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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...
A Summer of Birds
John James Audubon at Oakley House
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
As the summer of 1821 began, John James Audubon's ambition to create a comprehensive pictorial record of American birds was still largely a dream. Then, out of economic necessity, Audubon came to Oakley Plantation, a sprawling estate in Louisiana's West Feliciana Parish. Teeming with an abundance...
A Heart on Fire
Catholic Witness and the Next America
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
"A genuinely Catholic life should feed the soul as well as the mind; should offer a vision of men and women made whole by the love of God, the knowledge of creation, and the reality of things unseen; should enable us to see the beauty of the world in the light of eternity; and should help us...
Outlaw Tales of Missouri
True Stories Of The Show Me State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Midwest.
Inventing the Dream
California through the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1986
This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. "How hauntingly beautiful, how replete with lost possibilities, seems that...
The Catskills
Its History and How It Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The Catskills (“Cat Creek” in Dutch), America’s original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land preserve and its five counties—Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster, Schoharie; America’s first great vacationland; the subject of the nineteenth-century...
by William H. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
William H. Williams fills a gap in the literature on slavery in America. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the 'peculiar institution' in the First State. An excellent text for courses in colonial and antebellum history, Slavery and Freedom in Delaware provides valuable insight into this unfortunate, unforgettable period in the nation's history.
by Judy Colbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
It Happened in Maryland takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Old Line State's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.
by Judy Colbert
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
It Happened in Delaware takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the First State's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.
by Marlo Carter Kirkpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
It Happened in Mississippi takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Magnolia State's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.
The Fifty-Year Rebellion
How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
On July 23, 1967, the eyes of the world fixed on Detroit, as thousands took to the streets to vent their frustrations with white racism, police brutality, and vanishing job prospects in the place that gave rise to the American Dream. Mainstream observers contended that the “riot” brought about...
Freedom Colonies
Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and many poor whites became trapped in the exploitative sharecropping system, these independence-seeking individuals settled on pockets of unclaimed...
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning...
Exploring Texas History
Weekend Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
Combining fascinating stories of Texas history with travel adventures around the state, Exploring Texas History: Weekend Adventures suggests where to go and what to see by tracking historical characters and events. The travel destinations echo the settlement of Texas, the battle for independence,...