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Hispano Homesteaders
The Last New Mexico Pioneers, 1850-1910
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
After Santa Fe was founded in 1610, the Hispano people were restless to expand their colony. They slowly pushed their borders to the north, establishing little villages along the Rio Grande and dozens of its tributaries. Their progress was often interrupted, first by the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and...
Myths and Mysteries of Michigan
True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
This selection of 12 stories from Michigan's past explores some of the Great Lakes State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
Impressions of the North Cascades
Essays about a Northwest landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Originally published in 1996, Impressions of the North Cascades is a collection of essays, reminiscences, and reflections on Washington State’s North Cascades. Sixteen contributors, ranging from geologists to environmental educators, share their own connections to these awe-inspiring mountains and their surrounding wilderness.
The Galveston Era
The Texas Crescent on the Eve of Secession
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The "Queen City" of Texas they called her—or the "Octopus of the Gulf." Galveston from 1845 to 1860 was the center of culture in Texas—or the monster with an economic strangle hold on all Texas trade. It was a gracious city with wide paved streets, impressive buildings, and neat gardens; yet it was...
by Michael Bie
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
It Happened in Wisconsin takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Badger State's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.
Rebellion in the Temple of Justice
The Federal and State Courts in South Carolina During the War Between the States
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Ghost Courts of the War Between the States
In 1860, news of Abraham Lincoln's election arrived in Charleston like a fire alarm. In the United States courtroom on Chalmers Street, the grand jury simply refused to go on. All eyes are on the judge. In a dramatic moment, Judge A.G. Magrath, tears...
Defying Disfranchisement
Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Jim Crow strengthened rapidly and several southern states adopted new constitutions designed primarily to strip African American men of their right to vote. Since the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited eliminating voters...
Outlaw Tales of South Dakota
True Stories Of The Mount Rushmore State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of South Dakota. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Great Plains.
The Fabulous Frontier, 1846-1912
Facsimile of 1962 Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Recapturing the atmosphere of Territorial days, this 1962 extensively annotated edition of a Southwestern classic focuses on southeastern New Mexico, where "murder was a common offense" and stagecoach robberies were "nothing to get excited about." The delineation of this last,...
First Books
The Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
This case study in cultural mythmaking shows how antebellum Alabama created itself out of its own printed texts, from treatises on law and history to satire, poetry, and domestic novels.
Early 19th-century Alabama was a society still in the making. Now Philip Beidler tells how the...
Humbugs and Heroes
A Gallery of California Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Award-winning historian Richard Dillon deals up intriguing vignettes on sixty-three men and women who helped shaped California into the colorful state that it is.
Dillon, whose work on Meriwether Lewis has appeared on the New York Times best-seller...
Baptists in America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The Puritans called Baptists "the troublers of churches in all places" and hounded them out of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four hundred years later, Baptists are the second-largest religious group in America, and their influence matches their numbers. They have built strong institutions, from...
Maine
The Dynamics of Political Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Christian Potholm has worked as a political insider and activist for much of the last forty years, dividing his time between the classroom and the election arena. By analyzing the interactive ebbs and flows of political campaigns, Potholm uses both quantitative and qualitative analysis to understand...
Labor Revolt In Alabama
The Great Strike of 1894
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
The Alabama coal miners’ strike of 1894 to gain improved working conditions and to protect themselves from wage reductions. The authors recount the depression of the early 1890s, which set the stage for the strike, and the subsequent use of convict labor, which became a catalyst. The gripping...