More Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell
by Jane Golden, Robin Rice, David Graham, Jack Ramsdale, and Natalie Pompilio
The sequel to the bestselling story of the largest public art program in the US
History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with genealogical and biographical sketches
by J Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope
The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and at one time provided a major portion of the nation's seafood. Oysters, crabs, and clams were in abundance and the men of Maryland's Eastern Shore relied on the Chesapeake to make their livelihood. Now eleven of these Shoremen share their memories. The stories they tell will both enlighten and entertain. Some earned a great sum of money in a short amount of time, while others experienced one misfortune after another. Learn about d...
Peace in the Mountains analyzes student activism at the University of Pittsburgh, Ohio University, and West Virginia University during the Vietnam War era. Drawing from a wide variety of sources including memoirs, periodicals, archival manuscript collections, and college newspapers such as The Pitt News, author Thomas Weyant tracks the dynamics of a student-led campus response to the war in real time and outside the purview of the national media. Along the way, he musters evidence for an emergin...
The Rambergers of Rough and Ready
by Steve E Troutman and Jeanne I Adams
2000 Census of Population and Housing, New York, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics
The Texans from Hood's Texas Brigade and other regiments who fought at Gettysburg on 1-3 July 1863 described their experiences of the battle in personal diaries, interviews, newspaper articles, letters and speeches. Their reminiscences provide a fascinating and harrowing account of the battle as they fought the Army of the Potomac. Speeches were given in the decades after the battle during the annual reunions of Hood's Brigade Association and the dedication of the Hood's Brigade Monument that to...
The Pottsville Maroons and the NFL's Stolen Championship of 1925
by Vincent Genovese
This major reinterpretation of the key battle of the American Civil War tells the story of the Gettysburg campaign as it unfolded from early June through mid-July 1863, and its climax with the Federal victory at Gettysburg. The book strives to describe the campaign with utmost clarity. In pursuit of this goal, it restricts itself to the campaigns major events and participants. Yet many components of even a boiled-down account of the campaign are complex. Accordingly, The Stand features more than...
The Battle of Saratoga in 1777 ended with British general John Burgoyne's troops surrendering to the American rebel army commanded by General Horatio Gates. Historians have long seen Burgoyne's defeat as a turning point in the American Revolution because it convinced France to join the war on the side of the colonies, thus ensuring American victory. But that traditional view of Saratoga overlooks the complexity of the situation on the ground. Setting the battle in its social and political contex...
This biography of young Theodore Roosevelt covers his youth when he demanded a strenuous life despite his asthma, weak eyes, and patrician family.
King of Prussia (Then and Now) (Images of America)
by J. Michael Morrison
A History of the New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty
by Washington Irving
