anecdotes

A collection of stories featured on the C-SPAN author-interview program "Booknotes" which chronicle major historical events in United States history.

Walter Cronkite profiles the people, towns, and landmarks which can be found along America's coastline.

Contains thirty-one essays in which the authors, all historians, discuss specific, under-recognized events they believe helped shape America and the world.

At head of title: Reader's Digest. Over 600 true stories delve into history and come up with all-American entertainment.

Examines the lives, thoughts, and feelings of African-Americans in the post-Civil Rights era of the 1990s, based on interviews with approximately two hundred men and women conducted throughout the country over the course of six years.

Jon Katz discusses how his border collie Orson changed his life and recounts the experiences they had after moving to an old farmhouse.

Presents stories of historical characters and events that contributed to the shaping of England from 1387 to 1689.

Presents a collection of interviews with centenarians across the United States in which they discuss their lives in the twentieth century as witnesses to wars, Prohibition, the Depression, and other historic events.