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The Lively Experiment
Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams' 1633 Rhode Island colony, the "lively experiment" of religious tolerance remains...
Washington's Rebuke to Bigotry
Reflections on Our First President's Famous 1790 Letter to the Hebrew Congregation In Newport, Rhode Island
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
George Washington’s 1790 Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, a foundational document in the history of religious freedom in the United States, embodies a vision of religious harmony that remains deeply pertinent in our increasingly diverse society. In Washington’s Rebuke...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
Varieties of Southern Religious Experience reflects the central assumption that there has been a distinct South for a long time, and effectively and engagingly examines the genuine diversity of that region's religious history.
Let Them Work
The Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts of Franklin County, Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
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Bradford Washburn, An Extraordinary Life
The Autobiography of a Mountaineering Icon
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Here at last is the thrilling memoir of the legendary mountaineer Bradford Washburn, one of the last surviving explorers and adventurers of the twentieth century. Drawing from decades of memories, journals, and an exquisite photographic collection, Washburn completes the self-portrait of a man drawn...
A Guide to the Notorious Bars of Alaska
Revised 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
New, revised second edition! Since* A Guide to the Notorious Bars of Alaska *was first published in 2014, eight of the bars that were described in the first edition have closed their doors forever. The revised second edition includes five additional bars that meet the criteria. Also added to the...
Ralegh's Pirate Colony in America
The Lost Settlement of Roanoke 1584-1590
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The lost colony of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, was England's first experiment in civilian empire building and the first attempt at peaceful co-existence between Native Americans and the English. It disappeared without trace, defeating intense efforts to find it. One hundred and twelve men, women,...
The Other Irish
The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
What do Mark Twain, Neil Armstrong, and John McCain have in common? They're all descendants of a merry group of Scots-Irish braggarts that crossed the Atlantic from Ireland in the early 1700s and settled in America's South. Also known as the "Other Irish," this wild bunch of patriotic, rebellious, fervently...
History of the Donner Party (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
A Tragedy of the Sierra
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
History of the Donner Party takes you straight into the most terrifying tragedy of American western emigration. "More thrilling than romance, more terrible than fiction, the sufferings of the Donner Party form a bold contrast to the joys of pleasure-seekers who to-day look down upon the lake from the...
by Margaret Irvin Carrington
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Called "a highly readable memoir" by a major western historian and cited by historians for over a century. When General Henry B. Carrington was sent west to build and staff Fort Phil Kearney, his wife Margaret and their sons were along. Under the command of Civil War hero, General William T. Sherman,...
Historic Walks in San Francisco
18 Trails Through the City's Past
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Eighteen self-guided walking tours down city streets that will take you back in time, with colorful stories about the buildings along the way and the people associated with them. Easy-to-follow maps, and dozens of historic photographs. You will read tales about such well-known figures as Jack London,...
Old Times on the Upper Mississippi
The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The majesty and glory of the Great River have departed; its glamour remains, fresh and undying, in the memories of those who, with mind's eye, still can see it as it was a half-century ago. Its majesty was apparent in the mighty flood which then flowed throughout the season, scarcely diminished by...
by George Hunsby
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
From his family's arrival in Fairhaven in 1910 to the beginning of the restoration of the area in the mid-1970s, George Hunsby's personalized recollections of this beloved Southside community are told with warmth and humor. Published originally in two volumes in 1975 and 1976, the two books now reappear in this one-volume facsimile edition.
by Marvin L. Michael Kay, Lorin Lee Cary
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave...