State & Local
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The Utah Gold Rush: The Lost Rhoades Mine and the Hathenbruck Legacy
$24.95 Add to cartUnearth Utah’s long-lost treasure trove! This fascinating volume shares the history of the legendary gold deposits deep in the Uintah Mountains. From Aztec lore to Spanish exploration to pioneer finds… [more below]
- Author: Boren, Kerry Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1555176143
- Language: English
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San Antonio Uncovered: Fun Facts and Hidden Histories
$18.95 Add to cartSan Antonio is in the national spotlight as one of the fastest growing and most dynamic emerging major cities in America. Yet local lore has it that every Texan has two hometowns–his own and San Anto… [more below]
- Author: Rybczyk, Mark Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1595347577
- Language: English
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Galena, Illinois: A Brief History
$21.99 Read moreWith 85 percent of its buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, Galena truly is a place drenched in history.
From the ancient burial mounds crowding the high banks of the Mississippi to t
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Marsh, DiAnn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 20 2010
- ISBN10: 1596297301
- Language: English
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Cape Cod and the Civil War: The Raised Right Arm
$21.99 Read moreFar from the glistening waters and gray-shingled villages of Cape Cod were the bloody front lines of the American Civil War. During this era, Cape Cod recruiting officers often urged soldiers to “rais… [more below]
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Miller, Stauffer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 26 2010
- ISBN10: 1596299843
- Language: English
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Sacramento Renaissance:: Art, Music and Activism in California’s Capital City
$21.99 Read moreTouted as progress, postwar redevelopment spawned a new age in Sacramento, California. As city planners designated areas of urban blight and directed bulldozers to make way for commercial districts an… [more below]
- Author: Burg, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 1609499395
- Language: English
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Portland Food Cart Stories:: Behind the Scenes with the City’s Culinary Entrepreneurs
$23.99 Read moreFor a fresh take on a variety of cuisines, reservations won’t be necessary. Just step up to a Portland food cart instead. Tour the city’s finest carts with author Steven Shomler and meet the innovativ… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Shomler, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1626193738
- Language: English
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Portland Beer Stories:: Behind the Scenes with the City’s Craft Brewers
$21.99 Read morePortlanders have got it made. Not only is the city filled with nearly countless breweries, brewpubs, bottle shops and homebrew supply venues, but also the people who created the community are nothing … [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Shomler, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1626198993
- Language: English
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Enterprising Waters: The History and Art of New York’s Erie Canal
$39.95 Read moreAt the New York State Museum, Brad L. Utter, Ashley Hopkins-Benton, and Karen E. Quinn are all Senior Historians and Curators. Hopkins-Benton is the coauthor (with Jennifer A. Lemak) of Votes for Wome… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Utter, Brad L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1438478267
- Language: English
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Abandoned Cincinnati
$23.99 Read moreDust, shards of glass, gravel, and grit coat heavy vines that spiral down empty stairs. They’re more than concrete and steel–as nature takes over abandoned buildings, they come alive. Through journal
- Series: America Through Time
- Author: Smith, Samuel Wright
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1634992482
- Language: English
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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
$29.95 Read moreIn the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and Anglo-American colonists, a pair of colonial fur traders brutally
- Author: Eustace, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1631495879
- Language: English
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Sally in Three Worlds: An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young
$34.95 Read moreIn this remarkable and deeply felt book, Virginia Kerns uncovers the singular and forgotten life of a young Indian woman who was captured in 1847 in what was then Mexican territory. Sold to a settler,
- Author: Kerns, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1647690153
- Language: English
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Strike!: Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law
$19.95 Read moreThe complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers’ strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politics
When viewed from our turbulent times, the Minneapolis of fifty years ago mi
- Author: Green, William D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1517912954
- Language: English
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Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX
$19.95 Read moreHow two teenage girls in Minnesota jump-started a revolution in high school athletics
Peggy Brenden, a senior, played tennis. Toni St. Pierre, a junior, was a cross country runner and skier. All thes- Author: Brenden, Sheri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1517914582
- Language: English
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Nca&t vs. Nccu: More Than Just a Game
$24.99 Read moreMore Than Just a Game tells the story of the 100-year football rivalry between NCA&T and NCCU through never-before-seen photographs and images. The work seeks to honor the many coaches, players, and p… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Johnson, Charles D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1467108812
- Language: English
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Oregon Running Legend Steve Prefontaine
$23.99 Read moreIn the Footsteps of Oregon’s beloved U.S. Olympic Athlete, Activist, and Icon
Born in the small town of Coos Bay, Oregon, Steve “Pre’? Prefontaine’s meteoric rise to cross-country and track superstardo
- Series: Sports
- Author: Clerici, Paul C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1467151734
- Language: English
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Bearing the Torch: The University of Tennessee, 1794-2010
$24.95 Add to cartBearing the Torch stands as a comprehensive history of the University of Tennessee, replete with anecdotes and vignettes of interest to anyone interested in UT, from the administrators and chancellors
- Author: Hutton, T. R. C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1621906876
- Language: English
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Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology
$35.00 Read moreHistoric Philadelphia has long yielded archaeological treasures from its past. Excavations required by the National Historic Preservation Act have recovered pottery shards, pots, plates, coins, bones,… [more below]
- Author: Yamin, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1439922101
- Language: English
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Key West
$23.99 Read moreKey West’s free-spirited ambiance and magnificent coral reefs help to create a unique and historic legacy and much more than a vacation destination.
For centuries, explorers and adventurers, immigrants
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Homan, Lynn M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 09 2000
- ISBN10: 0738506648
- Language: English
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Chicago Stadium
$24.99 Read moreBuilt in 1929, Chicago Stadium was the crowning achievement of local sports promoter Paddy Harmon. The largest sports arena in the world when it was built, the stadium was completed at a total cost of… [more below]
- Series: Images of Sports
- Author: Peterson, Paul Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0738583073
- Language: English
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Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
$23.99 Read moreStep into the future of the past in Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
What came to be known as the World’s Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s 149
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Di Cola, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0738594415
- Language: English
