Wyniki wyszukiwania:

In They Came To Play: A Photographic History of Colorado Baseball, historians and avid baseball fans Duane Smith and Mark Foster have collected the finest historic baseball photographs of teams, players, and games...

Questions about the Afterlife? You Must Read This

A successful young family man seemed to have it all; a beautiful home, a Rockwellian family, new cars, boats, airplanes and European vacations. His only creed was, He who dies with the most toys, wins.Then, just when life seemed perfect . . . a Stanford medical diagnosed him with just 5 months to live, and his whole world came crashing down.

As the young family struggled to comprehend what was happening, the 5 months stretched to 12. Being agnostic, he did't believe any after death stories, expecting only...

Growing up a slave in South Carolina, Robert Smalls always dreamed of the moment freedom would be within his grasp. Now that moment was here.

Robert stood proudly at the Planter's wheel. Only seven miles of water lay between the ship and the chance of freedom in Union territory. With precision and amazing courage, he navigated past the Confederate forts in the harbor and steered the ship toward the safety of the Union fleet. Just one miscalculation would be deadly, but for Robert, his family, and his crewmates, the risk was worth taking.

Seven Miles to Freedom is the compelling...

In many ways, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, more popularly known as the Chicago World's Fair, symbolized the American people's belief that today's glory and tomorrow's future rested with them, their country, and their democracy. A six-month extravaganza of education, entertainment, and amazement, it sparkled in the daytime and emerged at night, seductive and enchanting.

The Fair aroused patriotism, pride, and a sense of achievement in almost all Americans, yet 1893 proved a troubling year for the United States, and for the young state of Colorado in particular....

Traditionally the American frontier was the home of the self-sufficient individualist, a rural environment where settlers lived without the comforts of society. But from the first gold rush into the Rockies in 1859 until the 1890s, when most gold fields had been played out, the unsettled wilderness of the Rocky Mountains became the setting of a unique phenomenon--the Western mining camp. To be profitable, miners needed a community of support--including secure lines of transportation, farmers who could raise crops, and merchants who could supply equipment. The lure of easy money also...