Recollections of the Life and History of the Hunt Family is a book about the life of John Edwin Hunt, Sr. He reflects on the history of the Hunt clan and gives an autobiographical account of his life, both personal and professional. "Senior" vividly recalls his antics while growing up in Echo, Alabama as well as his many friendships, business ventures (and adventures), family history, and his many accomplishments. The book takes you on a journey through his lifetime beginning with his great-grandfather's life through the present day Hunt family. Mr. Hunt was motivated to write this book so that his grandchildren would know of their "roots," and so they would be aware of the many circumstances that brought him to his present status in the community.

In general approach and content, this book resembles Alex Haley's best-selling novel, Roots, except that this work contains no fiction. It chronicles thirty generations and a thousand years of Sanders (and Saunders) family evolution beginning before England's earliest days and ending across the Atlantic in colonial Virginia and eventually frontier and later Kentucky. Family figures are portrayed in their own distinctive historical contexts and an extensive genealogy focused on old world lineage is appended. Nearly a thousand chapter notes on sources and names are furnished to assist readers interested in discovering their own ancestry.

This is a book about the descendants of Thomas Macy in the United States of America, extending from 1583 to date. One will find in this book the lineage of such individuals as R. H. Macy, the founder of Macy''s Department Stores; General George Nelson Macy. Provost Marshall of the Army of the Potomac; Ezra Cornell, the founder of Cornell University; Elizabeth Powell, the first Dean of Women of Swarthmore College and Josiah Macy, for whom the Josiah Macy Foundation honors. Included in this book are the ancestors of Benjamin Franklin. A few of the surnames included are Folger, Starbuck, Pinkham, Wolf, Barnard, Coffin, Worth, Swain, Gardner, Hussey, Jenkins, Walton, Pearson, Stanton, Mendenhall, Davis, Coleman, Chase and Flory. Volume I contains the first 9 generations and a part of the 10th, Volume II contains the remainder of the 10th generation to generation 15, the endnotes of which there are over 20,000 and the index.

John Plunkett presents the first history of the interaction between the monarchy and the media to focus on the reign of Queen Victoria. He argues that the development of popular print and visual media in the nineteenth century helped to reinvent the position of the monarchy in national life, and includes a detailed account of the emergence of royal journalism and the impact of new media such as photography.