Local interest, family history & nostalgia books

Unwelcome Shores is an ethnographic study of the Liberian refugee community in Staten Island, NY, that sheds light...  Read More >>

Unwelcome Shores is an ethnographic study of the Liberian refugee community in Staten Island, NY, that sheds light...  Read More >>

The untold story of how Cambridge University locked up women in their own private prison - and how the town fought...  Read More >>

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A memoir of farming, fishing, and failure in America's lost landscape.  Read More >>

Exploring how public history creates collective memory of this white ethnic group through memorials Cajuns...  Read More >>

Pioneering field work reveals how infrastructural systems—buildings, laws, algorithms, excavators, regulations,...  Read More >>

In what began as a simple genealogical search for the origins of the extra ""t"" in his surname, Steve Suitts pieces...  Read More >>

Between a Rock and a Hard Place is a family saga marked by trials, tragedy, and triumph. Journey with the Brown...  Read More >>

For more than a century, the Sacajawea Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in Olympia, Washington,...  Read More >>

K. L. (Kearie Lee) Berry was a star athlete at the University of Texas at Austin from 1912 to 1916, playing on the...  Read More >>

Exploring how public history creates collective memory of this white ethnic group through memorials Cajuns...  Read More >>

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Easy to use guide covering those relics and mementoes that many families have from the First World War.  Read More >>

The forgotten life and complex legacies of Wakara, the mighty, once-notorious Native leader whose battles and conquests...  Read More >>

Women, African Americans, and the evolution of an American city St. Louis was the pivot of the free states and...  Read More >>

A definitive history of the fatal clash between Vietnam War protestors and the American National Guard, illuminating...  Read More >>

Bad boys, bright lights and sorry ends: the story of our most infamous gangster. Joseph Leslie 'Squizzy' Taylor...  Read More >>

A powerful memoir that confronts the sanitized myths of Southern history-and reveals the enduring cost of racial...  Read More >>

By: Works Progress Administration, Pub. 1936, reprinted 2025, 64 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-687-1....  Read More >>

In a first-of-its kind account, Rough Justice uncovers the turbulent birth of law and order on the Northwest frontier...  Read More >>

In 1859, a failed businessman in San Francisco made an extraordinary proclamation: he was Norton I, Emperor of the...  Read More >>

Two voices from WWII-era England and Illinois share a tender, handwritten memoir of love, resilience, and family...  Read More >>