Southern Nevada Women's History Project

They came from all points of the compass, these women. Some were married to men who had traveled to Nevada to make a fresh start in life or to mayb...

Nevada County's tumultuous wine history includes several booms and busts, starting in the 1850s when gold prospectors brought the first grapevines ...

Reducere. The roadside history series charts a course to the present through carefully selected and researched stories that relate what we see today with wha...

Reducere. A stranger's arrival in a small Southern town stirs up old secrets and new dreams in this beautiful story full of hope and haunting mystery, and wi...

Explores women's complex and changing relationship to the home and how that affected their entry into the workplace. Jessica Enoch examines the spa...

In 1868, Reno was a rough railroad town located on the new Central Pacific railroad line and quickly became the transportation hub for the greatest...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the story of the beginnings of the southern Sierra Nevada, the High Sierra region, from its birth to the historic era. It descri...

Reducere. Vibrant and captivating Nevada City began as a gold-mining camp called Deer Creek Dry Diggins. The large gravel deposits alongside this creek repor...

DescriptionFew events in the history of the world have aroused the passions of the decent, the fair, the peaceful, and the just as much as the brut...

Reducere. Nevada Test Site, Hardcover

A necessary rhetorical history of women's work in utopian communities, Utopian Genderscapes focuses on three prominent yet understudied intentional...

Reducere. DescriptionUSS Nevada (BB-36) was America's first modern battleship. When her keel was laid in 1912, kings and emperors still ruled much of the wor...

Reducere. With World War II raging throughout Europe, the United States knew it needed to produce magnesium-the "miracle metal"-in prodigious quantities. Tho...

Reducere. With World War II raging throughout Europe, the United States knew it needed to produce magnesium-the "miracle metal"-in prodigious quantities. Tho...

Reducere. The "American Civil War" was not a "Civil War" and everyone knows it, yet the use of this misleading and inaccurate designation is almost universal...

Reducere. The DeAutremont brothers were looking for a big score. They brought dynamite, guns and a getaway car. On October 11, 1923, at the summit of the Sis...

Reducere. The Manhattan Project at Hanford Site describes the top-secret effort undertaken during World War II to develop a weapon never imagined at "Site W"...

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Reducere. The conflicts of the Civil War continued long after the conclusion of the war: jockeys and Thoroughbreds took up the fight on the racetrack. A bord...

Reducere. In the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into historic civil rights protests occurring across ...

From the mystery of a U.S. Senator's death (was he kept on ice until after the election?) to a haunting of the Governor's mansion, this selection o...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the story of what happens when scores of young girls live intimately together in a French military barracks. Many of these girls...

Reducere. Samuel A'Court Ashe was a Confederate infantry captain in the War Between the States and celebrated editor, historian, and North Carolina legislato...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Discover true community. Has the pursuit of the "perfect life" left you feeling depleted, disappointed, dissatisfied, and disconnected? Are you tir...

Reducere. Travel author Horace Kephart discusses the culture of Appalachia he observed while living in a mountain cabin for several months at the start of th...

A comprehensive survey of the field of Irish women's poetry, this book will be of intense interest to students, researchers, and general readers al...

An invaluable resource for all GCSE Specifications - whatever your students' ability.

DescriptionChelsea and Westminster Hospital and its charity, CW+, have been pioneers at the intersection of art and healthcare for more than twenty...

In 1607, Powhatan teenager Pocahontas first encountered English settlers when John Smith was brought to her village as a captive. In 1920, the rati...

An invaluable resource for all GCSE Specifications - whatever your students' ability.Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): Josh BroomanNum...

The Letters Project is about big history, the Holocaust, but it is also an extraordinarily intimate personal narrative-a rare blend of informative,...

Reducere. In 1867, less than three years after the Civil War left the city in ruins, Hungarian Jewish immigrant Morris Rich opened a small dry goods store on...

DescriptionThe origin of brewing in southern Oregon is a lively tale of mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes, brawling German immigrants, irrepressib...

Reducere. In 1867, less than three years after the Civil War left the city in ruins, Hungarian Jewish immigrant Morris Rich opened a small dry goods store on...

In 1918, Winkler explodes from a community of 13 helpful souls to a crowded coal mining town of strangers with divided loyalties. War in faraway Eu...

DescriptionGrowing up poor in Depression-era South Georgia is hard enough, but Roger "Bud" MacLeodBud is also cursed with a stutter and a birthmark...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries comes a sparkling new series about an oft-widowed mother's grown children, who b...

The Southern Railway may not have been the most glamorous of the 'Big Four' companies that emerged from the grouping of 1923, but it was the great ...