"Alexander Street Press and Arcadia Publishing, whose award-winning history books cover thousands of towns and cultural groups in all fifty states, have partnered to create Local and Regional History Online: A History of American Life in Images and Texts. The online collection is growing to include 5,000 individual volumes, with 650,000 pages and more than a million images. Each book alone tells a small piece of American history. But when searched together through Alexander Street's Semantic Indexing, the collection becomes a massive and powerful primary-source research tool, a tapestry of the places and people that have made America. Libraries are filled with history books about 'great men.' Here is history through the stories and images of everyman and everywoman, giving readers a balanced understanding of history through place and time"