State Local category: 1635 books
Haunted Colleges and Universities
Creepy Campuses, Scary Scholars, and Deadly Dorms
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Among our country's treasures are its colleges and universities, meccas of culture and higher learning--and paranormal activity. Haunted Colleges and Universities, a collection of stories of ghosts, mysteries, and paranormal happenings at colleges and universities, will leave readers delightfully frightened.
Being There
Eye Witness To History
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Douglas Caddy was the attorney for E. Howard Hunt, one of the key persons involved in both the JFK assassination and Watergate. Being There: Eye Witness to History is his autobiographical account of these events by accidentally being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong...
Now You Hear My Horn
The Journal of James Wilson Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Jim Nichols was a lively, vigorous frontiersman who came to Texas about the time of its Revolution. As with many men of that day, Nichols' formal education was lacking, but he was a born writer with a vivid way of saying things. He had an abundance of exciting events to write about: fighting against...
The Social Origins of the Urban South
Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, millions of black and white southerners left farms and rural towns to try their fate in the region's cities. This transition brought about significant economic, social, and cultural changes in both urban centers and the countryside. Focusing on...
Fort Sumter National Monument, South Carolina
National Park Service Historical Handbook Series No. 12, Revised 1962 (Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
by Robert Turner Wood, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
From the end of World War II to the closing months of 1972, Albuquerque, New Mexico, underwent as dramatic a transformation as any American city ever has in such a short time. Its population exploded from about 50,000 to more than five times that number, and the median income of its citizens adjusted...
Alabama Afternoons
Profiles and Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4
Alabama Afternoons is a collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman. Written as Sunday feature stories for the Mobile Press-Register with additional...
The Quest
In Pursuit of the Ultimate Mastery
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Sedona seems to reflect the best qualities — or perhaps I should say the "combined" qualities, the essences and elements — of the Great Pyramids, Glastonbury, Stonehenge, Ayers Rock, Mount Shasta, the South American Pyramids, Peru, Tibet, Nepal, India, Lourdes, and many other power places around...
by Mark E. Steadman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This book is a continuation of "History of the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants 1904-1977", authored by Dr. Harold O. Wilson and Hilary H. Osborn. Their book, published by TSCPA in 1977, details the early formation of the CPA profession and its development in Tennessee....
by Archer Butler Hulbert
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Volume 12 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...
Austin, Cleared for Takeoff
Aviators, Businessmen, and the Growth of an American City
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Austin, Texas, entered the aviation age on October 29, 1911, when Calbraith Perry Rodgers landed his Wright EX Flyer in a vacant field near the present-day intersection of Duval and 45th Streets. Some 3,000 excited people rushed out to see the pilot and his plane, much like the hundreds of thousands...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
First published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Robert Jeschonek
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Once upon a shopping center, the Richland Mall was the place to shop, eat, meet, play, and be seen in suburban Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Decades after its closing, this classic mall returns to life in the pages of this one-of-a-kind book. For the first time, the true story of the Richland Mall, its...
by Robert Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
From 1836... These first-person accounts of a trapper's life in the Rockies were letters written by Robert Campbell to his brother. They were first published as a serial in the National Atlas and Tuesday Morning Mail (Philadelphia), Nov 1 - Dec 6, 1836 giving eastern Americans a view onto the wild...