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by Archer Butler Hulbert
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Volume 4 of the series "Historic Highways of America". According to Wikipedia: "Archer Butler Hulbert (26 Jan 1873 24 Dec 1933), historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history... He was Vice-Principal of the Putnam Military Academy, Zanesville, Ohio, until 1897. Hulbert...
Bronx Tales
Stories of Public Art, Architecture, and Urban Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In these vignettes of life along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, the New York Times’s Constance Rosenblum examines the place of art in this community— its installation, its reception by local residents, and the debates that often surround it. From the growing popularity of European-style Art...
by Louis F. Burns
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Traces 400 years of Osage culture from prehistoric times to the group's current status as an officially recognized tribe.
Osage traditional lands are located in mid-continental America encompassed by the present-day states of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Major waterways through...
by Addison Richards
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
A look at the Armories at Norwich CT. at their peak production during the height of the American Civil War.
University Builder
Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Rice University, one of America's preeminent institutions of higher education, grew out of the vision, direction, and leadership of one man: Edgar Odell Lovett (1871--1957). University Builder is the fascinating story of this extraordinary educator and the unique school he created. Widely acknowledged,...
Hatchet Men
The Story of the Tong Wars in San Francisco’s Chinatown
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Richard Dillon, one of California’s premier historians, tells the compelling story of San Francisco’s exotic pre-1906 Chinatown when vicious hoodlum gangs held sway. Chinatown, as demonstrated by Dillon’s fast-paced narrative, became a cauldron of chaos teeming with...
Newport Beach
A HarborTown History
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
This 112-page history is concise and comprehensive, rich with historical photos and a full-color watercolor cover. The only short, complete history of Newport Beach, this HarborTown History is lauded as clear, accurate, and readable - a must have for anyone living in this fascinating...
by George Brewerton
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
A Description of a trip from Santa Fe to Missouri in the 1850's at a time of Indian Troubles, through the heart of Buffalo Country.
by John Leyburn
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2011
Contemporaneous essay by a resident describing the fall of the city.
Listen Here
Women Writing in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia is a landmark anthology that brings together the work of 105 Appalachian women writers, including Dorothy Allison, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Annie Dillard, Nikki Giovanni, Denise Giardina, Barbara Kingsolver, Jayne Anne Phillips, Janice Holt Giles, George Ella...
Exceptional Leadership
Lessons from the Founding Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This book is about values and principles that have formed the backbone of the exceptionality of America. These values and principles have shaped the way leadership in America has evolved and prescribed the way leaders have practiced their craft. It is about what both leaders and their followers implicitly...
by John Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
A contemporaneous account of Ellet's steam rams and their place in the history of opening the Mississippi.
An Absolute Massacre
The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates and enfranchising blacks. On July 30, a procession of black suffrage supporters pushed through an angry throng of hostile whites. Words were exchanged, shots...
Cutting The Wire
Gaming Prohibition And The Internet
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
**The story of the Wire Act and how Robert Kennedy’s crusade against the Mob is creating a new generation of Internet gaming outlaws.**Gambling has been part of American life since long before the existence of the nation, but Americans have always been ambivalent about it. What David Schwartz calls...