United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO,ND,NE,OH,SD,WI
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Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out
$24.95 Add to cartRenowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a… [more below]
- Author: Atkins, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0873516338
- Language: English
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Haunted Lansing
$21.99 Add to cartHastily dubbed the new capital in 1847, Lansing overcame derision and setbacks to become a booming metropolis. Yet its rich history hides chilling legends.
Bertie Clippinger plays tricks on the unwary
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Carpenter, Jenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1467140473
- Language: English
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Thank You for Shopping: The Golden Age of Minnesota Department Stores
$36.95 Add to cartThroughout the twentieth century, department stores ruled the retail landscapes of downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul. More than just shopping centers, stores like Dayton’s, Powers, Donaldson’s, Young-… [more below]
- Author: Leebrick, Kristal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1681340976
- Language: English
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Lost Evansville
$24.99 Read moreFrom the Wabash and Erie Canal to the Faultless Caster Factory, Evansville has seen much of its history disappear.
In the early twentieth century, vestiges of old Evansville like the B’nai Israel te
- Series: Lost
- Author: MacLeod, James Lachlan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 09 2023
- ISBN10: 146715332X
- Language: English
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Lost in Michigan: History and Travel Stories from an Endless Road Trip
$14.95 Add to cartBased on the popular Lost In Michigan website that was featured in the Detroit Free Press, It contains locations throughout Michigan, and tells their interesting story. Whether you’re a long time Mich
- Author: Sonenberg, Mike D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0999433202
- Language: English
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Amazing Chicago
$22.50 Read moreThe city’s blend of cultures created uniquely Chicago culinary delights like deep dish pizza and the Chicago tamale. Dive into music history, outlined by blues, jazz, and even country music, exemplifi
- Series: Amazing
- Author: Witter, David Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064758
- Language: English
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Wisconsin and the Civil War
$32.99 Add to cartWisconsin troops fought and died for the Union on Civil War battlefields across the continent, from Shiloh to Gettysburg. Wisconsin lumberjacks built a dam that saved a stranded Union fleet. The Secon… [more below]
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Larson, Ronald Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: November 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1540227596
- Language: English
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Ohio’s Historic Haunts: Investigating the Paranormal in the Buckeye State
$24.95 Add to cartOhio’s premier paranormal researcher looks for the spirits behind the stories
Many of Ohio’s historically significant locations have developed a reputation for being haunted. While it might be almost
- Author: Willis, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 30, 2015
- ISBN10: 1606352601
- Language: English
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Oklahoma: A History
$21.95 Add to cartThe product of two of Oklahoma’s foremost authorities on the history of the 46th state, Oklahoma: A History is the first comprehensive narrative to bring the story of the Sooner State to the threshold
- Author: Baird, W. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141972
- Language: English
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The Language of Cottonwoods: Essays on the Future of North Dakota
$21.95 Add to cartNorth Dakota is regarded as flyover country, but extraordinary narratives play out on this improbable Great Plains landscape. North Dakota is the home of one of the world’s largest nuclear missile fie
- Author: Jenkinson, Clay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1646630998
- Language: English
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Chicago: City on the Make: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition
$21.00 Add to cart“Once you’ve become a part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”
Ernest Hemingw- Author: Algren, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0226013863
- Language: English
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
$30.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1501168681
- Language: English
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Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
$19.95 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago Ameri
- Author: Cronon, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0393308731
- Language: English
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What’s with Cincinnati
$22.50 Read more- Series: What’s with
- Author: O’Connor, Micha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064979
- Language: English
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Secret Iowa: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$27.00 Add to cart- Series: Secret
- Author: Bannister, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064898
- Language: English
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Walking South City, St. Louis
$21.00 Read moreHidden among the streets of St. Louis’s south side are stories that span centuries. In the wake of COVID-19, author and journalist Jim Merkel set out on a walk that would take him block-by-block throu… [more below]
- Author: Merkel, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064391
- Language: English
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
$22.99 Add to cartErik Larson, author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts, intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World’s Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their deaths. Co… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 689
- Publish Date: February 26 2013
- ISBN10: 1594136246
- Language: English
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We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$19.95 Add to cartWITH A FOREWORD BY LISA M. FINE, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY–Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is known for its natural beauty and severe winters, as well as the mines and forests where men labored to feed in… [more below]
- Author: Wong, Phyllis Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1611864208
- Language: English
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Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
$17.95 Add to cartOn September 1, 1894 two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire in the first and only book on t… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1493022008
- Language: English
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Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters
$0.00 Read moreStories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness’s epochal weather disaster
On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), a bizarre confluence of meteorol
- Author: Griffith, Cary J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1517915562
- Language: English
