Aberdeen at Work is a fascinating pictorial history of the working life of the city of Aberdeen in the last hundred and more years.

James Robbins Jewell examines the First Oregon Cavalry Regiment's role in protecting and policing the Pacific Northwest during the Civil War.

R. Douglas Hurt recounts the settlement of the U.S. Midwest between 1815 and the turn of the twentieth century, arguing that this region proved to be the country's garden spot of the country and the nation's heart of agricultural production.