Manufacturer: Goodspeed's Book Shop
Written By: Goodspeed's Book Shop

Manufacturer: The Gloucester County Historical Society
Written By: Bennett S. Pancoast

Modern facsimile of 1883 edition, illustrated with prints.

Manufacturer: Higginson
Written By: Horace Andrew Wadsworth

Pennsylvania's history is inextricably tied to that of the United States. Originally settled by Swedes, it became the single largest land grant to an individual in history when Charles II of England signed it over to William Penn in 1681, as repayment of a debt owed to Penn's father. Pennsylvania, or "Penn's Woods" was named in honour of Admiral Penn. Around the time of the American Revolution, ...

Manufacturer: Hippocrene Books
Written By: Donald Markle

Manufacturer: Atria
Written By: John F Baker

This is a one-volume history of the Ohio and Erie Canal. By linking Ohio's two major bodies of water - the Ohio River and Lake Erie - Ohio's canals, built in the early nineteenth century, caused unprecedented growth and wealth for the fledgling state. The canals opened up Ohio to new markets, new settlers, agriculture, and industry, depositing large sums of money into the region and giving Ohioans ...

Manufacturer: Kent State University Press
Written By: Terry K. Woods

Walk the bustling streets of Manhattan and imagine the lush and solitary land that greeted New York’s first settlers. Visit Ellis Island and envision the gateway to the New World teeming with immigrants. Vacation on Lake Champlain alongside the ghosts of voyageurs. New York is a state as rich in history as in modern-day wonders. Juxtaposing ...

Manufacturer: Voyageur Press
Written By: Meg Schneider

This unique historical and genealogical resource draws on the extraordinarily intact legislative, judicial, religious, and personal records of members of the first Maryland legislature. The two-volume set contains profiles of nearly fifteen hundred men who served in the state's legislature in the first 150 years after Maryland's founding.The major public and private aspects of each ...

Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press

"This book is yet another expression of the careful social observations Walker Evans and James Agee offered in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Patapsco Valley, Maryland, thereby has joined the lucky company of Hale County, Alabama--both places that become, in the hands of an alert photographer and an attentive writer, ...

Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press
Written By: Alison Kahn

For more than a century, Florida has thrived on its image as an exotic playground. Selling the Sunshine State offers a scrapbook of bygone brochures, postcards, souvenirs, and photos, all designed to lure northerners (and fellow southerners) into the peninsula.

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: Tim Hollis