Past and Present

The Past and Present American history book series offers a special view of American life by placing historical images side-by-side with contemporary photographs. Witness for yourself how towns like Concord, Capitol Hill, and Exeter have changed throughout the years. Understand the evolution of American enterprises, from the coal industry in southwestern Pennsylvania to the railways of Los Angeles. These Past and Present books help illuminate the connections between America’s yesterday and its tomorrow.
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Historic Orlando
Historic Orlando
New Orleans
New Orleans
Monticello
Monticello
Montevallo
Montevallo
Pulaski County
Pulaski County
Fairhope
Fairhope
Concord
Concord
Metairie
Metairie
Calhoun County
Calhoun County

Historic Orlando

9781467108768

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Orlando's historic districts are separate throughout the city, yet its landmarks and its memories unite them. Images of Orlando from 1875 to 2022 paint a picture of a landscape dotted with cattle and orange trees exploding into a bustling city. While some authors claim that Orlando's history is lost, these images show how the city's Historic Preservation Board has safeguarded many cultural and architectural treasures.
Historic Orlando

New Orleans

9781467161237

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While the name of the city New Orleans itself implies reinvention, among its traits most beloved by residents and visitors alike in the 21st century are the things that have not changed much over time. Jazz, flavor, celebration, and a warm welcome are always on the menu.  Lifelong resident and author Troy Broussard recounts the more than three-century story of a city as familiar with rebuilding and rebirth after tragedy as it is with revelry.

New Orleans

Monticello

9781467160179

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The 1872 French castle courthouse set the tone for construction in Monticello. Numerous elegant churches, residences, schools, and civic buildings followed.
Monticello

Montevallo

9781467160988

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Montevallo, a charming city located near the geographic center of Alabama, has a rich historic legacy spanning 200 years.

The city has been home to the University of Montevallo, Alabama's public liberal arts college, and its predecessors since 1896. Located close to Birmingham, Montevallo has maintained its vibrancy as it has transitioned away from agriculture and mining.

For this volume, authors and university professors Carey W. Heatherly and Clark Hultquist have selected images from the university's Anna Crawford Milner Archives and Special Collections.

Montevallo

Pulaski County

9781467160940

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Pulaski County, one of Arkansas's original five counties, has been a political and cultural center for the state since 1819, being the home of the state's capitol and the seat of the state's economic power.

Located in the Arkansas River valley, Pulaski County is marked by bustling communities and has been home to colorful Arkansas characters, such as Chester Ashley and William Woodruff, and civil rights pioneers, such as Scipio Jones and Daisy Bates. These luminaries left traces and trails in the architecture throughout the county that attest to their cultural and economic world. This book serves as a document to the buildings they left behind and how the county has changed in the last 200 years.

Author Brian David Irby dives into the Arkansas State Archives' photograph collection to tell the story of Pulaski County's development.

Pulaski County

Fairhope

9781467160162

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Fairhope, Alabama, was founded on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay in 1894 as a social experiment. The pioneers applied the single-tax principle and economic philosophy found in Henry George's 1879 book Progress and Poverty. The city of Fairhope was established in 1908 inside and around the colony, known today as the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. This book celebrates the timeless Fairhope bay views and historic buildings and homes.
Fairhope

Concord

9781467107303

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Founded in 1796, Concord experienced the evolutionary growing pains that many Southern towns faced in the 19th and 20th centuries. Concord has shifted from agricultural hamlet to textile town to a city of progress and innovation, and it is currently the 10th-largest city in North Carolina and home to a population of almost 100,000.
Concord

Metairie

9781467109048

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Humans first inhabited Metairie after the Mississippi River flowed through it, leaving behind natural levees--as well as Bayou Metairie--along Metairie Road. After the surrounding swampland was drained, other areas were developed, and in 2020, Metairie became the sixth-largest census designated place in the nation.
Metairie

Calhoun County

9781467109697

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Calhoun County, formerly known as Benton County, lies in northeastern Alabama in the Coosa Valley region at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Much of the history of the area has been documented in photographs archived at the Public Library of Anniston-Calhoun County in the Alabama Room, which provides historical and genealogical reference for the area.
Calhoun County