A trip along the Juniata in mostly rural Pennsylvania during the mid nineteenth century, prior to the American Civil War. Digitally restored illustrations.

BITTERNESS, a Poisonous and Deadly Disease is a book that consists of three chapters. With biblical facts and life experiences, the book explains how bitterness starts and how it grows, the effects of bitterness and the characteristics of bitter people.

Written in 1859, this introduction to the Croton, as it winds its way to New York City, gives a pleasant insight into the city of New York and the surrounding areas during the mid Nineteenth century, highlighting the engineering accomplishment that is the Croton Aqueduct and the improvements to city life that it provided.

A look at the Armories at Norwich CT. at their peak production during the height of the American Civil War.

Addison Richards takes us on a trip up the East River and down the Hudson, around Manhattan, the whole of New York City in the 1860's.

"A Bigger Picture: Memoir of a Military Artist" is a story of adversity, faith, achievement, and healing. The author inspires readers with his adventures of surviving child abuse, opposing bullies, and overcoming illness while dreaming of becoming an artist. Join the Navy and travel overseas through a powerful narrative about the power of prayer as the author realizes the brushstrokes we make in life are part of a much bigger picture.

In this "beautifully written, sharply observed, and heartfelt" guide to his hometown ( New York Times), legendary New York City journalist Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves.Walking the Manhattan streets he loves, from Times Square to the island's southern tip, Pete Hamill combines a moving memoir of his own days and nights in new York with a lively and revealing history of the city's most enduring places and people.

Who doesnt love a good homicide? Murders, Mysteries and History pulls 150 years of forgotten crimes straight from the pages of yesterdays news and stirs them in a historical mix to produce a book like no other. Get the scoop on more than a hundred real-life murders and unsolved killings. Vics, suspects, perps. Judges and juries. Jails and penitentiaries. Hangings, electrocutions and nothing less than simply getting away with murder. Sometimes brutal, often haunting, always entertaining. Mu...

The Kinzua Dam has cast a long shadow on Seneca life since World War II. The project, formally dedicated in 1966, broke the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794, flooded approximately 10,000 acres of Seneca lands in New York and Pennsylvania, and forced the relocation of hundreds of tribal members. Hauptman offers both a policy study, detailing how and why Washington, Harrisburg, and Albany came up with the idea to build the dam, and a community study of the Seneca Nation in the postwar era. Alth...

The California youth corrections system is undergoing the most sweeping transformation in its 154-year history. The extraordinary nature of this change is revealed by the striking decline in the state’s youth incarceration rate. In 1996, with 10,000 youth confined in 11 state-run correctional facilities, California boasted the nation’s third highest youth incarceration rate. Now, with only 800 youth remaining in a system comprised of just three institutions, California has one of the natio...

Being apart of the military’s largest branch might seem like all work and no play. But soldiers in the Army know that protecting their country can be a fun and rewarding experience. Learn little-known facts and unique details about what it means to be an Army soldier.

When George Washington bade farewell to his officers, he did so in New York's Fraunces Tavern. When Andrew Jackson planned his defense of New Orleans against the British in 1815, he met Jean Lafitte in a grog shop. And when John Wilkes Booth plotted with his accomplices to carry out an assassination, they gathered in Surratt Tavern. In America Walks into a Bar, Christine Sismondo recounts the rich and fascinating history of an institution often reviled, yet always central to Ameri...