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The Toledo War: The First Michigan-Ohio Rivalry
$24.95 Read more“An engaging account of the Toledo War of 1835, a serious confrontation whose outcome established the borders of the state of Michigan. Faber expertly narrates the history of a dispute conducted by fa
- Author: Faber, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0472050540
- Language: English
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Lost Mackinac Island
$23.99 Read moreWhether prehistoric and glacially slow or swift and modern, countless changes to Mackinac Island have driven much of its history out of sight and memory. Eons ago, waves washed away soft rock to leave… [more below]
- Series: Lost
- Author: Pucci, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1467149187
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Lost Ls
$23.99 Read moreChicago’s system of elevated railways, known locally as the L, has run continuously since 1892 and, like the city, has never stood still. It helped neighborhoods grow, brought their increasingly diver… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Sadowski, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 12 2021
- ISBN10: 146710602X
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Motor Row
$23.99 Add to cartChicago’s Motor Row earned a spot in the National Register of Historic Places by pioneering a new way to market an invention that was remaking America–the automobile.
From approximately 1905 to 1936, … [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Hogan, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 03 2022
- ISBN10: 146710762X
- Language: English
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Secret Northwest Indiana: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$22.50 Read more- Series: Secret
- Author: Pete, Joseph S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1681063662
- Language: English
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Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana
$28.00 Read moreWho are the people called Hoosiers? What are their stories? Two centuries ago, on the Indiana frontier, they were settlers who created a way of life they passed to later generations. They came to valu
- Author: Madison, James H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0253023440
- Language: English
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Lutherans of Cole County, Missouri: A History
$24.99 Read moreThe Houses Lutherans Built
Large groups of German immigrants began arriving in Cole County in the 1830s. By 1843, thirty-seven of them banded together to establish the first Lutheran church in the
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Amick, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 11 2023
- ISBN10: 146715489X
- Language: English
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Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream
$14.95 Read moreA resonant true story of small-town politics and community perseverance and of decent people and questionable choices, Zoo Nebraska is a timely requiem for a rural America in the throes of extinction.
- Author: Vaughan, Carson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1503901491
- Language: English
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The Great Water: A Documentary History of Michigan
$26.95 Add to cartMichigan’s location among the Great Lakes has positioned it at the crossroads of many worlds. Its first hunters arrived ten thousand years ago, its first farmers arrived about six thousand years after… [more below]
- Author: Thick, Matthew R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: January 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1611862671
- Language: English
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Historic Chicago Bakeries
$21.99 Add to cartAs immigrants came from outside the United States and settled in pockets around Chicago, each neighborhood had its own bakery–and sometimes several. At one time, more than seven thousand bakeries dot… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Billock, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1467150118
- Language: English
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Winfield’s Walnut Valley Festival
$23.99 Read moreLocal historian Seth Bate tells the story of the Walnut Valley Festival with reflections from staff, emcees, performers, campers, and characters from throughout its history.
The Festival was launched i
- Author: Bate, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1467146056
- Language: English
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Hegewisch
$24.99 Read moreFounded in 1884 as the company town of the United States Rolling Stock Company, Hegewisch became Chicago’s most remote and isolated neighborhood in 1889. Surrounded by waterways and railroads, the com… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Ogorek, Cynthia L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467160660
- Language: English
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The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis
$16.95 Read moreThe story of a much different Minneapolis, through the words and photographs of one of its most colorful characters–now in paperback
City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers–hard-dr
- Author: Shiffer, James Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1517916593
- Language: English
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African Americans in Chicago
$24.99 Read moreHere is the black Chicago family album, of African Americans leaving the violent, racist South and goin’ to Chicago to find the American Dream.
The story of black Chicago is so rich that few know it al
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Thompson, Lowell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0738588539
- Language: English
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Kodachrome Milwaukee
$23.99 Read moreExplore 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]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Levin, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153885
- Language: English
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Cleveland Amusement Park Memories: A Nostalgic Look Back at Euclid Beach Park, Puritas Springs Park, Geauga Lake Park, and Other Classic Parks
$19.95 Read moreNortheast Ohioans who grew up visiting amusement parks in the 1940s through 1970s will cherish the memories captured in this book, which includes Euclid Beach Park, Luna Park, Geauga Lake Park, Purita
- Author: Francis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 18 2005
- ISBN10: 1886228892
- Language: English
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The Egyptian Trail in Illinois: A History from Chicago to Cairo
$23.99 Read moreJourney down one of the most important roadways in the annals of Illinois transportation history.
Stretching from Chicago to Cairo, the Egyptian Trail was one of the earliest “improved” roadways in Ill
- Series: Transportation
- Author: Wright, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154806
- Language: English
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The Lake Michigan Car Ferry Badger
$24.99 Read moreThe iconic Lake Michigan car ferry Badger has been providing reliable service between Ludington, Michigan, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin, since its maiden voyage on March 21, 1953. Originally built as an i… [more below]
- Series: Arcadia Publishing
- Author: Chavez, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1467109363
- Language: English
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Iowa State Hockey and Al Murdoch: Building a Dream
$23.99 Read moreThe Making of Iowa State Hockey During five decades, Alan Murdoch played for, coached and managed the Iowa State Cyclone hockey team, making a life’s work out of his personal resourcefulness and initi… [more below]
- Series: Sports
- Author: Murdoch, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153923
- Language: English
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Minnesota’s Oldest Murder Mystery: The Case of Edward Phalen: St. Paul’s Unsaintly Pioneer
$25.00 Add to cartOn September 27, 1839, the battered body of a middle-aged Irishman was found by some Dakota Indian boys. The corpse washed up along the Mississippi River shore, about seven miles downstream from Fort … [more below]
- Author: Brueggemann, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: November 16 2012
- ISBN10: 1592985351
- Language: English
