This book is a tapestry of unbroken historical threads stretching from 1868 to the present day. Stitched together by newspaper, local museums and universities, uncovered photographs, ancestry research and narrative histories that have unspooled throughout the annals of Shadyside's history. In the center 5522 Walnut St. A building that was constructed in the 1890s and has been a card shop since the 1970s. What is the deeper story if we take a...

Get the Summary of David Von Drehle's The Book of Charlie in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. David Von Drehle's "The Book of Charlie" chronicles the life of Charlie White, a centenarian whose experiences reflect the vast changes of the 20th century. Von Drehle, initially seeking to write a children's book, instead delves into themes of survival and adaptation, inspired by his neighbor Charlie's resilience. Charlie's...

Avon Park Church of the Nazarene in Avon Park, Florida, celebrates its 90th Anniversary in October 2015. This book is a brief historical and overview of the past ninety years. This is the text from the print book for easier reading. Pictures are not included.This compilation is from official church records as well as from collections and recollections of current members. As such, the author is Avon Park Church of the Nazarene, and the compiler, Patricia...

The story of how the multicultural identity of San Antonio, Texas, has been shaped and polished through its annual fiesta since the late nineteenth century.

It was a seemingly pleasant evening on October 1, 2017, and more than 20,000 people gathered at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Everyone was in high spirits and the concert began to a thrilling fanfare. Unbeknownst to everyone, sounds began to erupt which were thought to be fireworks … until people started falling as dead bodies. The Las Vegas shooting was the deadliest attack in modern American history that claimed 58 lives and injured over 850....

Readers interested in military history and the Civil War will enjoy the inside perspective of Among the Enemy.

Like any tapestry, the threads of history cross over and under each other in different points of view and places in time. Award-winning author Deborah K. Frontiera mixes natural science and geology into history where those aspects intersect with the lives of people or are the reason Michigan's Upper Peninsula developed the way it did. Enjoy this work's unique perspective, the point of view of trees, rocks, rivers and artifacts--among them a ship's...

This classic account is the first and still the best comprehensive history of the Colfax County area of northeastern New Mexico.

In the 1980s, Phil Bellfy pondered the question: Why does Sault, Ontario, appear to be so prosperous, while the "Sault" on the American side has fallen into such a deplorable state? Could the answer be that the "American side" was little more than a "resource colony"-or to use the academic jargon of "Conflict and Change" Sociology-an "Internal Colony." In UP Colony, Bellfy revisits his graduate research to update us the state of the Sault. The ultimate...

Herbert Eugene Bolton's classic of southwestern history, first published in 1949, delivers the epic account of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire.