An intergenerational chronicle of the struggles and triumphs of the Carrolls, a prominent Irish Catholic family in Protestant Maryland. Charles Carroll (1737-1832) who represents the last of the three generations of patriarchs, is perhaps best known as the sole Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence. Tracing the Carroll's history from Ireland to Maryland, this account offers a ...

Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
Written By: Ronald Hoffman

King Ramses II distinguished himself as a warrior, builder of magnificent monuments, and model for rulers to follow. Nothing will bring his life and times into sharper focus than this breathtaking volume, filled with oversize color photos--many rare--of the ancient temples, tombs, and statuary he had constructed. Among these awe-inspiring feats of art and engineering: the astonishing hall at ...

Manufacturer: White Star
Written By: T.G.H. James

This massive and broad-ranging reference work alphabetically lists over 7,000 well-known people from film, theater, radio and television as well as all varieties of music, sports, history, government, crime and popular culture. Each entry provides birth and death dates, a concise summary of the subject's life and claim to fame, and the location of the person's final resting place. Entries often ...

Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
Written By: Scott Wilson

Excerpts from the private diaries of women, known and unknown, among them Louisa May Alcott, Sophie Tolstoy, George Eliot, Anais Nin.

Manufacturer: Vintage

Genealogist Laura Best follows up her well-received Genealogy for the First TimeŽ with a colorful volume dedicated to techniques for preserving precious ancestral memories through scrapbooking. Use those vintage photos, uncovered documents, and newly-found family stories to create scrapbooked family trees and pedigree charts, eight generation treatments, depictions of holidays and ...

Manufacturer: Sterling/Chapelle
Written By: Laura Best

Manufacturer: Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association
Written By: William Anderson

3rd printing of this book. Previous printings were in hardcover.

Manufacturer: Mayhaven Publishing
Written By: Pauline Ariel, Audrey Alford, Vera Barber, Phyllis Ferguson, Delorse Hart, Irma Swirk, Mary Hickmott, Rhita Brniak, Doris Wenzel

This volume looks at the in-depth meaning of indigenous as well as adopted African names. African personal names have multitudinous functions such as the association of one's occupation, habits and personality. Many African names emanate from one's ancestry through clan, ethnic/tribal or religious affiliation. Since most of these names emanate from the 'Bantuphone' region of the east, central and ...

Manufacturer: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Written By: Jonathan Musere

Manufacturer: Liguori Publications
Written By: Jim Doyle, Brian Doyle

Manufacturer: University of South Carolina Press
Written By: Barry Jason Stein