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The Saga of the Pony Express
$17.00 Add to cartAmerica in the mid-1800s was a land of burgeoning cities, westward expansion, economic optimism, and political turmoil. Threatened by civil war and Indian uprisings, the government needed better commu… [more below]
- Author: DiCerto, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: June 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0878424520
- Language: English
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
$18.99 Read moreConfessing to “familiarity with the devils,” Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her ne
- Author: Karlsen, Carol F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 17 1998
- ISBN10: 0393317595
- Language: English
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Inside Camp David: The Private World of the Presidential Retreat
$18.99 Add to cartThe first-ever insider account of Camp David, the president’s private retreat, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of its inception.
Never before have the gates of Camp David been opened to the public. In… [more below]- Author: Giorgione, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0316509590
- Language: English
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Marquis de Lafayette Returns: A Tour of America’s National Capital Region
$24.99 Read moreWalk in the footsteps of the Marquis de Lafayette as he makes a final trip through the young United States. Against the backdrop of a tumultuous election, a beloved hero of the American Revolution ret… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Reese, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 29 2024
- ISBN10: 146715587X
- Language: English
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
$20.00 Add to cartThe basis of Martin Scorcese’s acclaimed 2003 film, The Gangs of New York is a dramatic and entertaining glimpse at a city’s dark past.
Focusing on the saloon halls, gambling dens, and winding alleys o
- Author: Asbury, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0307388980
- Language: English
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Letters from an American Farmer
$14.95 Add to cartWritten by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: “What, then, is the American, this new man?”, as a new nation took shape b… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crèvecoeur, J Hector St John de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554749
- Language: English
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Atlanta Record Stores: An Oral History
$23.99 Read moreAtlanta Record Stores is an oral history of the city’s rock music scene, as witnessed through the lens of Criminal Records, Fantasyland, Wax ‘N’ Facts, and many more. This is a rock-centric take on a … [more below]
- Author: Radford, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1467142972
- Language: English
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November’s Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913
$16.95 Add to cartOn Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings be
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 081668720X
- Language: English
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Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front
$19.95 Read moreWinner of a Catholic Media Association Book Award
“A great, but deeply unsettling, revelation…This book is more than an account of Boston in wartime. It is a warning.”–Boston Globe “The rare book b- Author: Gallagher, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0674293878
- Language: English
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A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek
$24.00 Add to cartIn the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Ch
- Author: Kelman, Ari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0674503783
- Language: English
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Oldest Twin Cities: A Guide to Historic Treasures
$22.50 Read more- Series: Oldest
- Author: Severson, Julie Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064340
- Language: English
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Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
$31.99 Add to cartBeginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States V X
- Author: Patterson, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: November 20 1997
- ISBN10: 0195117972
- Language: English
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Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk)
$24.99 Read moreThrough an extraordinary collection of photographs, Jim Thorpe tells the story of not only the athlete but its famed coal-mining industry.
What was originally named Mauch Chunk, Jim Thorpe was establis
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Drury, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 28 2001
- ISBN10: 738509639
- Language: English
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The National Parks: America’s Best Idea
$65.00 Add to cartThe companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration … [more below]- Author: Duncan, Dayton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0307268969
- Language: English
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Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard: Inventor, Bootlegger and Psychedelic Pioneer
$21.99 Read moreSeattle has a long tradition of being at the forefront of technological innovation. In 1919, an eager young inventor named Alfred M. Hubbard made his first newspaper appearance with the announcement o… [more below]
- Author: Holden, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1467148067
- Language: English
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New York: An Illustrated History (Revised and Expanded)
$75.00 Read moreAn expanded edition of the only comprehensive illustrated history of New York–with more than 600 ravishing photographs and illustrations–that tells the remarkable 400-year-long story of the city fro… [more below]
- Author: Burns, Ric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 059353414X
- Language: English
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Broken Icarus: The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Rise of Fascism
$29.95 Read more2022 History Book Festival Official Selection.
The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the exuberant crowds motivated by self-appointed national saviors
- Author: Hanna, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 163388676X
- Language: English
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Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda
$39.95 Read moreFrom the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of The Man on Devil’s Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped the intellectual and spiritual history of both East and
- Author: Harris, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0674247477
- Language: English
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Rumrunning in Suffolk County: Tales from Liquor Island
$21.99 Read moreNicknamed Liquor Island, Long Island was rumrunner’s paradise during Prohibition.
With its proximity to major markets and coastal communities for easy transit, Suffolk County was awash in illegal hooc
- Author: Folk, Amy Kasuga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1467151610
- Language: English
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Lost Roadhouses of Seattle
$23.99 Read moreProhibition came early to Washington State–in 1916–and kicked off an unforgettable era of nightlife.
Prohibition went national in 1920 and a network of roadside inns, taverns and dancehalls just outs
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Blecha, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150738
- Language: English
