Author: Drake, Richard B. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: " Richard Drake has skillfully woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience into a sweeping whole. Touching upon folk traditions, health care, the environment, higher education, th...
Author: Drake, Richard B. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: " Richard Drake has skillfully woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience into a sweeping whole. Touching upon folk traditions, health care, the environment, higher education, th...
Author: Ware, Eugene H. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Presque Isle State Park, a peninsula extending seven miles into Lake Erie, attracts four million visitors each year. Since the late 1800s, the park has been an ecological and recreational paradise whe...
Author: Harrison, Lowell H. / Klotter, James C. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: " The first comprehensive history of the state since the publication of Thomas D. Clark's landmark History of Kentucky over sixty years ago. A New History of Kentucky brings the Commonwealth to life, ...
Author: Harrison, Lowell H. / Klotter, James C. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: " The first comprehensive history of the state since the publication of Thomas D. Clark's landmark History of Kentucky over sixty years ago. A New History of Kentucky brings the Commonwealth to life, ...
Author: Saunt, Claudio Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The story told here is a critical yet unknown chapter in the creation of the American Republic. Claudio Saunt vividly depicts a dramatic transformation in the eighteenth century that overturned the wo...
Author: Colley, Zoe A Publisher: University Press of Florida Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Imprisonment became a badge of honor for many protestors during the civil rights movement. With the popularization of expressions such as "jail-no-bail" and "jail-in," civil rights activists sought to...
Author: Evans, Will Publisher: Utah State University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Will Evans's writings should find a special niche in the small but significant body of literature from and about traders to the Navajos. Evans was the proprietor of the Shiprock Trading Company. Proba...
Author: Lacey, Theresa Jensen Publisher: Thomas Nelson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Amazing North Carolina offers a rare glimpse into unusual and sometimes bizarre people and events in North Carolina's 200-year history. Reading like the Tarheel State's own version of Ripley's Believe...
Author: Fujita-Rony, Dorothy B. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Historically, Filipina/o Americans have been one of the oldest and largest Asian American groups in the United States. In this pathbreaking work of historical scholarship, Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony trace...
Author: Cox, W. Eugene / Cox, Joyce Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The story of the Taylors of Tennessee offers a perspective that is as entertaining as it is instructive. Many of the major themes of the broader story are here in abundance, enlivened by the triumphs ...
Author: Irving, Washington Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American author known for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Irving was also an essayist, historian and biographer. Irving was the first American ...
Author: N/A Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmental destruction, joblessness, and hopelessness. Robert Schenkkan's 1992 Pulitzer-Prize winning play Th...
Author: N/A Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmental destruction, joblessness, and hopelessness. Robert Schenkkan's 1992 Pulitzer-Prize winning play Th...
Author: Perich, Shawn Publisher: Quarry Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This updated 2nd edition of the popular Backroads of Minnesota (2002) comes in a new portable size, making it easy to tote in your car and head out to a new destination in beautiful Minnesot...
Author: Holt, Ronald L Publisher: Utah State University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ronald Holt recounts the survival of a people against all odds. A compound of rapid white settlement of the most productive Southern Paiute homelands, especially their farmlands near tributaries of th...
Author: Gustin, Lawrence R. Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Praise for the first edition: "A fascinating book [and] a sympathetic look at the man who glued General Motors together and in the process made Flint one of the great industrial centers of America....
Author: Olson, Ted Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In the years immediately preceding the founding of the American nation the Blue Ridge region, which stretches through large sections of Virginia and North Carolina and parts of surrounding states alon...
Author: Fox, John , Jr. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Serving as tour guide, Fox invites his audience to go with him log rafting down the Kentucky River, bass fishing in the Cumberland Mountains, rabbit hunting in the Bluegrass, and chasing outlaws in th...
Author: Fox, John , Jr. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Serving as tour guide, Fox invites his audience to go with him log rafting down the Kentucky River, bass fishing in the Cumberland Mountains, rabbit hunting in the Bluegrass, and chasing outlaws in th...
Author: Cimarolli, Mary Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The generation that toiled through the Great Depression and won the Second World War has become known as “the greatest generation.” But not all of them qualified for that exaggerated ep...
Author: Raab / Cassidy Publisher: Altamira Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: San Clemente Island serves as a microcosm of California maritime archaeology from prehistoric through historic times. The authors use findings from nearly two decades of research on the island to pres...
Author: Poshek, Lucy Publisher: Thomas Nelson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Test your California smarts! This engaging trivia book is packed with fascinating facts about the history, culture, people, and places of the intriguing Golden State. You'll discover well-known and no...
Author: Gaudet, Marcia Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mysterious and misunderstood, distorted by biblical imagery of disfigurement and uncleanness, Hansen's disease or leprosy has all but disappeared from America's consciousness. In Carville, Louisiana, ...
Author: Abbazia, Bert Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The history of this unique endeavor is written by an eye witness to the "rise and demise" of America's Fourteenth Colony. The story is the result of the author retrieving original documents to verify ...
Author: Cochran, Mike Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The native son of a distinguished West Texas family and a 1954 graduate of Texas A&M whose career and personal pursuits have ranged from farmer to insurance salesman to wildcatter, pipeline entrep...
Author: Hauck, Gary L. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ever since the days when horse-drawn buggies brought resorters to enjoy the charm of the area more than 130 years ago, Clifford Lake Inn has been continuously providing hospitality to those who visit....
Author: Waters, Michael R. / Pevny, Charlotte D. / Carlson, David L. Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Some 13,000 years ago, humans were drawn repeatedly to a small valley in what is now Central Texas, near the banks of Buttermilk Creek. These early hunter-gatherers camped, collected stone, and shaped...
Author: Angel, Ronald J. / Bell, Holly / Beausoleil, Julie Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina. In this study, the authors use extensive interviews with Katrina evacuee...
Author: Chambers, John Whiteclay Publisher: Rivergate Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the oldest towns in New Jersey, Cranbury has a long and noteworthy history that is in part distinctive and in part broadly representative of larger themes in the development of the state and th...
Author: Dowdy, G. Wayne Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: During the first half of the twentieth century, the city of Memphis was governed by the Shelby County Democratic Party controlled by Edward Hull Crump, described by Time magazine as "the most absolute...
Author: Rogers, Mary Publisher: Texas Christian University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Almost every journalist asks the subjects of profiles to tell the truth.Only Mary Rogers requires them to “dance naked.”To Rogers, an award-winning columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegr...
Author: Pearce, John Ed Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Among the darkest corners of Kentucky's past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled th...
Author: Pearce, John Ed Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Among the darkest corners of Kentucky's past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled th...
Author: Haydamacker, Nelson / Millar, Alan D. Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Long before popular television shows such as Dirty Jobs and The Deadliest Catch, everyday men and women---the unsung heroes of the job world---toiled in important but mostly anonymous jobs. One of tho...
Author: McQueary, Carl Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The ingredients here include one part culinary history and one part social history, from 1856 to the present, along with 225 recipes cooked by Texas first ladies or their chefs.
Author: Jasinski, Laurie Publisher: Texas Christian University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Where the Paluxy River now winds through the North Texas Hill Country, the great lizards of prehistory once roamed, leaving their impressive footprints deep in the limy sludge of what would become the...
Author: Wynkoop, Mary Ann Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This grassroots view of student activism in the 1960s chronicles the years of protest at one Midwestern university. Located in a region of farmland, conservative politics, and traditional family value...
Author: Houck, Oliver A. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The lower Mississippi River winds past the City of New Orleans between enormous levees and a rim of sand, mud, and trees called "the batture." On this remote and ignored piece of land thrives a humani...
Author: Schoon, Kenneth J. Publisher: Quarry Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 r...
Author: Todd, Dr. Ruth E. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ECONORACISM:The Next Great Divide examines the current social strife, unrest, and dissatisfaction occurring throughout the world as the physical manifestation of an economic class struggle masqueradi...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ancestral Pueblo farmers encountered the deep, well watered, and productive soils of the central Mesa Verde region of Southwest Colorado around A.D. 600, and within two centuries built some of the lar...
Description: The Encyclopedia of Local History addresses nearly every aspect of local history, including everyday issues, theoretical approaches, and trends in the field. The second edition highlights local histor...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fire is both an integral natural process in the California landscape and growing threat to its urban and suburban developments as they encroach on wildlands. Written by many of the foremost authoritie...
Author: Hoffman, Paul E. Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Florida has had many frontiers. Imagination, greed, missionary zeal, disease, war, and diplomacy have shaped its historical boundaries. Bodies of water, soils and their associated floral and faunal ec...
