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  • Broken Trust

    Greed, Mismanagement & Political Manipulation at America’s Largest Charitable Trust

    Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop was the largest landowner and richest woman in the Hawaiian kingdom. Upon her death in 1884, she entrusted her property--known as Bishop Estate--to five trustees in order to create and maintain an institution that would benefit the children of Hawai‘i: Kamehameha Schools. A century later, Bishop Estate controlled nearly one out of every nine acres in the state, a ... Read more

    Free

  • "Fear God and Walk Humbly"

    The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843-1877

    by James Mallory ...
    A detailed journal of local, national, and foreign news, agricultural activities, the weather, and family events, from an uncommon SouthernerMost inhabitants of the Old South, especially the plain folk, devoted more time to leisurely activities—drinking, gambling, hunting, fishing, and just loafing—than did James Mallory, a workaholic agriculturalist, who experimented with new plants, orchards, ... Read more

    34,33 €

  • Garfield

    Series series Images of America
    Take a fascinating journey through the history of the City of Champions with more than 200 vintage photographs. Garfield was once home to the Lenni Lenape, a tribe within the Algonquin Nation of Native Americans. Later, the Revolutionary War touched the area when many British soldiers entered the district in pursuit of Washington's army. After the war, farmers prospered as the fertile land of the ... Read more

    11,16 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Ellis Island to JFK

    New York`s Two Great Waves of Immigration

    In the history, the very personality, of New York City, few events loom larger than the wave of immigration at the turn of the last century. Today a similar influx of new immigrants is transforming the city again. Better than one in three New Yorkers is now an immigrant. From Ellis Island to JFK is the first in-depth study that compares these two huge social changes.A key contribution of this book ... Read more

    19,71 €

  • Roots of Tradition: The Genealogy of Spanish Families in Albuquerque, New Mexico

    by Stephen G. ...
    The Spanish settlement in Albuquerque dates back to the early 18th century, when a group of Spanish settlers established a community along the Rio Grande. These families brought traditions, agriculture techniques, and a distinct cultural identity that still influences Albuquerque today. Their contributions can be seen in the city's architecture, culinary traditions, and community values. Spanish ... Read more

    8,99 €

  • In Love and War

    The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple

    The events of December 7, 1941, rocked the lives of people around the world. The bombing of Pearl Harbor had intimate repercussions, too, especially in the territory of Hawaii. In Love and War recounts the wartime experiences of author Melody M. Miyamoto Walters’s grandparents, two second-generation Japanese Americans, or Nisei, living in Hawaii. Their love story, narrated in letters they wrote ... Read more

    13,13 €

  • Marblehead's Pygmalion

    Finding the Real Agnes Surriage

    Agnes Surriage, it turns out, was more Pygmalion than Cinderella. Her role models were the fiercely independent "codfish widows, "? wives of the early Marblehead fishermen who managed home and family seven months a year without their husbands. In Agnes's version of My Fair Lady, she had to act as her own Henry Higgins while making the often painful transformation from "girl of all works"? at the ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Only in Old Kentucky

    Historic True Tales of Cultural Ingenuity

    Tracing Kentucky's unusual history through its early days as the rough-and-tumble frontier and its settling down and growing up in dozens of directions, "Only in Old Kentucky" offers a series of novel and fascinating stories of bygone days from Cadiz to Versailles. Kentucky's saltpeter reserves take a backseat to coal mining today but played a critical role in the military engagements of ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jefferson County, Wisconsin

    Series series Images of America
    Uncover the hidden history of Jefferson County told through images from special collections depicting history throughout the centuries. Jefferson County holds a unique place in the history of the state of Wisconsin. Founded in 1836 by Yankee settlers from New England, it began as an agriculturally-based county but soon rose to prominence as the cradle of the dairy industry. Nestled in the valley ... Read more

    11,16 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • It Happened in Las Vegas

    Remarkable Events that Shaped History

    by Paul W. Papa ...
    Series series It Happened In Series
    A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped Sin City, It Happened in Las Vegas describes everything from a nineteenth-century land deal that almost created two competing cities to the torrential rainstorm that flooded downtown Vegas with three inches of water. ... Read more

    14,89 €

  • Walking Broad

    Looking for the Heart of Brotherly Love

    by Bruce Buschel ...
    **Wedged between the hustle of New York and the grandeur of Washington, D.**C., Philadelphia is America's smallest big city, America's biggest small city, and America's most American city. It is also a city in flux. Bruce Buschel is a native Philadelphian who revisits his hometown and, in doing so, revisits his personal history and the city's complex identity.Buschel was born on Broad Street, his ... Read more

    13,74 €

  • Peoria's Haunted Memories

    A thrilling collection of tales and a unique guide for the intrepid supernatural sleuth-seeker who knows that dead do not always rest in peace. At the heart of Peoria's Haunted Memories is the rich and compelling history and folklore of the Peoria area. Buildings and cemeteries in and around the city provide ideal stomping grounds for many restless specters. In this collection of haunted sites, ... Read more

    11,07 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dormont

    Series series Images of America
    Adjoining the southern border of Pittsburgh, Dormont is a small, independent borough whose name means "mountain of gold" in French. The borough developed rapidly even before its incorporation in 1909. In the early 1900s, the extension of Pittsburgh's railway system, the opening of the Liberty Tunnels, and the building of the Liberty Bridge, along with the recreational opportunities the borough has ... Read more

    11,16 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ocean City

    Volume I

    Series series Images of America
    Discover the beloved town of Ocean City, Maryland and it's vibrant, historic past. Originally the land of the Algonquian people, the barrier island on which Ocean City is now located, served as a protective wall for the mainland Delmarva peninsula. It was a somewhat remote area until five men, having formed the Atlantic Hotel Company Corporation, built the first lodging facility, and Ocean City as ... Read more

    11,16 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brewing in New Hampshire

    Series series Images of America
    Brewing in New Hampshire explores the fascinating history of the state�s beer and ale brewing industry from Colonial days, when it was home and tavern based, to today�s modern breweries. The book�s many unusual and rare illustrations document the state�s earliest brewers, including its most famous brewer, Frank Jones. Many lesser-known breweries that operated here are also covered, including the ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winfield's Walnut Valley Festival

    by Seth Bate ...
    Local historian Seth Bate tells the story of the Walnut Valley Festival with reflections from staff, emcees, performers, campers, and characters from throughout its history.The Festival was launched in 1972 when a guitar maker, a farmer, and a businessman built their own music festival from the ground up. It has made the small town of Winfield into an annual destination for acoustic musicians and ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Orleans Beer

    A Hoppy History of Big Easy Brewing

    New Orleans is a city where making sure you have a good meal in your belly and a strong drink in your hand is of the utmost importance. Recently, one drink has been getting more and more attention in New Orleans: beer. The craft brewing revolution of the last 30 or so years has caught hold here, creating what is only the latest chapter in New Orleans's illustrious love affair with boozy ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • David S. and Catherine T. Maynard: Seattle Pioneers

    It's likely that few of the thousands who visit beautiful Alki Beach in West Seattle on a sunny day realize that this is where the city of Seattle began. They're even less likely to know the name of David Maynard, although they may recognize his friendly moniker, "Doc Maynard."Dr. David Maynard is an essential figure in northwest and particularly Seattle history. In 1850, at the age of 42 a ... Read more

    2,72 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Class Acts

    Young Men and the Rise of Lifestyle

    by Mary Rizzo ...
    Class Acts explores the development of lifestyle marketing from the 1960s to the 1990s. During this time, young men began manipulating their identities by taking on the mannerisms, culture, and fashion of the working class and poor. These style choices had contradictory meanings. At once they were acts of rebellion by middleclass young men against their social stratum and its rules of masculinity ... Read more

    26,17 €

  • Washington At Morristown 1776-77 & 1779-80, Illustrated

    by A H Guernsey ...
    This is a brief account of Washington's two winters in the neighborhood of Morristown New Jersey during the American Revolution. Nicely illustrated. ... Read more

    2,72 €

  • Mount Vernon As It Is (1858), Illustrated

    by B J Lossing ...
    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. ... Read more

    2,72 €

  • The Center of the World of Steel: Pittsburgh 1900. Illustrated

    Pittsburgh Pennsylvania was the center of the world of Steel at the beginning of the 20th century. Take a look at Steel and Steel making in the industrial powerhouse of turn of the century Pittsburgh. ... Read more

    0,90 €

  • The Graves County Boys

    A Tale of Kentucky Basketball, Perseverance, and the Unlikely Championship of the Cuba Cubs

    In 1952, just one year after Coach Adolph Rupp's University of Kentucky Wildcats won their third national championship in four years, an unlikely high school basketball team from rural Graves County, Kentucky, stole the spotlight and the media's attention. Inspired by young coach Jack Story and by the Harlem Globetrotters, the Cuba Cubs grabbed headlines when they rose from relative obscurity to ... Read more

    22,67 €

  • The South's Tolerable Alien

    Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945--1970

    In The South's Tolerable Alien, Andrew S. Moore probes the role of Catholics in the post--World War II South and argues persuasively that, until the 1960s, religion rivaled race as a boundary separating residents of the Bible Belt. Delving deep into underutilized diocesan archives, he explores the ways in which southern Catholics worked to be both good Catholics and good southerners in a region ... Read more

    16,42 €