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Sherman Park residents blazed integration trails ahead of the slow progress of Greater Milwaukee and the country. Racial tensions and violence in the South drove nearly thirty thousand African...

The great lakes have seen many ships meet their end, but none so much as Lake Erie. As the shallowest of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie is prone to sudden waves and wildly shifting sandbars. The steamer...

Massachusetts Bay stretches along the rocky coast and dangerously sandy shoals from Cape Ann to Cape Cod and gives the Bay State its distinctive shape and the Atlantic Ocean one of its largest...

Shipwrecks of Stellwagen Bank: Disaster in New England's National Marine SanctuaryAuthor: Matthew LawrencePublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublication Date: Jun 22, 2015Number of Pages: 146...

Under the hot summer sun, vacationers stroll the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk, chewing saltwater taffy and listening to the gulls raucous cackle. Few realize that under the sparkling water rests a...

For over one hundred years, Pomeroy's was a beloved household name for the shoppers of central and eastern Pennsylvania. Founded in 1876, the store began under another name in Reading and soon...

Shotgun Justice: One Prosecutor's Crusade Against Crime and Corruption in Alexandria & ArlingtonAuthor: Michael Lee PopePublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublication Date: Nov 13, 2012Number...

"Here are heroes and scoundrels, businessmen and religious leaders, artists and soldiers, pioneers and planters as well as a number of stories that are ironic, bizarre or simply curious." In this...

Nearly as old as the city itself, Oakland Cemetery is one of Shreveport's most significant historical landmarks. Notable residents were laid to rest here as early as 1842. In a mass grave lie nearly...

Silver Lake Chronicles: Exploring an Urban Oasis in Los AngelesAuthor: Michael LockePublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublication Date: Nov 11, 2014Number of Pages: 162 pagesBinding: Hardback...

On July 11, 1864, some residents cheered and others watched in horror as Confederate troops spread across the fields and orchards of Silver Spring, Maryland. Many fled to the capital while General...

In 1819, a young man outwitted death at the hands of John and Lavinia Fisher and sparked the hunt for Charleston's most notorious serial killers. Former homicide investigator Bruce Orr follows the...

In 1791, President George Washington appointed a commission to build the future capital of the nation. The commission found paying masters of faraway Maryland plantations sixty dollars a year for...

Ax assault, kidnapping, brutal murder: how could these things happen in a small town? Although regional crimes hardly ever make it to the national circuit, they will always remain with the families...

A small village, rich in North Carolina history, Snow Camp has long been a crossroads and an outsider to the Old North State. Settled in 1749 by the oldest Quaker meeting still in the region, the...

Enter Somerville, a city packed with stories larger than itself, to salute a heritage that justifies the fierce pride of its citizens. Share a perch on one of Somerville's celebrated hills with Dee...

The music scene in Austin is known the world over, but it can place a considerable portion of its roots in a little-known but prolific indie label: Sonobeat Records. A small, independent label...

Ever since her boat drifted up against the mammoth docks in Milwaukee's harbor, Leah Dobkin has been enthralled by the evolution of the port and the city so firmly moored to it. From an era when it...

During the fateful winter and spring of 1865, thousands of civilians in South Carolina, young and old, black and white, felt the impact of what General William T. Sherman called "the hard hand of war...

South Carolina IrishAuthor: Arthur MitchellPublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublication Date: Dec 01, 2010Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 154022984XISBN-13:...

South Carolina's Military Organizations During the War Between the States, Volume IV: Statewide Units, Militia and ReservesAuthor: Robert S. SeiglerPublisher: History Press Library...

South Central Pennsylvania Legends & LoreAuthor: David PugliaPublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublication Date: Oct 09, 2012Number of Pages: 162 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

South Middleborough: A HistoryAuthor: Michael J. MaddiganPublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublication Date: Aug 11, 2011Number of Pages: 194 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Since the days of John Smith and Squanto, the coast of Massachusetts stretching south from Boston to Plymouth has been transformed. Once an isolated Puritan colony, the region has made an indelible...

South St. Paul: A Brief HistoryAuthor: Lois A. GlewwePublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublication Date: Dec 07, 2015Number of Pages: 178 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

The cuisine of Southeast Louisiana is informed by a unique landscape. Defined by water--Vermillion Bay to the west, marshlands to the east, the Mississippi River to the north and the Gulf Coast to...

Forestry defined the culture of southern Oregon. Kenneth and Hallie Ford rose from humble beginnings with a single sawmill during the Great Depression and helped transform the state's timber industry...

Virginia's Southside and Piedmont regions have produced some of the finest religious, educational and community leaders in the Old Dominion. Lewis Burwell was a founding father of the commonwealth...

Espionage played a vital role during the American Revolution in Rhode Island. The British and Americans each employed spies to discover the secrets, plans and positions of their enemy. Continental...

Covert intelligence played a critical role in the American Revolution. Connecticut produced an extraordinary number of spies on both sides of the conflict, from the infamous traitor and Norwich-born...