Explores the origins of American place names, revealing how they were imported from other countries or used to commemorate people, events, or natural landmarks

Old Names and New Places

Alotta, Robert I.

Children's Books

Westminster John Knox Pr

Number 2: A Look at the Vice Presidency

Julian Messner

Describes the origins of street names throughout the city, providing historical details and entertaining anecdotes about former Philadelphians. Bibliogs

Street Names of Philadelphia

Science & Math

Temple Univ Pr

A portrait of Private William Howe focuses on his role as a military scapegoat and the overshadowing of his acts of bravery on the battlefield by his trial for desertion and murder

Stop the Evil: A Civil War History of Desertion and Murder

History

Americas

Stan Clark Military Books

Signposts and Settlers: The History of Place Names in the Middle Atlantic States

Bonus Books

Describes the military system regarding executions during the Civil War, and discusses errors in the government's records of who was executed and why

Civil War Justice: Union Army Executions Under Lincoln

White Mane Pub

This American Revolution history is a story of places, specific locations where the Revolution's social and military upheavals happened, and provides a vivid sense of both people and places where the heart of the civil war with Britain occurred. 133 pages with bibliography and index. 9.4 x 6.25 inches. White Mane Publishing Company, Shippensburg, PA, 1991

Another Part of the Field: Philadelphia's American Revolution, 1777-78

Cawood, Hobart G.

White Mane Publishing Company

The Last Voyage of the SS Henry Bacon saw the crew put the lives of 19 Norwegian refugees above their own. The Bacon was the last Liberty ship to be sunk by the German Lufwaffe on the Murmansk Run from Scotland to Murmansk, Russia. The ship fought valiantly against superior forces, and downed more German planes than any other Liberty ship. The SS Henry Bacon was born, lived and died in war: commissioned November 11, 1942; and sank February 23, 1945. When the ship went down, her proud captain and chief engineer were standing at the helm. This is her story. Well written and documented, The Last Voyage of the SS Henry Bacon is filled with touching personal episodes and is drawn from conversation and correspondence with the surviving merchant seamen and Navy gunners. All of the accounts have been verified by declassified Navy and Maritime Commission records.

Last Voyage of the SS Henry Bacon

Foxvog, Donald R.

Military

Paragon_House

Signposts and Settlers: The History of Place Names West of the Rockies

Travel

UNKNO

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