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The City of Vines
A History of Wine in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Winner of the 2016 California Historical Society Book Award! The latest title from the author of A History of Wine in America recounts the beginnings of California’s world-renowned wine trade—a story set not in Napa but in the isolated pueblo now called Los Angeles. With incisive analysis and...
by James Baker
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
Plymouth is known world-wide because of the Pilgrim story and its considerable significance for the history of the United States. Visitors have made their own pilgrimages to Plymouth for hundreds of years to "see where it all began," gaze at Plymouth Rock, and visit Pilgrim Hall and Plimoth Plantation....
by Michael Kessler
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2002
The information explosion of the 20th century has made obsolete all of the beliefs about reality that preceded it. Led by the works of Albert Einstein and R. Buckminster Fuller, this new information also opens up new opportunities and possibilities to create a constitutional global society of peace,...
The Tennessee
The Old River: Frontier to Secession
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1991
From the landing of Federal troops at the Tennessee-Ohio confluence to the new river of the TVA, whose dams "stand athwart the valley in Egyptian impassivity," this volume completes the story of the transformation of a river and of the culture it nourished. Southern Classics Series.
by James A. Crutchfield
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Not just the purview of Mark Twain and his characters, the Mighty Mississippi offers a fascinating look at America. Thirty stories from the history of the Mississippi River will captivate you as you travel from Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico.
by Lincoln Paine
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
From the first explorers, to the century of ships, to our modern fisheries and diversification, Maine's maritime story is told in engaging detail. Lincoln Paine has laid down the framework for an understanding of Maine's maritime history by relating the population and landscape of today to their...
Divided We Fall
Exploring the Keys to American Unity, Survival, and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
In a bid to rekindle the torch of democracy,
a longtime federal executive explores
the political discord that has so many people
fighting with each another.
If youre concerned about the future of the United States and the shortcomings of todays political system, then youre part of an ever-growing...
by Archer Butler Hulbert
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Volume 14 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...
Summary of The Oregon Trail
by Rinker Buck | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck | Summary & Analysis Preview: Rinker Buck’s The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey chronicles Rinker and his brother’s experiences reliving the journey taken by the original nineteenth-century travelers of the Oregon Trail. At the same time, the...
by Mike Martin
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2004
Two legendary battles which sprang from the depths of history to shine as symbols of self sacrifice, heroism and glorious defeat. Encounters which took the lives of two of America's most famous figures: Davy Crockett and General Custer.
What is the essential link between the battles of the...
Nightclub City
Politics and Amusement in Manhattan
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
In the Roaring Twenties, New York City nightclubs and speakeasies became hot spots where traditions were flouted and modernity was forged. With powerful patrons in Tammany Hall and a growing customer base, nightclubs flourished in spite of the efforts of civic-minded reformers and federal Prohibition...
When We Were Your Age
A Peek at New England Childhoods of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Meet twenty-five former children who have shared their stories of growing up in New England: Ellie, who hated breakfast; Sonny, who liked to skip school; Lucy, who had an abusive stepmother; Shirl, who soaped store windows on Halloween; Helen, who proved her whole town wrong; Butch, who posed for...
Shanghaiing Days
The Thrilling account of 19th Century Hell-Ships, Bucko Mates and Masters, and Dangerous Ports-of-Call from San Francisco to Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the American Merchant Marine went into a terrible and tragic decline, and sailors were forced to serve under conditions that were little better than serfdom.
Seamen were exploited in wholesale...