Suffolk County, the second largest county in New York State, is a very diverse place, both geographically and culturally. Home to 1.5 million people, it features waterfront villages on the...
Judge Richard Harvey Chambers served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from his appointment in 1954 to his death in 1994. Serving for seventeen years...
Eight presidents have roots in Ohio, where today these communities take pride in their heritage. William Henry Harrison, a Whig, served the shortest period of time as any president, but...
Nassau County was born at an auspicious and exciting time, on the cusp of a new century and a major transition from a series of quiet farming communities to a...
Gilsonite is a solid hydrocarbon mined in vertical veins in southern Uintah County, Utah. It is found in veins anywhere from a foot to twenty-two feet in width, and a...
This book visually chronicles a 120-year full circle of the development of Boy Scout camps in Northeastern Massachusetts in what is today the Spirit of Adventure Council, Boy Scouts of...
Theodore ‘Tiger’ Flowers rose above racist bigotry of the Deep South to become the first African-American middleweight champion of the world. To do this, this Christian family man beat a...
The true story of a remarkable modern woman in Victorian Venice A unique glimpse into late 19th century Venetian international society A woman’s courage in the face of adversity ‘Widowed,...
Primary research exploring why many of Sylvia Plath’s readers become so attached to her as a cultural figure An innovative and theoretical approach to the relationship between author and reader...
The author of this book, Ernst A. Lehmann, was close to the Zeppelin story from its early days and had great faith in the ever increasing success of the Zeppelin...
U-boats penetrated Boston Harbor to lay military-grade mines Admiral Canaris and daredevil Otto Skorzeny trained a young American; other teams were inserted by U-boat in the Hamptons, Long Island, opposite...
JFK had won the Presidency in 1960 by a razor thin majority, and his re-election campaign for 1964 was expected to be as close. He began it in November 1963...
Cunard, the most famous name in shipping, turns 175 in 2015. The company began back in 1840, with paddlewheel steamers, but grew and progressed and created some of the largest,...
Glorious colour images complete with informative captions and introductory chapter of the rare and varied Cuban-owned 1950s American and European automobiles, trucks and station wagons that were imported before 1961.Sections...
The untold story of 142 German and one Italian submarines, which patrolled the waters around Bermuda The Axis powers sank eighty Allied ships, one of them naval, for the loss...
Over 200 colour photographs deliver a stunning pictorial history of Streetcar advertising since the early 1900s Compiled from original cardboard streetcar adverts from the author's remarkable collection, representing 40 years...
A 712th Tank Battalion veteran of Patton’s Third Army returned home after the Second World War, but for over fifty years rarely speaks of his wartime experiences. His son grows...
Military author Rob Morris, Untold Valor: Forgotten Stories of American Bomber Crewmen over Europe in World War II and The Wild Blue Yonder and Beyond: The 95th Bomb Group in...
The West Side of Kansas City can trace its development and growth back to the pioneer days when Kansas City was the last vestige of civilization for people heading out...
American Prisoner of War Camps in Northern California describes the impact of the large number of prisoners of war on the population of Northern California, as well as the impact...
The City of Revere can trace its roots back to the precolonial period of New England history. As the original thirteen colonies grew, so did Rumney Marsh, which later was...
Middlesex County ranks among the highest income counties in the United States. Highly accessible and equally traversed, the county boasts three active rail lines. Every single town in the governance...
John Charles Frémont—popularly known as "The Pathfinder" during his times—played a major role in opening up the American West to settlement by pioneers. His reliable accounts, including published maps, narrations,...
Los Angeles is one of the biggest cities in the world, but is incongruously a ten-minute drive from a vast impenetrable mountain wilderness, the Angeles National Forest. This 700,000-acre forest...
On a crisp fall day in October of 1862, a precocious seventeen-year-old boy went into a bookshop in his hometown of Hagerstown, Maryland, and purchased a composition book. Into his...
American Prisoner of War Camps in Southern California describes the impact of the large number of prisoners of war on the population of Southern California, as well as the impact...
Everyone thinks they know the history of the Las Vegas Strip. But the real story is both fascinating and not well known. What was there before the Bellagio, the Wynn,...
With the sixth largest Jewish population and the fourth oldest organized Jewish community in the United States, Pennsylvania has hundreds of synagogues, past and present, and they come in all...
The Palouse region of Eastern Washington and North Idaho produces the highest yields of any wheat-growing district in North America, followed closely by farmlands in the adjoining Walla Walla and...
Brockport in the Age of Modernization is a case study of the transformation of an American village between 1866, the first year after the Civil War, and 1916, the last...
American Prisoner of War Camps in Arizona and Nevada describes the impact of the large number of prisoners of war on the populations of Arizona and Nevada, as well as...
The lost colony of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, was England's first experiment in civilian empire building and the first attempt at peaceful co-existence between Native Americans and the English. It...
For casinos of Reno and neighboring cities along the folds of the Sierra, the popularity of stage shows with headliners and large orchestras reached their peak during the 1960s and...
Over one hundred years ago, volunteer firemen sold a book, titled Santa Monica Fire Department, Souvenir Book of Santa Monica, 1902, door to door. Legend has it that the newly-established...
This book contains almost 200 photos taken from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s by the General Electric Company. Over these decades GE scientists continually experimented to invent and...
In November of 1989, as workers were finishing their repairs to the quake damaged section of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge, an 18-inch metal sculpture of a troll was smuggled...
