Civil War Soldiers of Greater Cleveland: Letters Home to by Dale Thomas

Memphis Barbecue: A Succulent History of Smoke, Sauce & Soul (American Palate)

Memphis is equivalent elements song and food--the items of a group marked with grit and resiliency. The city's blues and soul song have lifted spirits, whereas fish fry has been a significant company ever given that red meat first entered the culinary panorama of Memphis with Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, who introduced the recent international its first herd of pigs.

Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

Michael Meranze makes use of Philadelphia as a case learn to research the connection among penal reform and liberalism in early the US. In Laboratories of advantage, he translates the evolving approach of legal punishment as a microcosm of social tensions that characterised the early American republic. attractive contemporary paintings at the historical past of punishment in England and continental Europe, Meranze lines felony punishment from the past due colonial method of publicly inflicted corporal consequences to the institution of penitentiaries within the Jacksonian interval.

California through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History (Indigenous Confluences)

So much California histories commence with the coming of the Spanish missionaries within the overdue eighteenth century and very easily bypass to the Gold Rush of 1849. notably absent from those tales are the views and reviews of the folks who lived at the land lengthy earlier than eu settlers arrived.

Marfa: The Transformation of a West Texas Town

A small city within the substantial barren region of West Texas, Marfa draws viewers from around the globe to its paintings foundations and galleries, movie and track fairs, and layout and structure symposiums. whereas newbies occasionally see it as "another Santa Fe," long-time citizens usually take a bemused, even disapproving perspective towards the alterations that Marfa has passed through given that artist Donald Judd got here to city within the Seventies and commenced growing areas for his personal and different artists' paintings.