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In 1801, relations between the world's only two republics, the United States and France, were at a low ebb. American merchants had just lost millio...
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In the nineteenth century, the people of Alabama relied on newspapers to learn about the world outside their own hometowns. Prior to the 1890s, the...
View full detailsMuch of Arlington County typified the "sleepy Southern town," decades into the twentieth century. It was initially part of, then (merely) the close...
View full detailsBy the late nineteenth century, the city of Jacksonville was a vibrant cultural center on Florida’s Atlantic coast. Through changing fortunes, Jack...
View full detailsIn 1859, 100,000 folks started the journey to the Pikes Peak goldfields, but only 50,000 completed the trip. An additional 25,000 soon gave up and ...
View full detailsSince the first settlers arrived in the early 1820s, the area now known as Lamar County has been admired for its charm and personality. It is an ar...
View full detailsFounded in the late nineteenth century as a railroad town, St. Petersburg quickly emerged as the "Sunshine City," a preferred west-coast destinatio...
View full detailsFrom its birth to the present, Knoxville has consistently built and reshaped its appearance, ideals, and industry. Through changing fortunes, the c...
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By the late nineteenth century, the city of Seattle was a vibrant cultural center of the West. Fueled by the lumber industry, the Klondike Gold Ru...
View full detailsBy the mid nineteenth century, the city of Portland was a vibrant cultural center of the West. Through the late 1800s, two world wars, and into the...
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A brilliant account of the proud and ferocious American fighters who stood up to the British forces in savage battles crucial in deciding both the ...
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By the late nineteenth century, the city of Seattle was a vibrant cultural center of the West. Fueled by the lumber industry, the Klondike Gold Rus...
View full detailsThe name Tucson originates from a Spanish word meaning "Black Base," a reference to the mostly volcanic mountains on the west side of the city. Fro...
View full detailsThe Nutmeg State, the Constitution State, the Land of Steady Habits. For a state that some derisively claim is "no bigger than a postage stamp,” th...
View full detailsFrom the home of the City of Oaks in Raleigh and the state's capitol, to the Bull City in Durham, Historic Photos of Raleigh-Durham is a photograph...
View full detailsBy the mid-nineteenth century, the city of Nashville was a vibrant cultural center of the South. Through the Civil War, Reconstruction, two world w...
View full detailsFor thousands of years prior to Henry Hudson’s voyage, the Hudson River was a vital commercial and strategic route for the indigenous peoples who s...
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(From the Preface) This book on the history of Farmington represents more than two and a half years of work by the staff of the Farmington Public L...
View full detailsImagine a ride with the Mississippi mockingbird as it soars through the Mississippi skies. Beginning in the land of Elvis at Tupelo, one moves down...
View full detailsAfter seventy-two arduous years, the fate of the suffrage movement and its masterwork, the Nineteenth Amendment, rested not only on one state, Tenn...
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"A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state."--Publ...
View full detailsParis, the capital of France, is one of the most popular destinations in the world. The "City of Lights" is renowned for many things. Its history, ...
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In the first major biography of Noah Webster in over sixty years, author Harlow Unger creates an intriguing portrait of the United States as an ene...
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How an oddly attributed $19,000 picture proved to be a $100 million work by Leonardo da Vinci—a true art-world detective story In late 2010, art c...
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