Guide to County Records in North Carolina State Archives
North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster, Volume 13
North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster, Volume 10
A biographical history of the forefathers who shaped the identity of Alabama politically, legally, economically, militarily, and geographically. While much has been written about the significant events in the history of early Alabama, there has been little information available about the people who participated in those events. In Alabama Founders:Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State Herbert James Lewis provides an important examination of the lives of fourteen political...
The Indians of New Jersey (New Jersey History, #3)
by Dr Gregory Evans Dowd
A natural and human history of the region, leading to the establishment of the 120 square mile Great Basin National Park. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
This collection of three essays by one of the great early-twentieth-century anthropologists of the American Southwest brings back early research at what is now Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. The excavations of the most significant ruins of Cliff Palace, Spruce Tree House, and the Mummy Lake mounds are reported here. Cliff Palace, the most impressive ruin at Mesa Verde, was discovered in 1888 by Richard Wetherill, a local rancher now considered a forefather of Southwest archaeology. Fewkes c...
In the summer of 1937, Jonathan Daniels, the young, white, liberal-minded editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, took a ten-state driving tour to ""discover"" his native land. He thought the true South lay somewhere between Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road and Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, and he set out to find it--ultimately interviewing even Mitchell herself. In Discovering the South historian Jennifer Ritterhouse pieces together Daniels's unpublished notes from his tour along wit...
Index to Associators and Militia of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania an Index to Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Volume VI
by Jane Dickens
The 7th, 8th, 9th, and 11th Georgia volunteer infantry regiments spent most of the Civil War fighting under Brig. Gen. George Thomas “Tige” Anderson in Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Until now, no biographical roster of their members has ever been published. These Georgians saw it all, from the bloody battle of First Manassas through the ferocious combat of Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and the long siege of Petersburg. They finally furl...
Historical Sketches of Northern New York and the Adirondac Wilderness
by Nathaniel B Sylvester
Now in paperback, Glory or the Grave: The Breakthrough, the Union Collapse, and the Defense of Horseshoe Ridge, September 20, 1863 is the second volume in The Chickamauga Campaign, David Powell’s magnificent three-volume study of this overlooked and often misunderstood campaign. Chickamauga (Cherokee for “River of Death”), lived up to its grim sobriquet in September 1863 when the Union Army of the Cumberland and Confederate Army of Tennessee waged a sprawling bloody combat along the banks of W...
Now back in print! The ""major"" minor American humorist of the early nineteenth century.
In Nez Perce Country (Northwest Historical Manuscript)
by Lynn Baird and Dennis Baird
