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A History Lover’s Guide to New York City
$24.99 Add to cartNew York is a city of superlatives. It has the largest population, greatest wealth, broadest diversity and most elegant museums in the nation. With that comes an amazing history.
This tour of the Big A
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Fortier, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119032
- Language: English
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Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
$28.95 Add to cartEugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government’s actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. The Federal Ho… [more below]
- Author: Pietila, Antero
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1566638437
- Language: English
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Made in New York: 25 Innovators Who Shaped Our World
$24.95 Add to cartHow New Yorkers transformed the world!
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Vizard, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1438493681
- Language: English
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The Hudson Valley: The First 250 Million Years: A Mostly Chronological and Occasionally Personal History
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the dinosaurs and the glaciers to the first native peoples and the first European settlers, from Dutch and English Colonial rule to the American Revolution, from the slave society to the Civil Wa… [more below]
- Author: Levine, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493073168
- Language: English
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The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry: 1925-1942
$24.95 Add to cartTold with great intimacy and compassion, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sunk their own mines on
- Author: Troutman, Mitch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1629639338
- Language: English
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New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times
$24.00 Add to cartA charmed collection of some of the best essays from the widely-known “City” section of the New York Times
“There are eight million stories in the Naked City.” This famous line from the 1948 film The- Author: Rosenblum, Constance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0814775721
- Language: English
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Eastern Shore Road Trips (Vol. 1): 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva
$21.95 Add to cartNewly updated & expanded for the 2020s Much more than a traditional travel guide, “Eastern Shore Road Trips #1” is full of tales from days gone by and insights into the character and culture of the s
- Author: Duffy, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: October 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1735674117
- Language: English
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Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley
$23.99 Add to cartLocal storyteller Jonathan Kruk shares the mysterious lore of the Hudson Valley, best known among them Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
The story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Ho
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Kruk, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 21 2011
- ISBN10: 1596297980
- Language: English
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Native American History of Washington, DC
$24.99 Add to cartRead the missing stories of DC’s precolonial history.
Native Americans lived on the land that is now Washington, DC for several thousand years before English settlers arrived in the early 1600s. The Na
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Lione Phd, Armand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154210
- Language: English
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Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise
$28.99 Read more*A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer?*
*A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE*
*A Washington Post “Book to Read This Summer”*
*AN ADVOCATE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK OF 2022*
*A USA Today “Book to Celebrate Pride Mo- Author: Parlett, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 14, 2022
- ISBN10: 1335475184
- Language: English
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111 Places in Women’s History in Washington That You Must Not Miss
$23.95 Add to cart- The ultimate insider’s guide to women’s history in Washington, DC for locals and experienced travelers
- Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides
- Part of the internat
- Author: Calogera, Kaitlin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 31 2022
- ISBN10: 3740815906
- Language: English
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The Eight: The Lemmon Slave Case and the Fight for Freedom
$32.95 Add to cartThe personal and legal struggle of eight enslaved people for freedom in New York in the period just before the Civil War.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Rosenblatt, Albert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1438492642
- Language: English
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Land of the Oneidas: Central New York State and the Creation of America, from Prehistory to the Present
$33.95 Add to cartPresents the history of central New York State from the Ice Age to the present day.
- Author: Koch, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1438492715
- Language: English
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Peninsulas in Repose: The Necks of Virginia’s Eastern Shore
$24.99 Add to cartProlific Eastern Shore writer Curtis J. Badger has a knack for finding compelling stories in places you might never expect. In Peninsulas in Repose, he takes a fascinating look at the necks of the Eas… [more below]
- Author: Badger, Curtis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1628063874
- Language: English
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New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
$19.99 Add to cartIn the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic. New Yorkers weaves the voic
- Author: Taylor, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021993
- Language: English
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New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
$20.99 Read moreA New York Times Notable Book
A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City’s transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city’s future. Dangerous, filthy, and fallin- Author: Dyja, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1982149795
- Language: English
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Iconic New York Jewish Food: A History and Guide with Recipes
$23.99 Read moreTake a culinary journey through the foods, restaurants and businesses that define the cuisine of New York City and the Jewish immigrant experience… No trip to New York’s five boroughs is complete wi… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Hersh, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152609
- Language: English
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Gen X Pittsburgh: The Beehive and the ’90s Scene
$24.99 Add to cartBeginning in the early 1990s, Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood began to transform from the post-industrial morass it had been suffering for the last few decades. Artists began to rent empty apartm
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Rullo, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153745
- Language: English
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Steel City Mafia: Blood, Betrayal and Pittsburgh’s Last Don
$23.99 Add to cartPittsburgh’s small but lucrative Cosa Nostra mafia family was on the rise in 1985 with a newly crowned Don… The men who came to dominate the rackets in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and West V… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Hodos, Paul N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153753
- Language: English
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Kibbitz and Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria
$34.95 Add to cartOn a winter’s day in the mid-1970s the photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin sought warm refuge and, camera in hand, passed through the revolving doors of Dubrow’s Cafeteria on Kings Highway. There, be
- Author: Halperin, Marcia Bricker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501766511
- Language: English
