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In 1887, journalist Nellie Bly posed as a mentally ill, homeless woman in order to expose conditions at the Blackwell's Island asylum in New York City. Her descriptions of the …
Over a period of three years, Henry David Thoreau made three trips to the largely unexplored woods of Maine. He scaled peaks, paddled a canoe, and dined on hemlock tea and moose …
At the turn of the twentieth century, among the patchy meadows, dusty sandlots, and ramshackle municipal parks situated among the unassuming cornfields of the Hoosier State, …
Is John H. Mohn, as they say in the genealogical world, a "brick wall"? A researcher's obstacle, a stubborn block moving backward in time, an enigmatic character, the exhaustion of …
In many ways, the story of the settling of Clark County mirrored that of the rest of Kentucky and, indeed, the westward expansion of the country in general. Situated immediately …
The North Carolina 5th Cavalry Regiment (AKA The 63rd Regiment North Carolina State Troops) was formed at Garysburg, North Carolina about Oct. l, 1862, by S.O. 216, Hdqrs. Dist. of …
This volume is the third of a three (3) volume series of four (4) original handwritten record books of the furniture and undertaking companies of I. G. Davis & Co. and Davis and …
This book, originally published in 1889, contains two volumes 'Darwen and its People' and 'Old Darwen Families'. Reproduced and lovingly restored this book provides an interesting, …