Vintage postcards and photographs depict the history of this Arkansas resort, Hot Springs.
From its rise in the 1800s until well into the twentieth century, Hot Springs was a famed resort known worl……続きを見る
Real places and People of the Sunshine State; “GERONIMO LIVE! And Other Florida Stories” covers the overlooked, sometimes unusual history of the Sunshine State. The stories include photos and inform……続きを見る
著者:Richard Dillon
出版社: The Write Thought
発売日: 2013年10月15日
Richard Dillon, one of California’s premier historians, tells the compelling story of San Francisco’s exotic pre-1906 Chinatown when vicious hoodlum gangs held sway. Chinatown, as demonstrated by Di……続きを見る
Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill.
The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of huma……続きを見る
A Brief illustrated description of the Latest Rage in Dining at the turn of the 20th century. An interesting facet of New York life at the turn of the start of the century.続きを見る
Jeff Kisseloff brings together 137 New Yorkers who witnessed daily life in Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II. Dividing the city into ten neighborhoods and devoting a chapter and about a dozen……続きを見る
Beyond the Windswept Dunes takes the reader into a world of maritime adventure as it was experienced by the sailors, passengers, rescue workers, shipping magnates, industrialists, and many other peo……続きを見る
著者:James Parton
出版社: Folly Cove 01930
発売日: 2012年10月26日
A biographic sketch of the German that came to America and became the richest American of his time through fur trading and real estate investments.
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The fabulous XIT Ranch has been celebrated in song, story, and serious history. This book of reminiscences of old XIT cowmen puts on record the everyday life of the individuals who made the ranch ru……続きを見る
著者:Rand Richards
出版社: Heritage House Publishers
発売日: 2013年02月17日
No American city has a more colorful history than San Francisco, In this unique book, author Rand Richards not only provides a vivid narrative of this special city from its very beginnings all the ……続きを見る
著者:David Ira Kagan
出版社: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
発売日: 2008年07月28日
Pine Creek Village depicts the engaging history of this community.
Pioneer settlers began arriving in Pine Creek Valley after the Revolutionary War, drawn to the pristine wilderness filled with towe……続きを見る
著者:Gloria Jahoda
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2013年10月07日
"For four hundred years Florida has been North America's ranking treasure hunt, a national Never-Never land."
"For four hundred years Florida has been North America's ranking treasure hunt, a nation……続きを見る
Featuring more than 200 vintage postcards, Peoria: A Postcard History captures the changing scenes of the river and downtown Peoria from 1900 to 1950.
One of the largest cities in Illinois, Peoria i……続きを見る
著者:Helen C. Rountree
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2013年07月10日
Among the aspects of Powhatan life that Helen Rountree describes in vivid detail are hunting and agriculture, territorial claims, warfare and treatment of prisoners, physical appearance and dress, c……続きを見る
“I want to be intelligent, even if I do live in Boston.”
ーan anonymous Bostonian, 1929
In this spectacular romp through the Puritan City, Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerf……続きを見る
著者:Thomas Bender
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年04月24日
New York Intellect is Thomas Bender's remarkable look at the connections between the life of a city and the life of the mind. New York has never been comfortable or convenient as a milieu for art an……続きを見る
著者:Nick Gallicchio
出版社: A Few Good Books Publishing
発売日: 2013年04月24日
Author’s Note This story may appear repugnant, perhaps ludicrous, and even extremely odious, but it happened just as sure as the sky is blue and the sun shines bright. Many strong and mighty cities……続きを見る
Hispanics/Latinos are the largest ethnic minority in the United Statesーbut they are far from being a homogenous group. Mexican Americans in the Southwest have roots that extend back four centuries,……続きを見る
著者:David Beers
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年05月02日
In Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America’s Fall from Grace, award-winner David Beers offers a powerful, personal vision of the rise and fall of the American middle class. Here is a dazzling literary c……続きを見る
著者:Richard Dillon
出版社: The Write Thought
発売日: 2013年10月15日
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 w……続きを見る
Love Me or Else
Colin McEvoy
On the outside, Mary Jane Fonder seemed like a kindly sixty-six-year-old congregant of the Lutheran church in Springfield Township, PA. But inside, she longed for the ch……続きを見る
Volume 7 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... H……続きを見る
著者:James Allen
出版社: Folly Cove 01930
発売日: 2012年11月27日
In A Little Something About Kentucky, James Lane Allen, Kentucky's first and one of her foremost novelists gives us two essays that predate his first successful novel, “A Kentucky Cardinal.” Here w……続きを見る
Images of America: Delaware Army National Guard presents images of this fabled organization that survived from the Spanish-American War to the present.
The Delaware National Guard traces its roots t……続きを見る