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F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul is a city of winter dreams and ice palaces, lakeside parties and neighborhood hijinks. These are stories of ambition and young love, insecurity and awkwardness, where a poor boy with energy and intelligence can break into the upper classes and become a glittering success.

This selection brings together the best of Fitzgerald's St. Paul stories--some virtually unknown, others classics of short fiction. Patricia Hampl's incisive introduction traces the trajectory of Fitzgerald's blazing celebrity and its connections to his life in the city that gave him...

Winner of a 2015 NC Society of Historians award. Contains much new information (brought together in one place for the first time) about the famous early American road that once ran from Quaker Meadows near Morganton, NC, to Jonesborough, TN. Focusing primarily on the modern Burke County portion of the road, the evidence explored includes the earliest maps, old road orders, journals of early travelers, and the area's land grants. One section explores the issue of whether historian Lyman Draper got the North Cove to Quaker Meadows route wrong in his 1881 classic work, Kings Mountain and Its...

Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a bank holiday on March 5, 1933, closing banks across the country until they proved financial soundness. Meanwhile, as the United States crawled out of the Great Depression, Jesse H. Mitchell and a group of black businessmen accomplished the extraordinary--they started a black-owned bank on a street known as "Black Broadway" in the nation's capital. Mitchell, a Howard University-educated lawyer and realtor, and his friends sold $65,000 in stock, and in the sweltering heat on August 20, 1934, Industrial Bank of Washington opened for business. A range of...