Beach - History 1

In Cheltenham Through Time, authors Roger Beacham and Lynne Cleaver show some of the different sides of this Spa town, where along with the Regency splendour is a much poorer side often hidden in ot……続きを見る

5,000 years ago, the people who lived on the north Pembrokeshire coast moved their entire culture, along with as many as 8o 1-to-2 tonne “Bluestones”, 300km across country to the place now known as ……続きを見る

A.P Beach's love of Lake Champlain and his desire to increase people's knowledge and understanding of its history and culture inspired him to write Lake Champlain: As Centuries Pass in 1959. A.P.……続きを見る

The word “prohibition” tends to conjure up images of smoky basement speakeasies, dancing flappers, and hardened gangsters bootlegging whiskey. Such stereotypes, a prominent historian recently noted ……続きを見る

Seth Curtis Beach's Daughters of the Puritans is a collection of biographical sketches that explores the lives and contributions of notable women descended from the Puritans who played important rol……続きを見る

Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany provides a rare window on to monastery life in the tumultuous world of twelfth-century Swabia. From its founding in 992 through the great fire that rav……続きを見る

"Daughters of the Puritans" by Seth Curtis Beach unfolds as a literary masterpiece, showcasing the author's brilliance in weaving collectively biography and literature. In this compelling work, Beac……続きを見る

Those fortunate enough to live on Roanoke Island have always depended on boats. In exploration-era sketches, Native American Algonquins were depicted in their dugout canoes. English settlers took th……続きを見る

An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of se……続きを見る

Zwischen Repression und Freiheit: Die Geschichte der Homosexualität in Deutschland Homosexualität ist eine deutsche Erfindung – zu dieser überraschenden Erkenntnis kommt Robert Beachy in seiner Gesc……続きを見る

For the first time in the lives of many Medina County residents, places across the world became real, not just dots on a map. With the outbreak of World War II, men and women who had never left thei……続きを見る

NJSAA Edited Works Award Winner (2023) Despite the many jokes and stereotypes about New Jersey and its residents, in reality the state is a wildly diverse place, home to a vast variety of landscapes……続きを見る

The first full biography of W. H. H. Murray (1849-1904), a Boston preacher often described as the father of the American outdoor movement and the modern vacation. Finalist for the 2022 Foreword INDI……続きを見る

Welcomed as the first book about American submarines in World War II to be written by a man who actually fought them, this compelling personal account of the war beneath the sea firmly established E……続きを見る

The remoteness and isolation of North Carolina's northern Outer Banks has shaped both early settlers and relative newcomers into tough and independent souls. Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists may have ……続きを見る

What more is there to say about Struthers that was not said in Images of America: Struthers, published in 2008? It turns out there is plenty. Images of America: Struthers Revisited features the peop……続きを見る

Settled along 47 miles of beautiful Atlantic coastline, Palm Beach County has long been a mecca for sport fishing enthusiasts. Graced with a mild climate and bounded with waters nourished by the war……続きを見る

Palm Beach is known internationally as a winter resort where the wealthy enjoy life in a tropical paradise. More than 100 years ago, Palm Beach was far different from its well-kept beaches, estates,……続きを見る

Vilano and the North Beaches are perhaps most known as small, eclectic beach communities within sight of St. Augustine, the nation's oldest city. For centuries, people have flocked to this coastal p……続きを見る

Boynton Beach, located on South Florida�s Atlantic coast, is known as the �Gateway to the Gulf Stream.� Ernest Hemingway once called these great ocean currents the last wild country left. Fishermen ……続きを見る

Redondo Beach in the 1910s and 1920s was one of the best-attended weekend getaway spots in America. The beaches, pier, and downtown were jammed with vacationers and the Hollywood crowd. Water sports……続きを見る

West Palm Beach was established in 1894, two decades after pioneers first arrived in the wilderness at Lake Worth. In 1893, Henry M. Flagler, Standard Oil magnate and Florida railroad mogul, finaliz……続きを見る

“I wear my uniform with honor. It has the Order of Lenin on it. It has been covered in blood in battle. It is plain to see that with American women what is important is whether they wear silk underw……続きを見る

Manteo embraces the northern part of Roanoke Island, the historic island inset from North Carolina's Outer Banks. It is best known as the site of Sir Walter Raleigh's first settlement in the New Wor……続きを見る

ALASKA is the galley slave of the Union. Her chains were forged by some very vile politics. She has been ruined, rifled, and degraded by such practices as have seldom blackened the pages of American……続きを見る

This Fourth of July saw the last great Sioux celebration. Hereafter, according to Chief Stinking Bear, the Indians will have a white man's holiday. It seems a pity, for a more picturesque affair is ……続きを見る

This book opens a window on the lived experience of monastic reform in the twelfth century. Drawing on a variety of textual and material sources from the south German monastery of Petershausen, it b……続きを見る

Hello, Stone! Hello, Bob! By George, but I'm glad to see you! "Hello, Glass, you old sinner, I can just imagine you've led those dear old aunts of yours a lively life the last two weeks." "You'll wi……続きを見る

“Father,” said Ralph Osborn, looking up from the book he had been reading, “I want to go to the Naval Academy.” “Why, Ralph, how did you happen to think of that?” asked his father putting down his p……続きを見る

In "The Oldest Known Writing in Siamese: The Inscription of Phra Ram Khamh√¶ng of Sukhothai," Cornelius Beach Bradley delves into the rich historical tapestry of Thailand through the lens of its mos……続きを見る