Local History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

Ramona Bennett Bill
Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe

A compelling on-the-ground account of Native activism in the NorthwestA relentless advocate for Native rights, Ramona Bennett Bill has been involved in the battles waged by the Puyallup and other Northwes…

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Carver Clark Gayton
Odyssey of a Seattle Native Son

The autobiography of a local and national leader in education and civil rightsCarver Clark Gayton's story bears witness to Seattle's experience of race and the importance of family, teachers, teamwork, an…

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Ron Chew
My Unforgotten Seattle

An insider's look at the making of a city's Asian American communityThird-generation Seattleite, historian, journalist, and museum visionary Ron Chew spent more than five decades fighting for Asian Americ…

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Sue Consolo-Murphy
The Bears of Grand Teton

Sue Consolo-Murphy's autobiographical narrative traces the history of bear management in Grand Teton National Park and the Jackson Hole area, considering in particular bears' interaction with livestock.

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Richard Cimino, Hans Tokke
Micro-City

An on-the-ground study of how faith communities create belonging and build bridges across one of the most diverse urban landscapes in the worldMicro-City follows congregations, clergy, and everyday New Yo…

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Peter Bacho
Uncle Rico's Encore

A love note to the city and its once vibrant Pinoy communityFrom the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant r…

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Richard Cimino, Hans Tokke
Micro-City

An on-the-ground study of how faith communities create belonging and build bridges across one of the most diverse urban landscapes in the worldMicro-City follows congregations, clergy, and everyday New Yo…

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Sergei Kan
The Tlingit in Sitka

"Sitka photographer Elbridge W. Merrill (1870-1929) captured three decades of cultural transformations in the Tlingit community, Russian Orthodox clergy and congregants, and local industry. Born in B…

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Chris P Potholm, David Emery, Dennis Bailey
Real Life, Real Funny

Twenty-five famous Mainers share humorous stories of everyday life in and about the state of Maine. It's homegrown humor laced with folksy wisdom in the tradition of John Gould and Marshall Dodge. Mainers…

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Nancy K Williams
Colorado Outlaws & Lawmen

Taming a Tumultuous TerritoryHollywood westerns of the twentieth century brought a history of raucous frontier justice to life, but 1800s Colorado was anything but fiction. Bandits held up the Denver and …

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Gordon Simmons
Mutiny in the Mountains

Mutiny in the Mountains uses labor history to show the way forward for millions of workers struggling in an age of uncertainty.In 1969, thousands of West Virginia state highway workers went on strike in f…

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Brooke Barbier
King Hancock

A concise and highly readable biography...[Hancock's] legacy is very much worth our remembering. -Wall Street Journal"King Hancock is a vastly enjoyable work of popular history that wears its impress…

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Teale Dvornik
History Hiding Around Broadway

Go behind the scenes of the Great White Way with this illustrated guide to the Theater District's hidden history--an essential book for your explorations of the district from a seasoned Broadway guide.Bro…

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Jennifer Marino Walters, Who Hq,
Where Is California?

Penguin Young Readers Group

Dive into the history, culture, and heritage of the state of California with Who HQ! Learn about everything from the stars of Hollywood to the miles of coastal views in this illustrated book for young rea…

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Jennifer Marino Walters, Who Hq,
Where Is Georgia?

Penguin Young Readers Group

Dive into the history, culture, and heritage of the state of Georgia with Who HQ! Learn about everything from Georgia's role in the Civil War to the continent's largest blackwater wetland in this illustra…

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Jennifer Marino Walters, Who Hq,
Where Is New York?

Penguin Young Readers Group

Dive into the history, culture, and heritage of the state of New York with Who HQ! Learn about everything from Broadway and the bustle of New York City to the natural beauty of Niagara Falls in this illus…

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Bill Koss
Pond Birds

The history of the University of Florida basketball program from its beginnings to the arrival of Billy Donovan, told by a former player and longtime Gator sports analystIn the 1960s, the University of Fl…

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Eddy Starr Ancinas
Olympic Valley & Alpine Meadows

Formerly published as Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows. This updated edition includes revised material.Since the 1930s, two valleys nestled amid California's High Sierra peaks have enraptured explorers, sk…

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Fred S Naiden
Railroaded

The New York City subway system is one of the largest and oldest in the world, still carrying traces of the transport systems that came before it. Some of its elevated tracks are remnants of steam railroa…

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David Griscom
The Myth of Red Texas

A timely call for Texas---and the South---to reclaim its radical history, drawing lessons for today's struggle from the populists and socialists of yesteryear.In blood-red states such as Texas, politics o…

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