Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates a larger event, social trends, or politics during a period in our past. A three-act play about Minnesota's ...

Manufacturer: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Written By: Annette Atkins

. . . (For All Time) adds an exciting new dimension to writing modern family history that seeks to place our ancestors in a larger framework of family, neighborhood, and history. - Library JournalFamily history writing can take many forms--a short essay or narrative introduction to a collection of family letters, long captions comprising a family photo history, ...

Manufacturer: Boynton/Cook
Written By: Charley Kempthorne

The vulgar notion that the Templars were as wicked as they were fearless and brave, has not yet been entirely exploded; but it is hoped that the copious account of the proceedings against the order in this country... will tend to dispel many unfounded prejudices still entertained against the fraternity, and excite emotions of admiration for their constancy and courage, and of pity for their ...

Manufacturer: Adventures Unlimited Press
Written By: Charles G. Addison

How exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-quarters of the city in 1906? For this provocative rephotography project, bringing past and present into dynamic juxtaposition, renowned photographer Mark Klett has gone to the same locations pictured in forty-five compelling historic photographs taken ...

Manufacturer: University of California Press
Written By: Philip L. Fradkin, Rebecca Solnit

The book follows General Sam Houston as he takes command of the Texas Volunteers to lead them to victory six weeks after the fall of the Alamo.

Manufacturer: Republic of Texas
Written By: Stephen L. Moore

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis

The 750-year epic tale of the extraordinary Backenroth family, this is at the same time an engaging, scrupulously researched narrative history of Jewish life since the Middle Ages. Throughout this time span, the Backenroths could be found at some of the most important events in Jewish history: the migration of their community from western to eastern Europe, the creation of the Hasidic movement, ...

Manufacturer: Wiley
Written By: Michael Karpin

The county has always been used as the basic Federal census unit. Genealogical research in the census, therefore, begins with identifying the correct county jurisdictions. This work shows all U.S. county boundaries from 1790 to 1920. On each of the nearly 400 maps the old county lines are superimposed over the modern ones to highlight the boundary changes at ten-year intervals. Also ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: William Thorndale, William Dollarhide

The first book of the Diadem:Worlds of Magic series focuses on Score, Helaine, and Pixel's thrilling search for who or what has brought them to Treen, a planet on the outer ring of the Diadem. Clues lie inside the tower of a cunning wizard and within a stranger's rhyming riddles. But the quarrelsome trio is ever doubtful of whom to trust-even among themselves. Danger awaits them at every ...

Manufacturer: Llewellyn Publications
Written By: John Peel

A lavishly illustrated companion volume to the fall 1995 PBS-television documentary of the same name recounts the history, clans, and culture of the Scottish Highlands and celebrates the exploits of Bonnie Prince Charlie. 15,000 first printing. National ad/promo. TV tie-in.

Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
Written By: Fitzroy Maclean