Local and family history, nostalgia

Born in 1948, Maureen Harvey was brought up in a poor working-class household in Birmingham at a time when the city was still a major manufacturing centre.

The Texas Ranger law enforcement agency features so prominently in Texan and Wild West folklore that its accomplishments have been featured in everything from pulp novels to popular television.

'With characteristic self-effacement, she puts the escapades of charismatic animals ahead of her own feelings.

Texans love stories, and the 15,000 roadside markers along the state's highways and byways testify to the abundance of tales to tell.

Nestled in the heart of the Finger Lakes region, Auburn, New York, is home to some of the key figures in our nation's history.

A history of the earlier Southern gold rush and its legends that-for the first time-ties it to the well-known California gold rush of 1849.

Bringing to life the founding families' histories, Founders and Famous Families of Cincinnati shares these intertwined and fascinating tales with readers near and far.

Valuable Partnerships: Cooperation, Innovation, and the Future of Municipal Texas bridges rich scholarship and practical application to produce an important reference for local government scholars and practitioners alike by covering the dynamic approaches altering how Texas municipalities operate.

Struggling for the Soul of Our Country is a book in search of answers: what does it mean to struggle for the soul of a country and how does the life of citizenship influence our common future?

Despite its image as an epicenter of progressive social policy, New York City continues to have one of the nation's most segregated school systems.

Boston Congregationalist ministers Charles Chauncy (1705-87) and Jonathan Mayhew (1720-66) were significant political as well as religious leaders in colonial and revolutionary New England.

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World War I propelled the United States into the twentieth century and served as a powerful catalyst for the making of modern California.

In March 1863, news of a controversial draft law hit the streets of Detroit as local saloonkeeper William Faulkner stood trial for raping two young girls.

The evidence is overwhelming that the protection and expansion of slavery was a primary reason for the secession of the Confederate states and the Civil War that followed.

The New York Police Department is an iconic symbol of one of the world's most famous cities.

In these new and selected essays, Mark Sundeen recounts two decades of political activism, outdoor exploration, and empathetic curiosity.

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Clashes between white and Indian societies are erupting into war when Sarah Wakefield is taken captive in 1862.

Kilmarnock is the largest town in Ayrshire and a major centre for the west of Scotland.

In this series, private investigators pick up where the historians left off, taking on a series of major cold cases in history, starting with the mishandling of evidence relating to the life and times of Billy the Kid.

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

The traditional narrative of the American West tells of a frontier settled by pioneers emigrating from the east to the Pacific coast.

Inspired by the 2010 "e;Spirit of Mecklenburg"e;--a bronze statue of Captain James Jack, "e;the South's Paul Revere,"e; in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina--this history details the lives of 12 Charlotteans who made important contributions to the Queen City, from the early Colonial period to the 20th century.

The vehicles and other firefighting equipment of the Milwaukee Fire Department, like the department itself, are unique among the fire service.

When Waddy Bullion refers to his experience working for LBJ as a tax attorney and business advisor, he calls it "e;being in the boat.

Zwei Frauen im Nachkriegsfrankreich auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit1915: Eve Gardiner, schüchtern und stotternd, wird unerwartet vom Geheimdienst angeworben.

In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "e;Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.

The reasons behind Detroit's persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "e;arsenal of democracy,"e; Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis.

It was a project like no other.

Educator, lawyer, editor, inventor, entrepreneur, and civic booster, Carl Magee helped shape New Mexico and Oklahoma in the years after gaining statehood, garnering fame along the way.

Blackpool has seen massive changes in the last 120 years.

Shaped by the Westis a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens.

In the winter of 199697, state and federal authorities shot or shipped to slaughter more than 1,100 Yellowstone National Park bison.

Building Home is an innovative biography that weaves together three engrossing stories.

Derby has been variously described as the 'crossroads of history', 'the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution', 'the real ale capital of the world', 'Jubilee City' and 'the most haunted place in the country'.

WHEN PAT STEWART POSED ON THE RAILINGS OF BLACKPOOL PROMENADE ON A BLUSTERY DAY, LITTLE DID SHE KNOW THE RESULTING PHOTOGRAPH WOULD BECOME AN ICONIC IMAGE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

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.

True stories of the Land of Enchantment's most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats.

Sussex runs in an arc along the south coast of England.

It was the mid eighteen hundreds, the era of immigrants and the discovery of a new world and a new life in the Western Plains of the Americas.

Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories.

Micaela y Carlos son una pareja común y corriente que emprenden el hermoso camino de formar una familia.

Dieser praktische Ratgeber begleitet werdende Väter durch alle wichtigen Phasen - von der Schwangerschaft bis zum ersten Lebensjahr des Kindes.

El líder monarca es un gobernante único de su propia vida.

El campo de investigación sobre la enseñanza de las ciencias se ha enriquecido en los últimos años con los aportes de los enfoques socioculturales.

Una selva de palabras: Literaturas indígenas contemporáneas de Brasil, Guatemala y Colombia trata de las voces indígenas que han irrumpido en el campo de la literatura, en consonancia con los avances y logros del movimiento indígena de las últimas cinco décadas.

Para la monarquía hispánica gobernar era hacer justicia.

El ejercicio de reunir estas historias, estos conocimientos disponibles, se propuso para encontrar las palabras y los signos que, como prenociones sobre la vida cotidiana de un grupo individuos, ilustraran (no solo) un mar de problemas (sociológicos): anomías, malestares —por ejemplo, los delirios de violencia, el abuso de alcohol y drogas, las rencillas familiares, etc.