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  • Adding Life to Years

    The Wesleyan at Georgetown

    Adding Life to Years: The Wesleyan at Georgetown “The skill of science has added years to life—now we must add life to years.” At the heart of The Wesleyan at Georgetown lies a profound truth: it is not just a place to live—it is a home. Any meaningful narrative of The Wesleyan must begin with the people who chose to spend their later years within its walls. These women and men brought with them ... Leer más

    $9.59 USD

  • The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell, 1775–1817

    After the Revolutionary War, despite political independence, the United States still relied on other countries for manufactured goods. Francis Cabot Lowell was one of the principal investors in building the India Wharf and the shops and warehouses close to Boston harbor. His work was instrumental in establishing domestic industry for the United States and brought the Industrial Revolution to the ... Leer más

    $119.09 USD

  • Three Voyages

    Traducido por Charles E. Bennett ...
    This translation of an eyewitness account by a major participant offers valuable information about all three attempts to establish a French colony on the south Atlantic coast of North America.Rene Laudonniere's account of the three attempts by France to colonize what is now the United States is uniquely valuable becausehe played a major role in each of the ventures—first, in 1562, as second in ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • The Great American Canals

    Series Libro 14 - Historic Highways
    Volume 14 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... He was Vice-Principal of the Putnam Military Academy, Zanesville, Ohio, until 1897. Hulbert then did newspaper work in Korea in 1897 and '98: he was editor of the Korean Independent (Seoul) and edited ... Leer más

    $1.15 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Memories of Long Pond

    Northwood, New Hampshire

    At the end of the Revolutionary War, James Steven James settled the land around Long Pond, a 101.9-acre, spring-fed lake tucked away in Northwood, New Hampshire. Once a working farm, the land was later divided and became Long Pond Estates. In Memories of Long Pond, author Irene E. DuPont shares the history of the development and the growth of Long Pond.DuPont’s family purchased a cottage on the ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • The Americanization of West Virginia

    Creating a Modern Industrial State, 1916-1925

    Local teachers and ministers extolling the virtues of hard work and loyalty to God and country. Veterans' groups and women's clubs promoting the military fighting radicalism, and equating business and patriotism. Industrial leaders gaining legal as well as moral influence over national domestic policy. Such scenes might seem to be lifted from a Sinclair Lewis novel or a Contract with America ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Weavers of the Southern Highlands

    de Philis Alvic ...
    Weaving centers led the Appalachian Craft Revival at the beginning of the twentieth century. Soon after settlement workers came to the mountains to start schools, they expanded their focus by promoting weaving as a way for women to help their family's financial situation. Women wove thousands of guest towels, baby blankets, and place mats that found a ready market in the women's network of ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Two Rides to Colorado 1867, Illustrated.

    Across the Plains to Colorado and A Stage Ride to Colorado, two first person accounts, showcase the beauty and troubles of travel across the American continent in the mid 19th century. ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist

    And Other Strange-but-True Tales from American History

    American history is more than just what you read in your high school textbooks.There's a wild and weird side to America's past, filled with strange creatures, bizarre happenings, and fantastical figures. Researcher and writer Robert Damon Schneck has spent more than a decade devoted to sleuthing out these forgotten weird, grotesque, and mysterious gems of American history, like:• The man who ... Leer más

    $6.59 USD

  • Old New York Taverns, Illustrated

    A short piece that describes Old Time Taverns in New York city from the time of the founding by the Dutch to the American Revolution.John Austin Stevens Jr. (1827–1910) was a leader of business, an adviser of government and a student of the American Revolution. His was the founder of the Sons of the Revolution. ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Gas and Gas Making: The Manhattan Gas Company 1862, Illustrated

    de J W Watson ...
    A tour through the gas company with explanations of the gas works as typical in the mid 19th Century. ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Eastern Sierra

    Including Death Valley, Alpine, Inyo & Mono Counties

    Series series Durham’s Place-Names of California
    • The Federal Writers’ Project named an area three miles south-southeast of Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley the Devil’s Cornfield because the arrowweed growing there resembled shocks of corn tied about the middle.• The Devil’s Golf Course got its name because it was thought that only a fiend could play golf on the rough surface of crystallized salt at the place.• Lost Cannon Creek owes its name to ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Wrecking on the Florida Keys, Illustrated

    de A Guernsey ...
    This article highlights the profession of wrecking … salvage of shipwrecks, as practiced on the keys in the mid nineteenth century. This is a laser reprint of the original article. ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • The Seven Son & Seven Daughters

    de Vernon Thomas ...
    During a time when young men have a hard time grasping what it means to sacrifice and take care of the family and young ladies have forgotten the art of what it means to take care of a household, raising children, and instilling morals and values in them . . .The Seven Sons and Seven Daughters is a heartwarming tribute that gives the depiction of a strong black woman who loved hard and allowed it ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Homelands

    Southern Jewish Identity in Durham-Chapel Hill and North Carolina

    Series series Judaic Studies Series
    Exploring how Southern Jews forged identity, community, and belonging in the evolving landscape of the New South.Homelands is a case study of a unique ethnic group in North America—small-town southern Jews. Both Jews and southerners, Leonard Rogoff points out, have long struggled with questions of identity and whether to retain their differences or try to assimilate into the national culture. ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Hardaway Revisited

    Early Archaic Settlement in the Southeast

    A landmark reassessment of Early Archaic settlement and adaptation in the southeastern United States.Since the early 1970s, southeastern archaeologists have focused their attention on identifying the function of prehistoric sites and settlement practices during the Early Archaic period (ca. 9,000-10,500 B.P.). The Hardaway site in the North Carolina Piedmont, one of the most important ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Red Scare in the Green Mountains

    The McCarthy Era in Vermont 1946-1960

    de Rick Winston ...
    IPPY Award for Best Regional HistoryReader's Favorite AwardWhat happened in Vermont when the anti-Communist fear known as the "Red Scare" swept the country? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Rick Winston explores some forgotten history as we see how a small, rural "rock-ribbed Republican" state with a historically libertarian streak handled the hysteria of the time. Far from the klieg lights of ... Leer más

    $8.95 USD

  • The Money Game in Old New York

    Daniel Drew and His Times

    "I got to be a millionaire afore I know'd it hardly," remarked the Wall Street financier Daniel Drew (1797-1879).An uneducated farm boy from Putnam County, New York, he became in turn a successful cattle drover, a circus clown, tavern keeper, a shrewd Hudson River steamboat operator, and an unscrupulous speculator. As the colorful "Uncle Daniel" of Wall Street-his whiskered face seamed with ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Knights of Hog Island

    The Knights of Hog IslandBy: Joyce Fairchild AlmeidaStep into another world and a different time to discover the origins of Hog Island, an island off the coast of Rhode Island, the families who live there, and the community that grew from its founding.About the AuthorJoyce Fairchild Almeida has been a journalist over the years, writing articles for various newspapers. A writer at heart, she’s also ... Leer más

    $7.00 USD

  • The Parowan Gap: Nature's Perfect Observatory

    Parowan Gap in Southwestern Utah is perhaps the most concentrated collection of ancient Native American petroglyphs in the west, with over 90 panels and 1500 figures. It is heavily visited and world famous for its many intriguing petroglyphs that until now have been an unsolved mystery. In 1993, noted archaeologist Garth Norman began the Parowan Gap Archaeology Project. His earth-shaking ... Leer más

    $7.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Raleigh

    A Brief History

    de Joe A. Mobley ...
    Since its establishment in 1792 as the "permanent and unalterable seat of government of the state of North Carolina," Raleigh has seen many changes. Historian Joe Mobley offers a detailed and compelling portrait of North Carolina's capital as it has evolved from town to thriving metropolis, from the Civil War and Reconstruction through the Great Depression and Raleigh's coming of age in the ... Leer más

    $12.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Revolutionary Bergen County

    The Road to Independence

    Along the banks of the Hudson River, New Jersey's Bergen County endured much of the brunt of the Revolutionary War. With an impressive compilation of scholarly essays, Barbara Z. Marchant and company vividly portray those who found their lives altered by the conflict, from famous military men, such as George Washington, who attained glory on the battlefields to ordinary citizens like Helen Brasher ... Leer más

    $12.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Croton Point Park

    Westchester's Jewel on the Hudson

    Less than an hour by train from New York City...Croton Point Park encapsulates the history, beauty and promise of the Hudson Valley. The Westchester County Park encompasses miles of Hudson River shoreline with astonishing views and remnants of the region's past. Incredible shell mounds shed light on the Native peoples who inhabited the area generations prior to European colonization. The remains ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Hidden History of the Laurel Highlands

    History lies almost forgotten among the low mountains and quaint towns of Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands. Tales of Titanic survivors, brilliant inventors and forgotten heroes are all a part of the region's dim past. Since the 1790s, the highlands have been home to a booming glass industry that spun out early windows and flasks and, later, beautifully cut pieces of art. The wonder of the World's ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus