Mary Elizabeth Garrett was one of the most influential philanthropists and women activists of the Gilded Age. With Mary's legacy all but forgotten, Kathleen Waters Sander recounts in impressive detai
Chartered in 1827 as the country’s first railroad, the legendary Baltimore and Ohio played a unique role in the nation’s great railroad drama and became the model for American railroading. John W. Gar
In the nineteenth century Woman's Exchanges formed a vast national network that created economic alternatives for financially vulnerable women in a world that permitted few respectable employment opti
Come for a cruise in Clipper the Comet. This book for children (and car lovers of all ages) will take you on a journey through Americana.Celebrating hard work, pride in your family and the strong ethi
Pete the Popcorn is a corny story about popping up!Pete is a little popcorn kernel struggling with growing up, like all kernels his age. He wants to stand out from the other kids, but doesn't know how
"The Secret" shared by Jean-Marie Howe, retired abbess of the Cistercian Abbey of the Assomption de l'Acadie in New Brunswick, is that through immersion in monastic life, men and women enter into cont