186 pages, including index. Free shipping media mail. First Edition Book Number 1719 of a limited edition. Index for Old Kentucky Surveys and Grants View More...
649 pages, including Vietnam Chronology, Free shipping media mail. Vietnam Experience 1965-75, photographs. With specially commissioned chapters, written by the men who were there, NAM descries what it felt like to import billion dollar, hi-tech destruction to Southeast Asia. View More...
Free shipping media mail. 223 pages including index. Texas.Thoroughly delightful chronicle of Fort Worth's last wild 'n' holly era. Anyone who was around in those days remembers reading and hearing about exploding cars, mob hits, and late-night police raids. View More...
"Montana: A Pictorial History" combines photographs and words in a visual feast of the Montana spirit. These pages contain photographic proof of the diversity. The independence and determination of Montanans is written on their faces n picture after picture. 263 pages, indexed. View More...
2 Vol. set from the library of Marianne E.H. Little. 764 pages containg history of Burton, Washington County, Texas and many of it's early settlers. Very rare set. View More...
"Burleson: The First One Hundred Years", is published to provide a "slice of life" or sample of the history of families, organizations, and institutions. It was written by hundreds of individuals and reflects life and experiences as they remember them. The Historical Committee has attempted, during the past three years, to obtain participation of all Burleson area citizens, both present and past Histories have been edited for brevity and understanding while retaining the substance and style of each individual writer. Every attempt has been made to exclude any material which might embarrass or ... View More...
548 pages, including index. This book is the result of the efforts of hundreds of people in addition to the members of the Grapevine Historical Society. View More...
82 pages, free shipping media mail. This Index has been compiled, , from the original Index Books found in the county Court House at Media. We have included in this Index the decedents name, the day, month and year of the records, the name of the Executor or the Administrator as the case may be, with the file number. All wills or administration records, prior to 1789, can be found in the Chester County Index. View More...
The Civil War was tremendous in Kentucky, especially in Madison County.The war was literally brother against brother; nowhere was there better evidence of such division than in Kentucky. The division of views in this great struggle is epitomized by the fact that the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, had been born in Todd County. Davis attended Transylvania University in Lexington, where President Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was reared; and her brother fought for the South. In Kentucky it was common for members of a family to split on the question of secession, with one or t... View More...
In the fall of 1835, Creole mercantile houses that backed the Mexican Federalists in their opposition to Santa Anna essentially lost the fight for Texas to the Americans of the Faubourg St. Marie. As a result, New Orleans capital, some $250,000 in loans, and New Orleans men and arms—two companies known as the New Orleans Greys—went to support the upstart Texians in their battle against Santa Anna.Author Edward L. Miller has delved into previously unused or overlooked papers housed in New Orleans to reconstruct a chain of events that set the Crescent City in many ways at the center of the Texia... View More...
In this investigative look into Kentucky's race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C. Wright brings to light a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and extralegal violence employed to ensure that blacks knew their "place" after the war.
In the first study of its kind to target the racial patterns of a specific state, Wright demonstrates that despite Kentucky's proximity to the North, its black population was subjected to racial oppression every bit as severe and prolonged as that found farther south. His examination of the causes and extent of racial violence, and of ... View More...
This book is an endeavor to pull together all of the existing historical and genealogical information on the Johns families, originating in Wales and settled primarily in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and the Carolinas. The Welsh practice of using patronymic surnames has made thoroughly researching John family ancestry very difficult in the past. Until the mid-1800's, sons and daughters of Welsh parents would often take their father's given name as their surname with the addition of the prefis "ap" for males and "verch" for females. Further complications arise from the seemingly random substitution ... View More...
The Texas coast remained for a long time one of the least-known stretches of the American Atlantic littoral, and Galveston Bay, the coast's most prominent feature, was not shown by commercial mapmakers until 1799. The extensive cartographic collection of the Rosenberg Library in Galveston documents the development of cartography for this region. The Rosenberg holds maps that show Galveston Bay from 1725 on, as well as the rest of Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, the Carribbean Sea, and adjacent coasts. Its maps illustrate European exploration of the New World during the sixteenth and seventeenth cen... View More...
221 pages. The motive in writing these historical articles is to preserve the history of the Kiowa People. These articles are largely limited to the time the Kiowas came to the area of the Wichita Mountains. View More...
501 pages, including index. American Literature, as the voice of our national consciousness, begins in 1782 with the first publication in England of Letters from an American Farmer. Literature, that is, considered as arrangements of affective images embodied in the traditional forms of poetry, fiction, and drama, and expressing the spirit of place. View More...
A history of Roswell, New Mexico between the years 1867-1917. Includes valuable insight and information on the founding, early history, ranching and settlement era, early development, village years, and early city years. 294 pages. View More...
A special Sesquicentennial publication detailing the history, important dates, special times, places, and events in Cuba, Missouri. 13 pages. View More...
277 pages with Index. Tascosa, Texas is such a place. In a prairie world cut in half by a typical western river lies the site of one of the greatest towns of the open-range world two generations ago. Its story is of the life and death of a town. View More...
Not all Europeans who crossed the Atlantic before 1776 were free men, and significant numbers of convicts, rogues and vagabonds, and political and military prisoners were transported into involuntary servitude. View More...
