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The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bulls: A Decade-By-Decade History
$40.00 Add to cartAn in-depth look at the history of the Chicago Bulls franchise, featuring profiles, photography, box scores, and more from the archives of the Chicago Tribune.
The Chicago Bulls, one of the NBA’s most
- Author: Staff, Chicago Tribune
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1572843446
- Language: English
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Race and Resistance in Boston: A Contested Sports History
$39.95 Add to cartBoston is a city known for its sports as well as its troubled racial conflict. But generations of Black athletes, teams, sportswriters, and front-office executives have exercised historic influence in
- Author: Cvornyek, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: February 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496232682
- Language: English
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A Short History of Greenville
$24.99 Read moreA concise and engaging history that traces Greenville’s development from backcountry settlement to one of America’s best small cities
Today, Greenville, South Carolina, is regularly included on lists o
- Author: Bainbridge, Judith T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1643364677
- Language: English
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Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie
$32.50 Add to cartA compelling blend of true crime and memoir tracing the author’s investigation into the kidnapping and murder of her great-grandfather in 1980s Louisiana and the reverberations on her family and commu
- Author: LaHaye Fontenot, Jordan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0063257963
- Language: English
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Kentucky’s Packhorse Librarians
$24.99 Add to cartMarking the ridgelines and hearts of the Appalachians during the Great Depression, packhorse librarians delivered hope, one book at a time.
When the Great Depression started, folks stumbled on hard tim
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Jacobsmeyer, Nicki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1467162183
- Language: English
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The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
$16.95 Add to cartEyewitness statements compiled by a woman who survived the Tulsa race massacre of 1921
- Author: Parrish, Mary E. Jones
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 159534943X
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of Amarugia: The True Story of Missouri’s Country Kings
$14.99 Add to cartFifty miles south of Kansas City lies a rural community whose history makes it different than any other in the United States. The residents of this small Missouri hamlet were once ruled by a king.
The … [more below]
- Author: Jones, Jonathan a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: June 28 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987429730
- Language: English
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Dark Tales of the Eno River
$24.99 Add to cartMayhem on the Eno River
Visitors to the Eno River don’t expect to encounter haunted houses, train wrecks or fun outings that turn into tragedy, but some of them have experienced just that. In 1771, a
- Series: Murder & Mayhem
- Author: Cook, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158356
- Language: English
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The Barnes Museum and Homestead
$24.99 Read moreVictorian Era Treasures
Once the center of bolt manufacturing in the United States, Southington has been affectionately called Connecticut’s “City of Progress.” At the center of this progress was Amon
- Author: Volpe, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158429
- Language: English
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Cape May County and the Civil War
$24.99 Read moreTrue Blue for Union
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Cape May County was an isolated and lightly populated peninsula at the southernmost tip of New Jersey. Nevertheless, its citizens answered t
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Rebmann, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158658
- Language: English
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The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City
$32.95 Add to cart2020-21 Reader Views Literary Award, Gold Medal Winner
2021 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal Winner
2020 National Jewish Book Award, Finalist
2020 American Book Fest Best Book Awards Fi… [more below]- Author: Seligman, Scott D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 164012358X
- Language: English
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Pacific Palisades
$31.99 Add to cartPacific Palisades owes its name to its geography. The cliffs looming above the beach reminded the early developers of the Hudson River Palisades in New York. The name for this eventually affluent coas… [more below]
- Author: Loomis, Jan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 05 2009
- ISBN10: 1531645682
- Language: English
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The Super Highway in Upstate South Carolina
$24.99 Read moreA Highway Runs Through It
When U.S. Highway 29 between Greenville and Spartanburg was completed in 1946, it became the first modern super highway in the Upstate region. Known by many as the Super Highw
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Withrow, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158232
- Language: English
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Twisting in Air: The Sensational Rise of a Hollywood Falling Horse
$24.95 Add to cartTwisting in Air chronicles the gritty and glittery era when an extraordinary group of horses made Western movies come alive and explores how one of them, Cocaine, overcame a debilitating injury to bec… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496239008
- Language: English
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Warriors for Liberty: William Dollarson & Michigan’s Civil War African Americans
$24.95 Add to cartMichigan’s African Americans played critical roles in winning the Civil War and setting millions of fellow Americans forever free. The 1st Michigan Colored Infantry Regiment, more than 1,500 strong, h
- Author: Dempsey, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: October 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1961302780
- Language: English
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Chuck Tanner and the Pittsburgh Pirates
$36.99 Add to cartBaseball’s Mr. Sunshine
A beloved son of Western Pennsylvania, Chuck Tanner spent a career in baseball both as a player and manager. He lead the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1977 to 1985 and helped capture
- Author: Perelman, Dale Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257894
- Language: English
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The Pennsylvania Dutch
$24.95 Add to cartFredric Klees’ The Pennsylvania Dutch is the best and most inclusive volume with an over-all approach to its subject. “I have tried,” he says, “to make this book a comprehensive treatment of the Penns
- Author: Klees, Fredric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1934597929
- Language: English
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Black Hand Black Sheep
$18.95 Add to cartAs a teenager, in the early 1900s, Antonio Caliendo left Italy in hopes of finding a better life in America. His journey from the Italian countryside would take him from the steel mills of Western Pen
- Author: Caliendo, Louis A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1662479549
- Language: English
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Bob Dylan’s New York: A Historic Guide
$19.95 Add to cartA walking tour and history of Bob Dylan’s life and time in New York, from Greenwich Village to Woodstock.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Weissman, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1438490860
- Language: English
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Moving the Chains: The Civil Rights Protest That Saved the Saints and Transformed New Orleans
$34.95 Add to cartWe remember the 1966 birth of the New Orleans Saints as a shady quid pro quo between the NFL commissioner and a Louisiana congressman. Moving the Chains is the untold story of the athlete protest that
- Author: Sapp, Erin Grayson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 080717792X
- Language: English
