The Arizona Trivia Book (Arizona and the Southwest)
by James E Cook and Cook
Murder & Mayhem in Houston (Murder & Mayhem)
by Mike Vance and John Nova Lomax
Annual Report of the Secretary of State to the Governor of Ohio, Appendix B
by Ohio Secretary of State
Elizabeth City County, Virginia Deed Abstracts, 1787-1800
by Joan Charles
The Civil War revealed what united as well as what divided Americans in the nineteenth century-not only in its deadly military conflict, but also in the broader battle of ideas, dueling moral systems, and competing national visions that preceded and followed. This cultural civil war was the clash among North, South, and West, as their leaders sought to shape Manifest Destiny and slavery politics. No site embodied this struggle more completely than St. Louis, the largest city along the border of...
Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life)
by Kenneth Wayne Howell
Of the 174 delegates to the Texas convention on secession in 1861, only 8 voted against the motion to secede. James Webb Throckmorton of McKinney was one of them. Yet upon the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the Confederate Army and fought in a number of campaigns. At war's end, his centrist position as a conservative Unionist ultimately won him election as governor. Still, his refusal to support the Fourteenth Amendment or to protect aggressively the rights and physical welfare of the free...
Knox County, Tennessee Marriage Records, 1792-1897.
by Works Progress Administration
Sketches and Chronicles of the Town of Litchfield, Connecticut
by Payne K Kilbourne
Subways and yellow taxis may be the icons of New York transportation, but it is the bicycle that has the longest claim to New York's streets: two hundred years and counting. Never has it taken to the streets without controversy: 1819 was the year of the city's first bicycle and also its first bicycle ban. Debates around the bicycle's place in city life have been so persistent not just because of its many uses-recreation, sport, transportation, business-but because of changing conceptions of who...