History & Archaeology Books

In the first major engagement with Aberdeenshire's rural society since Carter's The Poor Man's Country of 1979, Riddell's study of Northeast Scotland encourages readers to consider the vast potential held by Digital Genealogy for second-wave Digital...

How do feminist movements develop and organise in ethno-nationally divided societies? How does this challenge our understandings of contemporary fourth wave feminism? Women's Troubles sets out to answer these questions using rich empirical data and...

Family Amnesiais a visual tribute and love letter honoring the artist's Chinese American family roots in the U.S. The art book explores her family's multi-generational resilience and resistance through mixed media collages, my grandfather's photographs,...

Peggy writes about her immediate and extended family who settled in Boston's Italian enclave, the North End. From her strong and feisty Grandma Nonna to all of her Aunts, Uncles and Cousins that lived close by, we are given a firsthand glimpse of the...

This compilation of original research articles highlight the important cross-regional, cross-chronological, and comparative approaches to political and economic landscapes in ancient South Asia and its neighbors. Focusing on the Indus Valley period and...

The Brightness of Darkness of an African is a continuous story of the Unknown of the Known in Africa. Chungu unveils the roots and stems of racism in our societies. He does a research in both the Republic of South Africa and in the United States of...

The Unknown of the Known in Africa is the story of George Eden Bess from Germany who does research as a historian. George unveils unknown King Shaka and his plan to make Southern Africa to be in his palm of hand. George's purpose becomes a plan to bring...

In the two decades between the Second World War and the Great Alaska Earthquake, Anchorage grew by a factor of 10. Money was, quite literally, washing down the street. The economic boom was so great that all you needed to make a million dollars was a...

For more than 80 years, bush pilots have carried supplies, delivered mail, and transported emergency personnel over Alaska's rugged terrain. They've flown with felons handcuffed to the seat, with corpses strapped to the wing, and with drugged polar bears...

Above the Arctic Circle transports the reader back in time to the Alaska of 1911 into the Athabaskan Indian village of Fort Yukon and beyond. It was a time when travel was by trail or river on routes shared by man and wild beast, when communication...

Teresa Fernandez Soneira (Havana, Cuba, 1947-) is a Cuban writer and historian that has researched and published books on the history of education and the Catholic Church in Cuba. As a researcher, she has made important contributions with her books:...

Salvador Larrua-Guedes (Camagüey, Cuba, 1942) went to grade school and high school in Catholic schools in Cuba. He received degrees in journalism and mathematics, as well as a doctorate in Economics. He is a registered investigator at the Archivo General...

Estudios sobre la situación de Cuba en los primeros 50 años de revolución.Sobre la personalidad de Fidel Castro, la economía, industria,energía eléctrica, saqueo del patrimonio, sistema laboral, igualdad yprivilegios, la administración de justicia,...

This thoroughly researched and vivid account examines a murderous spree by one of the West's most notorious outlaw gangs and the consequences for a small Mormon community in Arizona's White Mountains.On March 27, 1900, Frank LeSueur and Gus Gibbons...

Jedediah Morgan Grant was a man who knew no compromise when it came to principles—and his principles were clearly representative, argues Gene A. Sessions, of Mormonism’s first generation. His life is a glimpse of a Mormon world whose...

These abstracts contain information from deeds, leases, releases, mortgages and other agreements that reveal family relationships.The abstracts are presented in the original order that they were entered in the deed books. The deed book page number is...

Continues the series. These are the reconciliations of the payments against the estate. Includes name of decedent, references, amounts, sureties, persons to whom estate was distributed, executors/administors, creditors, and legatees.

This series contains abstracts of the administration accounts of the Prerogative Court of Maryland, which began when the inventory and administration accounts were split into two series in 1718. Herein are the reconciliations of the payments against the...

These Bible records have been taken from copies, notes, and in some cases, the Bibles themselves, on file at the Washington County Historical Society. Washington County was often a stopping point for families heading west to Ohio, Illinois and beyond...

Except for Douglas MacArthur, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is the most decorated soldier in American history, having earned his Congressional Medal of Honor and every other medal offered by the United States to the foot soldier for combat heroism.As a young...

Oliver H. Olney, an early convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fled to Nauvoo, Illinois, following persecution in Missouri. In Nauvoo, Olney became disgruntled with church leadership and viewed Joseph Smith as a fallen prophet. His...

Henry Thweatt Owen fought the War of 1861-1865 on many fronts. As a commander of Company C, 18th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States of America, he fought against the Union Army. He also fought on a second front in...

This is Grants report of events starting in the Spring of 1864 to the conclusion and surrendering of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House in 1865.Through a series of letters, dispatches and telegraph, General Grant describes his decisions and logic as...

During the third millennium BC, the huge geographical area stretching between the Mediterranean in the west and the Indus Valley in the east witnessed the rise of a commercial network of unmatched proportions and intensity, within which the Persian Gulf...