John M Thompson

Highlights the history, culture, and contemporary life of the nation's capital and offers detailed walking tours of historic areas and complete visitor information.

From hand tools to holidays to weapons to washing machines, "An Uncommon History of Common Things" features hundreds of colorful illustrations, timelines, sidebars, and more as it explores just about every subject under the sun. Who knew that indoor plumbing has been around for 4,600 years, but punctuation, capital letters, and the handy spaces between written words only date back to the Dark Ages? Or that ancient soldiers baked a kind of pizza on...

In Dakotas: Where the West Begins, photographer and writer capture the environs and the people of the western Dakotas with breathtaking grandeur and an eye for the compelling stories that animate them. From the fabled Missouri and the windswept plains to the wild-to-the-core badlands and the sacred Black Hills, this exciting new book takes readers to a little-known piece of awe-inspiring America.