Local history books

In this book, Blake Watson helps readers understand how World War I affected Kansas and its residents, and how Kansans...  Read More >>

Dig into the long history of cider in Virginia--the Old Dominion's original craft beverage. When the adventurers...  Read More >>

For the Cherokee Nation, the Civil War was more than a contest between the Union and the Confederacy. It was yet...  Read More >>

THIS COLLECTION OF SOUTHERN POETS AND POEMS, 1606-1860, is made not from the viewpoint of a literary critic but...  Read More >>

Visiting the six counties of Western Maryland, spending much time in each district, examining ancient newspapers,...  Read More >>

THIS BOOK IS THE FIRST VOLUME of a two-volume collection of Confederate Poets and Poems, and the second entry into...  Read More >>

In this book, Blake Watson helps readers understand how World War I affected Kansas and its residents, and how Kansans...  Read More >>

Winner, American Battlefield Trust Prize for History Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction...  Read More >>

In 2003, Leon Fink published his oral history of Guatemalan and Mexican migrants in Morganton, North Carolina, and...  Read More >>

From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world’s most exceptional city, told through...  Read More >>

Waimea, Hawai?i, inhabited by humankind for more than twelve centuries, has been home to Parker Ranch for 175 storied...  Read More >>

Paul T Cunningham, tells the story of the recreation of Virginia by volunteers through hardscrabble fundraising,...  Read More >>

Ducks across the Big Sky To hunt ducks in Montana--where the land breathes history--is to experience extremes in...  Read More >>

Dr. Bobbie Chew Bigby (Cherokee) and Randy Palmer (Kiowa/Choctaw) have collected colorful photographs showcasing...  Read More >>

Home to the United States Naval Academy since 1845, Annapolis and its busy harbor attract visitors from around the...  Read More >>

Reveals the experiences of the Salzburger migrants who came to Georgia with the support of British and German philanthropy,...  Read More >>

Reveals the experiences of the Salzburger migrants who came to Georgia with the support of British and German philanthropy,...  Read More >>

Nick’s chronicle of the modernisation of Los Angeles was 15 years in the making. Besides his firsthand account of...  Read More >>

The gripping story of Arkansas’s struggle to control tuberculosis, and how eventually the state became a model in...  Read More >>

Explores the lively Wichita blues tradition. In interviews with nineteen African American Wichita blues performers,...  Read More >>

This diary-like correspondence brings to life the dreams, efforts, and trials of Andrew Turnbull and the Smyrna...  Read More >>

In 1842, Black Rhode Islanders secured a stunning victory, a success rarely seen in antebellum America: they won...  Read More >>

The captivating story of the people and lost places of Little Somerford in Wiltshire: Who ran the village shop,...  Read More >>

Explains the competing rhetoric and discourses on fracking among New York-based advocates, experts, the grassroots,...  Read More >>

At the turn of the twentieth century, a 1901 decree ordered the exhumation and relocation of over 150,000 graves...  Read More >>