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Names of New York: Discovering the City’s Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names
$24.00 Add to cart“A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” –Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror
In place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this f- Author: Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1524748927
- Language: English
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The Maine Lobster Boat: History of an Iconic Fishing Vessel
$35.00 Add to cartFilled with colorful characters, old maritime tales, and fascinating details, this a definitive look at the origins and lore of Maine’s most ubiquitous vessel.
- Author: Lee, Daniel Sheldon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1684750040
- Language: English
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Fields of Play: Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City
$28.00 Add to cartA Pittsburgh Sports History Centering Issues of Race and Economic Disparity
Americans love sports, from neighborhood pickup basketball to the National Football League, and everything in between. Whi- Author: Hayashi, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0822947846
- Language: English
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Land in Her Own Name
$21.95 Add to cartLand is often known by the names of past owners. “Emma’s Land,” “Gina’s quarter,” and “the Ingeborg Land” are reminders of the many women who homesteaded across North Dakota in the late nineteenth and
- Author: Lindgren, H. Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: September 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0806128860
- Language: English
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Give the Lady What She Wants
$19.95 Add to cartIn the heart of downtown, there was a palace of commerce, a jewel of Chicago history. It was Marshall Field & Company. “Give the lady what she wants”. “The customer is always right”. These generous po
- Author: Wendt, Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: January 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1087860652
- Language: English
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Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly’s Rangers
$24.95 Add to cartOnly an extraordinary Texas Ranger could have cleaned up bandit-plagued Southwest Texas, between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, in the years following the Civil War. Thousands of raiders on hors
- Series: Texas Classics
- Author: Durham, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 01, 1962
- ISBN10: 0292780486
- Language: English
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Foxfire 10: Railroad Lore, Boardinghouses, Depression-Era Appalachia, Chairmaking, Whirligigs, Snake Canes, Gourd Art
$23.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia’s philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire #10
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0385422768
- Language: English
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Remembering Hudson’s: The Grand Dame of Detroit Retailing
$31.99 Add to cartThe J. L. Hudson Company redefined the way Detroiters shopped and enjoyed leisure time. Many Detroiters share memories of times spent shopping and enjoying spectacular events sponsored by Hudson’s. A … [more below]
- Author: Hauser, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: December 06 2010
- ISBN10: 153165567X
- Language: English
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O Say Can You Hear: A Cultural Biography of the Star-Spangled Banner
$19.95 Read moreMost Americans learn the tale in elementary school: During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key witnessed the daylong bombardment of Baltimore’s Fort McHenry by British navy ships; seeing the Stars and
- Author: Clague, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064471
- Language: English
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Bloody Bozeman
$20.00 Add to cartThe Bozeman Trail led to the goldfields of Montana for six years in the 1860s before the army abandoned its three forts along the way, yielding to Red Cloud and his warriors. Hailed by A. B. Guthrie J… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 383
- Publish Date: June 15 1983
- ISBN10: 0878421521
- Language: English
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Of Plymouth Plantation: Along with the Full Text of the Pilgrims’ Journals for Their First Year at Plymouth.
$38.99 Add to cartFrom 1630 to 1651, William Bradford wrote a history of Plymouth, the very colony he helped to establish and govern. Never published in his lifetime, the handwritten manuscript was lost during the Revo… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Caleb
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1425705766
- Language: English
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Montana: An Uncommon Land
$21.95 Add to cartIn writing this classic history of his home state, K. Ross Toole consciously avoided a systematic presentation of chronological facts. Instead, he wrote a series of roughly chronological essays pointi… [more below]
- Author: Toole, K. Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 29 1959
- ISBN10: 0806118903
- Language: English
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Salish and Kootenai Indian Chiefs Speak for Their People and Land, 1865-1909
$34.95 Add to cart2023 Best Historical Materials from the American Library Association
This collection includes talks or petitions by Salish and Kootenai chiefs found in the surviving historical record. The Salish and- Author: Bigart, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1934594342
- Language: English
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New Mexico: An Interpretive History
$19.95 Add to cartFor all who love New Mexico, and for those who aspire to know the state, this book is a graceful and compelling summary of what has made the Land of Enchantment its distinctive self. Originally publis
- Series: Interpretive History
- Author: Simmons, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: August 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0826311105
- Language: English
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Palm Springs Paradise
$35.00 Add to cartThis book collects more than two hundred fascinating and rarely seen historical photographs of Palm Springs, newly digitized from the Palm Springs Historical Society’s expansive archive.
Featured are m
- Author: Moruzzi, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 142363991X
- Language: English
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
$22.00 Add to cart“A classic. I can’t recommend it enough.”–Chris Hayes
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measure- Author: Klinenberg, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2015
- ISBN10: 022627618X
- Language: English
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Ocracokers
$31.00 Add to cartNorth Carolina’s Ocracoke island has produced a remarkably cohesive community of islanders. For more than two centuries, these Ocracokers lived in relative isolation, enjoying the beauty and battling … [more below]
- Series: Languages and Literatures; 233
- Author: Ballance, Alton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: August 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0807842656
- Language: English
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Time to Stand
$21.95 Add to cartOn the morning of March 6, 1836, in an old abandoned mission called the Alamo, a small Texas garrison fought to the death rather than yield to an overwhelming army of Mexicans. Through the years the g
- Author: Lord, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: August 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0803279027
- Language: English
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Nothing but the Dirt: Stories from an American Farm Town
$24.99 Add to cartIn this work of creative nonfiction, author Kate Benz provides an intimate look at the present-day residents of Courtland, Kansas (population 285), a town whose economy depends almost entirely on agri
- Author: Benz, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0700633456
- Language: English
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Life’s Journey–Zuya: Oral Teachings from Rosebud
$24.95 Add to cart“Our people are very lucky to be here,” says Albert White Hat Sr. He has lived through a time when Indians were sent to boarding schools and were not permitted to practice their own rituals. Although
- Author: White Hat Sr, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1607811847
- Language: English
