How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal? With a novelist’s eye for telling deta……続きを見る
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Provides a comprehensive collection of Moorehead's investigations of the nation's largest prehistoric mound center
Covering almost fourteen square kilometers in I……続きを見る
著者:David G. Anderson
出版社: University of Alabama Press
発売日: 2005年08月31日
This volume explores political change in chiefdoms, specifically how complex chiefdoms emerge and collapse, and how this processーcalled cyclingーcan be examined using archaeological, ethnohistoric,……続きを見る
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Lamar Archaeology provides a comprehensive and detailed review of our knowledge of the late prehistoric Indian societies in the Southern Appalachian area and its ……続きを見る
著者:Lewis L. Gould
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2012年08月14日
From Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War through the disputed election of George W. Bush and beyond, the Republican Party has been at the dramatic center of American politics for 150 years. In Grand O……続きを見る
著者:Ben H. Procter
出版社: Texas State Historical Assn
発売日: 2013年03月15日
The dramatic story of one of the most famous events in Texas history is told by Ben H. Procter. Procter describes in colorful detail the background, character, and motives of the prominent figures a……続きを見る
著者:James W. Pohl
出版社: Texas State Historical Assn
発売日: 2013年03月15日
Part of the inscription on the base of the San Jacinto Monument reads: "Measured by its results, San Jacinto was one of the decisive battles of the world." James W. Pohl, a noted military historian,……続きを見る
著者:Richard F. Selcer
出版社: Texas State Historical Assn Press
発売日: 2014年01月30日
Fort Worth has been called "the City Where the West Begins," "Cowtown," and the silent partner in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. None of these descriptions quite tells the story of this city and i……続きを見る
著者:Robert Wooster
出版社: Texas State Historical Assn Press
発売日: 2014年01月30日
This engaging, illustrated history of Fort Davis, one of the U.S. Army's most important western posts, relates the exciting history of Trans-Pecos Texasーthe far western reaches off the state. Woost……続きを見る
著者:Kenneth Hafertepe
出版社: Texas State Historical Assn Press
発売日: 2014年01月30日
This volume tells the story of the stately Italianate Galveston mansion known as Ashton Villa. Built in 1859, Ashton Villa stood out in antebellum Galveston for its extensive use of new materials: b……続きを見る
著者:Craig H. Roell
出版社: Texas State Historical Assn
発売日: 2014年01月30日
When Sam Houston's revolutionary soldiers won the Battle of San Jacinto and secured independence for Texas, their battle cry was "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!" Everyone knows about the Alamo……続きを見る
The McFaddin-Ward House, home to the prominent McFaddin family, was built in 1906 in the prestigious neighborhood around Calder Avenue. This entertaining volume tells the story of this house and the……続きを見る
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Specialists from archaeology, ethnohistory, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology bring their varied points of view to this subject in an attempt to an……続きを見る
The only comprehensive statewide study of the institution of slavery in Alabama
Since its initial publication in 1950, Slavery in Alabama remains the only comprehensive statewide study of the instit……続きを見る
著者:Rhoda C. Ellison
出版社: University of Alabama Press
発売日: 2015年01月14日
This model county history chronicles one hundred years in the life of a representative Deep South county
The history of Bibb County between 1818 and 1918 is in many ways representative of the experi……続きを見る
This volume showcases the most exciting new voices in the fields of business and political history. While the media frequently warns of the newfound power of business in the world of politics, the a……続きを見る
Lincoln County, New Mexico was once one of the largest counties in the United States and was the setting for a famous feud which lit up the horizon of history. Here between 1869 and 1881 were all th……続きを見る
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 stagecoa……続きを見る
Lightly falling snow, covering everything in sight with a soft mantle of white, burning luminarias and mellow-light farolitos, the warm adobe architecture, the peace and quiet that settles over the ……続きを見る
The stories in this book, Pug Potter's Journal, were originally written as a continuing daily feature in the Daily News of Kingsport (TN). Designed to be read in short takes and on a day to day basi……続きを見る
著者:Marcia Gaudet
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2010年11月11日
Mysterious and misunderstood, distorted by biblical imagery of disfigurement and uncleanness, Hansen's disease or leprosy has all but disappeared from America's consciousness. In Carville, Louisiana……続きを見る
Born on a farm near Anahuac, Texas, in 1875 and possessed of only a fourth-grade education, Ross Sterling was one of the most successful Texans of his generation. Driven by a relentless work ethic, ……続きを見る
"A fascinating account of Apache history and ethnography. All the narratives have been carefully chosen to illustrate important facets of the Apache experience. Moreover, they make very interesting ……続きを見る
著者:David G. McComb
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2013年03月15日
What do Texans' pastimes and recreations say about their characters? Looking at Texas history from a new angle, David McComb starts from the premise that how people spend their leisure time may well……続きを見る
Cotton farming was the only way of life that many Texans knew from the days of Austin's Colony up until World War II. For those who worked the land, it was a dawn-till-dark, "can see to can't," proc……続きを見る
The schoolhouse has long been a crucible in the construction and contestation of the political concept of "family values." Through Spanish-bilingual and sex education, moderates and conservatives in……続きを見る
The Village of Burr Ridge is aptly named--and not merely for the bur oaks, nor the limestone ridges as the land nears Flagg Creek. Before there was Burr Ridge, frontier German, English, French, Scot……続きを見る
This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive biography of the famous champion of the Sioux, 'Sitting Bull'. The fruit of prolonged first-hand research among Plains Indians with whom the author h……続きを見る
著者:Johnson, Willis
出版社: Delmarva Publications, Inc.
発売日: 2015年03月09日
The summer of 1889 will ever be memorable for its appalling disasters by flood and flame. In that period fell the heaviest blow of the nineteenth centuryーa blow scarcely paralleled in the histories……続きを見る
In 1835, a petition for land far from Santa Fe, New Mexico was awarded to pobladores (settlers) willing to relocate to the eastern edge of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Founded along the Gallinas ……続きを見る