State & Local
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Denali’s Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America’s Wildest Peak
$17.00 Read moreIn the summer of 1967, twelve young men ascended Alaska’s Mount McKinley–known to the locals as Denali. Engulfed by a once-in-alifetime blizzard, only five made it back down.
Andy Hall, a journalist
- Author: Hall, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0142181951
- Language: English
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Generations of Somerset Place: From Slavery to Freedom
$24.99 Read moreLocated in the rural northeastern part of North Carolina, Somerset was cumulatively home to more than 800 enslaved blacks and four generations of a planter family.
When the institution of slavery ended
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Redford, Dorothy Spruill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 31 2005
- ISBN10: 738518034
- Language: English
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Filipinos in Chicago
$24.99 Read moreThe pictorial history of Filipino immigration to Chicago encompasses 100 years, moving from the Philippines to this country of unknown landscapes and uncertainties.
The pioneering Filipinos came in the
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Alamar, Estrella Ravelo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0738518808
- Language: English
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Ironwood, Hurley, and the Gogebic Range
$24.99 Read moreSituated on the south shore of Lake Superior, the Gogebic Iron Range of Michigan and Wisconsin exudes a strong sense of place. During the 1880s, a mining boom lured settlers, investment, and controver… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Liesch, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 30 2006
- ISBN10: 738540668
- Language: English
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Allegany County
$24.99 Read moreAllegany County was established in 1789 and is truly one of America’s historic transportation and industrial centers. The images presented here portray this heritage and were selected with care from t… [more below]
- Series: Postcard History
- Author: Feldstein, Albert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0738543810
- Language: English
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Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
$37.50 Read moreSouthern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side is the first book devoted to the South Side’s rich and unfairly ignored architectural heritage. With lively, insightful text and … [more below]
- Series: Second to None: Chicago Stories
- Author: Bey, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0810140985
- Language: English
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Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
$22.00 Add to cartA rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society
Winner of the- Author: Duval, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0812981200
- Language: English
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Deadly Voyage: The S.S. Daniel J. Morrell Tragedy
$22.80 Add to cartThis is the harrowing story of one of the worst shipwrecks in Great Lakes history. In the early morning hours of November 29, 1966, the S.S. Daniel J. Morrell was caught in a deadly storm on Lake Hur
- Author: Kantar, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 109
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0870138634
- Language: English
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Revolution in Virginia, with a New Foreword
$22.95 Read moreUnsurpassed as a single-volume history, John E. Selby’s masterpiece analyzes the political, administrative, and military history of Virginia during the American Revolution. Stressing the contributions
- Author: Selby, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: May 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0879352337
- Language: English
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Missouri State Parks and Historic Sites: Exploring Our Legacy
$49.99 Read moreIn this stunning book, four accomplished writers and lifelong conservationists team up with keen-eyed photographers to capture the compelling history, beauty, and recreational value of Missouri’s uniq… [more below]
- Author: Flader, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 30 2016
- ISBN10: 099680580X
- Language: English
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Lost Oregon Treasure
$24.99 Read moreTales of Oregon’s lost wealth isn’t all gold mines and prospectors, it’s also stories of crime, greed; and occasionally murder. From the Lost Blue Bucket Mine to a hidden cave in the Owyhee Breaks, ru… [more below]
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Redman, Arthur H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155519
- Language: English
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The Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire: A Boston Tragedy
$23.99 Read moreOn November 28, 1942, fire roared through Boston’s famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub during what was supposed to be a high-spirited Saturday night. By midnight, more than five hundred people were dead, d
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Schorow, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1467152870
- Language: English
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Italo Balbo’s Flight to the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair
$24.99 Read moreTrace the monumental story of a transatlantic flight to the Century of Progress Exposition.
In an era when transatlantic travel was still dangerous, Italy caused a sensation by announcing its participa
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Fiore, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155349
- Language: English
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African Americans of St. Lawrence County: North Country Pioneers
$24.99 Read moreDiscover the Black pioneers who shaped St. Lawrence County through grit and determination.
From its origins as part of New France through the Civil War and eventual industrialization of the region, St.
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Thompson, Bryan S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154032
- Language: English
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Ghosts and Legends of Lafayette and Louisville
$21.99 Read moreExplore ghastly history and lasting lore! The legend of local miner Teodor Glava, the Lafayette Vampire, has reached near cult status, with people from all over the country visiting his gravesite. Bur… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Conarroe, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152730
- Language: English
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Cold Case Muncie
$23.99 Read moreThe coldest cases from Middletown, USA
With dozens of unsolved murders spanning decades, Muncie and surrounding Delaware County might have more killings without justice than any American community l
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Roysdon, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153974
- Language: English
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All Join Hands: Dudley Laufman & the New England Country Dance Tradition
$25.00 Read moreAll Join Hands is the story of what happened when a ten-thousand-year-old musical tradition was
put into the hands of a seventeen-year-old Boston boy in 1947. While in high school, Dudley
Laufman appren- Author: Curren, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1942155557
- Language: English
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The Pat Browne Jr. Story: A Life Played Well
$24.95 Read moreAttorney Pat Browne Jr., a star athlete at Jesuit High School and Tulane University and a New Orleans All-American golfer, was blinded in a car accident. He would go on to win twenty-three blind pro g… [more below]
- Series: Pelican
- Author: Fraiser, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1455626880
- Language: English
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Loyalists in the Adirondacks: The Fight for Britain in the Revolutionary War
$23.99 Read moreFrom the outbreak of the Revolutionary War to the summer of 1777, Loyalists and Patriot forces wove their way through the mountains and valleys of the Adirondacks, vying for land and control of the ke… [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Williams, Marie Danielle Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152064
- Language: English
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Colonial Taverns of New Jersey: Libations, Liberty & Revolution
$23.99 Read moreEat, Drink, Be Merry and Join the Revolution New Jersey was the “Crossroads of the American Revolution,” and its colonial taverns were havens for Patriots and Loyalists alike to debate the political q… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Gabriele, Michael C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1467148962
- Language: English
