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Making a New Deal
$31.00 Add to cartThis book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as t… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Cohen, Lizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 566
- Publish Date: November 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1107431794
- Language: English
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River of Blood: American Slavery from the People Who Lived It: Interviews & Photographs of Formerly Enslaved African Americans
$34.95 Add to cartIn the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration’s efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down… [more below]
- Author: Cahan, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0991541855
- Language: English
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Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786
$16.00 Add to cartOn the afternoon of September 14, 1786, two French ships appeared off the coast of Monterey, the first foreign vessels to visit Spain’s California colonies. Aboard was a party of eminent scientists, n… [more below]
- Author: de la P?rouse, Jean Fran?ois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0930588398
- Language: English
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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive history of the First Minnesota Volunteers in the Civil War.
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Moe, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 367
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0873514068
- Language: English
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Rocky Mountain Boom Town: A History of Durango, Colorado
$27.95 Add to cart- Author: Smith, Duane a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: April 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0870812572
- Language: English
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Santa Fe: 400 Years, 400 Questions
$30.00 Add to cartThis question-and-answer book about Santa Fe, New Mexico contains 400 reminders of what is known and what is sometimes forgotten or misunderstood about a city that was founded more than four hundred y… [more below]
- Author: West, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: July 25 2012
- ISBN10: 0865348766
- Language: English
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When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession
$46.58 Add to cartUsing primary documents from both foreign and domestic observers, prominent scholar Charles Adams makes a powerful and convincing case that the Southern states were legitimately exercising their polit… [more below]
- Author: Adams, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0847697231
- Language: English
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Kaufmann’s: The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store
$17.00 Add to cartIn 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the shores of New York. His brother Isaac soon followed, and together they joined an immigrant community
- Author: Pitz, Marylynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0822967138
- Language: English
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Old North Trail
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1886 Walter McClintock went to northwestern Montana as a member of a U.S. Forest Service expedition. He was adopted as a son by Chief Mad Dog, the high priest of the Sun Dance, and spent the next f… [more below]
- Author: McClintock, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 539
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803282583
- Language: English
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The Great Hurricane: 1938
$16.00 Add to cartOn the night of September 21,1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was no mention of any severe weather. By the time oceanfront residents noticed an ominous color i… [more below]
- Author: Burns, Cherie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142540
- Language: English
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Famous Firearms of the Old West: From Wild Bill Hickok’s Colt Revolvers To Geronimo’s Winchester, Twelve Guns That Shaped Our History
$19.95 Add to cartFrom Buffalo Bill to Wild Bill and from Chief Joseph to Geronimo, the most famous guns in the West and the history behind them.
- Author: Herring, Hal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0762773499
- Language: English
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Forgotten Chicago
$24.99 Add to cartChicago has long been regarded as home to some of the world’s most impressive architecture.
Responding to the Great Fire of 1871, Chicagoans rebuilt the city, creating a radically new architectural sty
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Paulett, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0738532797
- Language: English
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Red Republicans and Lincoln’s Marxists: Marxism in the Civil War
$21.95 Add to cartWas Abraham Lincoln influenced by communism when the Union condemned the rights of Southern states to express their independence? It’s shocking to think so.
But that’s precisely what Walter D. Kenned
- Author: Kennedy, Walter D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: August 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0595446981
- Language: English
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Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska’s High Seas
$22.00 Add to cartWhen the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift withou
- Author: Walker, Spike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0312302568
- Language: English
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A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
$23.99 Add to cartWith America’s current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle cl… [more below]
- Author: McGerr, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0195183657
- Language: English
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Eating Up Route 66: Foodways on America’s Mother Road
$34.95 Add to cartFrom its designation in 1926 to the rise of the interstates nearly sixty years later, Route 66 was, in John Steinbeck’s words, America’s Mother Road, carrying countless travelers the 2,400 miles betwe… [more below]
- Author: Baker, T. Lindsay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0806190698
- Language: English
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Historic Tales of Gasparilla Island
$43.99 Add to cartNatural beauty and the sportfishing life brought the Cabots, Vanderbilts and Du Ponts to this island paradise, where local fishing families danced, ate and drank with the rich and famous at their cast… [more below]
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Futch, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: February 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1540251462
- Language: English
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Beaver River Country: An Adirondack History
$24.95 Add to cartEncompassing the lands immediately surrounding the upper reaches of the Beaver River from its headwaters at Lake Lila to Beaver Lake at the settlement of Number Four, Beaver River country is the large
- Series: New York State
- Author: Pitts, Edward I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0815611331
- Language: English
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The Haunted History of Pelham, New York: Including Ghostly Tales of The Bronx, Westchester County, and Long Island Sound
$21.95 Add to cartA fascinating fusion of New York history and local folklore sure to send shivers up your spine!
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Bell, Blake A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 143848674X
- Language: English
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JFK to 911 Everything Is a Rich Man’s Trick
$29.95 Read moreJFK to 911 is already a global phenomenon, having began as a Youtube video which achieved over a billion hits by becoming the first documentary in human history to untangle all the establishment lies … [more below]
- Author: Conolly, Francis Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: October 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1634243749
- Language: English
