Local history Books

In June of 1876, the U.S. government's plan to pressure the Lakota and Cheyenne people onto reservations came to a dramatic and violent end with a battle that would become enshrined in American memory. In the eyes of many Americans at the time, the...

Examines the lived experiences of women criminals in Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1860, mainly as they navigated the nineteenth-century legal and prison systems.

Philip Metcalfe has described his role as an author as that of a "painter who endows a lost world with the personality and the dailiness it once possessed." In Whispering Wires, Metcalfe tells the story of Roy Olmstead, one of the principal bootleggers...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

MICHIGAN ENCYCLOPEDIA is the definitive reference work on Michigan. The noted Michigan historian Dr. Matthew Lawrence Daly, Assistant Professor of History at Grand Valley State University, has authored articles on Introduction to Michigan History, Early...

The Washington Century chronicles the hundred-year rise of the nation's capital as it grew to become the most powerful city in the world -- a story made vivid through the history of three very different families, each representing an essential aspect of...

The Civilian Conservation Corps was one of the most popular programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Over the nine years of the program, from 1933 to 1942, over two and one-half million unemployed young men found work on conservation...

Controversy over the role of human activity in causing climate change is pervasive in contemporary society. But, as Anya Zilberstein shows in this work, debates about the politics and science of climate are nothing new. Indeed, they began as early as the...

This history of the black community of Indianapolis in the 20th century focuses on methods of political action-protracted negotiations, interracial coalitions, petition, and legal challenge-employed to secure their civil rights. These methods of "polite...

In the 1920s, the South Side was looked on as the new Black Metropolis, but by the turn of the decade that vision was already in decline-a victim of the Depression. In this timely book, Christopher Robert Reed explores early Depression-era politics on...

They lived "green" out of necessity-walking to work, repairing everything from worn shoes to wristwatches, recycling milk bottles and packing containers. Music was largely heard live and most residential streets had shade trees. The nearby Wabash River-a...

The years 1945-1959 marked the time when basketball truly became the sport of Indiana. High school basketball bound together communities across the state and interest in the sport rose to a new level. The period saw the Milan/Muncie Central game, given...

When the Showers family arrived in Bloomington, Indiana, the railroad had only recently come to town and a modest university was struggling to survive. Having spent the prior 18 years moving from place to place, the family decided to settle down and...

From 1939 to 1945, the farming community of Clarksburg, Ohio sent 222 of its sons and daughters to war: 1 in every 5 of its residents. From Somewhere in France is a one-of-a-kind collection of letters written by these men and women, stitched together...

Because she devoted much of her life to exploring the relationships that exist between people and their built environment, Edith Wharton developed a set of philosophies that she expressed in many arenas, including interior design, architecture, and...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

The story of the American West is that of a journey. It is the story of a movement, of a geographical and human transition, of the delineation of a route that would soon become a rooted myth. The story of the American West has similarly journeyed across...

"A marvelous job of unveiling the rich and intriguing tapestry of George Varnell's life." - Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat "This deeply researched book relays the facts about Varnell while imparting the...

Pioneering Across AmericaThey came with courage, faith and optimism . . . and very little else. The stories of dauntless spirit told here include the author's ancestors who pioneered across the ocean in 1618 and 1620 to Jamestown and Plymouth. The...

This beautifully-photographed and researched book tells the story of more than 120 historic apartment buildings in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah from the early 20th century. It includes full-color photographs and historical information about the...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...