State Local category: 1635 books
Mississippi Secrets
Facts, Legends, and Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Delve into the fascinating history of one of the South's greatest states with Mississippi Secrets: Facts, Legends, and Folklore. Authors Dr. Gary D. and Ruth A. McDowell offer an intriguing collection of little-known events in Mississippi's history.
Written in short, easy-to-read vignettes,...
It Happened in Indiana
Remarkable Events That Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
This book offers an inside look at over 25 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of the Hoosier State.
Into the West
The Story of Its People
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Acclaimed historian Walter Nugent brings us what is perhaps the most comprehensive and fascinating account to date of the peopling of the American West. In this epic social-demographic history, Nugent explores the populations of the West as they grow, change and intersect from the Paleo-Indians, the...
Zeb Vance
North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this comprehensive biography of the man who led North Carolina through the Civil War and, as a U.S. senator from 1878 to 1894, served as the state's leading spokesman, Gordon McKinney presents Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-94) as a far more complex figure than has been previously recognized.
Vance...
Ivy and Industry
Business and the Making of the American University, 1880–1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Emphasizing how profoundly the American research university has been shaped by business and the humanities alike, Ivy and Industry is a vital contribution to debates about the corporatization of higher education in the United States. Christopher Newfield traces major trends in the intellectual and...
by Mara Murphy, Anna Branning, Dutch Door Press
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This enchanting tour of America's most cherished birds and flowers is an intimate collection of lovely images from beloved letterpress studio Dutch Door Press. Each state's emblematic flora and fauna are paired in winsome vintage-inspired compositions and accompanied by fascinating facts about the...
Myths and Mysteries of Kansas
True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
This selection of twelve stories from Kansas's past explores some of the Sunflower State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
Beyond Schoolmarms and Madams
Montana Women's Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Ruth Garfield was a ranching wife. Her husband had just been elected to a second term as sheriff of newly created Golden Valley County in 1920 when he was fatally shot. Mrs. Garfield set aside her grief to assist the community and serve out her husband’s term. She was Montana’s first female sheriff.
Stories...
by James R. Glenn
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Trace the history of Illinois and its legal systemspecifically the Fifth Judicial Circuitwith this historical account written by one of the circuits judges. The circuit was created in 1897 and consists of Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Edgar, and Vermilion Counties. Its judges have sorted through complicated...
by William C. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within or hunting and trading across the present-day borders of Texas when Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions washed up on a Gulf Coast beach in 1528. Over the next two centuries, as Spanish and French expeditions explored the state,...
Shot in Alabama
A History of Photography, 1839–1941, and a List of Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Shot in Alabama by Frances Osborn Robb is a visual and textual narrative of Alabama’s photographic history from 1839 to 1941. It describes the phenomenon of photography as practiced in Alabama as a major cultural force, paying close attention to the particular contexts from which each image emerges...
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, linked URLs in notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 6 include scholarly articles and student casenotes, as well as as the extensive, annual survey of Developments in the Law. This...
It Happened in Alaska
Remarkable Events that Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The remote, unforgiving landscape and colossal—and unpredictably unstable—mountain ranges of Alaska have kept at bay many a faint-hearted outsider, but the lure of this territory’s beauty, as well as its rich and vast resources, continues to entice adventuresome natives and outsiders alike....
Gallia County, Ohio (Bicentennial)
History Vol. 2; Bicentennial Edition-2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
(From interior)This book is dedicated to the people, businesses, churches and organizations of Gallia County as it celebrates, along with the great State of Ohio, the 200th anniversary of the year both became part of the United States of America.