Local history books

Drawing on pamphlets, letters, and other documents, and painstakingly reconstructing his genealogy, Jeffrey A. Fortin...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of Catawba women’s role in creating and preserving a cohesive tribal identity over three...  Read More >>

Ambition describes the lives and relationships of Ethan Allen's aspiring extended family of brothers, sisters, wives,...  Read More >>

""A literary and political biography of the Gilded Age Minnesota congressman Ignatius Donnelly, bestselling populist...  Read More >>

The Pitchfork Ranch is more than another dusty homestead tucked away in a corner of the Southwest. It is a place...  Read More >>

The Pitchfork Ranch is more than another dusty homestead tucked away in a corner of the Southwest. It is a place...  Read More >>

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

Rutgers University has come a long way since it was granted a royal charter in 1766. As it migrated from a parsonage...  Read More >>

As Charles Strobel, beloved Nashville priest and champion of the unhoused, reached the end of his life in 2023,...  Read More >>

How do towns come into existence? What circumstances determine whether they succeed or fail? In The Colonial Towns...  Read More >>

Drawing on pamphlets, letters, and other documents, and painstakingly reconstructing his genealogy, Jeffrey A. Fortin...  Read More >>

""The Lackawanna Valley's history reveals how energy production and water circulation created positive feedback...  Read More >>

Historical walking guide along the trails of Leuven scientists and their laboratories. Throughout its history,...  Read More >>

History of Antioch, Contra Costa County, California from 1850 to 1929.  Read More >>

The siege of Charleston during the American Civil War is the longest siege in US history. Using historic images,...  Read More >>

""The Lackawanna Valley's history reveals how energy production and water circulation created positive feedback...  Read More >>

From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a ""powerful revisionist account""of the most persistent idea in...  Read More >>

Founded by the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad in 1880, Winslow evolved from a company boomtown into a small city whose...  Read More >>

Michigan is home to an amazing array of food and drink brands, each with a fascinating story behind it. Ready-to-eat...  Read More >>

Travel to the past and enjoy a string quartet and a five-course dinner in an elegant wilderness. Beginning in the...  Read More >>

Ira Aten left this world in 1953, aged ninety years. In that time he had been a sheriff, range detective, ranch...  Read More >>

Imagine you spent fourteen hundred and ninety-one days fighting the bloodiest war in your country's history, and...  Read More >>

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Learn about efforts underway to save the historic and environmentally important Fourth Street Preserve. IIn...  Read More >>

Amid a series of three destructive floods that pounded little Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in less than a century, Cambria...  Read More >>