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 of ...
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 ...
This book is the first on the history of English seals by the foremost scholar on the subject. It will be of interest not only to students of art history and archaeology, but on account of the legal, political, social and cultural insights it provides, also to general historians of the Middle Ages. The author examines the seal as evidence of the authenticity of a document, where it performs a ...