Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fishnet stockings or bobby socks, platform heels or saddle shoes, dark lipstick, and a bouffant.

Hurricane Sandy was a fierce demonstration of the ecological vulnerability of New York, a city of islands.

From the beginning of the sound cinema era, singing actresses captivated Chinese audiences.

Memorializing Pearl Harbor examines the challenge of representing history at the site of the attack that brought America into World War II.

In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K.

During the early twentieth century, Shanghai was the center of China's new media culture.

With this superbly written, meticulously researched, and concisely argued study, Rogers has helped deepen our understanding of the Confederate civilian experience.

Jefferson County, New York, has one of the richest concentrations of stone houses in America.

Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia's various cultures of segregation--rich from poor, sick from well, able from disabled, male from female, and black from white and Native American.

A noted civil rights historian examines Louisville as a cultural border city where the black freedom struggle combined northern and southern tactics.

A Kentucky native and folk studies scholar presents a collection of haunting legends and stories of spirits from across the Bluegrass State.

"e;A captivating account of two families whose stubbornness and loyalty were exceeded only by their capacity for a terrible revenge.

This book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, showing how enslaved and free African Americans resisted slavery and supported the Union war effort in a borderland that changed hands frequently during the Civil War.

Nation within a Nation features cutting-edge work by lead scholars in the fields of history, political science, and human geography, who examine the causes—realand perceived—for the South''s perpetual state of rebellion, which remains oneof its most defining characteristics.

Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy Book AwardStretching along 156 miles of Florida's East Coast, the Indian River Lagoon contains the St.

"e;Outlines in great detail how the war brought progress to [North Carolina].

I had met only two or three of the neighboring Crackers when I realized that isolation had done something to these people.

Nestled among picturesque rolling hills, the Brandywine River winds from southeastern Pennsylvania into Delaware.

Since 1941 the Medal of Honor has been more often awarded to dead than to living men.