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Historic Barns of Ohio
$40.99 Add to cartFrom the glacier-flattened northwest to the Appalachian hills and valleys to the east and south, barns dot the Ohio landscape. Built with wooden nails and mortise-and-tenon joints and assembled with b… [more below]
- Author: Kroeger, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: March 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1540246337
- Language: English
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Death & Lighthouses on the Great Lakes: A History of Murder and Misfortune
$21.99 Read moreThe author of Michigan’s Haunted Lighthouses shares tales of disaster and misfortune on the Great Lakes.
Losing one’s life while tending to a Great Lakes lighthouse sadly wasn’t such an unusual occurr
- Series: Murder & Mayhem
- Author: Stampfler, Dianna Higgs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1467149950
- Language: English
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Stand Up!: The Story of Minnesota’s Protest Tradition
$16.95 Add to cartA brief and readable overview of the political protest movements that have shaped Minnesota, a state of extremes.
- Author: Gilman, Rhoda R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0873518497
- Language: English
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Minnesota in the ’70s
$29.95 Add to cartReaching far beyond disco with an intriguing and entertaining look at the changes and challenges of the 1970s, the decade in which Minnesota grew into its modern identity.
- Author: Kenney, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0873518934
- Language: English
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Dark Side of the Mitten: Crimes of Power & Powerful Criminals in Michigan’s Past & Present
$16.95 Add to cartMichigan’s past has a more sinister side than what’s commonly displayed on roadside historical markers. In Dark Side of the Mitten: Crimes of the Powerful and Powerful Criminals in Michigan’s Past and
- Series: Blood on the Mitten #3
- Author: Carr, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1950659763
- Language: English
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St. Paul: An Urban Biography
$18.95 Add to cartA concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see Minnesota’s capitol city.
How did the city of St. Paul come to be where and what it is, and what- Series: Urban Biography #3
- Author: Lindeke, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1681342006
- Language: English
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Lost Lake Erie
$24.99 Read moreSerene one moment and destructive the next, Lake Erie’s moods mirror its tumultuous role in history.
As the site of Cleveland’s Great Lakes Exposition, the lake offered visitors a respite from the Gre
- Series: Lost
- Author: Boresz Engelking, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153737
- Language: English
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Historic Tales of Michigan Up North
$23.99 Add to cartCenturies ago, Europeans desperate for gold and a route to the East found a lush, green paradise populated by native tribes in the New World.
Subsequent violence and disease all but wiped out the nativ
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Rogers, D. Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1467138665
- Language: English
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The Voyageur’s Highway: Minnesota’s Border Lake Land
$17.95 Add to cartThis popular guide to Minnesota’s canoe country from Rainy Lake east to Lake Superior tells of famous explorers, the great fur traders, voyageurs, Indians, and loggers who passed that way.
- Series: Mysteries & Horror
- Author: Nute, Grace Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 129
- Publish Date: June 01 1941
- ISBN10: 0873510062
- Language: English
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Marshall Field’s: The Store That Helped Build Chicago
$31.99 Add to cartAnyone who has waited in a Christmas line for the Walnut Room’s Great Tree can attest that Chicago’s loyalty to Marshall Field’s is fierce. Dayton-Hudson even had to take out advertising around town t… [more below]
- Author: Soucek, Gayle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: September 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1540223779
- Language: English
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It Happened in Michigan: Stories of Events and People That Shaped Great Lakes State History
$16.95 Add to cartThis book offers an inside look at over 30 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of the Great Lakes State.
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Burcar, Colleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1493039458
- Language: English
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Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond
$28.95 Read moreScholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this region and determined who would control it. The Ohio… [more below]
- Series: New Approaches to Midwestern History
- Author: Anderson, Timothy G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0821425277
- Language: English
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Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit
$17.95 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
Now in paperback, the critically acclaimed New York Times Bestseller about a championship city haunted by a
Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Winner in True Crime- Author: Stanton, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1493030582
- Language: English
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Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
$21.00 Add to cart“A fascinating political, racial, economic, and cultural tapestry” (Detroit Free Press), Once in a Great City is a tour de force from David Maraniss about the quintessential American city at the top o… [more below]
- Author: Maraniss, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 20 2016
- ISBN10: 147674839X
- Language: English
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Every Goddamn Day: A Highly Selective, Definitely Opinionated, and Alternatingly Humorous and Heartbreaking Historical Tour of Chicago
$25.00 Read moreA daily celebration of Chicago’s history, both known and obscure, and always entertaining.
Every day in Chicago is a day to remember. In a city so rich with history, every day is the anniversary of s- Author: Steinberg, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 022677984X
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
$18.99 Add to cartPrizewinning Book: The Dawn of Detroit won both the Merle Curti Prize and the James Rawley Prize, two of the top distinctions in American History Media track record: Hardcover edition attracted major … [more below]
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974819
- Language: English
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Who Is the City For?: Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago
$29.00 Read moreA vividly illustrated collaboration between two of Chicago’s most celebrated architecture critics casts a wise and unsparing eye on inequities in the built environment and attempts to rectify them.
- Author: Kamin, Blair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 21, 2022
- ISBN10: 0226822737
- 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
