State Local category: 1635 books
The Explorers of Mars Hill
More than a Century of History at Lowell Observatory
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Established in 1894 in Flagstaff, Arizona by Percival Lowell, the Lowell Observatory on Mars Hill is still remembered as the site of numerous important astronomical firsts. The great recessional velocities of galaxies were first observed here in the years immediately before the first world war, a...
Greenhead Politics
The Story Brigantine Taxpayers Were Never Told
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005
When John Costello was hired as the new Director of Public Works for the small island town of Brigantine, NJ, he was expected to maintain the status quo and enjoy the ride at taxpayers' expense. Costello instead began an earnest effort to clean up the city, which resulted in an immaculate town filled...
by Mary Cable
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
One of them was built without wood, and the other lacked doorknobs, but they flaunted all the amenities that Old World skills, Vanderbilt money, and the unbridled taste of Richard M. Hunt could provide. Here, in this essay by journalist and historian Mary Cable, is the story of Newport's Marble Cottages.
Navy Pier
A Chicago Landmark
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
Since 1673 when Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet portaged through the territory that is now Chicago, water transportation has been vital to the city's growth. In the early twentieth century, when Daniel Burnham put together his master plan for the design of Chicago—a plan intended to create...
Trapped
The Story of the Cherry Mine Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
A gripping account of the worst coal mine fire in US history—the 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster that claimed the lives of 259 men. "Drawing on diaries, letters, written accounts of survivors and testimony from the coroner's inquest...Tintori's engaging prose keeps readers on the edge" (Publishers Weekly).
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Dreams of Duneland
A Pictorial History of the Indiana Dunes Region
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The towering sand dunes along Lake Michigan not far from Chicago are one of the most unexpected natural features of Indiana. Dreams of Duneland is a beautifully illustrated introduction to the Dunes region, its history, and future prospects. This area of shifting sands is also a place of savanna,...
The Perfect 36
Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The authors bring to life the 72-year suffrage to earn women the right to vote which culminated with the final vote needed for ratification in the Tennessee legislature. The Perfect 36 gives voice to those who were for and against the right of women to vote with a richly illustrated volume. The authors...
by John H. Blitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Within the last 50 years archaeologists have discovered that around the 10th century A.D., native southeastern peoples began a process of cultural change far more complex than anything that had occurred previously. These late prehistoric societies—known...
Managing White Supremacy
Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Smith draws on official records, private correspondence,...
Sovereignty and Borders
You Can’T Have One Without the Other
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
A nation that fails to protect its borders is not a nation at all.
Rather, its a place that invites chaos, criminals, and subversives that will lead the land to become a mere footnote in the annals of history.
Edger J. Burton explores how a nation that was once united is divided and...
by W. Wilson Goode Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The idea for this book grew out of my deep appreciation for recorded history. I've learned that unless the facts are written, people will soon forget them. So it is important to document the history of the personalities and events that led to my election in1983 as the first African American mayor...
The Economics of Emancipation
Jamaica and Barbados, 1823-1843
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The British Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 provided a grant of u20 million to compensate the owners of West Indian slaves for the loss of their human 'property.' In this first comparative analysis of the impact of the award on the colonies, Mary Butler focuses on Jamaica and Barbados, two of Britain's...
by The Troy Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
The rain began to fall on Easter Sunday, March 23, 1913. In Troy, 15 people lost their lives during the flood due to drowning, and in the weeks and months that followed an unknown number died from flood-related diseases. The story of what happened in Troy has often been overlooked, but in 1976 the Troy...
Death at Cross Plains
An Alabama Reconstruction Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Reconstruction in the South is a much studies and yet little understood dark epoch in the region’s history; in many areas it was marked by such violence as to have been in all but name guerrilla warfare. Death and Cross Plains is the history of one such clash, and the story of one of its casualties...