State & Local
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No Ordinary Journey: Stories of Men on the Overland Trails
$18.95 Add to cart- Author: O’Brien, Mary Barmeyer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1560378387
- Language: English
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Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods
$30.00 Add to cartOur Trespasses uncovers how race, geography, policy, and religion have created haunted landscapes in Charlotte, North Carolina, and throughout the United States. How do we value our lands, livelihoods
- Author: Jarrell, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 267
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1506494927
- Language: English
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Columbia Tusculum: A History of Cincinnati’s Oldest Neighborhood
$24.99 Read moreWith a history dating back 2000 years, Columbia Tusculum stands as a vital contributor to the region’s development.
The lush, strategically located land provided essential resources for native hunting
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Young, Dinese
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1467158550
- Language: English
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Countdown 1960: The Behind-The-Scenes Story of the 312 Days That Changed America’s Politics Forever
$39.00 Add to cartA riveting new work and a fresh take on 1960 and the dramatic 11 months leading up to a deeply relevant election for the ages
It’s January 2nd, 1960: the day that Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy- Author: Wallace, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217016457
- Language: English
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Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City
$20.00 Add to cartHow much do you actually know about New York City? Did you know they tried to anchor Zeppelins at the top of the Empire State Building? Or that the high-rent district of Park Avenue was once so danger… [more below]
- Author: Nevius, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 24 2009
- ISBN10: 141658997X
- Language: English
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Vision Accomplished: The History of Kansas City Southern
$40.00 Read moreThe remarkable story of the Kansas City Southern tells of a company that from day 1 followed its own path, led by a succession of visionaries who were not afraid to take risks in pursuit of the railro
- Series: Railroads Past and Present
- Author: Galligan, William H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0253068339
- Language: English
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It Took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom
$22.95 Read moreIn 1860, Eliza Winston escaped enslavement while traveling in Minnesota, where she secured her freedom through legal appeal. Her story adds powerful testimony to African American experiences and perse… [more below]
- Author: Lehman, Christopher P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1681342820
- Language: English
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On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
$44.95 Add to cartWith On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeaste
- Author: Rhea, Gordon C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: September 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0807167479
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Alexandria, D.C.
$21.99 Add to cartGo inside the long-forgotten 19th century period when Alexandria left Virginia and incorporated itself into the fledging Distric of Columbia.
This groundbreaking history uncovers the time in the 19th c
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Pope, Michael Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 23 2011
- ISBN10: 1609492811
- Language: English
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A Brief History of St. Johnsbury
$21.99 Read moreTucked away in the dark forests of Vermont’s Northeast
Kingdom, St. Johnsbury was mostly unbroken wilderness
when first chartered in 1786. Swinging axes soon made way
for the burgeoning split-level town,… [more below]- Series: Brief Histories (Paperback)
- Author: Pearl, Peggy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1596294957
- Language: English
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The Red Coast: Radicalism and Anti-Radicalism in Southwest Washington
$24.95 Add to cartThe Red Coast is a lively and readable informal history of the labor, left-wing, and progressive activists who lived, worked, and organized in southwest Washington State from the late nineteenth centu… [more below]
- Author: Goings, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 20 2019
- ISBN10: 087071967X
- Language: English
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Mysterious Michigan: The Lonely Ghost of Minnie Quay, the Marvelous Manifestations of Farmer Riley, the Devil in Detroit & More
$21.99 Read moreEnigmatic mediums, murders, monsters, and more are all part of Michigan’s mysterious and sometimes supernatural history.
The will of Detroit’s first millionaire, Eber B. Ward, was hotly contested becau
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Hammond, Amberrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1467149926
- Language: English
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Mississippi Bear Hunter Holt Collier: Guiding Teddy Roosevelt and a Lifetime of Adventure
$24.99 Read moreAuthor Mark Neaves guides readers on an incredible tale through the life of one of America’s greatest adventurers.
Born into slavery in the Mississippi Delta in 1847, Holt Collier was taught to hunt
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Neaves, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 146715458X
- Language: English
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The Value of Hawaiʻi 3: Hulihia, the Turning
$24.99 Read more“Hulihia” refers to massive upheavals that change the landscape, overturn the normal, reverse the flow, and sweep away the prevailing or assumed. We live in such days. Pandemics. Threats to ʻ
- Series: Biography Monographs
- Author: Goodyear-Ka’ōpua, Noelani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0824889185
- Language: English
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Lost Cincinnati Concert Venues of the ’50s and ’60s: From the Surf Club to Ludlow Garage
$21.99 Add to cartThe nightspots, rock clubs, arenas & more that made the city swing
Cincinnati in the ’50s and ’60s offered a stunning array of live music and entertainment venues. Though many of them no longer exist,
- Series: Lost
- Author: Rosen, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1467147214
- Language: English
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The Upper Tanana Dene: People of This Land
$36.95 Read moreThe Upper Tanana Dene conveys the history and knowledge of Dene elders to current and future generations. Oral accounts reveal a unique and compelling perspective on a traditional way of life and offe… [more below]
- Author: Simeone, William E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 164642333X
- Language: English
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The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell’s Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West
$19.00 Add to cart“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”–The Wall Street Journal
A timely, thrilling acc
“A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history.”–Nature- Author: Ross, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0143128957
- Language: English
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Haunts of the White City: Ghost Stories from the World’s Fair, the Great Fire and Victorian Chicago
$23.99 Read moreAt the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity’s most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping horrors.
Even as the White City emerged from the ashe
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Bielski, Ursula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1467139653
- Language: English
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Spokane and the Inland Empire: An Interior Pacific Northwest Anthology
$21.95 Add to cartEssential aspects about the prehistory, history, geography, and architecture of the Inland Pacific Northwest are presented here in one succinct volume. This landmark collection features essays by note
- Author: Stratton, David H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 087422277X
- Language: English
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Welcome to Maine (Welcome To)
$10.99 Read moreWelcome to Maine! Whether they’re locals or visitors, young readers will love this bright, cheerful, fact-filled picture book celebration of “The Pine Tree State.”
With information about the state’s a- Series: Welcome to
- Author: Gilland, Asa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0593308107
- Language: English
