I'm probably just about the easiest guy to shop for at Christmas time. Whenever my wife (or anyone else for that matter) asks me what I want to find under the tree come Dec. 25, my stock answer is "a pair of nice warm winter socks and a couple of books."

A book signing turned into Old Home Day for author Nick Cibrario on Saturday.

Vintage postcard photography that captured the essence of Gardiner is featured in a new book by a state and city historian.

Phil Frank, the late Sausalito cartoonist and historian, had a deep interest in houseboats that parlayed itself into research and the beginnings of a book on the subject.

When you've seen as many historic events and people as this legendary stone bastion overlooking Hampton Roads, you can expect to get a lot of ink.

It was Kathleen Zingaro Clark’s lifelong passion for exploring the past that led to her current path as an author and researcher of Bucks County’s vast and vibrant history.

East Hartford Rotary Club is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year. Instead of getting a present, the venerable service group is offering one back to its hometown: A pictorial history of the faces and landscapes of the town's past.

It wasn't enough to pen a book on Marysville's Chinatown, the last remaining active Chinatown from California's Gold Rush.

Local author and historian Jack Westbrook is at it again.

This year, we've seen a profusion of books that relate to our region, rolling off the presses everywhere from national trade publishers to university presses to even local individuals.

'Tis the season to be jolly - except the gloomy economy is making that old holiday jingle seem like folly.

Join local author Kenneth Holtzclaw for a meet and greet at the Edward-Dean Museum & Gardens on Saturday, Nov. 22, from 2 to 4 p.m.

From Hanson's to Fern Brook Park, railroads to steamboats, farming to industry, the Back Mountain has a rich and colorful past.

LSU’s Associate Dean of Libraries Faye Phillips and author Sylvia Frank Rodrigue follow up their acclaimed Baton Rouge: An Illustrated History with an entry in the popular Images of America series for Baton Rouge.

The very year, 1868, that Alonzo E. Horton was founding New Town San Diego – today's downtown – Frank Kimball and his brothers were founding National City.

The town of Roslyn has long had a reputation as a place rich in history -- and memorable local characters.

Every month, 700 or so people visit the Harvey House Museum in Belen, bringing stories about their time as a Harvey Girl or their stopovers there for supper in the heyday of the Santa Fe Railway.

Federal Way began forming in the late 1860s around the logging industry, was home to an Indian boarding school and later had one of the area’s first shopping centers.

A Huntington Beach author recently published a book and postcards featuring more than 200 vintage images of Orange County.

"The Stroudsburgs in the Poconos" (Arcadia Publishing, $21.99), by Marie Summa, Frank Summa and Patrice Summa Blair, has just been published and will go on sale Monday.

The first corporate historian hired for Levi Strauss & Co. will speak at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum Monday (Nov. 24) at 5 p.m.

The public is invited to attend a book signing, 1-3 p.m. Saturday, December 6th at the Beauvais-Linden Library at 116 South Main Street in Ste. Genevieve.

New Book About Watauga County Explores the Past Through Photos

One of the street's most famous events is the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival, www.themagnificentmile.com and this year the festival is honored with its very own book.

Before his writing career took off, Jack London made a few extra bucks in a less noble profession — he was an oyster “pirate,” sneaking onto the San Leandro shore at night and stealing shellfish to sell at local markets.

Brig. Gen. Kennard Wiggins Jr. served in the Delaware Air National Guard for 37 years, but sometimes, he said, it feels like it’s been a lifetime.

There’s a new chapter to be written in Federal Way’s history — its first book.

Alle-Kiski Valley authors represent a range of nonfiction and fiction. William Oleksak has collected Ford City postcards for 25 years and has organized them into a book to commemorate his hometown.

After receiving her assignment, Judy Lilly put together her "Mission: Impossible" team. It was just before Christmas 2007 when Lilly, the Kansas librarian at the Salina Public Library, 301 W. Elm, was called by Arcadia Publishing, a national publisher of regional history books.

Walking down Broadway in Saratoga Springs in August, with swarms of people crowding the streets, it's hard to imagine that anyone could ever describe it as being like a ghost town.

History buffs in the town of Candor can rejoice as Carol Henry has once again brought a new book to reflect on the history of the region.

At an estate hidden away behind pines and beside a clear pond in western Harnett County, Percy Rockefeller and friends played polo, shot quail, hunted fox and enjoyed a Donald Ross-designed golf course.

Here's a rare chance not only to experience history, but take some of it home with you

If history repeats itself, then Glens Falls has promising days ahead.

Calvary Christian Conference Center and Bible College invite the public to the book launch of “Images of America: Murrieta Hot Springs” on Sunday, Nov. 16, from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Calvary Campus, the historical Murrieta Hot Springs.

More than 140 years of Fort Monroe history is depicted in a new book that was released Monday and bears the name of two Casemate Museum staffers — Paul Morando and David Johnson.

For a holiday gift, wine enthusiasts and local history buffs will enjoy the book New Jersey Wineries by Jennifer Papale Rignani.

After more than 150 years, Grove City has accumulated plenty of history, and two local writers have taken on the task of cataloguing some of that history in narrative form.

You would hardly know it today, when South Bay towns like Torrance and Gardena seem composed of little but suburbs and strip malls, but it wasn't so long ago that this broad, flat plain included some of the choicest agricultural land in California.

Fresh off the success of their latest publishing project, local tourism officials are preparing for another picture and caption book about the area.

Arcadia Publishing prints many books about cities, towns and counties all over the country. Here in our area we are very fortunate to have several authors of Arcadia books that are about interesting places in out region.

Kristine Leander, a local author and cultural director for the Swedish Cultural Center, has recently published the book "Norwegian Seattle."

If you're a regular reader of OnMilwaukee.com, you know by now that Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" series of paperback books packed with historical photos has included a number of books about various ethnicities and neighborhoods in and around Milwaukee.

Ken Otto's "Azusa Pacific University" (Arcadia Publishing, $20) is the newest addition to the Campus History Series.

Henderson author Susie Thurman will be among those featured at the 27th annual Kentucky Book Fair on Nov. 15 at the downtown Frankfort Convention Center.

Children often ride by the Blunt House and the Gen. Joseph E. Johnston statue in downtown on their way to eat dinner at the Dalton Depot. What they might not realize is the wealth of history behind the house, statue and train depot.

Available in bookshops now is a new book on Braddock that was written by Heritage Health Foundation president Robert Grom.

In times past, but for a few prominent exceptions, such as Molly Pitcher in the American Revolution, women did not participate in military combat. Instead, they often took over roles on the “home front” traditionally reserved for men.

Imagine learning the history of Selinsgrove through the eyes of those who made it.

While helping her elementary-age niece research a school project about South Carolina, Daniel Island author Kate Boehm Jerome realized there was a void in the book-publishing market

Can we learn from the past? I think we must believe it is possible, especially during times like these when we elect new leaders and adopt new resolutions.

Drawing on his lifelong interest in the history and geography of Ridgway, local author and photographer, Dennis McGeehan has recently released a new pictorial history book which chronicles the Ridgway area’s growth and development.

The history of Springlake Amusement Park includes a fun aspect of Oklahoma City. But "Springlake Amusement Park” (Arcadia Publishing, $19.99), a book about that history, also is serious.

Tiffany Taylor's new book, "Zion National Park," is not meant for readers curious only about the park's monuments, weather and topography.

A collection of photographs with detailed captions was published nationwide Monday — amazingly sharp images of the engineering feats and innovation involved in Galveston’s recovery after a hurricane.

Kenneth Holtzclaw has teamed up with local history buff, Tom Chong and released a new book in his series of Images of America. This time his pictorial book highlights Cherry Valley and the surrounding areas including Oak Glen, Bogart Park, the areas Agriculture, Highland Springs and the Edward Dean Museum.

For more than 100 years, the Palisades Interstate Park in Rockland and Orange counties has been a place people in the New York metropolitan area can go to.

I recently discovered a new publication that tugs at the innermost nostalgic part of me.

Holly Springs's rich history is celebrated through a new Images of America book, printed by Arcadia Publishing.

There's nothing like curling up on the couch with a good book when the temperature starts to drop and autumn begins to set in.

Founded by Reuben H. Fleet in 1923, Consolidated Aircraft Corporation (later Convair) became one of the most significant aircraft manufacturers in American history.

One of the most difficult jobs in writing is trying to cram all your pertinent information into readable, interesting and inclusive captions or "cutlines" as we in the biz refer to them.

Doris I. Walker’s Arcadia book – “Images of America: DANA POINT” – has been awarded first place as Best History Book in this year’s national communications contest sponsored by the National Federation of Press Women.