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New Mexico’s Stolen Lands: A History of Racism, Fraud and Deceit
$23.99 Add to cartWhen the Mexican-American War ended in 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo guaranteed previous Spanish and Mexican land grants, as well as rights for Native Americans to their ancestral homelands. H… [more below]
- Author: Aragón, Ray John de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1467144037
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
$17.99 Add to cartLook for Dan Abrams and David Fisher’s new book, Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby.
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- Author: Fisher, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1335081917
- Language: English
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Death in Rocky Mountain National Park: Accidents and Foolhardiness on the Continental Divide
$18.95 Add to cartColorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park welcomes more than 4 million visitors every year, but this jewel of America’s parks has seen more than its fair share of deaths among its tourists. More than 70… [more below]
- Author: Minetor, Randi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493038788
- Language: English
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Cotton Was King: Franklin – Colbert
$31.58 Add to cartIn, “Cotton Was King Franklin-Colbert Counties” Rickey Butch Walker gives a wonderful account of Chickasaw Chief George Colbert as a cotton planter and the role of the Chickasaw Colbert’s prior to the
- Series: Alabama Plantations #2
- Author: Walker, Rickey Butch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 07, 2018
- ISBN10: 1949711080
- Language: English
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Women’s Voices from the Oregon Trail
$21.95 Add to cartIn Women’s Voices from the Oregon Trail, Susan Butruille artfully narrates the lives and struggles of the women who followed the 2,000-mile trail to Oregon 175 years ago. This twenty-fifth anniversary
- Author: Butruille, Susan G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1941890261
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of Jacksonville
$42.99 Add to cartHistoric Photos of Jacksonville captures the historical growth of this city in still photography from the top archives in the area. Stunning black and white pictures with most of the photographs never… [more below]
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Williams, Carolyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1683369289
- Language: English
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Closing Time: Saloons, Taverns, Dives, and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities
$27.95 Add to cartAn entertaining journey into the highs, lows, bright spots, and dark corners of the Twin Cities’ most famous and infamous drinking establishments–history viewed from the barstool.
In 1838, a rum tra- Author: Lindeke, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1681341379
- Language: English
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Black Man on the Titanic: The Story of Joseph Laroche (Book on Black History, Gift for Women, African American History, and for Readers of Titan
$16.95 Add to cartWho was Joseph Laroche, the only black passenger on board the Titanic? Where was he going? How did he end up on the ship? It’s a story never before told. The Only Black Man on the Titanic is definitel… [more below]
- Author: Bile, Serge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 163353958X
- Language: English
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On This Day in Chicago History
$14.99 Read moreJoin John R. Schmidt on a day-by-day look at some of Chicago’s most fascinating lesser-known events.
Think you know Chicago? If you are thinking of Al Capone, the L, the Cubs, Barack Obama or the Great
- Series: On This Day in
- Author: Schmidt, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1626192537
- Language: English
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Kansas City 1940: A Watershed Year
$21.99 Add to cart1940: It’s the year Nazis rain bombs on London and goose-step into Paris, when President Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term and Kansas Citians finally run the corrupt Pendergast political mach… [more below]
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Simonson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1626193231
- Language: English
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Wicked Portland:: The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town
$21.99 Add to cartTucked away in the northwestern frontier, Portland offered all the best vices: opium dreams, gambling, cheap prostitutes, and drunken brawling. In its early days, Portland was a combination rough-and-… [more below]
- Series: Wicked
- Author: John, Finn J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 1609495780
- Language: English
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Wicked Carlisle:: The Dark Side of the Cumberland Valley
$21.99 Add to cartWith Wicked Carlisle, author Joe Cress revisits the criminal history of Cumberland County. Taking a more focused and less bloody approach, Cress will largely bring new stories of mischief to the table… [more below]
- Series: Wicked
- Author: Cress, Joseph David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 10 2012
- ISBN10: 160949525X
- Language: English
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The Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900: In Atlanta or in Hell
$19.99 Add to cartGeorgia historian and professor Jeffery C. Wells recounts the tragic tale of the Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900.
On June 23, 1900, the Southern Railroad Company’s Engine #7 and its passengers were gree
- Series: Disasters (Saddleback)
- Author: Wells, Jeffery C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 159629826X
- Language: English
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Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks
$26.25 Add to cartA teaching edition of the “thought-provoking study” History in the Making, which explores how our view of the history changes over time (Library Journal).
Kyle Ward’s celebrated History in the Making- Author: Ward, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 1595581448
- Language: English
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Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb?: A Tour of Presidential Gravesites
$21.99 Add to cartSome presidents have been larger than life but none of them have been larger than death. Brian Lamb has visited the gravesites of every American president, living and dead, in order to put together th… [more below]
- Author: Lamb, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1586488694
- Language: English
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The Cajuns: Americanization of a People
$25.00 Add to cartThe past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period, they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained st… [more below]
- Author: Bernard, Shane K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 12 2003
- ISBN10: 1578065232
- Language: English
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The Spider Rock Treasure: A Texas Mystery of Lost Spanish Gold
$24.95 Add to cartHidden in the unforgiving earth of West Texas were clues: archaic clues etched upon buried rocks, stacked as artifacts upon other clues, or carved into rock walls. These centuries-old clues, placed to… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1571687769
- Language: English
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The Streets of Key West: A History Through Street Names
$19.95 Add to cartSimonton, Duval, Eaton, Whitehead, Southard, Truman–if you discover how these Key West streets, and all the others, came by their names, you will know much of the history of this little island at the
- Author: Burke, J. Wills
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1561647306
- Language: English
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Guardians of the Lights: Stories of U.S. Lighthouse Keepers
$21.95 Add to cartIn a charming blend of history and human interest, this book paints a colorful portrait of the lives of a vanished breed–the lighthouse keepers–from the year 1716, when the first lighthouse was esta
- Author: de Wire, Elinor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: June 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1561641197
- Language: English
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Fort Pitt: A Frontier History
$31.99 Add to cart- Author: Crytzer, Brady
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: March 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1540206343
- Language: English
