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Better Homes of South Bend: An American Story of Courage
$31.99 Add to cart- Author: Robinson, Gabrielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: September 07 2015
- ISBN10: 154020278X
- Language: English
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Murder in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$23.99 Add to cartThis collection of twenty-four legendary murders spans 160 years of Upper Michigan’s history and dispels the notion that murder in the Upper Peninsula is an anomaly.
Residents of the idyllic villages s
- Series: Murder & Mayhem
- Author: Longtine, Sonny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 162619355X
- Language: English
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Made in Ohio: A History of Buckeye Invention & Ingenuity
$23.99 Read moreAmerican Know How in the Heart of It All Ohio was and remains tailor made for commerce, transportation, invention, and manufacturing. Located between Lake Erie and the Ohio River, it was perfect for c… [more below]
- Author: Hinds, Conrade C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152943
- Language: English
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Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains
$24.95 Add to cartReading the West Longlist for Nonfiction
Childbirth defines families, communities, and nations. In Birthing the West, Jennifer J. Hill fills the silences around historical reproduction with copious- Author: Hill, Jennifer J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496226852
- Language: English
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Skywalks: Robert Gordon’s Untold Story of Hallmark’s Kansas City Disaster
$34.95 Add to cartIn 1981 the suspended walkways–or “skywalks”–in Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel fell and killed 114 people. It was the deadliest building collapse in the United States until the fall of New York’s… [more below]
- Author: Paul, R. Eli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496233131
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81
$21.95 Read moreThe Long Winter is one of the most memorable novels in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series. It beautifully details the dramatic events of The Hard Winter of 1880-81, a harrowing time with month
- Author: Wilson, Cindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: February 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1643439057
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Grand Rapids
$23.99 Read moreRecovering the past of Furniture City More than two centuries of overlooked history flow through Grand Rapids like the river for which it is named. The first city surveyor dabbled in seances while pla… [more below]
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Ellis, Matthew A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153044
- Language: English
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A History Lover’s Guide to Cincinnati
$23.99 Read moreA tour of the Queen City’s rich heritage One of the oldest cities in the Midwest, Cincinnati has history in its bones. In the 1800s, the city was often styled the “Paris of America” due in part to amb… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Schrage, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152889
- Language: English
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Iowa Supper Clubs
$21.99 Add to cartFrom relish trays and Old Fashioned cocktails to prime rib and fried fish, supper clubs are a quintessential part of midwestern dining culture. In Iowa, hundreds of supper clubs once dotted the state’… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Bannister, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1467145130
- Language: English
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Storied & Scandalous Wisconsin: A History of Mischief and Menace, Heroes and Heartbreak
$19.95 Add to cartTrue, shocking tales from Wisconsin’s seamy past. Author Anna Lardinois synthesizes well-researched information into cohesive tales of terrible fires, vengeful call girls, famous flim-flam men, and ey… [more below]
- Author: Lardinois, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493047574
- Language: English
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Kansas City’s Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home
$24.99 Add to cartA few blocks southeast of the famed intersection of 18th and Vine in Kansas City, Missouri, just a stone’s throw from Charlie Parker’s old stomping grounds and the current home of the vaunted American
- Author: Carr, Margie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0700634673
- Language: English
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Lost Treasures of Omaha
$27.00 Read moreOmaha is many things: “the Gateway to the West”; the home to Indigenous peoples, from the Otoe, Pawnee, and Omaha nations; a place for Euro-American expansion and immigrant dreams; the home of Warren
- Series: Lost Treasures
- Author: Trudell, Tim And Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064324
- Language: English
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Gold Rush Girl: Pioneer Life in the Black Hills
$19.99 Add to cartIn 2011, Betsy Quinn took it upon herself to finish a project first started by her great-grandmother in the 1920’s: publish a memoir chronicling the struggles and adventures of growing up in the Black
- Author: Taylor, Sarah Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: October 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0999809008
- Language: English
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City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago
$22.95 Add to cartCity of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago’s development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today’s robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose live
- Author: Spinney, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: May 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1501748963
- Language: English
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The Lake Michigan Triangle: Mysterious Disappearances and Haunting Tales
$23.99 Read moreWhat disturbing secrets surround the cold, deep waters of Lake Michigan?
Sudden violent storms and rocky shoals have claimed the lives of countless mortals foolish enough to brave the treacherous surf
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Soucek, Gayle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1467148393
- Language: English
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Lost Chicago Department Stores
$41.99 Add to cartWithin thirty years of the Great Chicago Fire, the revitalized city was boasting some of America’s grandest department stores. The retail corridor on State Street was a crowded canyon of innovation an… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Goddard, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: January 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1540251276
- Language: English
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The Collinwood Tragedy: The Story of the Worst School Fire in American History
$24.95 Add to cartA devastating loss of life and a community’s response
March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in Collinwood, Ohio, a village about ten miles outside of Cleveland. Children at Lakeview Elementary School
- Author: Badal, James Jessen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1606353918
- Language: English
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Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa
$21.99 Add to cartSome have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians lived, worked and attended school together. It was a thriving, one… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Chase, Rachelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1467140465
- Language: English
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Lemont
$24.99 Read moreLocated within the Des Plaines River valley in Illinois, Lemont became a village in 1873. The Illinois and Michigan Canal opened transportation opportunities and led to the discovery of dolomite limes… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Barron, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 146716058X
- Language: English
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When Minnehaha Flowed with Whiskey: A Spirited History of the Falls
$18.95 Add to cartThe lost history of Minnehaha Falls–featuring dance halls, secret saloons, wild behavior, lawsuits, and plenty of whiskey.
Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis has been a much-loved place for a very long t
- Author: Cooper, Karen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 168134226X
- Language: English
