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The Eight: The Lemmon Slave Case and the Fight for Freedom
$32.95 Add to cartThe personal and legal struggle of eight enslaved people for freedom in New York in the period just before the Civil War.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Rosenblatt, Albert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1438492642
- Language: English
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Land of the Oneidas: Central New York State and the Creation of America, from Prehistory to the Present
$33.95 Add to cartPresents the history of central New York State from the Ice Age to the present day.
- Author: Koch, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1438492715
- Language: English
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Peninsulas in Repose: The Necks of Virginia’s Eastern Shore
$24.99 Add to cartProlific Eastern Shore writer Curtis J. Badger has a knack for finding compelling stories in places you might never expect. In Peninsulas in Repose, he takes a fascinating look at the necks of the Eas… [more below]
- Author: Badger, Curtis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1628063874
- Language: English
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New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
$19.99 Add to cartIn the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic. New Yorkers weaves the voic
- Author: Taylor, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021993
- Language: English
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New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
$20.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City’s transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city’s future. Dangerous, filthy, and fallin- Author: Dyja, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1982149795
- Language: English
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Iconic New York Jewish Food: A History and Guide with Recipes
$23.99 Read moreTake a culinary journey through the foods, restaurants and businesses that define the cuisine of New York City and the Jewish immigrant experience… No trip to New York’s five boroughs is complete wi… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Hersh, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152609
- Language: English
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Gen X Pittsburgh: The Beehive and the ’90s Scene
$24.99 Add to cartBeginning in the early 1990s, Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood began to transform from the post-industrial morass it had been suffering for the last few decades. Artists began to rent empty apartm
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Rullo, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153745
- Language: English
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Steel City Mafia: Blood, Betrayal and Pittsburgh’s Last Don
$23.99 Add to cartPittsburgh’s small but lucrative Cosa Nostra mafia family was on the rise in 1985 with a newly crowned Don… The men who came to dominate the rackets in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and West V… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Hodos, Paul N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153753
- Language: English
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Kibbitz and Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria
$34.95 Add to cartOn a winter’s day in the mid-1970s the photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin sought warm refuge and, camera in hand, passed through the revolving doors of Dubrow’s Cafeteria on Kings Highway. There, be
- Author: Halperin, Marcia Bricker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501766511
- Language: English
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Indigenous DC: Native Peoples and the Nation’s Capital
$24.95 Add to cartThe first and fullest account of the suppressed history and continuing presence of Native Americans in Washington, DC
Washington, DC, is Indian land, but Indigenous peoples are often left out of the na
- Author: Rule, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1647123208
- Language: English
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Deadly Gamble: The Wreck of Schooner Levin J Marvel, The true story of Chesapeake Bay’s worst sailing disaster
$15.00 Add to cartHurricane Connie wobbled like a drunken pirate toward the mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S. In the late hours of August 11, 1955, Connie turned inland and began tracking a course up Chesapeake Bay. Here,
- Author: Smith, Kathy Bergren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: November 8, 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985347753
- Language: English
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
$20.00 Add to cart“Sure to become the definitive account of the fire. . . . Triangle is social history at its best, a magnificent portrayal not only of the catastrophe but also of the time and the turbulent city in whi… [more below]
- Author: Drehle, David Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: August 16, 2004
- ISBN10: 080214151X
- Language: English
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Growing Up Yinzer: Memories from Beloved Pittsburghers
$24.99 Read moreIn the Steel City, “Yinzer” is a term of endearment, reserved for the city’s most beloved and embraced by locals as a symbol of the grit and determination that Pittsburgh endows anyone from there.
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- Series: The History Press
- Author: Roberts, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152048
- Language: English
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Mason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation
$35.00 Read more“A magisterial yet highly nuanced account that ventures back and forth across Mason and Dixon’s fabled demarcation line as audaciously as 18th-century raiding parties once did.”–Harold Holzer, Wall S
- Author: Gray, Edward G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0674987616
- Language: English
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The Johnstown Flood
$18.99 Add to cartThe stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnst- Series: Touchstone Books (Paperback)
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: January 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0671207148
- Language: English
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The Maid and The Socialite
$17.95 Add to cartA GREEN BAY HISTORICAL TRUE CRIME STORY
At the turn of the 20th century cities around the world were rife with syphilis yet no blood test could prove it. Two women in Green Bay Wisconsin found their li
- Author: Drews, Lynda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: February 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1955656479
- Language: English
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
$23.00 Add to cart“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.”
“A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowl
-The New York Times- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0345476395
- Language: English
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Hidden Alleyways of Washington, DC: A History
$29.95 Read moreThe remarkable architectural and social history of DC’s multifaceted alleyways
Alleyways in Washington, DC, have always been a fundamental part of the city’s life and economy. Deliberately hidden from
- Author: Williams, Kim Prothro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1647123925
- Language: English
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Notorious Pittsburgh
$14.95 Add to cartHopes have been crushed. Fortunes gained. Lives celebrated while others were snuffed out too soon. In the shadows, where corners are cut, and ambition unchecked – that is where the notorious stories l
- Author: Whitlatch, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: March 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987863206
- Language: English
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102 Minutes
$25.00 Add to cart“102 Minutes does for the September 11 catastrophe what Walter Lord did for the Titanic in his masterpiece, A Night to Remember . . . Searing, poignant, and utterly compelling.”–Rick Atkinson, Pulitz
- Author: Dwyer, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 02, 2011
- ISBN10: 0805094210
- Language: English
