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Cleveland Amusement Park Memories: A Nostalgic Look Back at Euclid Beach Park, Puritas Springs Park, Geauga Lake Park, and Other Classic Parks
David W Francis · Gray & Co.
Pages: 128
Format: Book
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Northeast Ohioans who grew up visiting amusement parks in the 1940s through 1970s will cherish the memories captured in this book, which includes Euclid Beach Park, Luna Park, Geauga Lake Park, Puritas Springs Park, White City, Memphis Kiddie Park, Geneva-on-the-Lake, and others. Those... |
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Civil War Medicine: Care & Comfort of the Wounded
Robert E Denney
Format: Print book
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The horror and hardship of the sick and wounded in the American Civil War and those who cared for them are described in this work as a day-by-day account. It presents the history of the medical services on both sides of the War, using excerpts from letters, diaries and journals. |
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Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier
Alexandra Fuller · Penguin Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Best-selling memoirist Alexandra Fuller travels with a strangely charismatic Rhodesian war veteran into a modern-day heart of darkness. When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby... |
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Sweet and Low: A Family Story
Rich Cohen · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Sweet and Low is the amazing, bittersweet, hilarious story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low, converting his Brooklyn cafeteria into a factory and amassing... |
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Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West
Tonio Andrade · Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War--Europe's first war with China--the Dutch met their match in a colorful Chinese warlord named... |
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Tom Clavin · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestseller! Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding... |
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The New Debtors' Prison: Why All Americans Are in Danger of Losing Their Freedom
Christopher B. Maselli · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Debtors' prisons might sound like something out of a Dickens novel, as antiquated as leeching, but what most Americans do not realize is that they are alive and well in a new and startling form. Today more than 20 percent of the prison population is incarcerated for financial reasons... |
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The Dictionary of Cleveland Biography
David D Van Tassel · Indiana University Press
Pages: 545
Format: Print book
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"Clevelanders are rediscovering the richness of their history, and the encyclopedia project has played a vital role in this process." - Northwest Ohio Quarterly"These two volumes clearly establish a standard for encyclopedias devoted to city history and biography."... |
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Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History
Colin G. Calloway · Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic... |
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