United States - State & Local - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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New Gloucester
$24.99 Read moreNamed by the proprietors from Gloucester, Massachusetts, New Gloucester began as a frontier town, as it was the most inland settlement in Maine at the time. Incorporated in 1774, the town has been cal… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Blake, Thomas P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0738565830
- Language: English
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Inside the Combat Zone: The Stripped Down Story of Boston’s Most Notorious Neighborhood
$18.95 Add to cartBoston has always been known for its stiff character. So how did this great New England city become home to one of the largest and most notorious adult entertainment districts in the nation? In this e… [more below]
- Author: Schorow, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1493048996
- Language: English
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New England Tiki
$23.99 Read moreNew Englanders are as far away from the South Pacific as any American can be, yet when tiki fever gripped the country in the mid-twentieth century, even they were not immune. Tropical-themed restauran… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Quigley, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153095
- Language: English
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Filipinos in Greater Boston
$23.99 Read moreAs early as the Civil War, a dozen Filipino men living in Massachusetts enlisted in the Union army. In the 1900s, Filipino pensionados studied at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Talusan, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467109606
- Language: English
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Fleshing Out Skull & Bones: Investigations Into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society
$24.95 Read moreThis chronicle of espionage, drug smuggling, and elitism in Yale University’s Skull & Bones society offers rare glimpses into this secret world with previously unpublished documents, photographs, and … [more below]
- Author: Millegan, Kris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0975290606
- Language: English
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Myths, Tall Tales and Half Truths of Cape Cod
$23.99 Read moreCape Cod, one of the nation’s oldest regions, can claim many firsts, but not as many as some want you to believe.
Boastfulness, tall tales and plain stretching the truth about history is widely pract
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Ellis, James H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 146715444X
- Language: English
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Distilled in Boston: A History & Guide with Cocktail Recipes
$23.99 Read moreBoston has a long history with distilled spirits, from Colonial times through Prohibition. More recently, there has been a resurgence in the craft distilling industry from Cape Ann to Cape Cod. Region… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Lamothe, Zachary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151211
- Language: English
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Monadnock Originals: Colorful Characters from New Hampshire’s Quiet Corner
$23.99 Read moreThe Monadnock Region has been referred to as New Hampshire’s “forgotten corner.” It is a quiet region known for its historic New England villages and beautiful natural landscape. Overlooked tales from… [more below]
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Rumrill, Alan F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152641
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Cambridge & Harvard
$23.99 Read moreHome to the location where George Washington took command of the troops and to America’s oldest Ivy League university, Cambridge is a city that feels like a town.
Hasty Pudding meetings were enlivene
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Merrill, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152676
- Language: English
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Haunted Nantucket
$21.99 Read moreNantucket is known for its beautiful beaches, rich history, and swanky social scene. Now, you can uncover its shadowy supernatural side in this new addition to the Haunted America Series, based in par… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Sillery, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1455627259
- Language: English
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Lebanon
$24.99 Read moreLebanon, located on the border of New Hampshire and Vermont, is the center of the largest micropolitan area in the United States and the only city in New Hampshire’s Grafton County, but its history ha… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Ford Burley, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1467160458
- Language: English
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The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, and Boston’s Struggle for Justice
$27.95 Add to cartShortlisted for the 2021 Agatha Award for Best Non-Fiction and the 2022 Anthony Award for Best Critical or Nonfiction Work
At the end of the 1976 football season, more than forty Harvard athletes wen- Author: Brogan, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1625346093
- Language: English
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Legends & Lore of Cape Cod
$21.99 Read moreCape Cod has a rich tradition of local lore, stretching back to a time before the Pilgrims arrived.
Ancient Wampanoag legends like Granny Squannit and Princess Scargo are as familiar as tales of pirate
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Smith-Johnson, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119040
- Language: English
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Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America’s Deadliest Rock Concert
$24.95 Read moreOn February 20, 2003, the deadliest rock concert in U.S. history took place at a roadhouse called The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island. That night, in the few minutes it takes to play a hard-rock… [more below]
- Author: Barylick, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1611688531
- Language: English
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Literary New Hampshire: A History & Guide
$23.99 Add to cartNew Hampshire’s literary roots are long and rich, with names like Robert Frost, Celia Thaxter and Willa Cather beckoning book lovers. Travel to Cornish and discover the connections between one of the … [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Crooker, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153788
- Language: English
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New England’s Haunted Route 44
$21.99 Read moreU.S. Route 44 stretches across New England from Massachusetts to Connecticut before completing its circuit in New York State, 237 miles later. Along the way, travelers may encounter the infamous Bridg… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: D’Agostino, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152129
- Language: English
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Machine Guns in Narragansett Bay: The Coast Guard’s War on Rumrunners
$23.99 Read moreDuring World War I and World War II, Rhode Island was dotted with coastal forts filled with large caliber guns. Yet they were never fired in anger. By contrast, from 1929 to 1933, during Prohibition, … [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: McBurney, Christian M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1467149683
- Language: English
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Cape Cod and the Portland Gale of 1898
$23.99 Read moreOn the night of November 26, 1898, with a killer storm of historic proportions approaching, the steamer Portland set out from Boston. By the following night, the winter hurricane sent the vessel to th… [more below]
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Wilding, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 146715167X
- Language: English
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Shipwrecks of Cape Cod: Stories of Tragedy and Triumph
$21.99 Read moreFrom the wreck of the Sparrow-Hawk in 1626 to the grounding of the Eldia in 1984, Cape Cod’s outer beach–often referred to as the Graveyard of Ships–saw the demise of more than three thousand vessel… [more below]
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Wilding, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1467147192
- Language: English
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A Boston Harbor Islands Adventure: The Great Brewster Journal of 1891
$23.99 Read moreIn 1891, four intrepid women from Lowell sailed to a remote island in Boston Harbor for a 17-day escape from New England’s prim and proper society. Calling themselves the Scribe, the Aristocrat, the A… [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Schorow, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151688
- Language: English
