In the towns of Taunton and Northampton, Massachusetts’ earliest public psychiatric hospitals were left abandoned and whispered about by those living in their shadows. Built using the “Kirkbride plan,” these...
The state of Massachusetts was home to many historic institutions; however, few compared to the size and elegance of the asylums built in Worcester and Danvers during the late-nineteenth century....
The Japanese strategy for the Philippines was to entrap the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet with an assault from the Surigao Strait Covering the northern part of the strait were U.S....
CSX Transportation Railroad Heritage is a photographic essay of this major railroad that was formed in 1980 by a merger of the Seaboard Coast Line with the Chessie System, providing...
If there’s one county in the United States that deserves its own cemetery book, it’s New York's Queens County. With millions of burials in a stunning array of cemeteries of...
When the body of a young female jogger was found at the bottom of a stairwell near Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square in the early morning hours of November 2, 1995, the...
The California desert stands as a testament to the ever-changing interplay between human ambition and the forces of nature. In the early pioneer days, towns would quickly spring up like...
Detroit Revealed: A Different View of the Motor City highlights the obscure and amazing hidden gems of the city which is sometimes portrayed as unapproachable. The imagery highlights places only...
There are many unique places to visit in the historic and famous city of Detroit, many with an interesting history. In Detroit: A Grand City, author Naomi Chapman takes readers...
Native Americans, Wampanoags, inhabited vast acreage abutting the Taunton River and its tributaries in Southeastern Massachusetts prior to the arrival of European settlers in the early 1600s. In 1672, the...
The purpose of this book is not to create another history of Dover, but to provide a pictorial journey of what Dover looked like in the past, compared to the...
Volume Two of Dover, New Hampshire, Through Time continues to show the past as recorded by some of Dover’s earliest photographers, and the present as recorded by Thom Hindle. Take...
Early Photographers of Glacier National Park examines the photographers, and the photographs they produced, who worked in the pre-park period up through the first three decades of Glacier Park (1910–1940)....
In the pre-World War II era, Park Rangers patrolled Glacier National Park year-round, based out of ranger stations distributed unevenly around the park, protecting it from poachers and hunters as...
In his new book East Boston Through Time, Anthony Sammarco outlines a neighborhood of the city of Boston which was once known as Noddle’s Island, one of five islands that...
The history of East Point commences in the 1700s and continued through construction of an elegant summer hotel for Bostonians, later becoming the property of a Massachusetts Senator. The strategic...
Noah Webster describes Easter as “an annual Christian festival in the spring, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus.” Though a solemn religious holiday preceded by forty days of Lent and a...
Eisenhower Park is one of Long Island’s most beloved and well-known attractions. Larger than New York City’s Central Park, the park is located on what was once the flat, wide...
Have you ever wondered what lies behind the rotting walls of an abandoned building? Empire State of Decay: Discarded New York offers a rare look into forgotten spaces that offer...
The story of Lake Tahoe is the story of people and the environment and their reciprocal influences. The environment shaped the lives of the early people of Tahoe, and later,...
The coal industry revolutionized early America, driving the economy for years before oil. What's left unheard of is the struggle of mankind and the sacrifices made to launch our nation...
“The Tell-Tale Heart,” one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous short stories, has inspired artists, filmmakers, and writers since its first publication in 1843. But it was two murders a...
They rise, limbs interlocked like a mighty phalanx engaged in a slow northward march along Florida’s coast. Collectively, they are battered and diminished after a century-long struggle. Yet, dutiful and...
Northern Colorado is a unique area of the state, encompassing both the massive Rocky Mountains and the arid Great Plains regions. With its diverse landscapes and resources, Northern Colorado has...
Forgotten Colorado: Southern Region brings to light one of the first areas in the state to be settled. Once home to a thriving coal and steel industry, Southern Colorado has...
Forgotten Colorado: The Eastern Plains explores this often ignored and underappreciated part of the state. Known as the agricultural center of Colorado, this region was once a thriving area for...
Five-hundred-year-old buildings are easy to find across the Atlantic, yet here in America, “we tear down our Colosseums” and replace them with boring structures made of cheap brick and concrete....
Forgotten Pieces of Georgia: The Northwest Counties documents the abandoned small business buildings throughout the state. By carefully documenting as many buildings as possible while obtaining accurate historical information, this...
The road less traveled is not in the best shape, and that’s okay, because it leads to gold. Follow author Jerry Winnett on his photographic adventures across the state of...
New construction seems to be taking place all around. In every direction, there is another shopping center, neighborhood, or business park being built. With all the commotion and progress, it...
America's Dairyland is in distress. Its rural farms are dwindling. Join Troy Hess, rural explorer and photographer, as he travels the back roads of Wisconsin in search of these "rural...
Franz Kline, one of the most celebrated painters of the twentieth century, once described his hometown as a "little Dutch settlement wrapped up in a cloud of coal dirt ......
Religious cults have marked every society since the beginning of time. Some have an audacious presence, like Anton Szandor LaVey’s Church of the Process, whose black-caped “missionaries” used to walk...
The Gambler 500 began as little more than a way to kill a weekend. Over beers in a local tavern, founder Tate Morgan and a couple of friends laid out...
Garden City: Pictures From a Pandemic documents life in one of Long Island's most popular destinations between February and July of 2020, capturing its dramatic transformation from a shut-down ghost...
Have you ever driven past an abandoned building and wondered why it was there and what it looks like inside? Perhaps you were curious about its history and how the...
