State Local category: 1635 books
When the Yankees Came
Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Southerners whose communities were invaded by the Union army during the Civil War endured a profoundly painful ordeal. For most, the coming of the Yankees was a nightmare become real; for some, it was the answer to a prayer. But as Stephen Ash argues, for all, invasion and occupation were essential...
by A L Rawson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Much of the shoreline of Lake Superior was still wilderness when the author made this journey to the rocks of the Lake that were named for the objects men could see in them. Hunting, fishing and exploration with local guides to add color to the story.
America Walks into a Bar
A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
When George Washington bade farewell to his officers, he did so in New York's Fraunces Tavern. When Andrew Jackson planned his defense of New Orleans against the British in 1815, he met Jean Lafitte in a grog shop. And when John Wilkes Booth plotted with his accomplices to carry out an assassination,...
Ralegh's Pirate Colony in America
The Lost Settlement of Roanoke 1584-1590
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The lost colony of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, was England's first experiment in civilian empire building and the first attempt at peaceful co-existence between Native Americans and the English. It disappeared without trace, defeating intense efforts to find it. One hundred and twelve men, women,...
Bronx Tales
Stories of Public Art, Architecture, and Urban Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In these vignettes of life along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, the New York Times’s Constance Rosenblum examines the place of art in this community— its installation, its reception by local residents, and the debates that often surround it. From the growing popularity of European-style Art...
Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga
A Frontier Mission in South Texas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the early part of the eighteenth century, the Spanish colonial mission Espritu Santo de Ziga was relocated from far south Texas to a site along the Guadalupe River in Mission Valley, Victoria County. This mission, along with a handful of others in south Texas, was established by the Spaniards in...
Jewish Communities on the Ohio River
A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
When westward expansion began in the early nineteenth century, the Jewish population of the United States was only 2,500. As Jewish immigration surged over the century between 1820 and 1920, Jews began to find homes in the Ohio River Valley. In Jewish Communities on the Ohio River, Amy Hill Shevitz...
Mothers of Conservatism
Women and the Postwar Right
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Mothers of Conservatism tells the story of 1950s Southern Californian housewives who shaped the grassroots right in the two decades following World War II. Michelle Nickerson describes how red-hunting homemakers mobilized activist networks, institutions, and political consciousness in local education...
Homelands
Southern Jewish Identity in Durham-Chapel Hill and North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Homelands blends oral history, documentary studies, and quantitative research to present a colorful local history with much to say about multicultural identity in the South. Homelands is a case study of a unique ethnic group in North America--small-town southern Jews. Both Jews and southerners, Leonard...
A History of Dartmouth Bible Church
The First Fifty Years (1963–2013)
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
This history of one local church demonstrates the prayerful determination of its membership over five decades to craft a meaningful place of ministry in a spiritually challenging community which dates to the Mayflower Pilgrims. These members purposed to honor God by growing in their relationship with...
Lost Treasures of Arkansas's Waterways
Hidden Mines, Buried Fortunes, and Civil War Artifacts
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
From the earliest native inhabitants to Spanish explorers to early settlers, travelers have always followed the paths of Arkansas’s waterways. This collection includes 16 legends about Civil War artifacts, silver bullets, sealed caves, and collapsed mines—all set along the rivers and streams of Arkansas....
by Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola, Carol Sarath, Bob Rosebrough
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Geography has conspired to make Gallup, New Mexico, a special place with unique people and a colorful history. It has been a place of struggle and extremes where cultures have clashed, mixed, and melded. Gallup is a community that is simultaneously challenging and uplifting, heartrending, and redemptive....
The Legend of Grizzly Adams
California’s Greatest Mountain Man
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The greatest California mountain man of them all was Grizzly Adams.
He was also one of the most mysterious men in the history of the American West.
In this colorful biography, historian Richard Dillon chronicles...
by David Baugher
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Where in St. Louis can you…
…picnic at a radioactive waste dump?
…learn what West County Center’s famous dove really represents?
…visit the grave of the man who burned Atlanta?
…join a nudist resort?
…view a cube comprised of a million dollar bills?...