State Local category: 1635 books
Isham G. Harris of Tennessee
Confederate Governor and United States Senator
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In 1931, when the Nashville Banner conducted a survey to determine the "Greatest Tennesseans" to date, the state's Confederate "War Governor," Isham G. Harris (1818--1897), ranked tenth on the list, behind such famous Tennesseans as Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson,...
Arkansas History
A Journey through Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Arkansas History: A Journey through Time—The Growth of the Twenty-Fifth State of the Union from 1833 to 1957 places in the hands of students and teachers a curated compilation of excerpts from original sources that tell the story of Arkansas from the founding efforts of the first advocates for...
by Lori Baird, Marcel Brousseau, Amber Rose
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Take an eye-opening tour of America by flipping through each state’s informative guide to facts, geography, and interesting history.
What was the last state to join the Union? What does the state quarter for Alabama look like? What is the state bird of Texas? All the answers are contained...
The Impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock
Judicial Independence and Civic Populism
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
At this juncture in American history, some of our most hard-fought state-level political struggles involve control of state supreme courts. New Hampshire witnessed one of the most dramatic of these, culminating in the impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock in 2000, but the issues raised by the case...
by Tom Poland
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Truly a book that will captivate newcomers and renew the appreciation of longtime residents, this breathtaking photographic exploration showcases the fullness of the state's regional diversity, natural beauty, and human creativity. Two hundred color photographs record South Carolina's people and places,...
Gotham
A History of New York City to 1898
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1998
To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of...
Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Eastern Sierra
Including Death Valley, Alpine, Inyo & Mono Counties
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
• The Federal Writers’ Project named an area three miles south-southeast of Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley the Devil’s Cornfield because the arrowweed growing there resembled shocks of corn tied about the middle.
• The Devil’s Golf...
La Charrette
A History of the Village Gateway to the American Frontier Visited by Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone, Zebulon Pike
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2006
La Charrette provides a first-ever historical look at America's westernmost frontier settlement, which-over a mere thirty-year existence-managed to leave behind a rich, vibrant legacy that is firmly rooted in local, state, and national history.
Located sixty miles beyond St. Louis on the banks...
The Making of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
A Devil, Two Rivers, and a Dream
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2007
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is most widely known today for the attempted slave revolt led by John Brown in 1859, the nucleus for the interpretation of the current national park. Here, Moyer and Shackel tell the behind-the-scenes story of how this event was chosen and preserved for commemoration,...
Cameron
Cameron: Family, Technology and Religion in a Rust Belt Town as Seen by Averills, Nasons, Mccormicks and Others Who Passed Through.
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2006
Follow a Michigan town from the time families from New York and Pennsylvania settled Potawatomi land in the 1830s to the Civil War. Cameron flourished as a farm market while Michigan grew rich on lumber. Local industries expanded when Detroit built automobiles, stoves and refrigerators. The diverse...
Bittersweet Legacy
The Black and White 'Better Classes' in Charlotte, 1850-1910
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Bittersweet Legacy is the dramatic story of the relationship between two generations of black and white southerners in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1850 to 1910. Janette Greenwood describes the interactions between black and white business and professional people--the 'better classes,' as they...
Deckhand
Life on Freighters of the Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Long before popular television shows such as Dirty Jobs and The Deadliest Catch, everyday men and women---the unsung heroes of the job world---toiled in important but mostly anonymous jobs. One of those jobs was deckhand on the ore boats.
With numerous photographs and engaging stories, Deckhand...
Desegregating Texas Schools
Eisenhower, Shivers, and the Crisis at Mansfield High
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the famous Brown v. the Board of Education decisions of 1954 and 1955, the United States Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. Yet history records that it took more than a decade of legal battles, civil rights protests,...
A History of Presque Isle
As Told Through Conversation with the Park’S Legendary Hermit, Joe Root
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Presque Isle State Park, a peninsula extending seven miles into Lake Erie, attracts four million visitors each year. Since the late 1800s, the park has been an ecological and recreational paradise where visitors can enjoy solitude, reflection, and the wonders of nature. At times strong storms are...