{"title":"Women's History Month","description":"\u003cp\u003eWomen's History Month is celebrated every March to honor the contributions, achievements, and central roles of women in history and society. Originating from a local week-long event in California in 1978, it expanded to a month-long observance in the US in 1987, now widely recognized internationally. It highlights figures like pioneering women, suffragettes, and innovators to combat gender inequality. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"seagrove-potteries-through-time","title":"Seagrove Potteries Through Time","description":"Located near the geographic heart of North Carolina, Seagrove is known as the pottery town. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough not the only place where pottery has been made in the state, when you say Seagrove to people, they suspect that you're talking about pottery. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom its modest 18th century beginnings with a few Quaker potters from Pennsylvania and Nantucket, the Seagrove region today hosts more than one hundred potters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stephen-c-compton\"\u003eStephen C. Compton\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]","brand":"America Through Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":21201478352978,"sku":"9781625450074","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/products\/9781625450074.jpg?v=1545648972"},{"product_id":"north-carolina-potteries-through-time","title":"North Carolina Potteries Through Time","description":"Potter, teacher, and writer Jack Troy once said, \"If North America has a ‘pottery state,' it must be North Carolina.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNorth Carolina Potteries Through Time\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e proves to readers that his assessment is correct. Prehistoric Native American potters first made pottery in the region, followed by eighteenth-century English and German settlers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany generations of potters followed in their footsteps, and today hundreds of potters and ceramics artists turn out ware in every part of the state. In the town of Seagrove, there's a whole museum and educational center dedicated to North Carolina pottery production. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany private and public collections exist. Buyers seek it out at auctions, antique shops, kiln openings, festivals, and studio sales. This book is chock-full of images representing all periods and styles of pottery made in the state, including many published for the first time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders new to the topic, as well as expert collectors, historians, and potters will find satisfaction in this richly illustrated and descriptively written volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stephen-c-compton\"\u003eStephen C. Compton\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]","brand":"America Through Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":21210958463058,"sku":"9781635000474","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/files\/9781635000474.jpg?v=1762559700"},{"product_id":"oaklawn-school-for-girls","title":"Oaklawn School for Girls: Juvenile Reform in Rhode Island","description":"The Oaklawn School for Girls was born of the State of Rhode Island’s desire to separate female juvenile delinquents from adult offenders. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHousing female inmates, who were sentenced to the school for crimes such as prostitution, as well as petty misbehaviors, the school sought to make young ladies out of wayward youths. For some of the girls, it was the only safe and loving haven they had ever known. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany of the girls housed there had been abandoned as infants at the State Home \u0026amp; School or other institutions. Many had lost a parent at a young age. Others had simply given up on life, growing up in households where alcohol and abuse were rampant. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Oaklawn School for Girls offered inmates a brighter future and a reason to believe that they were girls who deserved love, respect, and a second chance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/kelly-sullivan-pezza\"\u003eKelly Sullivan Pezza\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]","brand":"America Through Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31648286900306,"sku":"9781634991834","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/products\/9781634991834.jpg?v=1576616565"},{"product_id":"lana-turner","title":"Lana Turner: A Silver Valley Childhood","description":"\u003cspan\u003eThe Sweater Girl, Queen of the Silver Screen, Lanita, Nightclub Queen—Lana Turner was known by many nicknames after her rise to fame, most of which she detested. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer private life, like her movies, played out before an audience of millions. Her numerous marriages and scandals became fodder for tongue-waggers and malicious gossip columnists. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat many forget is that before she became Lana Turner, she was Julia Jean Turner, or simply Judy to the people who knew her as a child in the small mining town of Wallace, Idaho. Very little has been written about her earliest years as a child in Idaho's Silver Valley, which were probably some of the happiest and most formative of her life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFacts are hard to come by, but determined digging has brought some new information to light. Wallace is a town that is exceedingly proud of its history in general, and of Lana Turner in particular. This native daughter is still strong in the memories of the people of Wallace. She was theirs before Hollywood and the rest of the world claimed her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/cynthia-ackley-nunn\"\u003eCynthia Ackley Nunn\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]","brand":"Abandoned Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32000162562130,"sku":"9781634992046","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/products\/9781634992046.jpg?v=1583064700"},{"product_id":"living-dead","title":"The Society of the Living Dead: The Illustrated History of Ottawa’s Radium Dial Scandal","description":"\"It will put pink cheeks on you.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat is what the managers of Radium Dial in Ottawa, Illinois, told the young women who painted radium on the faces of clock dials in the 1920s and 1930s. Instead, their teeth fell out and their jaws and bones disintegrated. Instead of putting pink in their cheeks, it put the women in their graves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe company knew the hazards of working with radium, but they took no safety precautions. They lied to the workers and they denied compensation to the victims. To avoid financial liability, Radium Dial closed its doors and reopened a few blocks away as Luminous Processes and continued its deadly work for another forty years. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRadium Dial cared more about the health and profitability of its company than they cared about the health of the women who made the company profitable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere really was a \"Society of the Living Dead,\" formed by the women who were dying from radium poisoning. Their astounding true story is told here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/jim-ridings\"\u003eJim Ridings\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]","brand":"America Through Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32850027905106,"sku":"9781634992299","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/files\/9781634992299.jpg?v=1768435898"},{"product_id":"from-mother-divine-to-the-corner-swami-religious-cults-in-philadelphia","title":"From Mother Divine to the Corner Swami: Religious Cults in Philadelphia","description":"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 streets of Philadelphia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther cults seem to be the very soul of respectability, like Father Divine’s Peace Mission Movement, a name that does justice to the group’s well intentioned beginnings and the good the Peace Mission went on to accomplish, but which nevertheless hides a history of skullduggery and intrigue. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFather Divine, to his believers, was God, placing him in an already overcrowded cosmos inhabited by pop-up gurus, false shamans, “embodiment of divinity” leaders, and assorted New Age marketers like Philadelphia’s own Swami Nostradamus Virato, publisher of New Frontier Magazine, once the toast of the city’s New Age community. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome cults, like Scientology, began as a fringe movement that mushroomed into Hollywood-centric empires, while other cults, like Madame Blavatsky and her 19th Century Theosophical Society, swept the world before ending up as a small lecture society just off Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the post-modern era, the death of religion has transformed political and social causes into doctrinaire factions that might as well be religious cults that advocate the most severe forms of orthodoxy.\u003cbr\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/thom-nickels\"\u003eThom Nickels\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]","brand":"America Through Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33056604487762,"sku":"9781634992633","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/products\/9781634992633.jpg?v=1603985915"},{"product_id":"suite-alice","title":"Suite Alice of Riverside, Tahoe, and Laguna: California Hotel Pioneer 1874-1938","description":"Professional and amateur photographers have captured images of Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada, since the invention of the camera. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this photographic journal, we experience the transformation of Lake Tahoe from a Washoe paradise, to a timber resource for the Comstock Lode, and finally to a land of private retreats and hostelries. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerein we experience the environmental, business, and economic changes in the Tahoe Basin through time. Redefinition of the D. L. Bliss family business from timber and forest products to hostelry economically transformed Lake Tahoe. Investments in the Tahoe Tavern, Steamer SS Tahoe, modern rail service, and marketing to affluent San Francisco clientele reshaped the economy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMillions discovered the alpine air, pristine blue waters, and good times that Tahoe offers. Today, visitors still carry cameras and vow to visit again next year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/barbara-ann-burns\"\u003eBarbara Ann Burns\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]","brand":"America Through Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33093914853458,"sku":"9781634992664","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/products\/9781634992664.jpg?v=1605016943"},{"product_id":"marriage-murder-betrayal","title":"Marriage, Murder, and Betrayal in Nineteenth-Century California","description":"\u003cspan\u003eIn 1832, the captain of the brigantine Catalina ordered Scotsman James Black, dying of typhus, abandoned at Monterey, California. Nursed by J. B. R. Cooper's wife, Black survived to hunt the last of California's sea otters, defend San Francisco from invading Russians under General Vallejo, and drive cattle to feed gold rush miners.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Black's ranching and dairy empire, founded on a single Mexican land grant, ultimately encompassed 20,000 Marin County acres. Black, his wife, and daughter enjoyed the privileges of the landed gentry until January 1864 when his cherished wife died in their son-in-law's dental chair. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn obsessive resentment, excesses of whisky, and a scheming second wife consumed Black's bereavement. Augustina learned after her father's death that she had been written out of his will. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor four years and across two counties, she fought her stepmother for a fair portion of her father's $15,000,000 estate. After multiple notorious trials, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAugustina gained a partial victory—but would she receive the land and gold the jury awarded her?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/jo-m-haraf\"\u003eJo M. Haraf\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]","brand":"Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39674720944210,"sku":"9781634993470","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/files\/9781634993470.jpg?v=1748184483"},{"product_id":"women-of-granite","title":"Women of Granite: The Hidden Lives of New Hampshire Women as Seen in the Cemetery, 1674-1992","description":"\u003cspan\u003eThe story of women throughout New Hampshire history from all walks of life is here told from the perspective of the historic burial grounds and cemeteries located across the state. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe silent gravestones and monuments within their confines which mark the final resting places of women, young and old, speak volumes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy examining them, we can learn much about their place in society and how their status evolved from early colonial times down through the end of the Victorian era and into the twentieth century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe details carved in stone can reveal to us the kind of day-to-day lives they led, as well as their accomplishments and the hardships and tragedies they endured. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this unusual and interesting work, you will read of women from the early colonial days, pioneer women who were among the first settlers in many New Hampshire towns, hard-working everyday women, both white and African American, women who performed heroically in times of war, women who broke barriers in a big way, and women who made their mark beyond New Hampshire on the national stage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/glenn-a-knoblock\"\u003eGlenn A. Knoblock\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]","brand":"America Through Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39674726645842,"sku":"9781634993517","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/products\/9781634993517.jpg?v=1636213053"},{"product_id":"braided-lives","title":"Braided Lives: The Sisters of Mercy in Sacramento, 1857-2008","description":"How could a circle of women without power, money, or political position become one with the tapestry of a city? This is the question arising from the story of the Sisters of Mercy in Sacramento, CA (1857-2008). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir lives reveal how a small group of dedicated women came to make a significant difference in the life of their city and their world. Throughout their 163 years in Sacramento, the Sisters of Mercy endured floods, lack of resources, changes in church and society, prejudice, and pandemic. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout it all, they provided a steady source of inspiration, compassion, and empowerment for the people they served. There were no boundaries to their compassionate service; indeed, where there was need, there was Mercy. They did so much with so little. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is more than a history relating courageous deeds and profound faith. Their story shows how bonds of relationship, clarity of vision, and a commitment to collaborative partnerships can transform and animate growth and hope. It provides for future generations a reservoir of hope in times of struggle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mary-katherine-doyle\"\u003eMary Katherine Doyle RSN\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]","brand":"America Through Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39804452372562,"sku":"9781634993760","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/products\/9781634993760.jpg?v=1644057985"},{"product_id":"weird-crescenta","title":"Weird Crescenta Valley: Historical and Natural Oddities","description":"In \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeird Crescenta Valley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, we learn about the odd events, people, and places of the valley, along with natural and supernatural oddities. For instance, a new-age religion was briefly located in Crescenta Valley, a religion that later had ties to the rock group The Who. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoreover, Hollywood’s “King of Sleaze” lived quietly in the valley. Who knew that Nat King Cole’s “Nature Boy” was written by a proto-hippie living in Big Tujunga Canyon in the 1950s? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the weird nature chapter, we learn the origin of the wild parrots of the valley, weird critters such as bats and horny toads, and oddball native plants such as dodder, a parasite that looks and feels like strings of bright orange plastic. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd of course, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeird Crescenta Valley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is rounded out by the usual assortment of local UFO and Bigfoot sightings, along with several chilling ghost stories. Don’t be fooled by the Crescenta Valley’s stable reputation. It’s actually a weird place!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mike-lawler\"\u003eMike Lawler\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]","brand":"America Through Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40278392569938,"sku":"9781634994316","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/products\/9781634994316.jpg?v=1671617073"},{"product_id":"indomitable-sacramentans","title":"Indomitable Sacramentans: A Social History Of Catholics In The State Capital","description":"History often focuses on people of prominence—political, social, and economic leaders. However, the role of “ordinary people” often gets neglected. Sacramento has had many “hidden figures” in its past. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese were the people who did the work, paid the expenses, and performed works of charity—and have often gone unheralded. Their story needs to be unearthed and told in order to provide a richer and more accurate account of the past. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book uses the Catholic Church as a case study of this dynamic. Catholicism is a hierarchical religion and much of its written history focuses heavily on the leadership of bishops, priests, and sisters. This book examines the role of lay people as important actors in the development and expansion of this religious body. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is Sacramento history “from the bottom up.” These are the “hidden figures” behind the public face of a community that represents a significant demographic in the city, as well as an important contributor to the use of urban space, education, social service, and health care.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/steven-m-avella\"\u003eSteven M. Avella\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]","brand":"America Through Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40674336637010,"sku":"9781634994538","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/files\/9781634994538.jpg?v=1705002733"},{"product_id":"pioneering-women-of-glacier-national-park","title":"Pioneering Women of Glacier National Park","description":"\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePioneering Women of Glacier National Park\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e examines the role of early pioneering women in the pre-park period up through the first three decades of Glacier Park (1910–1940). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe concept of “pioneering women” includes a wide range of activities that were atypical for women during this time period. These activities range from Blackfeet and other Native American women carrying out extraordinary feats, to women homesteaders, wives of early Park rangers, writers visiting and writing about the park, artists engaged in outdoor painting, influential artists’ wives who furthered their husbands’ careers, and pioneering outdoorswomen. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll helped advance the cause of putting female faces and names, largely ignored and anonymous up to this point, into the history of the park. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book also has several modern photographs taken by the author and others, illustrating landscape changes in Glacier Park since the early period of the park.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/david-r-butler\"\u003eDavid R. Butler\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]","brand":"Nature, Parks \u0026 Gardens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40674456764498,"sku":"9781634994545","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/files\/9781634994545.jpg?v=1705003478"},{"product_id":"lost-kingdom","title":"The Lost Kingdom of Pittsburgh: A True Story of Art and Exile in the Steel City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA 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 than 100 years ago.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first clues of their story are discovered when the author’s boyhood travels in the early 1970s lead him to a series of amazing structures hidden in the woods outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the years and decades that followed, a series of owners came and went from the property, each increasingly unfriendly. Some were openly hostile. The woods surrounding the property became thicker, and the trees were tagged with a series of signs: “Posted,” “Private Property,” and “No Trespassing.” Stories even spread of a curious visitor being met with the barrel of a shotgun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecades later, the author takes a chance return to the woods and finds that the structures are still there but deteriorating badly. Time is running out to learn about this remarkable place and the fascinating group of individuals that created it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis true story has never been told.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/kenneth-j-weiss\"\u003eKenneth J. Weiss\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"America Through Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42049127776338,"sku":"9781634995504","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/files\/9781634995504.jpg?v=1747508938"},{"product_id":"mr-victory","title":"Little Mister Victory: A Daughter's Search for the Woman Who Abandoned Her Father on VJ Day","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn August 15, 1945, as Bostonians celebrated the end of World War II, a well-dressed woman asked a teenage boy to watch her newborn baby. She promised to return after performing an errand but never did. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle Mister Victory\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is the true story of a lifelong quest, by the baby's daughter, to find the woman who abandoned her father. Using cutting-edge DNA analysis and good old-fashioned burrowing into newspaper archives, ecclesiastical records, and government documents, she was found, along with a surprise. Abandoning her newborn baby was not the most shocking act of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/david-kruh\"\u003eDavid Kruh\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tina-drzal\"\u003eTina Garvey Drzal\u003c\/a\u003e [\/authors]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biography","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42274873770066,"sku":"9781634996020","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/files\/9781634996020.jpg?v=1770028695"},{"product_id":"nc-potteries","title":"North Carolina Potteries Through Time (new edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(112, 21, 17);\"\u003eTHIS IS A PRE-ORDER ITEM. PAYMENT WILL BE TAKEN AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE, AND YOUR ORDER WILL BE SHIPPED ONCE THE BOOK IS IN STOCK. ESTIMATED DELIVERY: AUGUST 2026. PLEASE NOTE ALL PRE-ORDER DELIVERY DATES ARE APPROXIMATE AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePotter, teacher, and writer Jack Troy once said, \"If North America has a ‘pottery state,' it must be North Carolina.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNorth Carolina Potteries Through Time\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e proves to readers that his assessment is correct. Prehistoric Native American potters first made pottery in the region, followed by eighteenth-century English and German settlers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany generations of potters followed in their footsteps, and today hundreds of potters and ceramics artists turn out ware in every part of the state. In the town of Seagrove, there's a whole museum and educational center dedicated to North Carolina pottery production. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany private and public collections exist. Buyers seek it out at auctions, antique shops, kiln openings, festivals, and studio sales. This book is chock-full of images representing all periods and styles of pottery made in the state, including many published for the first time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders new to the topic, as well as expert collectors, historians, and potters will find satisfaction in this richly illustrated and descriptively written volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stephen-c-compton\"\u003eStephen C. Compton\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"America Through Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42432922583122,"sku":"9781634996105","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/files\/9781634996105.jpg?v=1780426148"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.through-time.com\/collections\/womens-history-month\/paperback.oembed","provider":"America Through Time","version":"1.0","type":"link"}