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South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City
$37.95 Read moreThirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough–ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires, th… [more below]
- Author: Jonnes, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1531501214
- Language: English
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A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York
$29.99 Add to cartJourney through the splendor and the excesses of the Gilded Age
“Every aspect of life in the Gilded Age took on deeper, transcendent meaning intended to prove the greatness of America: residences beau
- Author: King, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1681620537
- Language: English
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Hazelwood A Community Story
$37.48 Add to cartA community story about Hazelwood and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from the 1960’s to today. Booming years of the steel mill, civil unrests of the 60’s and changes in the community over many years until t
- Author: Bonner, Edward V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1088124704
- Language: English
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Philadelphia Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in the Cradle of Liberty
$33.99 Add to cartThe finely aged history of Philadelphia brewing has been fermenting since before the crack appeared in the Liberty Bell. By the time thirsty immigrants made the city the birthplace of the American lag… [more below]
- Author: Wagner, Rich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: April 25 2012
- ISBN10: 1540206548
- Language: English
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Long Island and the Sea: A Maritime History
$24.99 Add to cartFor more than five centuries, the waterways surrounding Long Island have profoundly shaped its history.
Familiar subjects of lighthouses, shipwrecks and whaling are found alongside oft-forgotten odditi
- Author: Bleyer, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1467138622
- Language: English
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Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape: Deep Roots, Continuing Legacy
$18.95 Read moreBlack Philadelphians have shaped Philadelphia history since colonial times. In Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape, Amy Cohen recounts notable aspects of the Black experience in Philadelphia f… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Amy Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1439923655
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Howard County
$24.99 Read moreUntold stories of Howard County’s rich and fascinating past.
First settled in the 17th century when the area was part of Anne Arundel County, early towns formed around grist mills. Nearby quarries and
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Davis, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154733
- Language: English
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Chronicling a Crisis: SUNY Oneonta’s Pandemic Diaries
$32.95 Add to cartA primary source collection of the local impact of the COVID pandemic on a college community which both records and reflects upon the nature of daily life during a crisis.
- Series: Suny Press Open Access
- Author: Beck, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1438495307
- Language: English
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Secret Delaware: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$27.00 Read more- Author: Shortridge Dan Kipp Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1681063646
- Language: English
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A History Lover’s Guide to New York City
$24.99 Add to cartNew York is a city of superlatives. It has the largest population, greatest wealth, broadest diversity and most elegant museums in the nation. With that comes an amazing history.
This tour of the Big A
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Fortier, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119032
- Language: English
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Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
$28.95 Add to cartEugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government’s actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. The Federal Ho… [more below]
- Author: Pietila, Antero
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1566638437
- Language: English
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Made in New York: 25 Innovators Who Shaped Our World
$24.95 Add to cartHow New Yorkers transformed the world!
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Vizard, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1438493681
- Language: English
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The Hudson Valley: The First 250 Million Years: A Mostly Chronological and Occasionally Personal History
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the dinosaurs and the glaciers to the first native peoples and the first European settlers, from Dutch and English Colonial rule to the American Revolution, from the slave society to the Civil Wa… [more below]
- Author: Levine, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493073168
- Language: English
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The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry: 1925-1942
$24.95 Add to cartTold with great intimacy and compassion, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sunk their own mines on
- Author: Troutman, Mitch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1629639338
- Language: English
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New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times
$24.00 Add to cartA charmed collection of some of the best essays from the widely-known “City” section of the New York Times
“There are eight million stories in the Naked City.” This famous line from the 1948 film The- Author: Rosenblum, Constance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0814775721
- Language: English
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Eastern Shore Road Trips (Vol. 1): 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva
$21.95 Add to cartNewly updated & expanded for the 2020s Much more than a traditional travel guide, “Eastern Shore Road Trips #1” is full of tales from days gone by and insights into the character and culture of the s
- Author: Duffy, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: October 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1735674117
- Language: English
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Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley
$23.99 Add to cartLocal storyteller Jonathan Kruk shares the mysterious lore of the Hudson Valley, best known among them Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
The story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Ho
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Kruk, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 21 2011
- ISBN10: 1596297980
- Language: English
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Native American History of Washington, DC
$24.99 Read moreRead the missing stories of DC’s precolonial history.
Native Americans lived on the land that is now Washington, DC for several thousand years before English settlers arrived in the early 1600s. The Na
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Lione Phd, Armand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154210
- Language: English
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Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise
$28.99 Read more*A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer?*
*A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE*
*A Washington Post “Book to Read This Summer”*
*AN ADVOCATE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK OF 2022*
*A USA Today “Book to Celebrate Pride Mo- Author: Parlett, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 14, 2022
- ISBN10: 1335475184
- Language: English
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111 Places in Women’s History in Washington That You Must Not Miss
$23.95 Add to cart- The ultimate insider’s guide to women’s history in Washington, DC for locals and experienced travelers
- Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides
- Part of the internat
- Author: Calogera, Kaitlin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 31 2022
- ISBN10: 3740815906
- Language: English
