Many of the accounts have not been published since the early 20th century in newspaper articles Previously unpublished photographs and vivid personal accounts Dramatic paintings of Hood’s Texans and other...
While gardens have been around since the beginning of time, botanical gardens—gardens designed for studies and education—first began in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as the physic, or medicinal, gardens...
While gardens have been around since the beginning of time, botanical gardens―gardens designed for studies and education―first began in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as the physic, or medicinal, gardens...
Although he is one of the world's most popular authors who continues to thrill and chill readers of all ages, Edgar Allan Poe's life is as enigmatic as his sudden,...
The University of Central Florida, founded just fifty years ago as Florida Technological University, is one of the fastest growing universities in the nation and is currently the United States,...
Consider these improbable vistas found along the shores of Tampa Bay—an abandoned island fortress stands guard over a federally-designated bird sanctuary. The remains of a ruined cross-bay bridge are repurposed...
Troubled Times in Tennessee is a detailed look at various lost or hidden aspects of Tennessee history. Historians of the Volunteer State’s past have overlooked the stories in these chapters...
Over its two hundred years of history, the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has held a prominent position within the state, not only as home to the state's flagship university, but...
Underground Birmingham: Images from Birmingham’s Iron Ore Mines takes the reader on a pictorial journey deep into the cold, dark and long abandoned mining tunnels that are now buried and...
Union Pacific Railroad Heritage covers the history of this amazing railroad that was founded in 1862 and completed the United States first transcontinental railroad in 1869. With the need to...
Berthed today at NAUTICUS, the National Maritime Center, the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) was the last authorized of the four Iowa-class battleships, the largest American dreadnoughts ever built. Wisconsin saw action...
The columns in this book focus on the colorful and fascinating history of Vallejo, a shipyard town just north of San Francisco. The writing began following the publishing of author...
Viewing Norfolk Southern Railway covers the history of this railroad, beginning with the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company, which in 1830 operated the first regularly scheduled passenger train...
Author and historian Amy Waters Yarsinske takes a look back at Virginia Beach in the twentieth century, to the decades—and events—that shaped a city that although largely suburban in character,...
Today, each visitor to Williamsburg, Virginia, takes a step back in time to the small town that for nearly a century was capital of Virginia, one of the most influential...
Winston-Salem Through Time will present in archival photographs and descriptive captions the effects of the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, Prohibition, the Great Depression and Cold War period upon the...
Yorktown's position of first rank in the annals of American history, earned with the British defeat there in the fall of 1781 that turned the tide of the Revolutionary War...
