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Creating Reading Rainbow: The Untold Story of a Beloved Children’s Series
$29.95 Read moreReading Rainbow is one of the most successful PBS children’s series in television history, earning numerous national and international awards including 26 Emmys and a Peabody Award. But perhaps more i
- Author: Irwin, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1493077325
- Language: English
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
$20.00 Add to cartThe basis of Martin Scorcese’s acclaimed 2003 film, The Gangs of New York is a dramatic and entertaining glimpse at a city’s dark past.
Focusing on the saloon halls, gambling dens, and winding alleys o
- Author: Asbury, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0307388980
- Language: English
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Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11
$14.99 Add to cartRudy Giuliani emerged from the smoke of 9/11 as the unquestioned hero of the day: America’s Mayor, the father figure we could all rely on to be tough, to be wise, to do the right thing. In that uncert
- Author: Barrett, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0060536616
- Language: English
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Holocaust Refugees in Oswego: From Nazi Europe to Lake Ontario
$24.99 Read moreAmerica’s Only Shelter Established for Holocaust Refugees
During the height of the second World War, at the order of President Roosevelt, Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York housed 982 refugees, rescued
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Allen, Ann Callaghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155950
- Language: English
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The Soul of Pittsburgh: Essays on Life, Community and History
$24.99 Read more“Europe stretches to the Alleghenies, America lies beyond.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“They are my people and this is my town and it does my heart good just to be here.” – Art Rooney Sr.
What does it me… [more below]- Series: The History Press
- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1467157317
- Language: English
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A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family
$32.95 Add to cartA Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery’s history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno’s absorbing chronicle that uncovers her Dutch ancestors’ slave-holding past and lead
- Author: Bruno, Debra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1501776568
- Language: English
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Lost Delaware
$24.99 Read moreFormer Delaware journalists Rachel Kipp and Dan Shortridge document the past, present, and sometimes the future of Delaware’s landmarks and legends. Originally part of Pennsylvania and called “the thr… [more below]
- Series: Lost
- Author: Kipp, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1467156426
- Language: English
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Sixteenth Street NW: Washington, DC’s Avenue of Ambitions
$34.95 Read moreDeFerrari and Sefton have created a highly illustrated architectural “biography” of one of DC’s most important boulevards. From the front door of the White House, this north-south artery runs through
- Author: Deferrari, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1647121566
- Language: English
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Pennsylvania Myths and Legends: The True Stories Behind History’s Mysteries
$19.95 Add to cartPart of the Myths and Mysteries of Pennsylvania series, Myths and Legends of Pennsylvania explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Pennsylvania’s history. Each episode included in
- Series: Myths and Mysteries
- Author: Hughes, Kara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493067451
- Language: English
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Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania
$23.99 Add to cartAuthor and journalist Cody McDevitt tells the story of one of the worst civil rights injustices in Western Pennsylvania history.
In 1923, in response to the fatal shooting of four policemen, the mayor
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: McDevitt, Cody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1467142743
- Language: English
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Wild Women of Maryland: Grit & Gumption in the Free State
$23.99 Add to cartDiscover Maryland’s legacy of daring women who made their mark on history as spies, would-be queens and fiery suffragettes.
Maryland’s history is punctuated by women who refused to be forgotten. Sarah
- Author: Silberman, Lauren R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 21 2015
- ISBN10: 162619811X
- Language: English
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
$21.99 Add to cart“Enthralling; it is well worth the trip.” —New York Journal of Books
Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York’s Blackwell’s Island, site of a lun… [more below]- Author: Horn, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1616209356
- Language: English
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Hudson Valley Curiosities: The Sinking of the Steamship Swallow, the Poughkeepsie Seer, the UFOs of the Celtic Stone Chambers and More
$31.99 Add to cartHudson Valley is steeped in mysteries, from Celtic chambers resting in the deep woods of Putnam to Millbrook’s abandoned Bennett College. In the Highlands, Iroquois chief Daniel Nimham gave his life f… [more below]
- Author: Marchese, Allison Guertin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1540225615
- Language: English
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Forgotten Maryland Cocktails: A History of Drinking in the Free State
$35.99 Add to cartUsing historic recipes with modern twists from renowned mixologists, Greg and Nicole Priebe present Maryland s golden age of the cocktail. Recipe cards included for Farmer s Bishop, a Christmas Punch;… [more below]
- Author: Priebe, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: May 18 2015
- ISBN10: 154021298X
- Language: English
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Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay’s Foundation and Future
$35.99 Add to cartCrassostrea virginica, the eastern oyster. These humble bivalves are the living bones of the Chesapeake and the ecological and historical lifeblood of the region. When colonists first sailed these imp… [more below]
- Author: Livie, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: October 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1540212696
- Language: English
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Randolph
$31.99 Add to cartThroughout its history, Randolph has had a diverse array of residents, including the Minsi Native Americans, European settlers, and Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland. The land proved fertile fo… [more below]
- Author: Hari, Gail M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 19 2009
- ISBN10: 1531642705
- Language: English
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Kaufmann’s: The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store
$17.00 Add to cartIn 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the shores of New York. His brother Isaac soon followed, and together they joined an immigrant community
- Author: Pitz, Marylynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0822967138
- Language: English
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The Great Hurricane: 1938
$16.00 Add to cartOn the night of September 21,1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was no mention of any severe weather. By the time oceanfront residents noticed an ominous color i… [more below]
- Author: Burns, Cherie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142540
- Language: English
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Beaver River Country: An Adirondack History
$24.95 Add to cartEncompassing the lands immediately surrounding the upper reaches of the Beaver River from its headwaters at Lake Lila to Beaver Lake at the settlement of Number Four, Beaver River country is the large
- Series: New York State
- Author: Pitts, Edward I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0815611331
- Language: English
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The Haunted History of Pelham, New York: Including Ghostly Tales of The Bronx, Westchester County, and Long Island Sound
$21.95 Add to cartA fascinating fusion of New York history and local folklore sure to send shivers up your spine!
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Bell, Blake A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 143848674X
- Language: English
