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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

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

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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 >>

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

This book gives a glimpse into the lives of the enslaved as well as the people who enslaved them.  Read More >>

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

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