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

In 1939, just before graduating from high school in the small town of Ridgeway in northeast Iowa, Everett Kuntz spent his entire savings of $12.50 on a 35mm Argus AF camera. He made a camera case from a worn-out boot, scraps from a tin can, and a clasp from his mother’s purse. For the next several years, especially during the summers when he worked on his parents’ dairy farm, he clicked ...

Manufacturer: University Of Iowa Press
Written By: Jim Heynen

Based on a collection of fifty-two vignettes of Illinois history originally published as weekly columns in newspapers and revised for publication in book form, "Tales and Trails of Illinois" presents little-known episodes and adds perspective to tales of the state's varied past. Pairing readable commentary with striking description and detail, the book is a useful compendium of Illinois heritage ...

Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
Written By: Stu Fliege

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

A father and son give their personal reflections on Catholic family lilfe and faith.

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

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

Have you ever wondered why the American colors are red, white, and blue? Did you know that our national mascot was almost a turkey rather than a bald eagle? Can you trace your family's ancestry back to the Mayflower Pilgrims, or perhaps to a cowboy of the Old West? Do you think you would like to spend Thanksgiving watching footraces rather than televised football or eating venison and ...

Manufacturer: Atheneum
Written By: Delno C. West, Jean M. West

Lives well-led are commemorated by gravesites, memories, and books like this. Where the Bodies Are takes the reader on a tour of the final addresses of the rich, famous, and interesting, revisiting their claims to fame with evocative, succinct biographies.

Manufacturer: Globe Pequot
Written By: Patricia Brooks

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