Local history books

Takes a comprehensive look at the Silver State’s role in the war effort, including the effects of rationing and...  Read More >>

This anthology features selections from fiction, nonfiction, and government documents of the nineteenth century...  Read More >>

A choice selection of Cries of London, telling the stories of the artists and traders, and revealing the unexpected...  Read More >>

In September of 1943, six-month old Lawrence Noxon, who had recently been diagnosed with Down Syndrome died mysteriously...  Read More >>

In this expanded guidebook Jeff Barnes presents information about the historic forts and military posts of the Indian...  Read More >>

Offers a comprehensive, illustrated history that shows Alabama’s important role in the development of America’s...  Read More >>

"The 4th Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry stepped into a cauldron of fire and blood during the Civil War....  Read More >>

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Dublin High School ceased to exist as of June in 1974. When the school's era as a high school came to an end many...  Read More >>

After forty years of research and writing on Native Americans and the American West, historian Stephen Dow Beckham...  Read More >>

A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and...  Read More >>

Examines the contributions of Mexican American activists to the nation’s democratic values by concentrating on the...  Read More >>

Focused on an early twentieth-century home in Texarkana, Arkansas, Doris Douglas Davis’s The Ahern Home of Texarkana...  Read More >>

In Run for Your Lives! historian Linda English opens a new window into the Runaway Scrape, exploring the events...  Read More >>

The First World War was one of the most transformative and important events of world history. A Centennial Perspective...  Read More >>

No volume has been published before that covers the various historians of the Rangers and their approaches to the...  Read More >>

When New Mexico became part of the US, the territory contained 295 land grants, the largest of these being the Maxwell...  Read More >>

Sigrid Anderson focuses on the Southern California magazine Land of Sunshine, a publication that featured authors...  Read More >>

Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamation The US government justified its...  Read More >>

Drawing on a wide range of sources - including maps, daguerreotypes, real estate deeds, court records, travelers’...  Read More >>

Unveiling the Legacy of Ohio's Power Plants: A Historical Journey Through Their Rise, Operation, and Eventual Decommissioning....  Read More >>

Chronicles the history of water rights and activities on the Gila River Indian Reservation. Centred on the San Carlos...  Read More >>

The final volume of the Simms Initiatives - a collaboration between USC Press and USC Libraries that spans more...  Read More >>

A richly illustrated study that examines the engineering as well as the commercial, environmental, and human impacts...  Read More >>

Chronicles the history of emancipation through the cradle-to-grave experiences of a remarkable generation of black...  Read More >>