United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO,ND,NE,OH,SD,WI
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The Turtle, The Mitten, and An Epic History of Michigan
$15.99 Add to cartPart travel, part history, part adventure, and 100% Pure Michigan, The Turtle, The Mitten, and An Epic History of Michigan tells the irresistible story of the Wolverine State from the receding glacier
- Author: Helman, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798314940532
- Language: English
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Adam Lemp and the Western Brewery
$20.00 Add to cartJohann Adam Lemp ranks among the most influential figures in St. Louis history, the founder of a brewery that left an indelible mark on the city. But the story of the German-American founder of the fa
- Author: Naffziger, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991296700
- Language: English
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Big Safe: The Milwaukee Crew and the Reno Redfield Heist
$24.99 Read moreSome say it was the biggest theft in American history. Maybe it was.
The multimillion-dollar burglary at eccentric gambler LaVere Redfield’s Reno mansion was an endless comedy of errors. A target who h
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Schmitt, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1467156639
- Language: English
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Detroit’s Lost Stove Industry: From Open Hearth to Cast Iron
$24.99 Read moreCasting a legacy
Long before automobiles made Detroit the Motor City, the city boasted a flourishing and diverse industrial economy, albeit on a more modest scale. Among the myriad industries that defi
- Series: Lost
- Author: Van Dusen, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 146715699X
- Language: English
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This Is The Place: Glimpses of Warren County, Iowa
$14.99 Add to cartIowa’s Warren County experienced the same history as others in the Midwest, making the people in countless communities the only difference between this homeplace and another. These glimpses burrow dee
- Author: Opstad, Elodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 21 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218480288
- Language: English
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Lost East Chicago and Indiana Harbor
$24.99 Read moreExplore the city of yesteryear
East Chicago, Indiana, was a melting pot. The Indiana Harbor neighborhood drew comparisons to Ellis Island as immigrants flocked from all over the world to work at its st
- Series: Lost
- Author: Pete, Joseph S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1467152927
- Language: English
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Pulling Off the Sheets: The Second Ku Klux Klan in Deep Southern Illinois
$22.95 Read moreWINNER, Certificate of Excellence in “Scholarly Publications” from the Illinois State Historical Society’s 2025 Best of Illinois History Awards!
Unmasking old-time racism in southern Illinois
Pulling o- Series: Saluki Publishing
- Author: Dexter, Darrel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: April 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0809339420
- Language: English
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Street Fight: The Chicago Taxi Wars of the 1920s
$29.95 Add to cartBricks and bottles of acid through the windshield. Bullets shot from the running boards of racing cabs, passengers screaming in the backseat. Bombs exploding in garages, beneath parked cars, on the fr
- Author: Morrissy, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1493068679
- Language: English
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Secret Michigan: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$27.00 Add to cartFrom the only king who ruled in the United States to the only President who was also a king, you’ll unearth the fascinating stories behind popular places. From a state with a car culture history, disc… [more below]
- Author: Piper, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1681065282
- Language: English
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Tales of Ohio’s Underground Railroad
$24.99 Read moreAuthors David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker separate fact from fiction in the story of Ohio’s Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a macabre sort of dance between good and evil in which
- Author: Meyers, David W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159166
- Language: English
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Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids: The Scandalous 1916 Murder Plot
$31.99 Add to cartWith his boyish good looks, Arthur Warren Waite charmed into marriage the daughter of wealthy Grand Rapids business tycoon John E. Peck in 1916. He then wasted no time executing what he believed to be… [more below]
- Author: Buhk, Tobin T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1540211614
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Little Lithuania
$24.99 Read moreWhen visiting a church such as Holy Cross in Back of the Yards or Nativity Blessed Virgin Mary in Marquette Park, it is easy to stand in awe of what generations of Lithuanians in Chicago have accompli
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Riskus, Justin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1467161977
- Language: English
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Empire Builders: An Illustrated History of the Rise and Fall of Cleveland’s Van Sweringen Brothers
$45.00 Read moreEmpire Builders tells the story of Oris P. and Mantis J. Sweringen, two brothers from Wooster, Ohio, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Although they were born into abject poverty,
- Author: Pacini, Lauren R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0253069823
- Language: English
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The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
$35.00 Add to cartThe epic story of Detroit’s struggle to integrate schools in its suburbs–and the defeat of desegregation in the North.
In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of Milliken- Author: Adams, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0374250421
- Language: English
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Detroit in 50 Maps
$30.00 Read moreDetroit in 50 Maps shows you the Motor City from entirely new perspectives, from neighborhood coffee shops to the legacy of redlining.
There are thousands of ways to map a city. Roads, bridges, and ra
- Author: Hill, Alex B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1953368026
- Language: English
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Roadside History of Nebraska
$0.00 Read moreThis overview of Nebraska history leads both visitors and residents on an in-depth tour of the state’s past. Divided into five geographic divisions, the book follows roadways to all the well-known and… [more below]
- Series: Roadside History (Paperback)
- Author: Moulton, Candy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: June 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0878423478
- Language: English
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Midwest Futures
$26.00 Read moreA virtuoso book about midwestern identity and the future of the region. Named a Commonweal Notable Book of 2020, a finalist for a Midwest Independent Book award, and winner of the Independent Publishe
- Author: Christman, Phil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1948742616
- Language: English
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Christmas in Cincinnati
$24.99 Add to cartBelieve in the Magic
The most wonderful time of the year has its own special meaning for those who grew up in the Queen City. The elves at Shillito’s and Pogie and Patter the talking reindeer were as
- Author: Beckman, Wendy H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1467148318
- Language: English
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The Indianapolis Anthology
$20.00 Read morePart of Belt’s city anthology series, a reconsideration of one of America’s most misunderstood cities.
Is Indianapolis just another midwestern city to fly over on the way to bigger and better destinati
- Series: Belt City Anthologies
- Author: Minnick, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1948742918
- Language: English
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Amazing Iowa
$22.50 Add to cart- Author: Murray, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1681065754
- Language: English
