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They went from praying to preying... Priests, pasters, ministers, and nuns: they are the men and women of God. We trust them unconditionally, tell them our darkest deeds, turn to them in our most de……続きを見る

Newspaper publishers played a crucial role in transforming Texas into a modern state. By promoting expanded industrialization and urbanization, as well as a more modern image of Texas as a southwest……続きを見る

This look by a former patient gives an idealized view of the conditions at the lunatic asylum on Blackwell's island, which was also home to a poor farm and a prison during the mid 19 century. Short……続きを見る

Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. III was originally published in 1912 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company of New York and Chicago as a collaboration of several historians, most not……続きを見る

Addison Richards takes us on a trip up the East River and down the Hudson, around Manhattan, the whole of New York City in the 1860's. 続きを見る

Perry March was a brilliant attorney working for one of the top law firms in Nashville, Tennessee. When he married Janet Levine, a painter whose beauty was as striking as her art, he seemed to have ……続きを見る

Coconut Grove depicts the history of this diverse Miami community. By the time the City of Miami was born in 1896, Coconut Grove was already a well-defined community with a variety of interesting re……続きを見る

The Texas Centennial of 1936, commemorated by statewide celebrations of independence from Mexico, proved to be a powerful catalyst for the formation of a distinctly Mexican American identity. Confro……続きを見る

Mann Gulch, Montana, 1949. Sixteen men ventured into hell to fight a raging wildfire; only three came out alive. Searing the fire into the nation’s consciousness, Norman Maclean chronicled the Mann ……続きを見る

Volume 4 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

Straw Bonnets were big business in Southeastern Massachusetts during the Mid Nineteenth Century. This paper describes the business and a tour through the Union Works in Foxborough Massachusetts dur……続きを見る

When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our langua……続きを見る

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     For many years one of the prime hardships on the western American frontier was the scarcity of women. Men could endure living a rough existence out in the open, fighting Ind……続きを見る

With a history dating back to 1664, Summit, New Jersey, has evolved from a pastoral town of farms and rolling hills to a populous suburb of Manhattan. Though the land was originally purchased in the……続きを見る

This article from 1859 describes Washington's home as it was during a visit by the author in 1858, when the property was still in private hands.続きを見る

Brief sketch of the battles for Texas from Seccession to the end of the Rebellion.続きを見る

This history of Cambria, the third in the HarborTown History series, is the only comprehensive and concise story of this lovely town. From its Mexican ranchos, brief years as a boom town, and dreams……続きを見る

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 exp……続きを見る

This anthology brings together the late Barry A. Crouch's most important articles on the African American experience in Texas during Reconstruction. Grouped topically, the essays explore what freedo……続きを見る

This book contains the complete collection of all 716 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Arkansas at the time of the Great Depression in the ……続きを見る

When Daniel Hunter and Jethro Heiko began planning at a kitchen table, they knew that their movement would be outspent by hundreds of millions of dollars. They were up against powerful elected offi……続きを見る

Egg Harbor City celebrates the historic beginnings of this city through rare and vintage photographs. Egg Harbor City was founded as a refuge from the sweeping nativism of the Know-Nothings, a group……続きを見る

The mountain-top volleys from any scholarly set-to among social historians concerning the elusive roots of American democracy do reach our ears from time to time, and this rather formidable cannonad……続きを見る

Volume 5 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

A contemporaneous account of the events leading up to the investment and finally the capture of Port Hudson. Illustrated.続きを見る

More than 100 years ago, visionary men recognized the attractiveness and potential of this land along the shores of St. Andrews Bay. Previously known under such names like Park Resort, Floriopolis, ……続きを見る

Since 1938, when the Merritt's first 7-mile section was opened to traffic, millions have shared a fascination for Connecticut's Merritt Parkway and its bridges. A survey made in 1928 called for a tw……続きを見る

Chicano history, from the early decades of the twentieth century up to the present, cannot be explained without reference to the determined interventions of the Mexican government, asserts Gilbert G……続きを見る

This book contains the complete collection of all narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in the states that comprised the Confederate States of Amer……続きを見る