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The Park and the People: An Introduction
$32.95 Read moreThis “exemplary social history” (Kirkus Reviews) is the first full-scale account of Central Park ever published. Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzweig tell the story of Central Park’s people–the merc
- Author: Rosenzweig, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0801497515
- Language: English
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Early Warner Bros. Studios
$24.99 Read moreSince 1928, Warner Bros. has produced thousands of beloved films and television shows at the studio’s magical 110-acre film factory in Burbank. This collection of evocative images concentrates on the … [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Stephens, E. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0738580910
- Language: English
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Hollywoodland
$24.99 Read moreEstablished by real estate developers Tracy E. Shoults and S. H. Woodruff in 1923, Hollywoodland was one of the first hillside developments built in Hollywood. Touting its class and sophistication, th… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Mallory, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0738574783
- Language: English
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Tombstone
$23.99 Add to cartTombstone sits less than 100 miles from the Mexico border in the middle of the picturesque Arizona desert and also squarely at the heart of America’s Old West. Silver was discovered nearby in 1878, an… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Eppinga, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0738520969
- Language: English
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This Week in Estes Park: The Story of Our Town
$17.00 Add to cartEstes Park, Colorado has a fascinating history. The Estes family, first pioneer settlers; Lord Dunraven and Isabella Bird; Griff Evans and “Rocky Mountain Jim;” naturalist Enos Mills; Longs Peak, Rock
- Author: Busch, Mel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: December 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0692181830
- Language: English
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Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history–from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White Ci… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 24 1999
- ISBN10: 0609602330
- Language: English
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
$20.00 Add to cart“An arresting piece of popular history.” –Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book Review
Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in C
- Author: Lemann, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530696
- Language: English
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The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
$23.00 Add to cartBarbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War.
In The First Sa… [more below]- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 06 1989
- ISBN10: 0345336674
- Language: English
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Coronado’s Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
$16.95 Add to cartWritten in 1930, Coronado’s Children was one of J. Frank Dobie’s first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those ha
- Series: Barker Texas History Center Series
- Author: Dobie, J. Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01, 1978
- ISBN10: 0292710526
- Language: English
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Hard Road West: History and Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail
$21.00 Add to cartIn 1848 news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, an… [more below]
- Author: Meldahl, Keith Heyer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226519627
- Language: English
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First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies
$19.99 Read more“[A] gossipy, but surprisingly deep, look at the women who help and sometimes overshadow their powerful husbands.” — USA Today
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backs
- Author: Brower, Kate Andersen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0062439669
- Language: English
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How the States Got Their Shapes
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Give me the splendid irregularities any day. God bless the panhandles and notches, the West Virginias and Oklahomas.” — Wall Street Journal
Why does Oklahoma have that panhan
- Author: Stein, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0061431397
- Language: English
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Montana Historic Places on the National Register: From Banks and Barns to Bridges and Battlefields
$20.00 Read moreMore than one thousand locations in Montana are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, from venerable mansions and hotels to less traditional sites of battlefields and buffalo jumps. This… [more below]
- Author: Ober, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0878427066
- Language: English
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Chicago in Stone and Clay: A Guide to the Windy City’s Architectural Geology
$24.95 Add to cartChicago in Stone and Clay explores the interplay between the city’s most architecturally significant sites, the materials they’re made of, and the sediments and bedrock they are anchored in. This uniq
- Author: Wiggers, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 150176506X
- Language: English
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Secret Jacksonville: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$22.50 Add to cart- Author: Delaney, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1681063344
- Language: English
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Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West
$22.95 Add to cartIf countless books and movies are to be believed, America’s Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men–a man’s world. Here, C
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493064770
- Language: English
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Conrad Weiser: Friend of Colonist and Mohawk
$49.95 Add to cartIf one man could be said to exemplify in his character the promise of America’s greatness, that man was Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania frontiersman of the Colonial period. This biography of one of the ke
- Author: Wallace, Paul A. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1620065339
- Language: English
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White Men’s Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism
$34.99 Add to cartA searing–and sobering–account of the legal and extra-legal means by which systemic white racism has kept Black Americans ‘in their place’ from slavery to police and vigilante killings of Black men … [more below]
- Author: Irons, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190914947
- Language: English
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The Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America
$11.90 Add to cartThe Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America is a eugenicist work by an American lawyer and biologist Madison Grant. The book deals with the settlement of American continent thro… [more below]
- Author: Grant, Madison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: December 30 2020
- ISBN10: 8027308372
- Language: English
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Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality
$22.50 Add to cartA concise overview of 400 years of Black history through the stories of key figures and events in Virginia that shaped the fight for Black equity, from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Vi… [more below]
- Author: Sherry, Karen A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1911282999
- Language: English
