Oxnard's Jeffrey Maulhardt will sign copies of his new book, "Baseball in Ventura County," on Sunday at Dodger Stadium.

As a fifth-generation Californian, Robin Michael Roberts has a lifelong appreciation for history. The retired Pioneer Union Elementary School District teacher recently completed his second book on the history of Hanford, "Images of Hanford 1900-2000," (Arcadia Publishing, $19.99).

If you've ever wondered what life was like for Hermosa Beach tourists 80 years ago, you're now able to discover this as you slip back in time with a new book called “Hermosa Beach, The Postcard History Series.”

Is there any spot on Earth where more raw film has been exposed than Waikiki? Thousands of inhabitants and zillions of tourists have captured moments of time on the famous beachfront -- slices of paradise, 1/60 of a second at a time, all pretty much showing the same thing, people enjoying themselves.

Hammonton and Marigold might be ghost towns today, but for those who lived there, the communities are still very much alive.

GREENBACKVILLE -- Marty Burns and Linda Hartsock found pearls around Greenbackville -- and they didn't come from prized Chincoteague Bay oysters.

Colleen Slater, author of the photographic collection “The Key Peninsula,” will make two appearances Saturday to sign copies of her book.

Not every postcard of Boca Raton depicts a flamingo, a water skier, a palm tree or a bikini babe.

The recent publication of Yucaipa” in the “Images of America” series by Arcadia Publishing has stirred more interest in the history of the Yucaipa Valley.

Once home to the peaceful Ohlone Indians and myriad wildlife, La Honda morphed into a quirky and scenic mountain hamlet. That journey comes alive in "Images of America: La Honda," released Monday (Arcadia Publishing, 126 pages paperback, $19.99).

Postcard collector R.L. "Rick" Rasmussen turned to rival Floyd Jerdon of Dowagiac for vintage images of Sister Lakes for the first pictorial book ever published about the 11 lakes.

"Jews of Cincinnati" by John S. Fine and Frederic J. Krome ($19.99) focuses on the people who made Cincinnati an important center of Jewish life.

When Buckeye historian and author Verlyne Meck spoke of the serendipity involved in the writing of her new book, she was not quite thinking of the same definition of the word as her fellow historian guest.

Photographic collections about Tacoma parks and the Key Peninsula, each part of Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series, go on sale Monday.

If Buckeye has an unofficial historian, Verlyne Meck is it.

Though they very well may be, Martha Burns and Linda Hartsock are not really “come-heres,” the much-maligned expression used to classify those people moving into the area from a different part of the country.

You can now take a picture out of the Boca Raton Historical Society's photo collection and send it as a postcard.

There once was a time in history when the Chicago Cubs weren't stinking up the field.

A new book that could be added to history buff's summer reading lists will be hitting area bookstores this week.

HYDE PARK - Harriet Nagell Gercak was giddy. Surrounded by family, the 85-year-old stood on the grounds of the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site Wednesday, holding a restored oil painting of her father, Harold Nagell, who served as captain of the New York State Police Troop K unit from 1928-33.

BUCKEYE - Verlyne Meck can tell you exactly how Buckeye was founded, where the first main street was and all about local landmarks. Even her home, filled with old photos of Buckeye and tiny pieces of its agricultural history, has stories hidden in every corner.

Despite its rich history, the Key Peninsula is a region on which few tomes have been penned. Sure, local history buffs have likely read about the “Early Days of the Key Peninsula” or the “Utopias on Puget Sound,” (by authors R.T. Arledge and Charles Pierce Lewarne, respectively), yet, reference material on the Key Peninsula can still seem a bit a scarce.

Hate it or, well…hat it, it’s one of the city’s most iconic institutions: the roaring El train.

ESSEX, Md. (AP) -- A new book traces the history of Essex -- a once-popular summer escape that became a working-class Baltimore suburb of lost grandeur.

A new book comes out Monday that should be on the reading lists of Illinois lawmakers as they decide the future of mass transit in the Chicago region.

Local writer Colleen Slater is well known to many residents of the Key and Gig Harbor peninsulas for her contributions as a journalist for both the Key Peninsula News and the Peninsula Gateway. Now she is about to become even more “famous on the KP” as the author of a new book titled “The Key Peninsula.” The book, primarily a pictorial history of the Key Peninsula, will be published by the Arcadia Publishing Co. as part of its “Images of America” series. Slater’s book is scheduled to be released for sale in June at local bookstores, museums and gift shops.

Clark County historian Pat Jollota has struck again. Her fourth book, entitled "Camas," is a collection of 200 historic photographs and stories from the small mill town that grew up to be a high-tech hub in eastern Clark County.

Years pass and things change - technology, fashion, transportation. The Auburn Police Department is no exception.

A new book is stopping at bookstores Monday that traces the living story of Chicago’s elevated train system.

The way Elaine Henson tells it, her new book started with her family's house at Carolina Beach. Although the Hensons live in Wilmington, they love the beach, and, in 2003, they bought a summer house there. Henson grew curious about its history (it dates from 1940) and began to talk with members of the family who'd owned it before they did.

FORT HANCOCK, NJ - Read the new photographic history book Fort Hancock. This book, filled with 200 vintage images is written by local author Thomas Hoffman.