Raymond Bial Books

The Carnegie library in Illinois

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Corn Belt harvest

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Text and photographs describe the United States Corn Belt region and its harvest season.

Frontier home

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Describes the challenges that American settlers faced when they left the farms and towns in the East in their Conestoga wagons and headed West.

Shaker traditions and lifestyle are brought to life through informative text and full-color photographs of authentic homes, furnishings, and handicrafts. The photographs were taken at The Shaker Vi...

Portrait of a farm family

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The underground railroad

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By ones, twos, and threes, in the years before the Civil War thousands of enslaved people slipped through the night on their way to freedom, riding the Underground Railroad. Hidden and hunted, the...

With needle and thread

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Examines quilts and quiltmaking as an artistic expression, handed down through generations of women.

Mist over the mountains

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An overview of life past and present in the geographic region known as Appalachia.

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