Local and family history, nostalgia

An Illustrated History of Palm Beach is a nostalgic journey through the history of the town of Palm Beach as told through the photographic collection of the Historical Society of Palm Beach County.

This engaging and colorful guidebook brings alive the many lighthouses of the Sunshine State.

A history of a very popular beach destination near Sarasota on the Gulf coast of Florida.

From the time the first humans reached the Florida peninsula more than 12,000 years ago through today's complex and diverse state, this timeline narrative sets Florida's fascinating history against the backdrop of world events.

The European explorers were the first to find the evidence of earlier civilizations who built monumental earthwork mounds, ceremonial complexes and cities in the Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys.

Sunken treasure, cannibalism, prison ships, Nazi submarines, the Bermuda triangleall are tied into the lore of shipwrecks along Florida's coasts.

Just south of Miami Beach lies the southernmost sand barrier island of the continental United StatesKey Biscayne.

Deep in the wilderness of northern Maine in the mid-1950s, a Harvard PhD student is wading down a mountain stream into a remote valley.

Death by Fire and Ice tells the little-known story of the sinking of the steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound in January 1840.

Alaska in the 1960's was truly the Last Frontier.

This book was written for the purpose of providing a reference for family members to continue the search for the Casbys and Hardamans.

This book is the result of decades-long academic research and 25 years of emergence in the myth of the American dream.

As far as I know, no one else has done such a book as this one giving the history of the whole of Brown County, so I did it myself with the help of Rhonda A.

DNA Reveals Imposter: Charles Edwin Rinker Changed His Name to Harry Bernard KingOne Man, Four Families: DNA Reveals Harry Bernard King aka Charles Edwin RinkerWhy would a young man leave the beautiful blue ridge mountains of Virginia and move to the flat fields of Iowa, by himself, without any apparent relatives nearby?

The title of the book sums it up fairly well with a couple of exceptions.

From January to July of 1862, the armies and navies of the Union and Confederacy conducted an incredibly complex and remarkably diverse range of operations in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Ebe Chandler McCabe, Jr, a retired Navy captain who also had a long career as a nuclear power plant regulator, examines his family history in context with mankind's.

This book provides information about the history and geography of the tiny village of Galloway in northwestern Pennsylvania.

This book is about the history of the Wilderness Road and a trekking guide with photos.

A Small Town's Legacies takes the reader on an historical journey that begins in the 1700s with early settlers building homesteads in the swampy wilderness of Northwest Pennsylvania.

Railroads were the first big business enterprises in America, and they made possible many other industries.

Railroads were the first big business enterprises of America and made possible many other industries.

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The Rodriguez/Nava Family can boast a rich legacy full of historical moments and wondrous occasions.

Reading about the lives of our chief executives is one thing, seeing where they lived in their youth and as adults is entirely different and enlightening.

The powerful, long-repressed classic of Dallas history that examines the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in the city.

The Kahans from Baku is the saga of a Russian Jewish family.

The Kahans from Baku is the saga of a Russian Jewish family.

Self-Portrait, with Parents and Footnotes is a story of movement.

Self-Portrait, with Parents and Footnotes is a story of movement.

Shortly after her father's death, Elisa Brodinsky Miller uncovered a cache of letters among his belongings.

Shortly after her father's death, Elisa Brodinsky Miller uncovered a cache of letters among his belongings.

President Lincoln's final resting place is more than just a cemetery.

Get to Know the Wisconsin City's Most Vibrant and Historic NeighborhoodsMilwaukee is richly historic.

This seminal book, The California Gold Rush, offers a sweeping narrative of one of the most transformative events in American history.

What They're Saying About Facts and Fancy .

Mary is a very proud wife, mother, retired educator, community activist, and now an aspiring writer.

The West Chesterfield neighborhood stood tall back in the 1920s, '30s, '40s, '50s, and it still stands tall in the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, and today, 2017!

Robert Prager, a lonely German immigrant searching for the American dream, was probably the most shameful U.

Katya Cengel met San Tran Croucher when San was seventy-five years old and living in California, having miraculously survived the Cambodian genocide with her three daughters, Sithy, Sithea, and Jennifer.