In Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family, Lynne Cheney re-creates the years after World War II in a small town on the high plains of the West. Portraying an era that started with the Ink Spots on the Zenith Radio in her family's living room and ended with Elvis on the jukebox at the local canteen, she tells of coming of age in a time when the country seemed in control ...
Photographs are our most immediate link to the past. But identifying family members, time periods, and locations in old family photos can be a challenge. Author Karen F. Dennen uses her experience in identifying the pieces of her own photographic puzzle to help you learn to do the same. You'll discover how to use clothing, architecture, and more to date photos. In addition, you'll find out how to ...
Like a number of Netherlanders in the post World War II era, Inez Hollander only gradually became aware that her family had significant connections with its Dutch colonial past, including an Indonesian great-grandmother. For the most part such personal stories have been, if not entirely silenced, at least only whispered about in Holland, where society has remained uncomfortable with many ...