Genre search:History

Western ways : remembering Mayo through the eyes of Helen Hooker and Ernie O'Malley

by Cormac K. H. O'Malley
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
Mayo (Ireland : County) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Pictorial works., Ireland -- Manners and customs., Ireland -- Mayo (County), Ireland -- History.
Status
Available
Call number
941.7 OMALLEY O'Malley

The War for the Union.

by Allan Nevins, 1890-1971.
Paper Book, 1971
Tags
United States -- History -- Civil War 1861-1865.
Series
Ordeal of the Union (Volume 8)
Status
Available
Call number
973.74 Nevis v.1

Weights, money and other measures used by our ancestors

by Colin R. Chapman, 1939-
Paper Book, 1996
Tags
Paper money., Weights and measures -- Great Britain -- History.
Status
Available
Call number
332.4 Chapman

When genius failed : the rise and fall of Long-Term Capital Management

by Roger Lowenstein
Paper Book, 2000
Tags
Hedge funds -- Connecticut -- Greenwich., Long Term Capital Management (Greenwich Conn.)
Status
Available
Call number
332.6 Lowenstein

The history of photography : from 1839 to the present

by Beaumont Newhall, 1908-1993
Paper Book, 1982
Tags
Photography -- History.
Status
Available
Call number
770.9 Newhall

Letters of a Westchester farmer, 1774-1775

by Samuel Seabury, 1729-1796
Paper Book, 1930
Tags
Special collection., United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783., New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783., United States. Continental Congress., Hamilton Alexander 1757-1804.
Series
Publications of the Westchester County Historical Society (8)
Status
Available
Call number
974.72 Seabury

The Armory Show at 100: modernism and revolution.

by Marilyn S. Kushner, 1948- Editor
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
Armory Show (1913 : New York N.Y.) -- History, Art Modern -- 19th century -- History, Art Modern -- 21st century -- History
Status
Available
Call number
709.041 Kushner

Willing patriots : men of color in the First World War

by Robert J. Dalessandro
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
World War 1914-1918 -- Participation African American -- Pictorial works., United States. Army -- African American troops -- Portraits.
Status
Available
Call number
940.403 Dalessandro

A reverence for wood

by Eric Sloane
Paper Book, 1965
Tags
Wood., Woodwork -- United States -- History., Carpentry -- History
Status
Available
Call number
620.12 Sloane

Slaves of central Fairfield County, Connecticut : the journey from slave to freeman in nineteenth-century Connecticut.

by Daniel Cruson
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
Slavery -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- History., Slaves -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- Biography., Slaves -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- Social life and customs., African Americans -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- Social life and customs, African Americans -- Connecticut, Fairfield County (Conn.) -- Race relations., Fairfield County (Conn.) -- Rural conditions., Fairfield County (Conn.) -- Politics and government., Antislavery movements -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- History, Underground Railroad -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County.
Status
Available
Call number
326.9746 Cruson

Native people of southern New England, 1500-1650.

by Kathleen Joan Bragdon
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
Indians of North America -- New England., Indians -- Social life and customs.
Status
Available
Call number
974.004 Bragdon

Disowning slavery : gradual emancipation and "race" in New England, 1780-1860.

by Joanne Pope Melish
Paper Book, 1998
Tags
Antislavery movements -- New England -- History -- 18th century, Antislavery movements -- New England -- History -- 19th century, New England -- History -- 18th century., Slaves -- New England.
Status
Available
Call number
326.974 Melish

Art in a season of revolution : painters, artisans, and patrons in early America

by Margaretta M. Lovell
Paper Book, 2005
Tags
Art American -- New England -- 18th century, Art Colonial -- New England, Art patronage -- New England -- History -- 18th century, Art and society -- New England -- History -- 18th century, Beeldende kunsten
Series
Early American Studies (2005)
Status
Available
Call number
709.746 Lovell

The early settlement of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641-1700.

by Jeanne Majdalany
Paper Book, 1990
Tags
Land settlement -- Connecticut -- Stamford -- History -- 17th century., Stamford (Conn.) -- History., Stamford (Conn.) -- Genealogy., Connecticut -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600-1775.
Status
Available
Call number
974.6918 Majdalany

Harbor Point: a history

by Nick Taylor
Book, 2021
Tags
Harbor Point (Riverside Conn.) -- History, Riverside (Conn.) -- History, Dwellings -- Connecticut -- Riverside.
Status
Available
Call number
974.69084 Taylor

Encyclopedia of local history.

by Carol Kammen
Paper Book, 2000
Tags
United States -- History., Local -- Research -- Encyclopedias.
Status
Available
Call number
973.072 Kammen

Our vanishing landscape

by Eric Sloane
Paper Book, 1955
Tags
Architecture -- United States -- History, United States -- Social life and customs.
Status
Available
Call number
728.9 Sloane

The Revolution remembered : eyewitness accounts of the war for independence.

by John C. Dann Editor
Paper Book, 1980
Tags
United States -- History -- Revolution 1775-1783 -- Personal narratives.
Series
Clements Library Bicentennial Studies (1980)
Status
Available
Call number
973.38 Dunn

Soldiers of the revolutionary war buried in Vermont, and anecdotes and incidents relating to some of them. A paper read before the Vermont Historical Society ... October 27, 1904

by Walter Hill Crockett, 1870-1931
Paper Book, 1991
Tags
Vermont -- History -- Revolution 1775-1783., United States -- Revolution 1775-1783.
Status
Available
Call number
973.37 Vermont Crockett

Connecticut : mapping the Nutmeg state through history : rare and unusual maps from the Library of Congress.

by Vincent Virga
Book, 2011
Tags
Early maps -- Connecticut -- Facsimiles., Connecticut -- Historical geography -- Maps., Connecticut -- History -- Maps., Connecticut -- Maps -- Facsimiles.
Series
Mapping States Through History
Status
Available
Call number
911.746 Virga

Rolls of Connecticut men in the French and Indian war : 1755-1762.

by Albert Carlos Bates, 1865-1954 Editor
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
United States -- History -- French and Indian War 1754-1763 -- Registers., Connecticut -- History -- French and Indian War 1754-1763 -- Registers., Connecticut -- Militia -- Registers.
Status
Available
Call number
973.25 Bates v.1

The old United Empire Loyalists list : with a new introduction by Milton Rubicam.

by Toronto United Empire Loyalist Centennial Committee
Paper Book, 1976
Tags
United Empire Loyalists., Ontario -- History., Adolphstown (Ontario) -- Centennial celebration, Toronto -- Centennial celebration., Niagara (Ontario Canada) -- Centennial celebration.
Status
Available
Call number
929.3 United

Revolutionary medicine, 1700-1800

by C. Keith Wilbur, 1923-
Paper Book, 1997
Tags
Medicine Military -- United States -- History -- 18th century., United States -- History -- Revolution 1775-1783 -- Medical care.
Series
Illustrated Living History Series
Status
Available
Call number
973.3 Wilbur

The geography of nowhere : the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape

by James Howard Kunstler
Paper Book, 1993
Tags
Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- United States, Architecture and society -- United States
Status
Available
Call number
720.47 Kunstler

The life of George Washington, commander in chief of the American forces, during the war which established the independence of his country, and first president of the United States.

by John Marshall, 1755-1835.
Paper Book, 1926
Tags
Special collection., Washington George 1732-1799., Presidents -- United States -- Biography., United States -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600-1775., Generals -- United States -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
973.41 WASHINGTON Marshall

Historic photos of Connecticut.

by Sam L. Rothman
Book, 2008
Tags
Connecticut -- Pictorial works., Connecticut -- History.
Status
Available
Call number
974.6 Rothman

The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America

by Wendy Gamber, 1958-
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
Lodging-houses -- United States -- History -- 19th century., Boardinghouses -- United States -- History -- 19th century, United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Status
Available
Call number
648.9 Gamber

Indian New England before the Mayflower

by Howard S. Russell
Paper Book, 1980
Tags
Indians of North America -- New England.
Status
Available
Call number
974.004 Russell

Houses and homes : exploring their history

by Barbara J. Howe
Paper Book, 1987
Tags
Dwellings -- Research -- United States -- Handbooks manuals etc.., Dwellings -- United States -- Historiography., Historic buildings -- United States, Local history., United States -- History Local -- Handbooks manuals etc..
Series
The Nearby history series (2)
Status
Available
Call number
728.38 Howe

Black church beginnings : the long-hidden realities of the first years.

by Henry H. Mitchell, 1919-
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
African American churches -- History, African Americans -- Religion, African American churches
Status
Available
Call number
277.3 Mitchell

The history of New England from 1630 to 1649.

by John Winthrop, 1588-1649.
Paper Book, 1825
Tags
Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600-1775., New England -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600-1775.
Status
Available
Call number
974.02 Winthrop

Highland Park and River Oaks : the origins of garden suburban community planning in Texas.

by Cheryl Caldwell Ferguson
Paper Book, 2014
Tags
Dallas (Tex.) -- Highland Park., Houston (Tex.) -- River Oaks., City planning., Architecture and society, Texas.
Series
Roger Fullington series in architecture
Status
Available
Call number
307.12 Ferguson

Rage for fame : the ascent of Clare Boothe Luce.

by Sylvia Jukes Morris
Paper Book, 1997
Tags
Luce Clare Boothe 1903-1987., Ambassadors -- Biography, Legislators -- Biography., Dramatists American -- 20th century -- Biography., Journalists -- Biography., Greenwich (Conn.) -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
973.9109 LUCE Morris

The silver and Sheffield plate collector : a guide to English domestic metal work in old silver and old Sheffield plate

by W. A. Young
Paper Book, 1919
Tags
Silverwork -- Great Britain., Sheffield plate., Silverware -- Collectors and collecting.
Status
Available
Call number
739.2394 Young

A Connecticut Yankee in the 8th Gurkha Rifles : a Burma memoir.

by Scott Gilmore
Paper Book, 1995
Tags
Gilmore Scott., World War 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma., World War 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives American., Great Britain. Army -- Biography., Great Britain. Army. Gurkha Rifles 4/8th -- History.
Status
Available
Call number
940.5426 GILMORE Gilmore

Caring for American Indian objects : a practical and cultural guide.

by Sherelyn Ogden
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
Indians of North America -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation., Indians of North America -- Material culture., Indians of North America -- Museums., Museum conservation methods -- North America., Museum techniques -- North America., United States -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation.
Status
Available
Call number
973.0497 Ogden

Connecticut disasters : true stories of tragedy and survival.

by Ellsworth S. Grant
Paper Book, 2006
Tags
Natural disasters -- Connecticut -- History., Disasters -- Connecticut -- History.
Series
Disasters series
Status
Available
Call number
363.34 Grant

In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York's Hudson River Valley, 1735-1831

by Susan Stessin-Cohn
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Fugitive slaves -- Hudson River Valley Region (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History -- 19th century, Slavery -- Hudson River Valley Region (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History -- 18th century, Slavery -- New York (State) -- History, New York (State) -- History -- 18th century
Status
Available
Call number
326.972 Stessin-Cohn

The Wiechquaeskeck Indians of southwestern Connecticut in the seventeenth century.

by John Alexander Buckland
Paper Book, 2002
Tags
Indians of North America -- Connecticut., Wiechquaeskeck Indians -- Connecticut., Indians of North America -- Wiechquaeskeck Indians -- Western Connecticut.
Status
Available
Call number
974.601 Buckland

Dictionary of American-Indian place and proper names in New England

by R. A. Douglas-Lithgow
Paper Book, 2012
Tags
Names -- Geographical -- New England., Names -- Geographical -- Indians -- New England., Indians of North America -- New England., Abenaki language, Massachuset language.
Status
Available
Call number
917.4 Douglas-Lithgow

Public places : exploring their history.

by Gerald A. Danzer
Paper Book, 1987
Tags
Public history -- United States., Local history., Historic sites -- United States., United States -- History Local.
Series
The Nearby history series (3)
Status
Available
Call number
973.072 Danzer

The rise and fall of the Confederate government.

by Jefferson Davis
Hardcover, 1938
Tags
Confederate States of America -- History., United States -- History -- Civil War 1861-1865.
Status
Available
Call number
973.713 Davis

Daboll's schoolmaster's assistant. Improved and enlarged.

by Nathan Daboll
Paper Book, 1832
Tags
Special collection., Accounting, Business mathematics, Bookkeeping
Status
Available
Call number
657 Daboll

Tracing your Civil War ancestor.

by Bertram Hawthorne Groene, 1923-
Paper Book, 1995
Tags
United States -- History -- Civil War 1861-1865 -- Archival resources -- Directories., United States -- Genealogy -- Handbooks manuals etc.
Status
Available
Call number
973.74 Groene

Hail to the candidate : presidential campaigns from banners to broadcasts

by Keith E. Melder
Paper Book, 1992
Tags
Presidents -- United States -- Election., United States -- Politics and government., Campaign paraphernalia -- United States, Political collectibles -- United States.
Status
Available
Call number
324.973 Melder

Bedford

by Shirley Lindefjeld Bianco
Paper Book, 2003
Tags
Bedford (N.Y.) -- History -- Pictorial works, Historic buildings -- New York (State) -- Bedford -- Pictorial works., Bedford (N.Y. ) -- Buildings structures etc. -- Pictorial works, Bedford (N.Y.) -- Biography -- Pictorial works
Series
Images of America [Arcadia] (New York)
Status
Available
Call number
974.72 Bianco

The lost Hamptons.

by Steven Petrow
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
Hamptons (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works., Hamptons (N.Y.) -- History., Postcards -- New York (State) -- Hamptons.
Status
Available
Call number
974.721 Petrow

What did they mean by that? : a dictionary of historical terms for genealogists.

by Paul Drake, 1932-
Paper Book, 1994
Tags
English language -- Obsolete words -- Dictionaries., English language -- Glossaries vocabularies., English language -- Archaisms -- Dictionaries., Genealogy -- Dictionaries., English language -- 18th century -- Glossaries vocabularies.
Status
Available
Call number
423.1 Drake

Inhabitants of New York, 1774-1776

by Thomas B. Wilson, 1932-
Paper Book, 1993
Tags
New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy., Suffolk County (N.Y.) -- Genealogy., New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Revolution 1775-1783 -- Registers., United States -- History -- Revolution 1775-1783 -- Registers., New York (N.Y.) -- Registers., Suffolk County (N.Y.) -- Registers.
Status
Available
Call number
929.377 Wilson

Borderland : origins of the American suburb, 1820-1939.

by John R. Stilgoe, 1949-
Paper Book, 1988
Tags
Suburbs -- United States -- History -- 19th century., Suburbs -- United States -- History -- 20th century., Landscapes -- United States -- History -- 19th century., Landscapes -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Status
Available
Call number
307.7 Stilgoe
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