Local and family history, nostalgia

An Old Rangers Memories: Building Montaa de Oro State Park chronicles the adventures had in taking what used to be a working seaside ranch and transforming it into what would become San Luis Obispo Countys most-beloved state park.

The Fathers of My Children: The Genealogy and Lifestyle Changes of the Umorens of Asong in Eastern Nigeria describes the ancestral origin of the Umorens and the existing lineal connection with all Africans in the Diaspora, regardless of their different migrational pathways in which they found themselves outside of Africa, particularly in North America.

Uncover the spiritual strength of your family story.

Hawaiian Antiquities (1898) is an ethnography by David Malo.

Now with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author.

"e;Uncovers a centuries-long story of obsession that often included murder, gun fights, deadly accidents, overnight fortunes and even cannibalism.

Nation's Metropolis describes how the national capital region functions as a metropolitan political economy.

A chronicle of neighborhood redevelopment politics in West Philadelphia over 60 yearsIn twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-sponsored innovation districts as engines of inclusive growth.

The book tells the story of a rural black southern community that struggled to thrive during the period of segregation.

The popularity of Family History has increased over the past five years due to TV shows like Genealogy Roadshow, Finding Your Roots, and Who Do You Think You Are?

A richly textured account of what it means to be poor in AmericaBaltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in America.

A fascinating memoir of a white man who gained access to the private lives of the Blackfeet Indians.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to the myths and legends of the Great Plains of America.

A moving true story of of a young girl escaping hardship and coming of age in the Second World War.

The Sunday Times Bestseller and #1 international bestseller'A moving and bittersweet story' Sun Keeping My Sister's Secrets by Beezy Marsh is the heartwarming true story of three sisters and their fearless fight to survive the hardships of poverty and war - by whatever means necessary.

Tracing My Roots in Guanajuato, Len, and Silaos Haciendas and Ranchos (17341945) outlines the steps the author took to research his fathers ancestors in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.

This is the tenth in a series of monographs--Shaping American Lutheran Church Music--published by the Center for Church Music, Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Illinois.

This is a literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm in a metered manner.

When Thomas Darron Jordans paternal aunt died in 2002, another generation of his family was gone.

Profiles of Patriots: A Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War Patriots and their Descendants is a compilation of thirty-one biographies of American Revolutionary War patriots and includes an introduction and brief history of the Williamsburg, Virginia, chapter of the DAR and its founders.

In the era when segregation and Jim Crow laws ruled the land, The Turkey Day Classic was created.

At noon on Sunday, March 26, 1933, the only son (the last in a family of seven children) was born to Frank H.

Women Vietnam Veterans: Our Untold Stories, by Donna Lowery, a Vietnam veteran, chronicles the participation of American military women during the Vietnam War.

This is a literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm in a metered manner.

My earlier book called Achieving-Failing showcased my life through the years until my children became adults.

Rachel Moores and her husband David operated a cotton plantation in the bottoms of the Sulphur River in North East Texas.

Winner of the Edgar Award: The gripping account of a gruesome mass murder in gritty 1980s New York and the relentless hunt for a coldblooded killer.

"e;Uncovers a centuries-long story of obsession that often included murder, gun fights, deadly accidents, overnight fortunes and even cannibalism.

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An ambitious history of a California city that epitomizes the history of race relations in modern America.

The story of how one ethnic neighborhood came to signify a shared Korean American identity.

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.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth.

San Francisco has always had an affordable housing problem.

Read about the installation of water and sewer lines.

That is the thing about New York, wrote Dorothy Parker in 1928.

A brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s';Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who loves a good storyterrific, eminently readablefascinating' (The Washington Post).

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?

Dispatches from a land of extremes, by writers and movie stars, natives and visitors, activists and pioneers, and more.

In the 19th century, Daniel Waggoner and his son, W.

Among the greatest of tragedies of the American frontierthe Donner Party, the Alamo, Wounded Kneea little known but no less tragic event was the Texas Mier Expedition.

The definitive account of the incomparable Lone Star state by the author of Fire & Blood: A History of Mexico.

Poppys with Honour is about an originally wealthy family living from 1762 1960, who are ancestors to the Author.

join the author in reliving sylvania's over 180 years of history from footpaths to expressways and beyond, in volume five of an eight volume set.

Born in an explosive boom and built through distinct economic networks, San Francisco has a cosmopolitan character that often masks the challenges migrants faced to create community in the city by the bay.

The Daniel Crumb family settled in Westerly, Rhode Island in 1669.

This history began as a small pedigree assembled as a birthday gift for mylate father-in-law, Colonel Henry Perkins Gantt (1894-1983) of HollyRod, Gloucester Point, Virginia, on his 72nd birthday, 29 April 1966.

Moving portraits of seventeen independent women who helped make Arizona what it is todayRemarkable Arizona Women profiles the lives of seventeen of the state's most fascinating figureswomen from across Arizona, from many different backgrounds, and from various walks of life.

Utah presents a paradox in women's history as a state founded by deeply religious pioneers who supported polygamy but also a place that offered women early suffrage and encouraged education and leadership.