America Through Time

09/08/2025

📚 book: "ABANDONED LOUISVILLE: GHOSTS OF THE RIVER CITY" by Stephen Mosier is a must read!

Read more 👉🏼 https://sut.pub/Louisville

𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲, 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲, 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗰𝗸𝘆, 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟳𝟳𝟴 𝗯𝘆 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗸, 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀 𝗫𝗩𝗜.

Louisville is the home of Churchill Downs, known for the Kentucky Derby. During the Civil War, the city served as a Union Military Headquarters and supply depot and was an important crossing on the Underground Railroad for those escaping slavery across the Ohio River in Indiana.

The city has seen many changes over the past 200 years. As the metropolitan area grew to over one million people, various neighborhoods and suburbs started forming as people began to move away from the downtown areas. Many industries emerged, like the UPS Worldport Hub and Louisville Slugger baseball bat factory. As new areas emerged, the older parts of the city were often left behind, with structures left to decay for nature to reclaim.

Join author Stephen Mosier and venture into these forgotten structures from bygone areas. Journey into mansions, bridges, churches, and an abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium. See forgotten architecture and buildings in the River City that could soon be gone forever.

09/08/2025

📚 alert: "SCENIC AND HISTORIC ISLANDS OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY" by Virginia Hines is published in November.

Pre-order now 👉🏼 https://sut.pub/Scenic-SF

𝗕𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗦𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼 𝗕𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱’𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗰𝗮, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀.

Traveling to these islands—most reachable only by boat—recalls the diverse history, maritime roots, and rapid changes of a region often associated with high tech and snarled freeways. This book explores the Bay’s five most significant true islands, each with a fascinating history and spectacular views, in vivid color photographs.

Join photographer Virginia Hines to visit notorious Alcatraz Island, the former maximum-security penitentiary turned National Park; Angel Island, once the “Ellis Island of the West” for Asian immigrants; man-made Treasure Island, created to host a World’s Fair; tiny East Brother Island, with its quaint, still-functioning Victorian lighthouse; Yerba Buena Island, one-time home of the U.S. Navy’s last active fleet admiral, Chester Nimitz. Hidden in plain sight, these often under-appreciated gems blend into the landscape yet stand apart from the mainland, isolated and unique.

💻 Visit website: https://www.virginiahines.com

09/08/2025

🎙️Recommended podcast: Around the World with Virginia Hines

https://streetphotographymagazine.com/around-the-world-with-virginia-hines/

Around the World with Virginial Hines Listen to the Podcast Here This week we’re joined by our friend Virginia Hines. She’s a photographer and former publishing industry professional who has travel…

09/07/2025

this fall: "LONE STAR SHADOWS: ECHOES OF THE FORGOTTEN" by Teresa Nordheim explores the forgotten corners of Texas where history and the supernatural intertwine...

Read more 👉🏼 https://sut.pub/Lone-Star-Shadows

In "LONE STAR SHADOWS: ECHOES OF THE FORGOTTEN", discover the eerie tales and ghostly legends that haunt the state's abandoned military bases. From deserted barracks to long silent airfields and discarded spacecraft, each location tells a story of bravery and the unexplained, a journey through time where the past refuses to stay buried and restless spirits still linger. Lone Star Shadows is a captivating blend of history and the paranormal that will leave you questioning what you believe about the unseen world.

Each branch of the military stationed in the Lone Star State appears in the pages of this book. Our United States Military officers and enlisted disappear from decommissioned sites, but they are never forgotten.

09/06/2025

🇺🇸🪖📚 in Military History: "A CROWDED HOUR—MILWAUKEE DURING THE GREAT WAR 1917-1918" by Kevin J. Abing.

Read more » https://sut.pub/Crowded-Hour

An examination of the social, political, and economic challenges that scarred and dramatically changed the city during and after World War I. Pro-war patriots considered Milwaukee’s loyalties doubly suspect because of its large German-American population and strong Socialist Party. Consequently, Milwaukeeans endured intense efforts, some bordering on the paranoid or absurd, to enforce 100 percent Americanism and redeem the city’s reputation...

09/06/2025

📣🪦📚 alert: "BURIED NEW HAMPSHIRE: GRAVEYARDS HAVE STORIES TO TELL, VOLUME Rick Davidson, Author and Bill Thompson is published in November!

Read more 👉🏼 https://sut.pub/Buried-NH-2

Authors and photographers Rick Davidson and Bill Thompson spent a year investigating fascinating legends, researching, following clues, and photographing granite state cemeteries. What they found is contained in two intriguing books. Personalities in New Hampshire folklore, some lost to history and others well-known, come alive in these books.

09/06/2025

💡📚Something for the American history readers: "TRANQUILITY GROVE: THE GREAT ABOLITIONIST PICNIC OF 1844" by Martha Reardon Bewick tells the story of an important event that took place in Hingham, Massachusetts.

Read more 👉🏼 https://sut.pub/Tranquility

Attended by as many as 10,000 people, the largest abolitionist picnic in history marked the tenth anniversary of the end of slavery in the British West Indies. For abolitionists, celebrating the emancipation of West Indian slaves on August 1 was even more important than commemorating the 4th of July.

Newspapers described the preparations, participants, and events, from the parade to the speeches, to the unexpected overnight grounding of the steamship taking the Suffolk and Essex County delegates home.

Frederick Douglass was there, and former President and Congressman John Quincy Adams sent remarks. Tranquility Grove is a trove of information, right down to the question of where delegates and participants left their horses.

It also discusses other abolitionist memorials and suggests how Tranquility Grove can be better maintained and interpreted in the future as a significant nineteenth-century historic site.

09/06/2025

Thank you to Alyssa Gutierrez for donating our society multiple copies of her book "Buried Long Island: History Set in Stone (America Through Time)".

Gutierrez's book highlights influential Long Islanders and where they are laid to rest. On Long Island, the cultural landscape is marked by resting places that reflect the history of the land, and the groups of people who called it home.

These books and others are available to our members to borrow upon request. If you are a member of our historical society and would like to dive into this book or if you are interested in another in our collection, please reach out to: [email protected]

09/06/2025

📚 in the America Through Time® book series: "OAK CREEK, WISCONSIN THROUGH TIME" by Jim Cech.

Read more 👉🏼 https://sut.pub/Oak-Creek

The heart and soul of America is a combination of farmers working fields to feed the nation and manufacturing titans constructing buildings, streets, and cars.

Oak Creek, Wisconsin, has lived up to its “City of Balance” moniker through the decades by meshing agriculture with industry to produce a bustling municipality while still maintaining a small city attitude.

It is a unique place where pro-union liberals teamed with anti-establishment conservatives to save their city from being annexed and wiped off the map in 1955. The tax base built by the Wisconsin Electric power plant and General Motors’ AC Spark Plug provided necessary funds to develop neighborhoods, upgrade schools, and offer first-rate civic services for the residents.

Contributions from apple-growing families to skilled trade workers enabled the southernmost suburb of Milwaukee to evolve from a largely rural town to the fastest growing city in the state.

09/06/2025

🍝🥗🍲 A true must-read: "RECIPES AND RAMBLES THAT MADE ADELE'S A NEVADA HOT SPOT: FORTY YEARS OF CUISINE AND HISTORY AS TOLD BY CHEF CHARLIE ABOWD" by Charlie Abowd and Karel Ancona is available now!

Read more 👉 https://sut.pub/recipes

Nevada politics, history, and fabulous recipes combine for an entertaining, informative memoir by renowned Chef Charlie Abowd. This “James Beard Award” winning chef has spent his life immersed in his three passions— cuisine, music, and politics.

Growing up in the tumult of the 1960s San Francisco music scene mixed with Vietnam War protests and activism, while learning the art of cooking at his parents’ Bay Area restaurants, informed Charlie’s future. He promoted concerts and provided stage lighting for the biggest bands of the time, while living in the Santa Cruz mountains. This passion continued throughout his life.

During its iconic forty-year run, Adele’s Restaurant, and later, Café at Adele’s in Carson City, became legendary for fine dining, musicians, and celebrities that visited, and where Nevada’s movers and shakers gathered.

Around its tables and over delicious cuisine, business people and elected representatives made deals and negotiated legislation. Adele’s played a pivotal role in bringing people together to benefit the greater Nevada good. Charlie has seen it all and now shares his stories interspersed with his patrons’ favorite recipes.

Read more 👉 https://sut.pub/recipes

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09/05/2025

📣🪦 alert: "CROWN HILL CEMETERY: THE CITY ON A HILL (INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA)" by Joy Neighbors at A Grave Interest and The Family Tree Cemetery Field Guide is published in November.

Pre-order now 👉🏼 https://sut.pub/Crown-Hill

𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗖𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗮𝘀 “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗛𝗶𝗹𝗹.” 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘀, 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗮, 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗷𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗿𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲.

Those include politicians, presidents, mayors, Supreme Court justices, Medal of Honor recipients, artists, architects, writers, publishers, Indy car drivers, freed slaves, fire victims, murder victims, gangsters, first responders, and service personnel.

Crown Hill is also home to two military cemeteries. In National Cemetery, more than 700 Union soldiers were interred in 1866 following the Civil War. Today 2,135 soldiers are buried here, representing every war the United States has taken part in up to and including Viet Nam. Nearby, the Confederate Mound is the final resting place of 1,616 Confederate Prisoners of War, southern soldiers who died while being detained at Camp Morton from 1862 through 1865.

From chiseled tombs to elaborate tree stones, carved memorials to deeply etched shadows on a statue’s face, this book provides an intimate look at the monuments, mausoleums, and markers that tell the secrets and stories of those interred at Crown Hill Cemetery.

09/05/2025

Saturday, September 27, 2025 1:00 PM CT

Curious about our local history? Join us in welcoming local street photographer and author, Adam David, as he signs copies of his book, "MEMPHIS: JUKE JOINTS, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND SOULFUL NIGHTS"!

In this volume, street photographer Adam David explores the character of the city and its people. From the city’s grit to the attempts for urban renewal, the photographs in this volume explore the city in fresh, exciting ways. Memphis is the town where music, community, and the belief in a better tomorrow thrives.

Join us for an in-store event, Adam David Signing, on Saturday, September 27, 2025.