John T. Farnham, a sharpshooter in the Union Army, wrote a substantial diary entry nearly every day during his three-year enlistment, sent over 50 long articles to his hometown newspaper,...
On a crisp fall day in October of 1862, a precocious seventeen-year-old boy went into a bookshop in his hometown of Hagerstown, Maryland, and purchased a composition book. Into his...
A Pittsburgh steel heiress, a world-renowned artist, and a Chinese Bishop on the run from communist authorities cross paths due to a set of spellbinding circumstances put in motion more...
Driving along the Millstone Valley Scenic Byway is a trip back into the history of central New Jersey. The villages of East Millstone, Millstone, Griggstown, Rocky Hill and Kingston offer...
Agricultural fairs have played an important economic and cultural role in our nation's growth, and nowhere is this more evident than in New York, where the Mineola Fair began during...
Hauling Pennsylvania anthracite and backloads of iron ore among mountain mines, inland ports and tidewater cites along its 106-mile route, the Morris Canal (1824-1924) with its water-powered inclined planes performed...
Hauling Pennsylvania anthracite and backloads of iron ore among mountain mines, inland ports and tidewater cites along its 106-mile route, the Morris Canal (1824-1924) with its water-powered inclined planes performed...
A walk through a cemetery is a walk through history. Cemeteries are full of stories and mysteries. The National Capital area, encompassing Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, and Central Maryland, is...
The Nevada They Knew is the story of a legendary friendship. Robert Caples (1908–1979) was Nevada's leading artist of the twentieth century, Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909–1971) its leading novelist....
The question posed at the beginning of this narrative asked why a botanical garden for Norfolk and the answer, to be certain, is the story told in the book itself....
The Norfolk Southern Christiansburg District: A Modern Mountain Railroad takes a close look of Norfolk Southern’s Christiansburg district mainline operation. We will begin the journey just outside of Roanoke, Virginia’s...
In November of 1989, as workers were finishing their repairs to the quake damaged section of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge, an 18-inch metal sculpture of a troll was smuggled...
The Other Ninth Air Force takes a detailed look at how the Artillery Air Section of a US Army Headquarters functioned during the Second World War in Europe. It relates...
The Other Red Line is literally the connecting point between Scollay Square and the Combat Zone, the two preeminent adult entertainment districts in Boston. With burlesque houses such as the...
The Petersen House was one of many similar, ordinary buildings on Tenth Street during the Civil War. On April 15, 1865, the home became forever known as the “House Where...
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 Finger Lakes region of New York, once dominated by major railroads like the New York Central, now thrives through modern short line railroads that preserve its rich transportation legacy....
Follow the author as he explores the once bustling stagecoach routes and turnpikes that crisscrossed communities throughout New England. Now quiet country lanes in the age of superhighways, traveling these...
"It will put pink cheeks on you." That is what the managers of Radium Dial in Ottawa, Illinois, told the young women who painted radium on the faces of clock...
In Massachusetts there were, at one time, three institutions built specifically for the care and education of the intellectually and physically disabled. Set in the rolling hills and bucolic farmland...
Pennsylvania has one of the largest and oldest organized Jewish Communities communities in the United States. Jews of Sephardic origin settled in what was to become the "Keystone State" in...
With the sixth largest Jewish population and the fourth oldest organized Jewish community in the United States, Pennsylvania has hundreds of synagogues, past and present, and they come in all...
The Tenderloin District of San Francisco Through Time is a brief history of a neighborhood known to early San Franciscans as St. Ann’s Valley. The story of this once-placid piece...
The Transcontinental Railroad in Utah shows the impact of the large number of new arrivals on the population and economy of Utah, as well as the impact of the people...
Thoroughly researched and beautifully written, this fascinating work describes an early part of aviation history Original analysis with some startling conclusions Profusely illustrated with many rare and unpublished photographs When...
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...
Suffolk became home for many American airmen during the War. They brought with them chewing gum and Coca-Cola. In return, the British taught the GIs the art of darts and...
The Boeing family gave author David Williams unrestricted access to the Boeing Family archives This treasure trove of primary sources allowed Williams to create an extraordinary vivid and accurate portrait...
The World Trade Center Through Time addresses the fascinating architectural and cultural history behind the evolution and construction of the Twin Towers. Adorned with period illustrations, the book takes readers...
The authors discuss Sylvia Plath archival discoveries in unique ways, unearthing previously unknown materials and bringing new context to well-known works New essays on the sociological notion of ‘haunting’ in...
For decades, the city of Hamtramck, MI, has had a legendary association with bars. Its 2.1 square miles was packed at one point with at least 200 bars, clubs and...
The real story of the nerve gas disaster at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah, on 13 March 1968 The battle at Fire Support Base Rifle on 11 February 1970, a story...
Thomas J. Lipton’s America’s Cup Campaigns is the saga on one man’s three decade obsession with winning the America’s Cup. This is author Richard V. Simpson’s fifth title concerning the...
Faced with worrying advances in Soviet missile technology, in the mid-1950s the United States sought to develop an IRBM to act as a stop-gap until the Atlas ICBM became operational....
Los Angeles is one of the biggest cities in the world, but is incongruously a ten-minute drive from a vast impenetrable mountain wilderness, the Angeles National Forest. This 700,000-acre forest...
