Local History

Plymouths history has been strongly defined by its position on a natural harbour on Englands south coast. It was a trading port before the Romans a...

The town of Gillingham in Kent grew up around the Royal Navys Chatham Dockyard. By the River Medway, this had been an important maritime area for c...

In 1636 the poet and traveller John Taylor wrote, Hertfordshire is a County that surpasseth all other Countries and Counties for making the best ma...

A personal narrative, an examination of literary texts, and a history of the Lackawanna Valley region, Bill Conlogues Working Watersheds explores h...

A personal narrative, an examination of literary texts, and a history of the Lackawanna Valley region, Bill Conlogues Working Watersheds explores h...

A Kingdom of Water is a study of how the United Houma Nation in Louisiana successfully navigated a changing series of political and social landscap...

César E. Chávez came to Oxnard, California, in 1958, twenty years after he lived briefly in the city as a child with his migrant farmworker family ...

Between the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life. Sam...

A historical document reintroducing Dallas as an early French socialist utopia, pieced from journal entries, letters, and sketches of French schola...

A gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vital to its post-pandemic recovery ...