State Local category: 1635 books
Dinosaur Highway
A History of Dinosaur Valley State Park
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Where the Paluxy River now winds through the North Texas Hill Country, the great lizards of prehistory once roamed, leaving their impressive footprints deep in the limy sludge of what would become the earth’s Cretaceous layer. It wouldn’t be until a summer day in1909, however, when young George...
Local Glories
Opera Houses on Main Street, Where Art and Community Meet
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
To most people, the term "opera house" conjures up images of mink-coated dowagers accompanied by tuxedo-clad men in the gilded interiors of opulent buildings like the Met in New York or La Scala in Milan. However, the opera house in the United States has a far more varied-and far more interesting-history...
The Handy State-by-State Answer Book
Faces, Places, and Famous Dates for All Fifty States
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
How did colonies, territories, and land purchases shape the United States of America? What differences-and similarities-are there between the states? What does each state bring to the union? From sea to shining sea, The Handy State-by-State Answer Book: Faces, Places, and Famous Dates for All Fifty...
by Carol Kammen
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
For over thirty years, Carol Kammen’s On Doing Local History has been a valuable guide to professional and “amateur” historians alike. First published in 1986, revised in 2003, this book offers not only discussion of practical matters, but also a deeper reflection on local, public history, what...
In the Shadow of Kinzua
The Seneca Nation of Indians since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
2014 Award of Merit winner from the American Association for State and Local History
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...
Kansas
In the Heart of Tornado Alley
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Back in 1915, Snowden D. Flora of the US Weather Bureau wrote, �Kansas has been so commonly considered the tornado state of the country that the term �Kansas cyclone� has almost become a part of the English language.� Flora�s words still seem to ring true. Whether called a twister, a tornado,...
"I Hope to Do My Country Service"
The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
In 1862 at the age of thirty-two, Centreville, Michigan, physician John Bennitt joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service for the rest of the war. During this time Bennitt wrote more than two hundred letters home to his wife and daughters sharing...
A Tree Accurst
Bobby McMillon and Stories of Frankie Silver
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
On a wintry night in 1831, a man named Charlie Silver was murdered with an axe and his body burned in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. His young wife, Frankie Silver, was tried and hanged for the crime. In later years people claimed that a tree growing near the ruins of the old cabin was...
The Red Corner
The Rise and Fall of Communism in Northeastern Montana
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The Red Corner chronicles the meteoric rise and decline of Communism on the prairies of northeastern Montana. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Sheridan County boasted a government largely run by Communists, a Communist camp for local youth, and an official newspaper of the Communist Party USA—the...
Defining Memory
Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America’s Changing Communities offers readers multiple lenses for viewing and discussing local institutions. New chapters are included in a section titled “Museums Moving Forward,” which analyzes the ways in which local museums...
Texas Terror
The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
On July 8, 1860, fire destroyed the entire business section of Dallas, Texas. At about the same time, two other fires damaged towns near Dallas. Early reports indicated that spontaneous combustion was the cause of the blazes, but four days later, Charles Pryor, editor of the Dallas Herald, wrote letters...
The Browns of California
The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
"Miriam Pawel's fascinating book . . . illuminates the sea change in the nation's politics in the last half of the 20th century."--New York Times Book Review
California Book Award Gold Medal Winner * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * A Los Angeles Times Bestseller * San Francisco...
by Patrick John McGinley
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
This law school casebook analyzes the Constitution of the State of Florida. It begins with the idea of a state being a "laboratory of democracy" where rights may be expanded or invented within the minimum requirements of the federal constitution. It explores the question of how a state constitution...
Racial Union
Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
In November 2001, the state of Alabama opened a referendum on its long-standing constitutional prohibition against interracial marriage. A bill on the state ballot offered the opportunity to relegate the state's antimiscegenation law to the dustbin of history. The measure passed, but the margin was...