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Camp Verde
$24.99 Read moreIn February 1864, a party of 17 men and two women left the security of the territorial capital at Prescott, Arizona, and headed east into the Verde Valley, homeland of the Yavapai and Apache. Drawn by… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Ayers, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0738579122
- Language: English
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Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why
$27.99 Add to cartThe Warren Commission’s major conclusion was that Lee Harvey Oswald was the “lone assassin” of President John F. Kennedy. Gerald McKnight rebuts that view in a meticulous and devastating dissection of… [more below]
- Author: McKnight, Gerald D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0700619399
- Language: English
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Ambush on Elk Mountain: The Murders, the Manhunt, and Big Nose George Parott
$19.95 Add to cartWinner First place in The Wyoming State Historical Society’s 2014 Awards Program. Ambush on Elk Mountain is the true story of the murder of two deputies in Wyoming Territory during the late eighteen … [more below]
- Author: Atwell, Max R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0692336672
- Language: English
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City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
$24.95 Add to cartA vivid history of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform Los Angeles
When Walter O’Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a- Author: Podair, Jerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192790
- Language: English
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Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock, extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the Moore’s Ford Lynching in Walton County, G… [more below]
- Author: Wexler, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0684868172
- Language: English
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Riot and Remembrance: America’s Worst Race Riot and Its Legacy
$18.99 Add to cartWith a new preface, a “profound, chilling, and heartbreaking, contribution to American history” that investigates the causes of the twentieth century’s deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarr
- Author: Hirsch, James S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0618340769
- Language: English
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1959: The Year Everything Changed
$17.95 Add to cartAcclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America
While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of p
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0470602031
- Language: English
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In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
$29.99 Add to cartA landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the explo
- Author: Taylor, Quintard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318893
- Language: English
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The Circus Fire
$23.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism–the great Hartford circus fire of 1944.
It was a midsumm- Author: O’Nan, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0385496850
- Language: English
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American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
$23.00 Add to cartIt is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he met his fie… [more below]
- Author: Kauffman, Michael W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0375759743
- Language: English
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Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii
$23.99 Add to cartThe dramatic history of America’s tropical paradise
The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals–from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy- Author: Moore, Susanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536171
- Language: English
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I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR’s National Story Project
$30.00 Add to cartThe true-life stories in this unique collection provide a window into the American mind and heart (The Daily News). One hundred and eighty voices – male and female, young and old, from all walks of li
- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 383
- Publish Date: September 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0312421001
- Language: English
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The Bronx
$30.00 Add to cartHome to the New York Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a haven for upwardly mobile second-generation immigrants eager to leave the crowded tenements of Manhatt
- Series: Columbia History of Urban Life
- Author: Gonzalez, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0231121156
- Language: English
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Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America
$23.99 Add to cartIn August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiv… [more below]
- Author: McCartin, Joseph A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199325200
- Language: English
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The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives..
$18.00 Read more‘The Admiral was quite certain that they were near land … He promised to give a silk doublet to the first sailor who should report it’
No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall o… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics #217
- Author: Columbus, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0140442170
- Language: English
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Gruesome Looking Objects: A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things
$48.17 Add to cartThe 1898 lynching of Tom Johnson and Joe Kizer is retold in this groundbreaking book. Unlike other histories of lynching that rely on conventional historical records, this study focuses on the objects… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
- Author: Gaddis, Elijah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1316514021
- Language: English
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Bethlehem Steel
$40.99 Add to cartThe Lehigh Valley Railroad established the Bethlehem Iron Company in 1860 along the Lehigh River in South Bethlehem. The Bethlehem Iron Company manufactured the largest steel axle to date to support t… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Berger-Carmen, Tracy L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1540251594
- Language: English
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The 1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes in Indiana
$21.99 Add to cartAuthor Janis Thornton reveals the stories of a day in Indiana like no other.
Palm Sunday 1965 started as the nicest day of the year, the kind of weather that encouraged Hoosiers to get out in the sun,
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Thornton, Janis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1467149977
- Language: English
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Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy
$19.99 Add to cartThe former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended
- Author: Garten, Jeffrey E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0062887688
- Language: English
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Big Basin Redwood Forest: California’s Oldest State Park
$41.99 Add to cartThe epic saga of Big Basin began in the late 1800s, when the surrounding communities saw their once inexhaustible redwood forests vanishing. Expanding railways demanded timber as they crisscrossed the… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Bliss, Traci
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: September 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1540249646
- Language: English
