This book presents the biographies of ten amazing women from the history of the Lone Star State, including African-American pilot Bessie Coleman, silent film star and night club entertainer "Texas" Guinan, and rancher Molly Dyer Goodnight.

Manufacturer: TwoDot
Written By: Greta Anderson

The bestselling author of The Road from Coorain presents an extraordinarily powerful anthology of the autobiographical writings of 25 women, literary predecessors and contemporaries that include Jane Addams, Zora Neale Hurst, Harriet Jacobs, Ellen Glasgow, Maya Angelou, Sara Josephine Baker, Margaret Mead, Gloria Steinem, and Maxine Hong Kingston.

Manufacturer: Vintage
Written By: Jill Ker Conway

In earlier times, people felt the need to leave a permanent record of who they were and what they stood for. Nowadays people tend to keep quiet about those things, at least in their final resting place. But many have found a new fascination in wandering about an old graveyard. They are often touched and moved by what they read there. Those people of former generations have much to say to us, ...

Manufacturer: "Hood, Alan C. & Company, Inc."
Written By: Janet Greene

Ranging from Mary Queen of Scots to Alexander McQueen, this is a lively and comprehensive guide to 400 tartans, fully illustrated in color and rich in Scottish history and lore. Internationally popular, and worn by everyone from Madonna to the Royal Family, tartan is the very symbol of Scottishness. In this fascinating book, world expert Brian Wilton traces tartan back to its roots, ...

Manufacturer: Aurum Press
Written By: Brian Wilton

Based on interviews conducted by the University of Kentucky's Family Farm Project and supplemented by archival research, photographs, and recipes, "Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950", recalls a vanishing way of life in rural Kentucky. John van Willigen and Anne van Willigen illuminate how the revolutionary change from subsistence to market-based agricultural production, ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky
Written By: John Van Willigen, Anne Van Willigen

Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books
Written By: Lynn Nelson

Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky
Written By: Otis K. Rice, Stephen W. Brown

The first definitive documentary of this tragic event along one of the country's most beautiful rivers. August 18-20, 1955: Three terrifying days and nights still remembered with awe in the Delaware River valley. Record-breaking rainfall from hurricanes Connie and Diane abruptly ended a withering drought, but the relief was short-lived. It was soon overshadowed by terror and ...

Manufacturer: Word Forge Books
Written By: Mary A. Shafer

Over the past two decades, in workshops and personal consultations, thousands of persons have have received the expertise and knowledge of author Frazine Taylor about Alabama genealogical research. Now in her book, Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama: A Resource Guide, Frazine provides the information and guidance to help locate the resources available for researching African ...

Manufacturer: NewSouth Books
Written By: Frazine Taylor

Finding Answers in U.S. Census Records is a comprehensive guide to understanding and using U.S. Census records, in particular those of the federal census. Aimed at the general family history audience, this book is especially useful for the beginning to intermediate researcher. Along with a description of the history and structure of the federal census there is a guide to each decennial census. ...

Manufacturer: Ancestry Publishing
Written By: Loretto Dennis Szucs, Matthew Wright