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Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles
$21.95 Add to cartFreewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles explores how social, economic, political, and cultural demands created the web of freeways whose very form–futuristic, majestic, and progressive–perfect
- Author: Haddad, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1595801014
- Language: English
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
$44.00 Add to cartThis “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America–and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0316278742
- Language: English
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Easy Hikes to the Hidden Past: Pikes Peak Region Edition
$16.99 Add to cartUpdated for 2022. Easy Hikes to the Hidden Past is a unique book concept to get readers off the couch and outside to the Great Outdoors, to not only enjoy some wonderful walks hikes and bike rides, bu
- Author: Shockley, Rocky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: November 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0578744600
- Language: English
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Michigan Myths and Legends: The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries
$18.95 Add to cartThis selection of 14 stories from Michigan’s past explores some of the Great Lakes State’s most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
- Series: Myths and Mysteries
- Author: Barber, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493040081
- Language: English
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Miraflores: San Antonio’s Mexican Garden of Memory
$32.95 Add to cartAureliano Urrutia, a prominent physician in Mexico City, built Miraflores garden after he immigrated to San Antonio, Texas, from Mexico in 1914 during the Mexican Revolution. A man of science, Urrutia
- Author: Urrutia, Anne Elise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1595349367
- Language: English
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Red Clay, White Water & Blues: A History of Columbus, Georgia
$26.95 Add to cartColumbus is the third-largest city in Georgia, and Red Clay, White Water, and Blues is its first comprehensive history. Virginia E. Causey documents the city’s founding in 1828 and brings its story to
- Author: Causey, Virginia E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0820358827
- Language: English
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Cleveland’s Colorful Characters
$28.95 Add to cart“Cleveland’s Colorful Characters” is an easy to read, insightful book on some of Cleveland’s most influential individuals. These individuals helped create the grand and unique city which at one time w
- Author: Whipple, Kit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: December 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1645593266
- Language: English
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The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island
$23.99 Add to cartThe legend of the Lost Colony has been captivating imaginations for nearly a century. When they left Roanoke Island, where did they go? What is the meaning of the mysterious word Croatoan? In the sixt… [more below]
- Author: Dawson, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1467144339
- Language: English
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Unfaltering Trust: How Pilgrim Edward Fitz Randolph Jr. and His Descendants Helped Build America
$23.99 Add to cartWhen he left England in 1630 in search of religious freedom and opportunity during the Great Migration to the New World, pilgrim Edward Fitz Randolph Jr. could never have imagined the vast impact his
- Author: Ziegler, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1532086199
- Language: English
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Lost Mill Towns of North Georgia
$24.99 Add to cartThe textile era was born of a perfect storm. When North Georgia’s red clay failed farmers and prices fell during Reconstruction, opportunities arose. Beginning in the 1880s, textile industries moved s… [more below]
- Series: Lost
- Author: Russell, Lisa M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1467143510
- Language: English
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Fort Snelling at Bdote Updated Edition: A Brief History
$14.95 Add to cartFor millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of strategic power. In the 1820s, the newly arriving U.S. troops built Fort Snelling on the bluf… [more below]
- Author: DeCarlo, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1681341719
- Language: English
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We Fought the Road
$19.95 Add to cartWe Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war
- Author: McClure, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1935347772
- Language: English
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Crafty Bastards: Beer in New England from the Mayflower to Modern Day
$29.30 Add to cartThe region that defined Yankee ingenuity has a beer heritage in keeping with its character. Brewing in New England goes back four centuries beginning with the Pilgrims who dropped anchor in Plymouth b… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1934598119
- Language: English
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John Chisum: Frontier Cattle King
$26.60 Add to cartJohn Chisum was a legendary figure of the Old West cattle frontier. At thirteen he migrated with his family from Tennessee to the Republic of Texas. During the 1850s Chisum recognized opportunity in t
- Author: O’Neal, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: March 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1681791137
- Language: English
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Zora Neale Hurston on Florida Food:: Recipes, Remedies & Simple Pleasures
$23.99 Add to cartFlorida native Zora Neale Hurston’s early twentieth-century ethnographic research and writing emphasizes the essentials of food in Florida through simple dishes and recipes.
It considers foods prepared
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Opie, Frederick Douglass
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 19 2015
- ISBN10: 1626198721
- Language: English
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Historic Haunts of Long Island: Ghosts and Legends from the Gold Coast to Montauk Point
$24.99 Add to cartExplore the mysterious past of Long Island and learn about the spirits that haunt the historic American island.
Take a ghostly journey through Long Island’s history, from Native American legends and be
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Brosky, Kerriann Flanagan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2015
- ISBN10: 1626196680
- Language: English
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New Hampshire Beer:: Brewing from Sea to Summit
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1859, the legendary Frank Jones Brewery was founded in Portsmouth, paving the way for the booming craft beer scene of today. The surge of budding breweries is bringing exciting styles and flavors t… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Aldrich, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 17 2014
- ISBN10: 1626194254
- Language: English
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A History of the New Hampshire Abenaki
$21.99 Add to cartThe native Penacook, Winnipesaukee, Pigwacket, Sokoki, Cowasuck and Ossipee tribes, collectively known as the Abenaki, once thrived along the Granite State’s great rivers. Influences of these “men of … [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Heald Phd, Bruce D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 162619422X
- Language: English
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Lost Restaurants of Chicago
$24.99 Add to cartChicago author, Greg Borzo, recalls the city’s celebrated lost restaurants.
Many of Chicago’s greatest or most unusual restaurants are no longer taking reservations, but they’re definitely not forgotte
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Borzo, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1625859333
- Language: English
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Michigan POW Camps in World War II
$21.99 Add to cartDuring World War II, Michigan became a temporary home to six thousand German and Italian POWs.
At a time of homefront labor shortages, they picked fruit in Berrien County, harvested sugar beets in the
- Series: Military
- Author: Sumner, Gregory D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 05 2018
- ISBN10: 162585837X
- Language: English
