Local Interest, Family History & Nostalgia

Portland, Oregon, though widely regarded as a liberal bastion, also has struggled historically with ethnic diversity; indeed, the 2010 census found...

What is the value of Black life in America? In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travelthe slave ship, tra...

After Sarahs fathers death, an old sports bag was found in his attic, containing many letters from family and friends, all his school reports, toge...

'A delicious trip through the geography, history and culture of the region'  Sunday Telegraph Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has ca...

Anyone who has ever traveled to Florida immediately assumes they've got the state figured out. It usually involves the common tropes we see spla...

A narrative account of the evacuation of the Texians in 1836, which was redeemed by the defeat of the Mexican army and the creation of the Republic...

He was much like the Walter Cronkite of Philadelphia.Ed Rendell, former Philadelphia Mayor and Pennsylvania Governor, about Jim Gardner, the truste...

The dockyard at Portsmouth was founded by Henry VII, developing into a naval base that was essentially the nations most important military establis...

Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls wilderburbs have offered residents both the pleasures o...

Harborne changed very little until the nineteenth century. Until then it was a farming community, with a resident Lord of the Manor, one parish chu...

Michael S. Green, a leading Nevada historian, provides a detailed survey of the Silver States past, from the arrival of the early European explorer...

A journal that is really more of a conversation than anything else, the Mom & Me journal is for mother-child duos looking to get to know each o...

Nooks and Corners of Old New York celebrates the people, places, and events that shaped New York City's history. The authora newspaper reporter and...

Nativism, pseudoscience, and the campaign against the enemy withinIn the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restr...

John Domino examines Texas Supreme Court Justice Bob Gammages progressive jurisprudence during the most tumultuous period in Texas judicial history...