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The smoke of cannon fire and the sound of rifles were not seen or heard in Newburyport, Massachusetts during the Civil War yet it was an all too familiar experience for many of its inhabitants. Local...

The City by the Sea boasts an ambitious baseball history dating back to the early days of America's favorite pastime. In 1897, the Newport Colts became the first professional baseball team to ever...

Newport, Tennessee: Pictures from the PastAuthor: Edward R. Walker IIIPublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublication Date: Jun 22, 2010Number of Pages: 162 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

A look at the history and culture of food, wine, and culinary culture in southern Ontario's Niagara region. The Niagara region has a unique culinary history and tradition. From its mild microclimate...

Nick Blase: The Prince of Niles, IllinoisAuthor: Andrew SchneiderPublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublication Date: Aug 21, 2012Number of Pages: 258 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

While Seabiscuit is perhaps the best-known Thoroughbred in history, Charles S. Howard owned another remarkable racehorse that should never be forgotten. Irish-bred Noor dominated the 1950 racing...

What began as the boom site for the mid-nineteenth-century Upper Midwest lumber industry quickly grew into the town of St. Anthony. In 1872, St. Anthony was annexed by its neighbor, Minneapolis, but...

Viola Gentry of Rockingham County, North Carolina, learned to fly in 1924 and quickly achieved greater heights. In 1925, the aviatrix took her first solo flight. The following year, she flew under...

"First at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga and last at Appomattox" is a phrase that is often used to encapsulate the role of North Carolina's Confederate soldiers. But the state's...

John Hairr crafts a captivating study of the Tarheel State's rivers. The Cape Fear, the New, the Pee Dee: these are the streams that course through North Carolina's history, and Hairr navigates them...

North Carolina S Wild Piedmont: A Natural HistoryAuthor: Adam MorganPublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublication Date: Aug 17, 2015Number of Pages: 178 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

The days when rural life revolved around tobacco planting and harvest are gone, but many fondly remember when North Carolina was the state of farming, planting and picking tobacco. In this book,...

From the sweltering summer heat to the biting winter chill, thousands of dedicated anglers flock to North Carolina's piers to cast lines into the salty depths, hoping to reel in anything from whiting...

New York's North Country can be hard to define: the region has solid boundaries on three sides but not on the south, where it mingles with the Adirondack Mountains. The spare and isolated landscape...

North Florida's proud folk music heritage reaches back more than half a century. The region claims many talented artists and song writers, including Frank Thomas, Bob Patterson and Charlie Robertson,...

North Georgia Moonshine: A History of the Lovells & Other Liquor MakersAuthor: Judith GarrisonPublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublication Date: Jul 06, 2015Number of Pages: 146 pagesBinding:...

North Jersey residents have enjoyed frothy pints since the first brewhouse opened in Hoboken in 1641. Brewing was big in the Garden State prior to Prohibition, and by 1900, more than fifty breweries...

Did you know that the Dust Bowl hit New Jersey? Twice? How about that a mysterious experiment in subliminal advertising" was conducted at a Fort Lee, New Jersey movie theater? Or that railroad...

In 1765, settlers to the west of Providence petitioned to form their own township. Their prayers were answered, and North Providence, Rhode Island, was born. While it sheltered religious dissenters,...

Texas is historically a large beer-drinking state. Unlike the brewing heritage of the Central Texas German settlements, the North Texas area--Dallas, Fort Worth and the cities of the surrounding...

North Williston: Down Depot HillAuthor: Richard H. AllenPublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublication Date: Oct 03, 2011Number of Pages: 162 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Before the Consolidation Act of 1854 more than tripled the former capital's population, Northeast Philadelphia was a scattered group of pastoral communities just beyond the city limits. Holmesburg,...

Northern Kentucky's First College: Villa Madonna-Thomas More CollegeAuthor: Ronald a. MielechPublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublication Date: Oct 12, 2010Number of Pages: 98 pagesBinding:...

Since the time of William Penn, the Philadelphia neighborhood of Northern Liberties has had a tradition of hard work and innovation. This former Leni-Lenape territory became one of the industrial...

Join William C. Connery as he recounts the notable events and battles that occurred in Northern Virginia in 1861 after the firing on Fort Sumter. Beginning in May 1861, both the Confederate and Union...

Northwest Washington, D.C.: Tales from West of the ParkAuthor: Mark N. OzerPublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublication Date: Jun 27, 2011Number of Pages: 162 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

When Lincoln issued a call for troops in 1861, Norwich sprang into action. In a meeting lasting two days, the town elected to offer cash awards for volunteers, as well as financial support for their...

Stroll down Norwich's most fashionable mile of millionaires' mansions and mingle with the extraordinary people who lived and played behind their elegant facades during the glamorous Gilded Age...

Before the Colorado Territory, this land was Jefferson Territory. Made up mostly of ranching and farming communities, early Jefferson County was the kind of place where only the stouthearted and...

Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to GangstersAuthor: Rod BeemerPublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublication Date: Dec 07, 2015Number of Pages: 146 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...