Local Interest, Family History & Nostalgia

Firth Haring Fabend has studied a large colonial American family over five generations. The Haring family settled in the Hackensack Valley (on the ...

This oral history of London's East End spans the period after the First World War to the upsurge of prosperity at the beginning of the 60s - a time...

**A 2025 book to look out for by the Guardian and Sunday Times** This strikingly original account fr...

This anthology contains seventeen essays covering eighteenth-century agrarian unrest, the Revolutionary War, politics in the Jackson era, feminism ...

"Operation Vengeance is colorful, intimate, eye-popping history, delivered at a breakneck pace. I loved it." –Lynn VincentThe New York Times bestse...

In 1992, the centennial year of the University of Alabama football program, the Crimson Tide won its 12th national championship. Few major college ...

From the murder of French explorer La Salle to the impressive career of the state’s first female black senator, It Happened in Texas looks at intri...

This book breaks new ground by offering the first detailed and systematic analysis of inheritance practices in New York City from the beginning of ...

A compelling on-the-ground account of Native activism in the Northwest A relentless advocate for Native rights, Ramona Bennett Bill has been involv...

"No. 7"—as Carpenter, the youngest of seven children, called himself—was born in Missouri in 1854 and moved west with his family, first to Kansas,...

Few cities have a greater concentration of significant architecture than Oxford. Within a city of only 130,000 inhabitants there are important buil...

This sparkling collection of tales told around Western campfires, written by the master chronicler of the range, is a literary find of great intere...

"The Dutch colony of New Netherland in the seventeenth century enjoyed a greater diversity of religious beliefs than any of the English colonies in...

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge it...

Just outside downtown Newark, New Jersey, sits an abbey and school. For more than 150 years Benedictine monks have lived, worked, and prayed on Hig...

Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteent...

Lincoln is a modern university city. It has a bustling twenty-first-century waterfront with restaurants, bars and hotels, and for over forty years ...