Pines and Plains Libraries

"Gregg Jarrett provides commentary for the documents and speeches that shaped America"--

By and about the most famous names in America, these are the stories of their exploits told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, and private journals. The accounts span Daniel Boone's exploration of the Appalachian wilderness in the 1700s to the bloody massacre at Wounded Knee near the dawn of the twentieth century.

A literary exhibition of one-hundred and one objects from across the Smithsonian's museums that together offer a new perspective on the history of the United States. Ranging from the earliest years of the pre-Columbian continent to the digital age, and from the American Revolution to Vietnam, each entry pairs the history surrounding each object with the story of its creation or discovery and the place it has come to occupy in our national memory.--from...

Provides an opportunity to explore the background, pros and cons, and future of our planet's energy resources with nature power.

"They were the Princess Dianas of their day--perhaps the most photographed and talked about young royals of the early twentieth century. The four captivating Russian Grand Duchesses--Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Romanov--were much admired for their happy dispositions, their looks, the clothes they wore and their privileged lifestyle. Over the years, the story of the four Romanov sisters and their tragic end in a basement at Ekaterinburg in 1918...

This book includes letters, songs, speeches, poems and other writings from the era of World War II, and immediately following.