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Days of Darkness
The Feuds of Eastern Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
" Among the darkest corners of Kentucky's past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, John Ed Pearce, Kentucky's best known journalist, weaves engrossing...
Yosemite Place Names
The historic background of geographic names in Yosemite National Park
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
The historic background of geographic names in Yosemite National Park. The record of who named what and when, quotations from explorers, tourists, geographers, rangers, and soldiers, and often the peculiar, humorous, or moving events that gave rise to the names on the maps today. Includes old names,...
Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage
Exploring Issues of Public History, Tourism, and Race in a Southern Rural Town
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage examines the complex web of public history, race, cultural identity, and tourism in Luray, Virginia, a rural Southern town. The 'texts' associated with this town's public history_tourist brochures, promotional narratives, historic homes, memorials, and monuments_are...
To Promote the General Welfare
The Case for Big Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Americans love to hate their government, and a long tradition of anti-government suspicion reaches back to debates among the founders of the nation. But the election of Barack Obama has created a backlash rivaled only by the anti-government hysteria that preceded the Civil War. Lost in all the Tea...
by Charlene C. Giannetti, Jai Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Southern plantations are an endless source of fascination. That’s no surprise since these palatial homes are rich in history, representing a pivotal time in U.S. history that truly is “gone with the wind.” With the Civil War literally exploding all around, many of these homes were occupied either...
by Jack De Bellis
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
John Updike’s Early Years reveals for the first time the young Updike’s developing personality and precocious creativity. Relying upon interviews with classmates and friends, and offering extensive connections to his mature work, De Bellis shows how his school years incubated his mature work....
by Shanna M. English
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
A Pictorial History of Lamar County, Georgia features hundreds of rare and never-before published photographs of this quiet community from the 19th century through modern times.
The Magnificent Rogues of San Francisco
A Gallery of Fakers and Frauds, Rascals and Robber Barons, Scoundrels and Scalawags
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Get ready to meet twenty of the most interesting, bizarre, colorful, and unforgettable characters to be found in the annals the most interesting, bizarre, colorful, and unforgettable city in the world.
Historian Charles F. Adams brings each...
Koma Kulshan
The story of Mt. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Rising above the northwestern part of the Cascades is the magnificent bulk of Mount Baker - "Koma Kulshan" (the steep white mountain" to the early Nooksack Indians. Long a focal point of human interest, this slumbering volcano has been seen in many different lights--as a sacred object,...
by Kurt Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
A daily journal of natural observations for one year with essays about a canyon's history and recent scientific research about species and geology observed. City Creek Canyon is located in Salt Lake City, Utah.
This book seeks to answer two questions: Can Henry David Thoreau's experience be...
New York, Year by Year
A Chronology of the Great Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Winner, The New York Public Library, Best of Reference Award, 2002
If any city deserves a complete chronology, it is surely New York. New York, Year by Year is a cornucopia of the familiar and the forgotten, the historic and the ephemeral, the heroic and the banal. In this handy reference work, Jeffrey...
The Big Onion Guide to New York City
Ten Historic Tours
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Visit the Big Onion Guide to New York City site at www.nyupress.org/bigonion
Whether you're a tourist or a native New Yorker, you will appreciate this witty, informative walking guide to New York City, as authors Seth Kamil and Eric Wakin peel back the layers of New York's most popular neighborhoods....
On Montauk
A Literary Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Why an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essay on Montauk?One of the world’s great fishing ports; site of the first cattle ranch in the US; refuge for Teddy Roosevelt’s Roughriders back from San Juan Hill; rum-runner headquarters during Prohibition; very nearly the Miami Beach of the north; site...
New Jersey's Remarkable Women
Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
More than Petticoats: Remarkable New Jersey Women features 12 exceptional women born prior to 1900. Portraits include Alice Huyler Ramsey, the first woman to drive across America; Hannah Silverman, a labor activist during the Paterson silk strikes who fought fearlessly for better working conditions;...