Local and family history, nostalgia

Yellowstone National Park is the focal point of the 22-million-acre, multifaceted Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, located in northwestern Wyoming and in parts of eastern Idaho and Montana.

There is a significant French heritage in North Carolina.

This is the story of the Rankins, a family that embodied the risk and ambition that transformed America.

The graveyards of old New England hold an incredible range of poetic messages in the epitaphs etched into the gravestones, each a profound expression of emotion, culture, religion, and literature.

After the Civil War, the New York City's East River was a massive unsolved and dangerous navigation problem.

In 1899, one of America's wealthiest men assembled an interdisciplinary team of experts--many of whom would become legendary in their fields--to join him, entirely at his expense, on a voyage to the largely unknown territory of Alaska.

The path of Grand Prix racing in America wound through raceways at Sebring, Riverside, Watkins Glen, Long Beach, and finally Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Set in the 1980s against a backdrop of the AIDS crisis, deindustrialization and the Reagan era, this book tells the story of one individual's defiant struggle against his community--the city of Kokomo, Indiana.

In 1912, a Congressional committee met to investigate allegations that the Secretary of Agriculture had suppressed a report by J.

In 1922, a coal miner strike spread across the United States, swallowing the heavily-unionized mining town of Herrin, Illinois.

Every veteran has a story to tell--often ones they have not told their own families.

Telling the story of LSU football through coverage of each of the Tigers' 50 bowl games--from 1907 through 2019--this book provides summaries of the team's regular season, and their opponents' season, along with quarter-by-quarter game highlights, important stats, and quotes from players and coaches.

Nebraska is not usually thought of as a focal point in the history of black baseball, yet the state has seen its share of contributions to the African American baseball experience.

Exploring the little-known history behind the legal doctrine of prior appropriation--"e;first in time is first in right"e;--used to apportion water resources in the western United States, this book focuses on the important case of Wyoming v.

Native Americans have occupied the mountains of northwestern North Carolina for around 14,000 years.

In 1528, the Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions were shipwrecked and, looking for help, began an eight-year trek through the deserts of the American West.

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The Pittsburgh Penguins have captured the Stanley Cup five times since 1991--more than any NHL team during the same period.

The Westford Knight is a mysterious, controversial stone carving in Massachusetts.

In May 1891, Joe Quigley embarked on a journey north to try his luck prospecting for gold in Alaska.

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In 2010, University of Kansas officials were shocked to learn that the FBI and IRS were on campus investigating Rodney Jones, former head of the Athletics Ticket Office, for stealing Jayhawks basketball tickets and selling them to brokers.

After more than three years of grim fighting, General Ulysses Grant had a plan to end the Civil War--laying siege to Petersburg, Virginia, thus cutting off supplies to the Confederate capital at Richmond.

This biographical dictionary catalogs the Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Missouri and the western States and Territories during the Civil War.

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Drawing on six years of research, this book covers the military service and postwar lives of notable Confederate veterans who moved into Northern California at the end the Civil War.

Based on years of research as well as interviews conducted with Circle in the Square's major contributing artists, this book records the entire history of this distinguished theatre from its nightclub origins to its current status as a Tony Award-winning Broadway institution.

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

John Davidson came to the North Carolina back country circa 1751 as a young man, with his sister and widowed mother.

In the mid-17th century, the Iroquois Confederacy launched a war for control of the burgeoning fur trade industry.

Adolph Sutro was forever seeking challenges.

In the first decades of the 1800s, white Americans entered the rugged lands of Arkansas, which they had little explored before.

In the 1800s, New Orleans' local economy evolved from rural-agrarian into urban-industrial.

The Great Basin is a hydrographic region that includes most of Nevada and parts of five other Western states.

Raised in poverty on an Iowa farm, the Cherry Sisters had little education and no training.

Between 1908 and 1920, Roger C.

This naval history of the Delaware Estuary spans three centuries, from the arrival of the Europeans to the end of the World War II.

In the late 19th century Ohio was reeling from a wave of lynchings and other acts of racially motivated mob violence.

This history of Westchester County, New York, from the time of European settlement to the present, examines four centuries of development in an iconic region that became the archetypal American suburb.

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Known as the Coastal Highway, U.

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.

In 1750 the Appalachian Mountains were a formidable barrier between the British colonies in the east and French territory in the west, passable only on foot or horseback.

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Professional motorsports came to Las Vegas in the mid-1950s at a bankrupt horse track swarmed by gamblers--and soon became enmeshed with the government and organized crime.

The signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 signified the end of the Vietnam War.

Virginia played an important role during World War I, supplying the Allied forces with food, horses and steel in 1915 and 1916.

Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach led the hunt for John Dillinger during the violent early 1930s.

Abraham Lincoln's presidency was bookended by a pair of dramatic railroad trips through the state of New York.

Virginia saw significant action during the War of 1812, from the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair to the defense of Norfolk against British invaders.