New England is truly a Cabinet of Curiosities, and this indispensable guide directs you to its most bizarre, off the wall, and unsettling exhibits. Some evoke hilarity, some horror. ...
This is the story of Kikkan Randall, Liz Stephen, Holly Brooks, Jessie Diggins, Ida Sargent, Sadie Bjornsen, Sophie Caldwell, Rosie Brennan, and coach Matt Whitcomb - and how they created the perfect team.
American popular culture is everywhere. All over the world, kids wear Levis, radios blare rap songs, television stations broadcast American programs, and Hollywood movies draw huge audiences. Does this massive...
Not so long ago, the Pats were the laughingstock of not only the NFL but also the entire sporting world. From Darkness to Dynasty tells the unlikely history of the New England Patriots as it has never been told before.
This book fills an important niche for the birdwatching community by offering comprehensive entries detailing the best locations for finding birds throughout the state for enthusiasts of all levels of skill and interest.
This is the inside story of how Trieste found itself poised on a knife edge at the end of World War II. Situated near the boundaries of Italy, Austria, and Yugoslavia, this pivotal port city was caught in May 1945 between advancing Allied, ...
In April 1962, President and Mrs.
The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts-first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets-by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and ...
“If you don't tell me what I need to know, I'm going to move into your house, stink up your bathroom, drink your beer, ... “This fella shows up at my house, and I could tell right away something wasn't right, know what I mean, ...
Ohio State Bar Association: Reports, Volume XII, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association, held at Put-in Bay ... Early Nineteenth-Century German Settlers in Ohio (Mainly Cincinnati and Environs), Kentucky, and other States ...
Garrett Benteen, self-created baron of a Vermont village, will not abide destruction of the land around him. The buzz of the chainsaw, the felling of trees, the raising of flimsy...
Civic Literacy: How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work
Hawthorne's American Travel Sketches
The Papers of Andrew Johnson, Volume 12, February–August 1867, edited by Paul Bergeron (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995). Pinkerton, Allen, The Spy of the Rebellion, being a True History of the Spy System of the Untied ...
" The maps of the region, such as they were, were inaccurate. On a long, painstaking excursion along the coast in a shallop, accompanied by sailors and the Indian guide Squanto, Smith took careful compass readings and made ocean soundings.
Writing in the tradition of books like The Lost City of Z, Greenbaum seeks out the creatures struggling to survive in a war-torn, environmentally threatened country.
Black people know he can't do it, but will support his effort anyway, as they have supported the efforts of many others. Obama's is a noble and singular story we will tell for generations. I Heart Obama looks at the story so far.
The Confederate States Chronology and a Reference Guide for South Carolina in the Civil War Richard F. Miller. orders Reserve unit to assist, Tupper dispatched to Richmond to reconcile state and CS indemnity accounts, fears of ...
Rhode Island, a Bibliography of Its History
Connecticut, a Bibliography of Its History