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Spiritualism’s Place: Reformers, Seekers, and S?ances in Lily Dale
$28.95 Add to cartIn Spiritualism’s Place, four friends and scholars who produce the acclaimed Dig: A History Podcast, share their curiosity and enthusiasm for uncovering stories from the past as they explore the histo
- Author: Earls, Averill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1501777262
- Language: English
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Queering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk
$30.00 Read more“Create a More Positive Rehoboth” was a decades-long goal for progress and inclusiveness in a charming beach town in southern Delaware. Rehoboth, which was established in the 19th century as a Methodi… [more below]
- Author: Sears, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: May 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1439923809
- Language: English
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Foggy Bottom and the West End
$21.99 Read moreBeginning as a small town on the banks of the Potomac, the neighborhoods of Foggy Bottom and the West End grew into the capital’s industrial center at the head of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, with f… [more below]
- Author: Gilmore, Matthew B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 11 2010
- ISBN10: 1596293322
- Language: English
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The Illustrated Mark Twain and the Buffalo Express: 10 Stories and over a Century of Sketches
$26.95 Add to cartRanging from his first impression of Niagara Falls to the deteriorating condition of a cemetery in his Buffalo neighborhood, to more satirical statements on the state of American journalism, Twain’s B
- Author: Reigstad, Thomas J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1493076035
- Language: English
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The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region
$30.00 Add to cartAll aboard for the first comprehensive history of the hard-working and wildly influential Northeast Corridor.
Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be- Author: Alff, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0226822834
- Language: English
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Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History
$34.95 Read moreThe entangled human and more-than-human histories of one of the world’s iconic urban green spaces
From deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know
- Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
- Author: Biehler, Dawn Day
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 295753196
- Language: English
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Lost Columbia County, New York
$24.99 Read moreColumbia County Past Revealed
People have been drawn to Columbia County, New York, for years. Beyond the region’s picturesque streams, lakes and mountains, the county is filled with the magic of histor
- Series: Lost
- Author: Marchese, Allison Guertin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158003
- Language: English
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Bartleby and Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener
$18.99 Add to cart“Literary Legend” (New York) Gay Talese retraces his pioneering career, marked by his fascination with the world’s hidden characters.
In the concluding act of this “incomparable” (Air Mail) capstone bo
- Author: Talese, Gay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063350645
- Language: English
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Building Ghosts: Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City
$40.00 Add to cart“Building ghosts” are the idiosyncratic remnants or imprints of demolished buildings, left behind on the sides of neighboring structures. Mostly seen in older Northeastern cities with rowhomes or part… [more below]
- Author: Lester, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1439924090
- Language: English
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Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook
$20.00 Add to cartPart of Belt’s Neighborhood Guidebook Series, a probing look at the Steel City’s diverse locales.
Pittsburgh is made up of more than ninety different neighborhoods. And while The Pittsburgh Neighborhoo
- Series: Belt Neighborhood Guidebooks
- Author: Gwin, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1948742713
- Language: English
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An Alternative History of Pittsburgh
$18.95 Add to cartEd Simon tells the story of Pittsburgh through this exploration of its hidden histories–the LA Review of Books calls it an epic, atomic history of the Steel City.
The land surrounding the confluence o
- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1948742926
- Language: English
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Destination City: A Gallery of New York’s Most Surprising Visitors and Residents Throughout History
$24.95 Add to cartLeon Trotsky was living in The Bronx with his common-law wife and two children when the Russian Revolution broke out. President Woodrow Wilson and his successor, Warren G. Harding, had little in commo
- Author: Pigott, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0231216475
- Language: English
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Pittsburgh in 50 Maps
$30.00 Add to cartPittsburgh in 50 Maps offers unique new views of a city at a crossroads–culturally, economically, and demographically.
There are countless ways to map a city. Roads, bridges, and waterways help you na
- Series: 50 Maps
- Author: Danielson, Stentor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1953368859
- Language: English
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Hudson New Hampshire
$24.99 Read moreFrom Nottingham to Benson’s Wild Animal Farm, Hudson’s 157 year history is revealed in this photographic journey.
The New Hampshire town of Hudson has gone through amazing growth and change since 1673
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Jasper, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0738502774
- Language: English
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Noteworthy Women of Oswego County, New York
$61.67 Add to cartUncovers the significant social, literary, and political contributions of thirty-one notable women of Oswego County, New York.
When called upon to name a noteworthy woman who lived in Oswego County, Ne
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Woodall, Natalie Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: January 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855800395
- Language: English
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Mapping the Adirondacks: Colvin, Blake, and the First True Survey of the Great Adirondack Wilderness
$36.95 Add to cartNew York State’s famous Adirondack landscape is immense, spanning over six million acres of public forests, lakes, rivers, mountains, and private lands. In full color featuring hundreds of detailed ma
- Author: Hogan, Thatcher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1493081586
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Montgomery County, Maryland
$24.99 Read moreDig into the untold stories and lesser-known tales of MoCo.
Washington, D.C.’s next-door neighbor has seen many a politician, militant and Red Line passenger travel within its bounds, but the county’s
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Myers, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467156604
- Language: English
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Cape May County and the Civil War
$24.99 Read moreTrue Blue for Union
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Cape May County was an isolated and lightly populated peninsula at the southernmost tip of New Jersey. Nevertheless, its citizens answered t
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Rebmann, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158658
- Language: English
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Governors Island
$31.99 Add to cartPurchased from the Manhattan tribe of the Wappinger
Confederacy by the Dutch, Governors Island has long been
the secret island in New York’s harbor. Although this pristine island has appeared on maps … [more below]- Author: Glen, Susan L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1531623174
- Language: English
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Fort Niagara: The Key to the Inland Oceans and the French Movement to Dominate North America
$28.99 Add to cartFort Niagara is located twelve miles downriver from the world-renowned Niagara Falls, yet few visitors to either site know this was once Iroquois territory and claimed by France. This volume summarize… [more below]
- Author: Utley, William Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1532070659
- Language: English
