Local History

I've been there before And I'll try it again But anyfoolknows Thatthere's no way to winThose lyrics have been sung by Ray Charles, Norah Jones, Nan...

The gritty, true blue story of two remarkable cops and an equally extraordinary nurse who provided the spirit and smarts that transformed Fear City...

Black Robes Enter Coyotes World brings to life the complicated history of Jesuit missionaries among Montanas Native peoplesa saga of encounter, acc...

Helps readers understand how World War I affected Kansas and its residents, and how Kansans in turn had an impact on the outcome of the Great War. ...

When president Woodrow Wilson spoke in Topeka on February 2, 1916, in favor of a stronger military, he faced skepticism and outright opposition fro...

Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande is the memoir of Morris Riskind, who was born and lived most of his life in the...

Few people today know that the forty-sixth state could have been Sequoyah, not Oklahoma. The Five Tribes of Indian Territory gathered in 1905 to fo...

Worcester is one of Englands great historic cities, with a history of occupation that goes back to the Iron Age. It was a Roman ironworking and ind...

Enthralling; it is well worth the trip. --New York Journal of Books Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever ...

Witchcraft holds a continued fascination for readers around the world, and the Scottish witch hunts have recently received renewed media attention,...

Longstanding Mexican and Puerto Rican populations have helped make people of mixed nationalitiesMexiGuatamalans, CubanRicans, and othersan importan...

By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully crafted history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. T...

An examination of the career of Texas Ranger and immigration official William Hanson illustrating the intersections of corruption, state-building, ...

The story of Texass impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understand...

Longstanding Mexican and Puerto Rican populations have helped make people of mixed nationalitiesMexiGuatamalans, CubanRicans, and othersan importan...

Finalist, 2021 Writers League of Texas Book Award For John Nance Cactus Jack Garner, there was one simple rule in politics: Youve got to bloody you...

A pioneer of architecture education in the United States, N. Clifford Ricker notably taught with an emphasis on construction and shop practice in h...