Lee Lawrie's Prairie Deco: History in Stone at the Nebraska State Capitol, Hardcover - Gregory Paul Harm

Reducere. Just as a sculptor chips away each piece of stone to uncover a work of art, author Greg Harm has been chipping away at Lee Lawrie's catalog raisonn...

Reducere. Considered a classic study of southeastern Indians, Powhatan's Mantle demonstrates how ethnohistory, demography, archaeology, anthropology, and car...

Reducere. Using historic recipes with modern twists from renowned mixologists, Greg and Nicole Priebe present Maryland s golden age of the cocktail. Recipe c...

Reducere. Cracker Westerns are rip-roarin, action-packed, can't-put-'em-down tales set in the frontier days of Florida. They are full of adventure, real hero...

Reducere. Guidebook describes 306 waterfalls in the Volunteer State. 3rd edition includes 55 cataracts not shown in prior editions. Chock full of maps and ph...

Reducere. In the wake of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt called for the largest arms buildup in our nation's history. A shortage of steel, however, quickly...

Reducere. It is hard to love the high, cold plains of the American West. They are vast and harsh and demanding. And perhaps because they are so hard to love,...

Reducere. DescriptionFor nearly 80 years, Pennhurst State School and Hospital was a reminder of how society viewed and treated people with intellectual disab...

Friday, December 19, 1777, dawned cold and windy. Fourteen thousand Continental Army soldiers tramped from dawn to dusk along the rutted Pennsylvan...

DescriptionHome to eighty thousand people, Accra's Old Fadama neighborhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana. Though almost all its inhabitants ...

Since the 1920s, Art Deco, or "The Modern Style, " has delighted people with its innovative use of materials and designs that capture the spirit of...

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This book by the renowned naturalist and writer Paul A. Johnsgard tells the complex biological and environmental story of the western Great Plains ...

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Reducere. Paul Westhead was teaching high school in his native Philadelphia when he was named La Salle University's men's basketball coach in 1970. By 1980 h...

The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877 provides the first comprehensive look at the Indian Wars in Nebraska, focusing on the years immediately ...

Reducere. Winter counts--pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past--marked each year with a picture of a memorable event. The Lako...

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Reducere. DescriptionFrom the organization of the first Arbor Day to the invention of Kool-Aid, It Happened in Nebraska features more than thirty-six history...

Reducere. DescriptionEastern State Penitentiary: A History documents the stories of the men and the method that shaped one of Philadelphia s most recognizabl...

Reducere. Of all the world's great cities, perhaps none is so defined by its Art Deco architecture as New York. Lively and informative, New York Art Deco lea...

The Lost History of the Capitol is an account of the many bizarre, tragic, and violent episodes that have occurred in and around the Capitol Buildi...

Reducere. Gregory S. Taylor's Central Prison is the first scholarly study to explore the prison's entire history, from its origins in the 1870s to its status...

Reducere. The Quaker City and its hospitals were pioneers in the field of mental health. Yet by the end of the nineteenth century, its institutions were crow...

Reducere. Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gregory ZaffutoYou try to understand how another human being could psychologically terrorize you in the manner that the Nar...

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DescriptionThe 3rd Afghan War in 1919 was the only time that the Afghans invaded British India during Britain's long history of conflict in Afghani...

America's single bloodiest day was at the Battle of Antietam, and Michigan played a prominent role. Discover the state's connections to the Lost Or...

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Reducere. DescriptionWhile Black architects produce extraordinary works, they account for only two percent of the profession in the United States. Many of th...

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Reducere. For more than half a century, Minnesotans have been treated to the memorable players and teams of the Minnesota Twins. From the Ruthian blasts of H...

DescriptionBENEATH THE FLAMES is an intimate combination of love, race, and life as an urban firefighter.A fire in a neighboring farmhouse has youn...

Reducere. In a stunning parallel to our own times, this memoir of the late Sixties and early Seventies, Surviving: A Kent State Memoir, explores the turbulen...

It's April 18, 1906, and a powerful earthquake has just rocked San Francisco. Photographer Edith Irvine and her assistant, Daisy Valentine, survive...

Reducere. Prairie Public's beloved Dakota Datebook radio series is now in book form The students of the University of North Dakota's Writing, Editing, and Pu...

Employing a rigorous methodological approach and analysing a vast body of sources from towns and regions in Italy, France and England over 300 year...

Reducere. DescriptionAt 5: 55 p.m. on March 10, 1933, Southern California was rocked by a massive earthquake. Wood-frame bungalows lost their chimneys, and e...

Reducere. This is the first-ever biography of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr., who served a key role during World War II in the Pacific. Recognizing the achie...

Reducere. DescriptionSport has always been central to the movements of both the nation-state and the people who resist that nation-state. Think of the Roman ...

Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray's niece, six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little oase...

It's a Crazy Day at the Zoo is a fun and entertaining story for both boys and girls. This is a story where the child's imagination takes a regular ...

Reducere. From its beginning as one of the most ambitious construction projects west of the Mississippi, the imposing red granite Lone Star statehouse loomed...