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This picture book explores the rich history of African American hair culture and the vital role of cosmetology schools as centers of care work, community building, and economic empowerment. Created ……続きを見る

Author Katlyn Jones takes readers on a bone-chilling journey of haunted spots throughout the Panhandle. Dare to venture into the darkest depths Florida's Panhandle. The scalded ghost of Elizabeth Be……続きを見る

Author and crime writer Mark Jones presents the stories, and criminal minds, of nine serial offenders who terrorized South Carolina during the latter part of the twentieth century. The "Super Christ……続きを見る

Echoes of a dynamic history still linger in Springfield, Missouri. The town square was the scene of a Civil War battle, a Wild Bill Hickok shootout and a tragic 1906 lynching. From the phantom landl……続きを見る

These are not the aspects of Indianapolis history you'll see flaunted in visitors' brochures. These are the abhorrent, the grim, the can't-look-away misdeeds and miscreants of this city's past, when……続きを見る

Forged on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers during the nineteenth century, jug band music was the early soundtrack for a new nation. Louisville was at the heart of it all. German and Irish immigrants,……続きを見る

Touted as one of America's most livable cities, Columbia has a history of independence and triumph. But that history also has a darker side, one that isn't told quite as often. The capital city's pa……続きを見る

Beaufort's long history of wickedness stretches back to 1562, when Captain Jean Ribaut built the ill-fated French outpost Charlesfort on Parris Island, eventually destroyed by mutiny and starvation.……続きを見る

For many, Edisto is a little slice of heaven--live oaks festooned with Spanish moss, winding waterways and crashing surf. Yet the waterways were pathways for privateers, smugglers and gunboats. Mara……続きを見る

Take a journey through crime and vice in twentieth-century Wilmington, from a Tatnall Street bawdy house to the corporate boardrooms of the DuPont Company. Visit the old New Castle County Workhouse,……続きを見る

To most Hoosiers, John Dillinger is the very picture of an Indiana fugitive, but the state has seen many fascinating criminal characters on the run. In Tippecanoe County, two Lafayette youths murder……続きを見る

A storm like no one had ever seen caused tiny Wolf Creek in Thaxton, Virginia, to rage in the darkness of night. An earthen fill that carried the railroad over the creek could not withstand the powe……続きを見る

Forget everything you learned in schoolーthis isn’t a history book. This is a shot of bourbon with a powdered sugar chaser. A jazz-soaked, roux-stirred, crime-tinged love letter to the most beautifu……続きを見る

Explore the history of one of the nation's most prestigious service schools in The Naval War College. It was appropriate that the U.S. Navy's pioneer training station and principal graduate college ……続きを見る

Victorine Quille Adams was a Baltimore native and the first African American woman elected to the city council. Born in 1912, she lived through stringent segregation, racial violence and economic tu……続きを見る

The Volunteer State plays politics according to its own particular set of rules. Witness the rise and fall of the lost state of Franklin, Tennessee's first instance of secession. Pull back the curta……続きを見る

For over a century, the Happy Canyon show has brought together families, friends and strangers to witness a joyous celebration of local history. Originally staged in 1914 by Roy Raley, the all-volun……続きを見る

Utahisms: Unique Expressions, Inventions, Place Names and more ranges from the characteristic to the bizarre The Beehive State's iconic vistas are singular and distinctive. So too are its colloquial……続きを見る

Utah Woman Suffrage Song Book is a powerful and revelatory collection of poetry and song lyrics written by Latter-day Saint women during the late 19th century, all dedicated to the cause of women’s ……続きを見る

From one of the most acclaimed and influential historians of the United States, an insightful guide to our history and why it matters. Eric Foner has done more to shape the public and professional u……続きを見る

When Ella Tambussi Grasso ran for governor of Connecticut in 1974, she had not lost an election since she was first voted into the state's General Assembly in 1952. The people of Connecticut chose h……続きを見る

A highly original reinterpretation of how race and class shaped the entirety of Southern history through the experience of four interconnected family lines. The Southern Fault Line explores the und……続きを見る

As an outpost of the advancing frontier, Kentucky played a crucial military role. Kentucky's state militia, which, under federal law, enrolled every able-bodied male citizen aged eighteen to forty-f……続きを見る

A story of an ideal American family to rival The Waltons...You Must Be A Jones, A Family Memoir is a heartwarming story of an African American family persevering during some of the country’s most si……続きを見る

This is a history of the American Negro, whose ancestors arrived at Jamestown a year before the arrival of the "Mayflower."The book begins in Africa with the great empires of the Nile Valley and the……続きを見る

2022 Just this year, in Montana, where our story takes place: 47% murdered, 369 missing, 17% status unknown According to US Marshals Service records, 116 are murdered or go missing across Canada and……続きを見る

James Pickett Jones is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Florida State University. 続きを見る

John A. Logan, called "Black Jack" by the men he led in Civil War battles from the Henry-Donelson campaign to Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and on to Atlanta, was one of the Union Army’s most colorful gen……続きを見る

Inman Park documents the rich and interesting history of this diverse suburb of Atlanta.The story of Inman Park, Atlanta's first planned suburb, is one closely tied with transportation ingenuity, tr……続きを見る

Located 20 miles from the state capital of Jackson, Copiah County was organized after an agreement was reached with the Choctaw Indians in 1820. Named after a Native American word meaning "calling p……続きを見る