Features 500 images of people from 115 countries. Organized by continent with convenient tabbing, this book is suitable as a traveling companion for globetrotters and armchair travelers.
Remember, boys, nothing on God's earth must stop the United States mail! said John Butterfield to his drivers. Short as the life of the Southern Overland Mail turned out to be (1858 to 1861), the saga of the Butterfield Trail remains a high point in the westward movement. A. C. Greene offers a history and guide to retrace that historic and ......
How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names
From Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and history. Talking about the stories behind the landmarks, this book deals with the borough's textured past. It also tells the tales of the poets, philosophers, baseball heroes, diplomats, warriors, and saints who have left their imprint.
How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names
From Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and history. Talking about the stories behind the landmarks, this book deals with the borough's textured past. It also tells the tales of the poets, philosophers, baseball heroes, diplomats, warriors, and saints who have left their imprint.
In 1999 Bryan Woolley of the The Dallas Morning News set out to record the stories of ordinary people in North Texas, to tell about their lives, especially their past, and how they became who they became. These stories were published in a column entitled "Where I Come From," which ran in the Sunday newspaper from May 1999 to December 2000, to ......
A cornucopia of the familiar and the forgotten, the historic and the ephemeral, the heroic and the banal. This handy reference work takes us from Verrazano's arrival in 1524 into the November 2001 election of a new mayor for the new millennium.
A cornucopia of the familiar and the forgotten, the historic and the ephemeral, the heroic and the banal. This handy reference work takes us from Verrazano's arrival in 1524 into the November 2001 election of a new mayor for the new millennium.
This witty, informative walking guide includes nine walking tours, plus a 5-borough driving tour, peppered with informative sidebars, illustrations, and photos from the collection at the New-York Historical Society. Seth Kamil and Eric Wakin's tour company, Big Onion Walking Tours conducts more than 1,200 tours of New York City for more than ......
In this collection of humorous and poignant newspaper columns written for the Baltimore Sun and The News American over the last two decades, Michael Olesker captures the essence of Baltimorea big city with the heart of a small town. Here in the closing years of the 20th century is Baltimore, with all its unexpected triumphs, crushing troubles, ......
