United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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The Bronx
$30.00 Add to cartHome to the New York Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a haven for upwardly mobile second-generation immigrants eager to leave the crowded tenements of Manhatt
- Series: Columbia History of Urban Life
- Author: Gonzalez, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0231121156
- Language: English
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Bethlehem Steel
$40.99 Add to cartThe Lehigh Valley Railroad established the Bethlehem Iron Company in 1860 along the Lehigh River in South Bethlehem. The Bethlehem Iron Company manufactured the largest steel axle to date to support t… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Berger-Carmen, Tracy L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1540251594
- Language: English
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The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History
$50.00 Read moreA “delightful” (Vanity Fair) collection from the longest-running, most influential book review in America, featuring its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years
- Author: New York Times
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 0593234618
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of Jersey Shore
$41.99 Add to cartFor well over a century, the lure of scenic beaches and ocean waves have drawn visitors to the Jersey Shore. Presidents had summer homes where they could escape the pressures of office. Other visitors
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Czachowski, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1683369807
- Language: English
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A History of Rock Creek Park: Wilderness & Washington, D.C.
$23.99 Add to cartJoin National Park ranger, author and historian Scott Einberger as he traces the human, natural and urban history of Rock Creek Park, the largest park in the nation’s capital.
Washington, D. C. ‘s Rock
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Einberger, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1626195749
- Language: English
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Haunted Catskills
$21.99 Add to cartWashington Irving called the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York a spellbound region,” and the ghosts that linger from more than four hundred years of history provide proof of Irving’s intuition. I… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Lamonica, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 1626190119
- Language: English
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Forgotten Tales of Pennsylvania
$14.99 Add to cartWhat do you really know about the Keystone State?
William Penn, the Revolutionary figures of Philadelphia, and the strength of Pittsburgh’s steel all loom large in Pennsylvania’s history, but author Th
- Series: Forgotten Tales
- Author: White, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 159629812X
- Language: English
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The Enchanted Forest: Memories of Maryland’s Storybook Park
$31.99 Add to cartThe history of the Enchanted Forest is one of magical beginnings. When it first opened in 1955, Ellicott City’s storybook land became the first children’s theme park on the East Coast. Young visitors … [more below]
- Author: Kusterer, Janet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 1540208826
- Language: English
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W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Company
$31.99 Add to cartIn 1905, John Russell “Russ” Case brought the fledgling W. R. Case & Sons Company to Bradford, and it dominated the knife industry for the next century. From kitchen, hunting, and pocket knives to the… [more below]
- Author: Boser, Shirley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 12 2006
- ISBN10: 1531623441
- Language: English
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Rivers of the Eastern Shore, 2nd Edition: Seventeen Maryland Rivers
$29.99 Read moreA must-have for all those devoted to the character and culture of the Eastern Shore, a coastal region of eclectic small towns and pristine natural beauty. Originally published in 1944, this second edi… [more below]
- Author: Horton, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0764363662
- Language: English
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The Golden Age of Baltimore Theater: A History from Shakespeare to Vaudeville
$24.99 Read moreThe story of Charm City on stage. Baltimore’s dynamic theatrical tradition had hard-scrabble beginnings in the eighteenth century. The popularity of the theater only grew, continuing to the vaudeville… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Mitchell, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1467154482
- Language: English
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Engineering Pittsburgh: A History of Roads, Rails, Canals, Bridges and More
$32.99 Add to cartWestern Pennsylvania’s infrastructure is renowned for traversing valleys, mountains, rivers and everything in between. Early surveying in the region delineated state and local boundaries that allowed … [more below]
- Author: Asce Pittsburgh Section 100th Anniversar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: September 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1540235998
- Language: English
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The Desperate Hours: One Hospital’s Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic’s Front Lines
$19.99 Add to cartAWARD-WINNING VANITY FAIR WRITER Marie Brenner shares a remarkable depiction of New York–a city in crisis–based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting that captures the resilience, peril, and compassio
- Author: Brenner, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1250837154
- Language: English
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Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks: The Story of the Lake, the Land, and the People
$24.95 Add to cartBig Moose Lake in the Adirondacks is the lively and well documented story of the growth of the lake side community made famous by the incident that inspired Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy. The
- Author: Barlow, Jane A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: June 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0815607741
- Language: English
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Erie Canal
$24.99 Read moreTravel back in time through the heyday of the old Erie Canal and see how it unleashed the growth of the United States.
The building of the Erie Canal was spearheaded by the vision of Gov. Dewitt Clinto
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Erie Canal Museum
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0738508691
- Language: English
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The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Familes: a Genealogical History of the Upper Monongahela Valley
$65.95 Add to cart“Tenmile Country” refers to an area of land in Greene and Washington counties in southwestern Pennsylvania that is traversed by Tenmile Creek. During the early colonial period, this region of the Uppe
- Author: Leckey, Howard L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 746
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1596414618
- Language: English
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The Foggy Bottom Gang: The Story of the Warring Brothers of Washington, DC
$17.95 Add to cartIn the town of lawmaking, three brothers thrived in lawbreaking
Before Prohibition, Leo, Emmitt, and Charles “Rags” Warring worked as laborers in their father’s barrel shop. When the (illegal) booze st
- Author: Warring, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1950843327
- Language: English
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Niagara Falls in World War II
$21.99 Add to cartNiagara Falls, both a natural wonder and a tourist destination, played a prominent role on the homefront during the Second World War. Many men and women worked diligently stateside in wartime industri… [more below]
- Series: Military
- Author: Kratts, Michelle Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1467137375
- Language: English
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Chronicles of the British Occupation of Long Island
$35.99 Add to cartLong Island was occupied under the brual yolk of the British army and navy from 1776-1783. The scars, trials and experiences of the occupation would not soon be forgotten… Author David M. Griffin pr… [more below]
- Author: Griffin, David M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257266
- Language: English
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Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
$18.99 Add to cart“Reads like a nail-biting thriller.” — Library Journal, starred review
A gripping new history celebrating the remarkable heroes of the Johnstown Flood–the deadliest flood in U.S. history–from NBC h
- Author: Roker, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062445537
- Language: English
