History Press
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The Jefferson City Civil Pilots: From Lincoln University to Tuskegee Airmen
$24.99 Read moreAviation captivated young men before World War II, regardless of their skin color. But few Black enthusiasts had access, means or opportunity until the Civil Pilot Training program. Lincoln University… [more below]
- Series: Military
- Author: Brooks, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1467154490
- Language: English
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Galveston’s Juneteenth Story: And Still We Rise
$24.99 Read moreGalveston was the birthplace of Juneteenth.
Issued in Galveston on June 19, 1865, General Orders, No. 3 announced to the people of Texas that all slaves were free. It is one of the Island’s most import
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Jones, W. Dwayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155276
- Language: English
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Death at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles
$21.99 Add to cartBuilt during Los Angeles’s rapid growth in the Roaring Twenties, the Beaux Arts-style Cecil Hotel was briefly a glimmering downtown landmark until it became one of the most infamous sites of violence … [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Perelman, Dale Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150185
- Language: English
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New England Fairies: A History of the Little People of the Hills and Forests
$24.99 Add to cartTales of fairies and bewitching Little People have amazed and horrified New Englanders for over four hundred years. In the nineteenth century, residents of Marblehead, Massachusetts, reported maliciou… [more below]
- Author: Warburton, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1467158208
- Language: English
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Haunted Puget Sound
$21.99 Read moreThe Puget Sound region is known for its idyllic scenery–and for harboring the paranormal.
From the spirits of frontiersmen and adventurers to specters of soldiers and sailors, chilling tales abound…. [more below]- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Kitmacher, Ira Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1467157848
- Language: English
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The 1906-1910 Cubs Dynasty: Rowdy Times and Rugged Men in Cutthroat Chicago
$24.99 Add to cartA Cubs dynasty founded on fastballs and fisticuffs.
Unlike today’s Chicago Cubs, the Cubs of 1906-1910 were not at all lovable, and certainly did not always display traits customarily linked with a wi
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Santella, Gary D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1467156795
- Language: English
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Holocaust Refugees in Oswego: From Nazi Europe to Lake Ontario
$24.99 Read moreAmerica’s Only Shelter Established for Holocaust Refugees
During the height of the second World War, at the order of President Roosevelt, Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York housed 982 refugees, rescued
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Allen, Ann Callaghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155950
- Language: English
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The Soul of Pittsburgh: Essays on Life, Community and History
$24.99 Add to cart“Europe stretches to the Alleghenies, America lies beyond.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“They are my people and this is my town and it does my heart good just to be here.” – Art Rooney Sr.
What does it me… [more below]- Series: The History Press
- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1467157317
- Language: English
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Murder in Manteo: Seeking Justice for Stacey Stanton
$24.99 Add to cartStacey Stanton, a beloved resident of Manteo, was found stabbed to death in her apartment on the afternoon of February 3, 1990. The slaying was the most horrendous crime the town had seen in years. Wi… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Railey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155705
- Language: English
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Lost Delaware
$24.99 Add to cartFormer Delaware journalists Rachel Kipp and Dan Shortridge document the past, present, and sometimes the future of Delaware’s landmarks and legends. Originally part of Pennsylvania and called “the thr… [more below]
- Series: Lost
- Author: Kipp, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1467156426
- Language: English
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Mothers of the Mind: The Remarkable Women Who Shaped Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath
$36.99 Read moreThe stories of the remarkable mothers who shaped Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and Sylvia Plath
Julia Stephen, Clara Miller, and Aurelia Plath were fascinating women in their own rights, and their- Author: Trethewey, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1803991895
- Language: English
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Dr. Martha Cannon of Utah: The Unexpected Victorian Life of America’s First Female State Senator
$24.99 Read morePrudery, Polygamy and Politics
Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon was no hands-on-the-plow pioneer. She was no stereotypical polygamous wife. Nor was she a prim lady who blushed at the word “legs.” Victorian Mo
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Jacobson, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155071
- Language: English
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Cincinnati Curiosities: Healing Powers of the Wamsley Madstone, Nocturnal Exploits of Old Man Dead, Mazeppa’s Naked Ride & More
$23.99 Read moreExplore the eccentric side of yesterday’s Queen City
Cincinnatians today wrap themselves in a comforting blanket of serene conformity, soothed by the myth that the Queen City has always been a bland, s
- Author: Hand, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 2022
- ISBN10: 146715282X
- Language: English
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Rural Iowa Sausage: History & Tradition of Brats on the Back Roads
$24.99 Add to cartAn Iowa Tradition Like No Other
In the 1970s, there were around 450 local meat lockers throughout the state of Iowa. Today, there are little more than 100 left. History is finally back on their sid
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Goodvin, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467148547
- Language: English
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The Wisconsin Farm They Built: Tales of Family & Fortitude
$23.99 Read moreCorey Geiger, international agricultural journalist and author of On a Wisconsin Family Farm, pairs his rural roots and lively storytelling talents to capture six generations of life in America’s Dair… [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Geiger, Corey A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152749
- Language: English
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Unnatural Ohio: A History of Buckeye Cryptids, Legends & Other Mysteries
$24.99 Add to cartStrange things are afoot in the Buckeye State
Across city and country, Ohio echoes with tales of creatures, ghosts, and other unexplained phenomena. A monster that appeared to be half man and half d
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Smith, M. Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151440
- Language: English
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Authentic Chicago: The Fairway Flapper, the Lincolnwood Lone Ranger, the Wandering Church and Other Quirky History
$24.99 Read moreDiscover the history most Chicagoans don’t know—the real Chicago Way.
The Windy City is full of forgotten landmarks and unusual stories that rarely get the benefit of a guided tour. Meet the African-
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Schmidt, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154911
- Language: English
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Young Andrew Jackson in the Carolinas:: A Revolutionary Boy
$14.99 Add to cartBefore he was Old Hickory” and the “People’s President,” Andrew Jackson came of age in the Waxhaw region of the Carolinas during the turmoil of the Revolutionary War. Young Andy Jackson faced uncommon… [more below]
- Author: Hunsicker, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 1626193592
- Language: English
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Virginia Legends & Lore
$21.99 Read moreFor centuries, Virginians have told, retold and embellished wonderful stories of their history. Legends such as the wild Spanish ponies of Chincoteague, General Braddock’s lost gold, the Mount Vernon … [more below]
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Mills, Charles a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1467149705
- Language: English
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Historic Tales of Sylva and Jackson County
$21.99 Add to cartBefore the coming of the four-lane, Jackson County was an insular community defined by geography-wedged in between the Great Smokies and Blue Ridge escarpment, bisected by thousands of miles of stream… [more below]
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Buchanan, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1467145750
- Language: English
