Philadelphia Quakers: A Brief History is a concise but insightful account of the Religious Society of Friends, beginning with their founding in mid-seventeenth-century England. Persecuted for his non-conformist beliefs, William...
A vital contribution to the re-evaluation of the legacy of the American Civil War Comes at a time of widespread reassessment about the roles and status of people of African...
Relics of Anthracite in Northeastern Pennsylvania: Volume II continues to explore the former anthracite industry through photography. Deep coal mining in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton ended due to the Knox Mine Disaster. Pennsylvania...
To Newark with Love is a celebration of New Jersey’s largest city, seen through the eyes of a proud third-generation Newarker. In a series of essays, Helen Lippman tells revealing...
When the body of a young female jogger was found at the bottom of a stairwell near Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square in the early morning hours of November 2, 1995, the...
Listen, and you will hear it: the beat of New York City. It's everywhere you go! From the subways to the streets, from parks to bars, from churches to concert...
Steeped in a rich maritime history dating back to the whaling era, today’s Greenport is a lively, colorful village that celebrates its seafaring heritage while also embracing its newer status...
Queens, New York, has a long and storied history. From early Dutch settlements to British colonization to American independence, Queens only become a part of New York City at the...
To borrow from Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca, “Last night I dreamt I went back to ‘Manderley’ again.” Instead, we will time travel back to 1824 and a similar little unpaved...
Midtown and Uptown Manhattan Aerials Through Time captures more than 100 years of New York City's evolution in detailed aerial views, many of which have never been published before. Ranging...
Eisenhower Park is one of Long Island’s most beloved and well-known attractions. Larger than New York City’s Central Park, the park is located on what was once the flat, wide...
This book follows the legendary Roosevelt Field from its earliest days during the infancy of aviation through its pinnacle in the 1920s and 30s, to its decline in the 1940s...
Country Store to Corner Market: New York offers an engaging and enlightening look at country stores from early dry goods and general stores to mom-and-pop markets. The book traces the...
Albany, New York, can be considered an eccentric city. While it is rich in history, those in power over the years have seen no reason to save it. Albanians love...
Garden City: Pictures From a Pandemic documents life in one of Long Island's most popular destinations between February and July of 2020, capturing its dramatic transformation from a shut-down ghost...
Religious cults have marked every society since the beginning of time. Some have an audacious presence, like Anton Szandor LaVey’s Church of the Process, whose black-caped “missionaries” used to walk...
The Buffalo, New York, area has gone through many changes throughout the years. With the Westward movement, Buffalo stood in the path to travel west and to travel north into...
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...
Lower Manhattan Aerials Through Time captures more than 100 years of evolution of the downtown skyline in incredibly detailed aerial views, many of which have never been published before. Ranging...
Once the largest prairie east of the Mississippi, the Hempstead Plains is a historic area in the heart of Nassau County. Home to the Cradle of Aviation and the site...
A crossroads, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is an intersection of two or more roads, a point at which a crucial decision must be made which will have far-reaching...
Portraits of Brockport’s Past presents essays on nearly ninety topics on the history of “the Victorian Village on the Erie Canal.” They include forty-five profiles of notable Brockport families, and...
Daly was born in Western Pennsylvania and spent most of his professional life as a leading medical practitioner in Pittsburgh. He served on both sides in the Civil War, hunted...
Westbury From Above offers a fascinating new look at the history of this venerable central Nassau County locale. Stunning aerial images offer new perspective and context that help tell the...
Suffolk County, the second largest county in New York State, is a very diverse place, both geographically and culturally. Home to 1.5 million people, it features waterfront villages on the...
Eight presidents have roots in Ohio, where today these communities take pride in their heritage. William Henry Harrison, a Whig, served the shortest period of time as any president, but...
Nassau County was born at an auspicious and exciting time, on the cusp of a new century and a major transition from a series of quiet farming communities to a...
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...
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...
In 1832, a new township was formed from land given by the Elk Creek, Fairview, and Springfield Townships. At the time, Stephen Girard lived in Philadelphia; he was a businessman,...
Using archival photographs and information obtained from old college records, this book shows the evolving, distinctive story of Westminster College. The photos and picture-captions help give the reader some insight...
Take a trip back in time and stroll the same streets as Scranton's pioneers. The coal mining town was at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution with the birth of...
In the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh, the fertility of Indiana County has provided its inhabitants for generations. Starting with predated Native American Indians...
The picturesque Pennsylvania German barn architectural style has spread from early settlements in eastern Pennsylvania to settlements across the Midwest. In 1987, the late J. Jackson Walter, President of the...
More than just a farming community turned residential over time, Southern Lehigh has a diverse past the includes mines, mills, factories, taverns, and baseball. A trip through the area today...
Located near the geographic heart of North Carolina, Seagrove is known as the pottery town. Though not the only place where pottery has been made in the state, when you...
