Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Artifactsand the American past Artifactsand the American past Thomas J. Schlereth This book presents ways to explore and teach history outside the traditional classroom experience--by the study of historic photographs, mail-order catalogs, cartography, historic house museums and v… OL13547194W
Lost rights Lost rights David Howard Near the close of the Civil War, as General Sherman blazed his path to the sea, an unknown infantryman rifled through the North Carolina state house.The soldier was hunting for simple Confederate mem… OL13783836W
Official 2014 blackbook price guide to United States paper money Official 2014 blackbook price guide to United States paper money Marc Hudgeons Features include: listings for every national note issued from 1861 to the present; over 6,000 current national market prices; hundreds of photos for easy identification; an updated market review tha… OL17825954W
Mummies in nineteenth century America Mummies in nineteenth century America S. J. Wolfe "This work examines Egyptian mummies as artifacts in pre-1900 America--how they got here, what happened to them, and how they were perceived. Collected newspaper accounts and other documents reveal t… OL18732498W
Prehistoric America Prehistoric America Betty Jane Meggers "Based on the chapter entitled Prehistoric New World cultural development, which is included in volume III of the History of mankind: cultural and scientific development." OL2300464W
Submerged Submerged Daniel Lenihan The author uses a memoir format to present the history and development of the Submerged Cultural Resources Unit of the US National Park Service (known among divers as the SCRU Team). Lenihan was the … OL2719307W
Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of the Southwestern United States: Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of the Southwestern United States: Noel D. Justice "The American Southwest is the focus for this new volume in Noel Justice's series of reference works that survey, describe, and categorize the projectile points and cutting tools used in prehistory b… OL5279949W