Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of a Citizen of New-york, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853,...
The next day , Sherard was taken to Johnson's Island , Ohio , and was held until his release on June 16 , 1865.86 Company G , Pearson's Company , composed of men from Richland District , was one of the four new companies that mustered ...
The contents of this book: early histories of churches, bisiness, county officials, schools, Lists of first settlers by districts, Revolutionary War Soldiers who died in Cowetta, Marriages from 1827-1838, records of Cowetta County men in ...
Also, as bureaucratic institutions, government monopolies were often hamstrung by inflexibility and long time lags in reacting to market forces (Barker 1993:242–44). This exact problem was described in the memoir of a factor to the ...
A history of North Carolina covers the social, economic, and political forces that shaped it.
Texas had undergone a political shift in 1874 that had led to the defeat of the Radical regime of Edmund J. Davis . Now the Democrat Richard Coke served in the state's highest office , and he had pledged to return traditional government ...
In 1,001 short, eminently readable mini-essays, Dixieologists John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed illuminate every nook and cranny of this fertile land and culture, clarifying with an authoritative but...
History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia: 1748-1920
Hugh Pearson grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, encouraged by his parents to believe that nothing was beyond his reach. If he needed any further inspiration, he could look to...
A History of Savannah and South Georgia