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by Donald T. Critchlow
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those features. In American Political History: A Very Short...
by Mary Lou Keller
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This is a great collection of true stories by Mary Lou Keller, who writes of her memories of bygone days when she was deeply involved in the life and times of a little Western village called Sedona. A natural-born storyteller, she captures the wonder and magic of the red-rock country she loves as...
by Janet Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
The Great San Francisco Trivia and Fact Book"", by Janet Bailey, is a celebration of the City by the Bay. Although relatively young as compared to the world's great cities, it has had a greater influence than many older, larger cities.
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A Tree Grows in Lincoln
A History of Christ Temple Mission Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Reverend Trago McWilliams was a contemporary of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who preached a powerful message of nonviolence mingled with the love of God for one another. In McWilliamss work in the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, during some of the most turbulent years for race relations in our...
Laudonniere & Fort Caroline
History and Documents
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
This classic historical resource remains the most complete work on the establishment of Fort Caroline, which heralded the start of permanent settlement by Europeans in North America.
America's history was shaped in part by the clash of cultures that took place in the southeastern United States...
The Building of Castello de San Marcos
National Park Service Interpretive Series, History No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
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FLORIDA AND THE PIRATES
A Pirate Raid forced the Queen of Spain to build Castillo de San Marcos in Florida. On May 28, 1668, a sailing vessel appeared off the shallow bar of St. Augustine Harbor. It was a ship from Vera Cruz, bringing a supply of...
by Stewart H. Holbrook
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Holy Old Mackinaw is the rough and lusty story of the American lumberjack at work and at play, from Maine to Oregon.
In these modern days timber is harvested by cigarette-smoking married men, whose children go to school in buses, but for nearly three hundred years the logger was a real...
Vote for Change
My Decision at This Point in History
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
In most mature democracies, the government changes hands from time to time. A change of government doesn’t usher in the apocalypse. In fact, knowing how power tends to corrupt, perhaps political parties should take turns at being the opposition for seasons of humbling and heart searching.
College for Sale
The Fall and Rise of a Closed College Campus
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Nasson College was a small, liberal arts college located in Springvale, Maine. Unfortunately, declining enrollment and questionable management decisions led to its bankruptcy and closing. But the path to closure had been set in motion many years before, long before the college filed for bankruptcy...
License To Steal
Nevada'S Gaming Control System In The Megaresort Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
These seven precedent-setting case studies taken from the files of the Nevada Gaming Control Board and Commission illustrate vital issues addressed in the first decade of Las Vegas' megaresorts.
Footprints
A History of the Place We Call Palisades Park (Limited)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
(from the original jacket) Palisades Park is a summer community of 200 cottages scattered throughout the dunes and along the shore of Lake Michigan, seven miles south of South Haven, MI. Since "the place we call Palisades Park" has encompassed a long and interesting story of its own, the...
by Mark W. Falzini
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
...Meanwhile, Jim with the help of his sister, made his way into Timothys house. There, on the kitchen floor, Beatrice and Tim cleaned Jims wound, applied a blue stone solution as a disinfectant and some salve and wrapped the wound with a muslin bandage as best they could.
Unbeknownst to the...
by J. Ross Browne
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
A contemporaneous account of the silver mining boom in the ghost town of Austin Nevada during the mid nineteenth century.
Sylvania, Lucas County, Ohio
From Footpaths to Expressways and Beyond Volume Two
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Join the author in reliving Sylvania's over 180 years of history from footpaths to expressways and beyond, in volume two of an eight volume set. With 30 years of research she has included every subject imaginable that helped bring Sylvania to where they are today, with excellent schools, over-the-top...