What child lucky enough to have lived in the era was not struck by the awesome size, power and mystery of a steam locomotive going to distant locations? Although the locations for the Midland were not so distant, given the time and the exuberance of the
In this comprehensive and historically rich study, author Vincent DiMarco shares three original, never-before published cookery manuscripts from eighteenth-century England. Taken from the author's private collection, the manuscripts contain over five hundred
Have you ever read about a Victorian dress, and wondered: What colour, exactly, is heliotrope? Did you ever read an Elizabethan novel and say: Did anyone really wear Puke? When Chaucer wrote: his eyen bright citrin, did you wonder about what colour is
This Directory contains the only complete listing of nationally designated historic landmarks â€" more than 4,000 landmarks. Current to 2009. For each landmark, the Directory provides a hyperlink that will take the user directly to complete information.
It sounds daunting: all those '-isms', long technical words, weird French thinkers and incomprehensible Germans. You can't read a book nowadays, it seems, without being required to refer to them. From university students to the average intelligent reader,
Peter D'Epiro received a B.A. and M.A. from Queens College and his Ph.
D. in English from Yale University. He has taught English at the secondary and college levels and worked as an editor and writer for thirty years. He has written (with Mary Desmon
A guide to the Masonic legacy in Washington, DC, just in time for publication of the new Dan Brown novel. The Masons are coming! The Masons are coming! Or, more precisely, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol is finally on its way, and one look at the book cover,
Journey into the history of what was once called the "Jewel of the Mid Valley" - Olyphant, Pennsylvania, "The Queen City." This journey takes the reader through the earliest days of the township and notable events of the past. Included are some famous
