Frommer's Philadelphia day by day (Day by Day Guides)
by Mr Reid Bramblett
Portable, up-to-date, and to-the-point, Frommer's Philadelphia Day by Day is all about maximizing the time you have to spend in this fascinating and historic city. This itinerary-based book, written by long-time resident Reid Bramblett, hits all of Philly's highlights as well as hidden gems with plans crafted for visitors with a variety of needs and interests. Whether you want to immerse yourself in Revolutionary War history, hunt for the best cheesesteak in town, see some of the world's greates...
Correspondence of the Van Cortlandt Family of Cortlandt Manor, 1800-1814 (Van Cortlandt Family Papers, #3)
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"The poster is new. I notice it right away, taped to a utility pole. Beneath the word 'Missing,' printed in a bold, high-impact font, are two sepia-toned photographs of a man dressed in a bow tie and tux." Most people would keep walking. Maybe they'd pay a bit closer attention to the local news that evening. Mikita Brottman spent ten years sifting through the details of the missing man's life and disappearance, and his purported suicide by jumping from the roof of her own apartment building, th...
Richland Township and Richlandtown Borough (Images of America)
by Robert L. Leight and Thomas R. Moll
The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this historic region. Walk through the atmospheric Independence National Historic Park, admire sculptures at the Rodin Museum or take a tour of the American Civil War battlefields at Gettysburg: everything you need to know is clearly laid out within colour-coded chapters. Discover the best of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Dutch Country with this indispensa...
The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies)
by Chad L. Anderson
The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia explores the creation, destruction, appropriation, and enduring legacy of one of early America's most important places: the homelands of the Haudenosaunees (also known as the Iroquois Six Nations). Throughout the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries of European colonization the Haudenosaunees remained the dominant power in their homelands and one of the most important diplomatic players in the struggle for the continent following European...
Index to Associators and Militia of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania an Index to Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Volume VI
by Jane Dickens
Westminster College (The Campus History)
by Barbara Guffey and Debora Swatsworth Foster
The Decline and Fall of the Oceanic Hotel and Tales of the Barnegat Lighthouse
by Don Clark France
The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Washington, D.C. 2016 will lead you straight to the best attractions Washington, D.C. has to offer. The guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the city's stunning architecture, plus 3D aerial views of the key districts to explore on foot. You'll find detailed listings of the best hotels, restaurants, bars and shops for all budgets in this fully updated and expanded guide, plus insider tips on everything from where to find the best market...
Perfectly Awful: The Philadelphia 76ers' Horrendous and Hilarious 1972-1973 Season
by Charley Rosen
The Complete History of the City of Allegheny in Pennsylvania
by Carl Wilhelm
Dinner in Camelot - The Night America`s Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House
by Joseph A Esposito and Rose Styron
In April 1962, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy hosted forty-nine Nobel Prize winners - along with many other prominent scientists, artists, and writers - at a famed White House dinner. Among the guests were J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was officially welcomed back to Washington after a stint in the political wilderness; Linus Pauling, who had picketed the White House that very afternoon; William and Rose Styron, who began a fifty-year friendship with the Kennedy family that night; James Baldwin...