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Fort Lauderdale: Playground of the Stars (Images of America)

Few Southern towns have more desirable claims to popularity than citadel Lauderdale. As one of many nice holiday locations in the USA, through the years it attracted such celebrities as Bob desire, Jayne Mansfield, Johnny Carson, Cary supply, and the worldchampion big apple Yankees. This seashore town’s historical past is starstudded and wealthy with attention-grabbing tales and images from that interval.

The Alamo: An Illustrated History

Grasp historian Edwin P. Hoyt depicts with picture and gripping element the clash among progressive Texas and the Mexican executive made up our minds to rule. within the first paperback variation of a hugely acclaimed heritage, Hoyt describes the well known historic evidence of the revolution, the pivotal siege of the Alamo, and the decisive aftermath, and fills them with new lifestyles.

Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)

On July eight, 1860, hearth destroyed the full enterprise component of Dallas, Texas. At in regards to the comparable time, different fires broken cities close to Dallas. Early studies indicated that spontaneous combustion was once the reason for the blazes, yet 4 days later, Charles Pryor, editor of the Dallas usher in, wrote letters to editors of pro-Democratic newspapers, alleging that the fires have been the results of an unlimited abolitionist conspiracy, the aim of which was once to devastate northern Texas and loose the region's slaves.

They Have Left Us Here to Die: The Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle G. Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry (Civil War in the North)

The chronicle of a Union soldier’s seven months in captivityBesides the hazards of demise or wounding in strive against, the typical Civil struggle soldier confronted the consistent danger of being captured by means of the enemy. it's expected that one out of each seven squaddies was once taken captive—more than 194,000 of them from Union regiments—and held in legal camps notorious for breeding disorder and loss of life.