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Nordeast Minneapolis: A History
$31.99 Add to cartWhat began as the boom site for the mid-nineteenth-century Upper Midwest lumber industry quickly grew into the town of St. Anthony. In 1872, St. Anthony was annexed by its neighbor, Minneapolis, but t… [more below]
- Author: Day, Holly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: February 23 2015
- ISBN10: 154021236X
- Language: English
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Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
$31.99 Add to cartWhat came to be known as the World’s Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s 1492 landfall in the New World. Chicago beat out New York City, St…. [more below]
- Author: Di Cola, Joseph M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1531664059
- Language: English
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Chicago’s WLS Radio
$31.99 Add to cartFrom its early days as the farmer’s companion to over a quarter century as the nation’s premier rock-and-roll station, WLS has touched the lives of millions of listeners. Many well-known celebrities, … [more below]
- Author: Childers, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1531640249
- Language: English
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Wild Women of Michigan: A History of Spunk and Tenacity
$23.99 Add to cartWild Women of Michigan commemorates the women of this state who boldly left their marks.
Countless Michiganian women performed extraordinary acts that challenged and improved the world. Madame Marie-Th
- Author: Lewis, Norma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1467137693
- Language: English
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Lost Car Companies of Detroit
$23.99 Add to cartAmong more than two hundred auto companies that tried their luck in the Motor City, just three remain: Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. But many of those lost to history have colorful stories worth
- Series: Lost
- Author: Naldrett, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1467118737
- Language: English
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Akron Family Recipes: History and Traditions from Sauerkraut Balls to Sweet Potato Pie
$36.99 Add to cartCompiling more than 100 family recipes, founder of the Akron Recipe Project Judy Orr James serves up a history of home cooking in the Rubber City.
From the city’s founding in 1825 through the years fo
- Series: American Palate
- Author: James, Judy Orr
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: July 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1540252809
- Language: English
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Forgotten Chicago
$24.99 Add to cartChicago has long been regarded as home to some of the world’s most impressive architecture.
Responding to the Great Fire of 1871, Chicagoans rebuilt the city, creating a radically new architectural sty
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Paulett, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0738532797
- Language: English
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Midwest Futures
$16.95 Add to cartA virtuoso book-length essay on Midwestern identity and the future of the region
- Author: Christman, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1953368085
- Language: English
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Michigan Myths and Legends: The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries
$18.95 Add to cartThis selection of 14 stories from Michigan’s past explores some of the Great Lakes State’s most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
- Series: Myths and Mysteries
- Author: Barber, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493040081
- Language: English
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Cleveland’s Colorful Characters
$28.95 Add to cart“Cleveland’s Colorful Characters” is an easy to read, insightful book on some of Cleveland’s most influential individuals. These individuals helped create the grand and unique city which at one time w
- Author: Whipple, Kit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: December 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1645593266
- Language: English
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Fort Snelling at Bdote Updated Edition: A Brief History
$14.95 Add to cartFor millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of strategic power. In the 1820s, the newly arriving U.S. troops built Fort Snelling on the bluf… [more below]
- Author: DeCarlo, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1681341719
- Language: English
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Lost Restaurants of Chicago
$24.99 Add to cartChicago author, Greg Borzo, recalls the city’s celebrated lost restaurants.
Many of Chicago’s greatest or most unusual restaurants are no longer taking reservations, but they’re definitely not forgotte
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Borzo, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1625859333
- Language: English
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Michigan POW Camps in World War II
$21.99 Add to cartDuring World War II, Michigan became a temporary home to six thousand German and Italian POWs.
At a time of homefront labor shortages, they picked fruit in Berrien County, harvested sugar beets in the
- Series: Military
- Author: Sumner, Gregory D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 05 2018
- ISBN10: 162585837X
- Language: English
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The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory
$23.99 Read moreThe saga of The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory embodies the violence and vigilantism of the Old West
In the early 1880s, desperate characters left over from the fur trade began robbing arrivin
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Berget, Ron N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 1467149713
- Language: English
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Portrait of a City: Lincoln, Nebraska, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
$29.95 Add to cartOnce just a scattering of houses on the open prairie, by the late nineteenth century the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, had evolved into a modern metropolis. The changes ushered in by the Industrial Revol… [more below]
- Author: Pauley, Bruce F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149623412X
- Language: English
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The St. Elizabeth Hospital Fire in Iowa
$24.99 Read moreOne of the Largest Tragedies in Iowa History. On January 7, 1950, a fire erupted at St. Elizabeth’s Mental Health Facility for women. The disaster garnered state-wide and national attention as the sec… [more below]
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Grimes, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155578
- Language: English
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Detroit Style Pizza: A Doughtown History
$35.99 Add to cartI love Detroit Style Pizza, especially when you see the look on somebody’s face the first time that they try it. As soon as they taste it, they’re ‘Oh, my God. Where has this been all my life?’ Mike S… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Dybis, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: May 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257029
- Language: English
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Kodachrome Milwaukee
$39.99 Add to cartExplore long-lost and never-before-seen images of downtown, Mayfair Mall’s Ice Chalet, Brady Street, the Mitchell Park Domes, Milwaukee County Stadium, and much, much more. Introduced by Kodak in 1935… [more below]
- Author: Levin, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257479
- Language: English
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The Big Water: A History of Michigan’s Lower Au Sable River
$16.95 Add to cartAs one of the country’s most popular recreational streams – with an international reputation for fly fishing – the Au Sable River is a crown jewel of Michigan waterways. However, underneath its surfac
- Author: Buhr, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1961302314
- Language: English
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It Happened in Indiana: Remarkable Events That Shaped History
$14.95 Add to cartThis book offers an inside look at over 25 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of the Hoosier State.
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Finch, Jackie Sheckler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0762760230
- Language: English
