Founded by Quakers from North Carolina more than 200 years ago, Richmond boasts a rich and colorful history. White and black migrants from older parts of the United States joined emigrants from Ireland and Germany to create a diverse, flourishing, and at times contentious community. Railroads, the Whitewater Canal, and the National Road laid the foundations for economic growth before the Civil War, and Richmond grew steadily in population and prosperity...

Cincinnati Cemeteries is not only a history of graveyards and their occupants. It also investigates the culture of death and dying in Cincinnati: from the infamous Pearl Bryan murder and the 19th-century cholera epidemics, to the body snatchers who stole the corpse of Benjamin Harrison's father and the notorious "resurrection men." In a city teeming with immigrants and transients these "sack 'em up" grave robbers had ample opportunities to supply...

This book focuses on the years from 1930 to 1960, the period of the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, and the postwar Truman and Eisenhower years. Most of the pictures in this collection were made by commerical photographer Lester B. Read of Vincennes, Indiana.

An account of some of the old homesteads and families ofKing William County, Virginia, from it's earliest settlement.