著者:Kerri Arsenault
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2020年09月01日
Winner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award
Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First Book
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Marietta is one of the largest and most historic cities in northwest Georgia.
As one of Atlanta's largest suburbs, Marietta is the home and workplace for thousands of Georgians, and has been a homes……続きを見る
For over thirty years, Carol Kammen’s On Doing Local History has been a valuable guide to professional and “amateur” historians alike. First published in 1986, revised in 2003, this book offers not ……続きを見る
著者:Llerena Friend
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年04月21日
This biography of Sam Houston goes beyond the romantic frontier life of the "buckskin hero from Tennessee" to examine seriously his role as an American statesman.続きを見る
Vintage images document the historical transformations of Crown Heights and Weeksville.
The communities of Crown Heights and Weeksville are historically significant Brooklyn neighborhoods with found……続きを見る
Throughout the Upper Mississippi Valley, George Davenport's name was widely known as a trader with the Sauk and Mesquakie, the U.S. Army, and settlers who were attracted to the untapped waterpower s……続きを見る
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths around the TeesーTrue Crime BookFoul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around the Tees, contains over sixty terrible and gruesome tales, that are set in the locality inclu……続きを見る
Part One includes an overview of early disasters, multiple fatalities, from 1710. Part Two, 1806-1841 concerns disasters, under the theme of Pit Children.Part Three, 1844-1888, covers a variety of a……続きを見る
At the turn of the last century, as industrialists and workers made Chicago the hardworking City of Big Shoulders celebrated by Carl Sandburg, Chicago women articulated an alternative City of Homes ……続きを見る
著者:Ken Auletta
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年11月02日
How - and why - did one of the world's greatest cities come to be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy? Ken Auletta, writer for THE NEW YORKER and columnist for THE DAILY NEWS, shows how the decline ……続きを見る
The southeastern United States has one of the richest records of early human settlement of any area of North America. This book provides the first state-by-state summary of Paleoindian and Early Arc……続きを見る
A fascinating look into the beginnings of one of Tennessee's oldest counties, Blount.
Blount County is the 10th county formed in the state of Tennessee. It was carved out of Knox County in 1795 and ……続きを見る
Picturesque Richmond Hill evolved after the Civil War on land where orchards once blossomed and cattle once grazed.
Nestled in the shadow of New York City, it is one of the city's first planned comm……続きを見る
It is now over half a century since the last coalmining disaster to affect the lives and families of people living and working on what became known as the Great Northern Coalfield. This was the firs……続きを見る
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Durham spans four centuries, with over fifty terrible tales of man's inhumanity to man, which are related in the pages of this book. In the early centu……続きを見る
How the places in Brooklyn got their names--complete with vivid photographs and maps
From Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and history. U……続きを見る
During the Sixties the nation turned its eyes to San Francisco as the city's police force clashed with movements for free speech, civil rights, and sexual liberation. These conflicts on the street f……続きを見る