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You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song
$29.95 Add to cartIn You Are My Sunshine, Robert Mann weaves together the birth of country music, Louisiana political history, World War II, and the American civil rights movement to produce a compelling biography of o
- Author: Mann, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0807183504
- Language: English
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The Murdaugh Murders Case
$15.99 Add to cartFor the first time in his life, attorney Alex Murdaugh–the scion of a long line of lawyers and prosecutors–stands before a jury at the Colleton Courthouse, not as a practitioner of law, but rather a… [more below]
- Series: 50 States of Crime #5
- Author: Cerf, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 161316694X
- Language: English
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Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945
$45.00 Add to cart- Author: Wallace, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0199384517
- Language: English
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Bitter Creek: An Epic Poem
$18.95 Add to cartBitter Creek, a lyric Chinese epic of the American West, reveals the devastating realities of the 1885 Rock Springs Massacre.
In September of 1885, the Chinese coal miners who were brought in as strike
- Author: Goh, Teow Lim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 109
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 9798890920133
- Language: English
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North of Main: Spartanburg’s Historic Black Neighborhoods of North Dean Street, Gas Bottom, and Back of the College
$25.95 Add to cartNew neighborhoods began emerging north of Main Street in Spartanburg, South Carolina in the 1870s as emancipated Black men and women spent their hard-won post-slavery wages to purchase lots and build
- Series: Hub City Writers Project
- Author: Pryce, Brenda Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 9798885740401
- Language: English
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Wakara’s America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West
$35.00 Add to cartThe forgotten life and complex legacies of Wakara, the mighty, once-notorious Native leader whose battles and conquests shaped the American West
The Native American leader Wakara (ca. 1815-1855) was- Author: Mueller, Max Perry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541602595
- Language: English
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Walking Chicago’s Coast: A 63-Mile Journey to the Indiana Dunes
$19.95 Add to cartBlending travelogue, memoir, and environmental reportage, Walking Chicago’s Coast takes readers on an urban journey. Michael McColly begins his walk at his far-North Side Chicago apartment and proceed
- Author: McColly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: September 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501783149
- Language: English
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Defending Dixie’s Land: What Every American Should Know About The South and The Civil War
$39.95 Add to cartARE YOU INTERESTED IN KNOWING the actual history of your country, or are you content with the propagandized version the winners of wars conjure up to feed school children? When it comes to the story a
- Author: Bishop, Isaac C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: August 15 2025
- ISBN10: 196350643X
- Language: English
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Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals
$27.99 Add to cartIn this breathtaking chronicle of the most spectacular shipwrecks and survivals on the Great Lakes, William Ratigan re-creates vivid scenes of high courage and screaming panic from which no reader can… [more below]
- Author: Ratigan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: August 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0802886086
- Language: English
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Great Plains Indians
$14.95 Add to cart2017 Nebraska Book Awards Nonfiction: Reference
David J. Wishart’s Great Plains Indians covers thirteen thousand years of fascinating, dynamic, and often tragic history. From a hunting and gathering- Series: Discover the Great Plains
- Author: Wishart, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0803269625
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Old Wilmington
$31.99 Add to cartRising from the banks of the Cape Fear River like a spectral stage, Wilmington, North Carolina, remains one of America s most haunted cities. Its beautiful homes and tidal waterways belie a history of… [more below]
- Author: Hirchak, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 08 2006
- ISBN10: 1540204197
- Language: English
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Just Freedom: Inside Florida’s Decades-Long Voting Rights Battle
$28.00 Add to cartThe story of an extraordinary
When
expansion of voting rights and the obstacles holding back its implementation
Florida citizens voted in 2018 to pass Amendment 4 to the state constitution, which
promi- Author: Rivero, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0813081165
- Language: English
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Tassajara Stories: A Sort of Memoir/Oral History of the First Zen Buddhist Monastery in the West–The First Year, 1967
$32.99 Add to cart“As priceless as discovering a previously unknown time capsule.”–Peter Coyote (Hosho Jishi), actor, director, author
This is what happened at the famous Zen monastery south of San Francisco.
From the b
- Author: Chadwick, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1958972894
- Language: English
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History Hiding Around Broadway: Backstage Lore, Secrets & Surprises from New York’s Famed Theater District
$25.00 Add to cartGo behind the scenes of the Great White Way with this illustrated guide to the Theater District’s hidden history–an essential book for your explorations of the district from a seasoned Broadway guide… [more below]
- Author: Dvornik, Teale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0762489103
- Language: English
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The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at Uc Berkeley
$22.00 Add to cartNow in paperback: “A profound alternative institutional history, one that sees the long arm of institutional racism implicated everywhere.” (Publishers Weekly)
“This is a land acknowledgment.” –Ruth Wi
- Author: Platt, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1597146803
- Language: English
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The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South
$17.99 Add to cart“A memorable narrative of a civil rights case that deserves a larger place in American memory.” –Jon Meacham
“Riveting. . . . It’s like a real-life To Kill a Mockingbird, but with even more subtlety a
- Author: Heard, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0061284165
- Language: English
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Along Lake Michigan: Shipwreck Stories of Life and Loss
$24.95 Add to cartNotable shipwrecks of Lake Michigan throughout a century of enterprise, industry, heroism, and disaster on the Great Lakes
The Great Lakes are graveyards of a vast number of shipwrecks (30,000 by some
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1517916771
- Language: English
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Wicked Strange: Your Guide to Ghosts, Monsters, Oddities, and Urban Legends from New England
$23.95 Add to cartGo legend hunting with explorer of the unexplained Jeff Belanger, visiting haunted places, where monsters lurk, and other roadside oddities.
“Legends have always run deep in New England–thankfully,- Author: Belanger, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1637480210
- Language: English
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The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
$29.95 Add to cartA history of New York’s Yiddish popular culture from 1880 to the present.
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a new look at over a century of New York’s history of Yiddish popular
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Sapoznik, Henry H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855801736
- Language: English
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Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1891, when coal companies in eastern Tennessee brought in cheap convict labor to take over their jobs, workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prisoners, and loading them onto frei
- Author: Shirley, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 19 2015
- ISBN10: 1849352070
- Language: English
