Lokale Geschichte

This book looks at the interaction of slavery, religion, and race in antebellum Missouri and how they influenced and shaped each other. The author argues that for African Americans, religion was an arena where they sought control over their own lives and where they created their own form of Christianity.

This book highlights and historicizes underexplored and forgotten people and events associated with Laurel Cemetery (1852-1957), the first non-denominational African American Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland, stressing the importance of their work in laying the social, economic, and political foundation for Baltimore's African American community.

Bush League, Big City tells the interwoven stories of two low-level minor league baseball teams brought to New York City in the late 1990s. It also illuminates the history of the New York-Penn League, Americäs oldest and longest-running minor league, from its inception in 1939 until its abrupt contraction by Major League Baseball in 2020. With an eye for details and firsthand accounts by many of the baseball people involved, Michael Sokolow tells the story of two franchises that went in very different directions, as the Cyclones achieved astronomical success while Staten Island¿s ¿Baby Bombers¿ sank under the weight of debt and recriminations. Along the way, the book visits small communities in upstate New York, New England, and Canada, introduces the multimillionaires who came to dominate small-time baseball ownership, and tells the tale of two of the most expensive minor-league baseball stadiums ever built. It also sheds light on the complex, behind-the-scenes influence of New York City politics, as the indomitable will of Mayor Rudy Giuliani reshaped the geography of both the city and professional baseball. Bush League, Big City is a compelling examination of both the power and limits of nostalgia in a sport that is increasingly focused on the bottom line.

Travel north from the upper Midwest's metropolises, and before long you're "Up North"-a region that's hard to define but unmistakable to any resident or tourist. Crops give way to forests, mines (or their remains) mark the landscape, and lakes multiply, becoming ever clearer until you reach the vastness of the Great Lakes. How to characterize this region, as distinct from the agrarian Midwest, is the question North Country seeks to answer, as a congenial group of scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals explores the distinctive landscape, culture, and history that define the northern margins of the American Midwest.From the glacial past to the present day, these essays range across the histories of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, colonial imperial rivalries and immigration, and conflicts between the economic imperatives of resource extraction and the stewardship of nature. The book also considers literary treatments of the area-and arguably makes its own contributions to that literature, as some of the authors search for the North Country through personal essays, while others highlight individuals who are identified with the area, like Sigurd Olson, John Barlow Martin, and Russell Kirk.From the fur trade to tourism, fisheries to supper clubs, Finnish settlers to Native treaty rights, the nature of the North Country emerges here in all its variety and particularity: as clearly distinct from the greater Midwest as it is part of the American heartland.

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 north of Fort Boonesborough, the county served as a gateway for the pioneer settlement of central Kentucky. Its early history was filled with dangers and tragedies as well as the relentless will to survive and flourish. By the early 1900s, the children and grandchildren of Clark County's settlers were passing away, and along with them, their family stories and accounts of this early history. Almost a hundred years ago, the Clark County Historical Society was organized in 1922 with the goal of seeking to preserve our heritage. Two months later the group began producing The Clark County Chronicles, a series of articles focusing on the early history of our county. The columns first appeared in The Winchester Sun and were presented over the course of several years during the early 1920s; The Sun republished them in the 1980s. The Bluegrass Heritage Museum, home of today's Clark County Historical Society, feels it is time for the community to revisit the Chronicles, but for the first time all the articles have been combined in one book, illustrated and indexed.

Streifzüge durch eine sagenhafte LandschaftCarmen Rohrbach führt den Leser auf facettenreichen Wanderungen durch das wildromantische Elbsandsteingebirge, eine Region, die sie schon als Jugendliche begeistert hat. Dabei kommt sie mit Hüttenwirten und Wanderern ins Gespräch, berichtet über die Entstehung der geheimnisvollen Landschaft und die Bedeutung des Nationalparks. Mal in Begleitung ihres Bruders Holger, mal mit ihrem Partner folgt sie dem Malerweg, wandert durch Täler und auf Tafelberge. Sie geht der Vergangenheit von Burgen und Schlössern auf den Grund, taucht ein in Nebelmeere und fantasievolle Geschichten, die sich um das einmalige Naturparadies ranken.

Nina Otero-Warren's book, Old Spain in Our Southwest (1936), recorded her memories of the family hacienda in Las Lunas, New Mexico.

In den vergangenen Jahren hat sich in Thüringen so unglaublich viel getan. Daher befand die Autorin, den zahlreichen Veränderungen könne nur eine gründliche Bearbeitung des 2008 erstmals erschienenen Reisebüchleins gerecht werden. Dass die Nachrecherche für sie jedoch so zeitaufwändig - und zugleich so beglückend - werden würde, hat sie anfangs nicht geahnt ...Man sieht nur, was man weiß! Von diesen klugen Worten ließen sich Autorin und Illustratorinnen schon 2008 leiten und luden die Leser ein, eher wenig bekannte Seiten Thüringens zu erkunden und reizvolle Landschaften, Orte und Gebäude zu entdecken. Jetzt können Sie sich ein Bild machen, wie es dort heute aussieht, zum Beispiel in Hummelshain, Löbichau, Meuselwitz, Nöbdenitz, Posterstein, Renthendof, Ronneburg, Thalbürgel oder Veßra. Oder Sie sehen Kranichfeld, Orlamünde, Saalfeld und Windischleuba mit anderen Augen. Vielleicht gehen Sie nun auch bei Ihrer Wanderung durchs Mühltal nicht mehr achtlos an der Amtsschreibersmühle vorbei. Die "neue" Leuchtenburg bei Kahla ausdrücklich zu erwähnen, hieße ohnehin, die berühmten Eulen nach Athen zu tragen ...