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Los Angeles television history began in the small room of an auto dealership in 1931. Since then, much of the nation’s television history has been made here: the first televisio...

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Hidden History of Florida

Florida has a history as diverse as its residents. And much of that is still hidden. Since the arrival of the Spanish in 1513, the state has played host to strange stories. A he...

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Lost Car Companies of Detroit

Among more than two hundred auto companies that tried their luck in the Motor City, just three remain: Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. But many of those lost to history have ...

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A History Lover's Guide to New York City

New York is a city of superlatives. It has the largest population, greatest wealth, broadest diversity and most elegant museums in the nation. With that comes an amazing history...

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Camp Forrest

Camp Forrest was a training, induction, and combatant prisoner-of-war (POW) facility located on the outskirts of Tullahoma, Tennessee. It was a self-sustaining city where over 7...

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Santa Margarita

Santa Margarita de Cortona was founded in 1775 as part of the original Spanish mission system. Its asistencia, in fact, has been considered a lost mission. Santa Margarita Ranch...

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Mount Rainier

Mount Rainier began its history as an incorporated town in 1910 with the merging of several subdivisions that straddled Bunker Hill Road, a major route between the ports of Geor...

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Alabama Gold

Alabama Gold: A History of the South’s Last Mother Lode

Gold rushes in Cleburne and Tallapoosa Counties attracted thousands of miners years before California’s famous strike. In 1936, production at the Hog Mountain mine caused Alabam...

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Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch

Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch: The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse

Thanks to the classic Dolly Parton film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and ZZ Top’s ode “La Grange,” many people think they know the story of the infamous Chicken Ranch. Th...

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Mount Pleasant

From its earliest years, Mount Pleasant was known as the “Athens of Iowa”: a small town with a big story and a center of learning and culture. Even during the town’s pioneer era...

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New Smyrna Beach

In 1768, Scottish physician Andrew Turnbull arrived in Florida with more than 1,200 indentured servants. He and his partners dreamed of establishing a plantation settlement that...

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Savin Rock

The area surrounding Savin Rock in West Haven followed a traditional New England path that began as farmland for colonists. After the Civil War, however, that path took a new tu...

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Stuart

On the southeast coast of Florida in the 1880s, a quaint little community was nestled along the tranquil waters of the St. Lucie River in a wilderness of tropical beauty, one of...

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A Brief History of Bucktown

A Brief History of Bucktown: Davenport's Infamous District Transformed

German immigrants created leafy beer gardens here nearly two centuries ago, establishing Bucktown as the heart of entertainment in downtown Davenport for generations. In 1916, t...

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Connecticut in the Golden Age of Spiritualism

In the aftermath of the Civil War, distraught Connecticut residents turned to Spiritualism as a means of connecting with their lost loved ones. Daniel Dunglas Home of New London...

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Ghosts of Mississippi’s Golden Triangle

The Golden Triangle is an institutional hub, but restless spirits of Native Americans, Civil War soldiers and slaves also wander this region. Tales of a mysterious watchman who ...

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Ghosts of Ventura County's Heritage Valley

Strange secrets and eerie tales shadow the idyllic beauty of the Heritage Valley and the meandering Santa Clara River. The spirit of a playful little boy wanders the halls of th...

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Ghosts of the Rio Grande Valley

Tradition meets tragedy in the chilling local lore of the Rio Grande Valley. Hidden in the dense brush and around oxbow lakes wait sinister secrets, unnerving vestiges of the pa...

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Haunted Santa Cruz, California

Though generally a peaceful coastal city, the dark stains from Santa Cruz’s past still linger. A former Spanish Mission, Holy Cross Catholic Church harbors a dark history of a b...

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Richmond Through the Twentieth Century

Richmond is a city with a pedigree, a past that can be traced back to the first English settlers who landed at Jamestown in 1607. Yet the focus of this volume is the twentieth c...

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