Fort Lee, located adjacent to the Petersburg Civil War Battlefield, is the designated Home of the United States Army Quartermaster Corps. The first Camp Lee, established as a National Army Cantonment
When Richard Rubin, fresh out of the Ivy League, accepts a job at a daily newspaper in the old Delta town of Greenwood, Mississippi, he is thrust into a place as different from his hometown of New Yor
The first period of the twentieth century - that stretch of years beginning in the 1870s and ending with the United States' entry into World War I - is known as the Gilded Age. This was the era of the
Profiles a Mexican woman who saved more than twenty Texan rebels taken prisoner during the Texas Revolution from being shot under General Santa Anna's orders.
Identifies town site locations and clarifies entries from the earliest documents and maps of explorers in Alabama. This encyclopedic work is a listing of 398 ancient towns recorded within the present
The absorbing vintage photographs brought together in Vanishing Georgia recall life in the state from halfway through the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Pictured here are both gre
John Anthony Caruso’s The Appalachian Frontier, first published in 1959, captures the drama and sweep of a nation at the beginning of its westward expansion. Bringing to life the region’s history from
Mammoth Cave National Park and the surrounding area comprise the world's most extensive cave system. The region is characterized by what geologists call "karst" topography, a landscape dotted with sin
This collection of eighty photographs focuses on present-day Appalachia, a region that "progress" has placed under siege.This once poverty-stricken, mountain backwater has been invaded by four-lane i
Wilson, North Carolina was formed in 1849 when the villages of Toisnot and Hickory Grove merged together. Named for Mexican War hero Gen. Louis D. Wilson, the new town came to be known for agriculture
Discusses how a community can recover from a disaster such as the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, analyzing American culture and the psychological aftermath of the tragedy for its victi
Pictured is the legendary Myers Field c. 1950, where Norfolk ballplayers, visiting major league stars, and Piedmont League opponents once dueled upon its dirt and grass. The story of baseball in Norfo
On the brink of World War II, Texas was still largely a rural state, a closed society. Few chose to leave, and even fewer outsiders found any reason to enter. A frontier morality dictated adherence to
The flag of France is one of the six flags that have flown over Texas, but all that many people know about the French presence in Texas is the ill-fated explorer Cavelier de La Salle, fabled pirate J
American Literature -- Photography -- Regional History--> The Mississippi river country from Vicksburg to Natchez was a source and a setting for several of Eudora Welty's early stories and for her nov
An edited compilation of the folksy childhood memoirs of Cratis D. Williams (1911-1985), a leading scholar of and spokesperson for Appalachian life and literature and a pioneer of the Appalachian stud
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by some historical, geographical, or cultural fact about Mississippi, accompanied by objects to find in the illustrations.
