Casino Island Park
In the summer of 1910, hundreds of electric lights shed their radiance on the Rappahannock River for the opening of Casino Island Park.read more
View ArticleGari Melchers: Stafford County's Artist in Residence
melchers_woman_sewing.jpgIn 1916, Gari Melchers, an internationally famous painter, purchased the Belmont estate in Falmouth, Virginia. With the exception of some European travel in the 1920s, he made...
View ArticleWilliam Forrest Halsey: Silent Scenarist of Fredericksburg
garbo.jpgForrest Halsey (who did not utilize the "William" assigned by his parents at his birth in New Jersey on the ninth of November, 1878) was a grandson of John and Martha Whittemore, onetime...
View ArticleThe Flu Bug Bites Back
flu_2.jpgJust when you thought it was safe to get back in the social scene, the bad news hits. That shot in your arm wasn't such a shot in the arm. In recent years, the doctors who designed the vaccine...
View ArticleFire! The Beginnings of the Labor Movement
By Barbara Diamond GoldinIn 1911, Rosie becomes involved in the struggle for better working conditions in factories when fire rips through the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, where her older sister Freyda...
View ArticleHattie Big Sky
By Krby LarsonAfter inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself.Reserve this title
View ArticleThe Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
By Caroline AlexanderIn August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of...
View ArticleBlack and White Sat Down Together: The Reminiscences of an NAACP Founder
By Mary White Ovington In 1909, Ovington, W.E.B. Du Bois and 50 others founded the NAACP. This memoir chronicles her life, the politics of her era, the prejudice that civil rights workers faced, and...
View ArticleO'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American Romance
By Benita Eisler"Introducing modernism to the New York art world, photographer Alfred Stieglitz was impresario to such notable American artists and photographers as John Marin, Paul Strand, Charles...
View ArticleA Night to Remember
By Walter Lord"...a completely riveting account of the Titanic 's fatal collision and the behavior of the passengers and crew, both noble and ignominious. Some sacrificed their lives, while others...
View ArticleFlu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the...
By Gina Kolata"In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic raged. Children were left orphaned and families...
View ArticleOn Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
By A'Lelia BundlesThe daughter of slaves, Madam C. J. Walker was orphaned at seven, married at 14, and widowed at 20. On Her Own Ground is a comprehensive biography of an unusual entrepreneur and...
View ArticleThe Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian
There was more than one wide-scale genocide in the 20th century.read more
View ArticleShadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived
By Andrew Wilson"In the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, the icy waters of the North Atlantic reverberated with the desperate screams of more than 1,500 men, women, and children--passengers of...
View ArticleLost Voices from the Titanic: The Definitive Oral History
By Nick Barratt"On April 15, 1912, the HMS Titanic sank, killing 1,517 people and leaving the rest clinging to debris in the frozen waters of the North Atlantic awaiting rescue. Here, historian Nick...
View ArticleGhosts of the Abyss: A Journey into the Heart of the Titanic
By Don Lynch and Ken Marschall"In the late summer of 2001, James Cameron, the director-producer of the highest-grossing picture in Hollywood history, led a new deep-diving expedition to the wreck of...
View ArticleTitanic Survivor: The Newly-discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived...
By Violet Jessop"I do not welcome ever more books on the Titanic, but the memoirs of a stewardess on board about that ship & the era, about her life & work... make a human story &...
View ArticleLast Dinner on the Titanic
By Rick Archbold; recipes by Dana McCauleyA cookbook designed to recreate the atmosphere of dining on the famous, doomed luxury liner serves up such recipes as Lobster Thermidor, Quails' Eggs in Aspic...
View ArticleStafford's Coal Landing: Center of Commerce
By 1900 the forests had recovered sufficiently from the ravages of the Civil War to support a lumber business again. Long boats sailed from Coal Landing to Aquia Creek, up the Potomac and on to...
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