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Indigenous DC: Native Peoples and the Nation’s Capital
$24.95 Read moreThe first and fullest account of the suppressed history and continuing presence of Native Americans in Washington, DC
Washington, DC, is Indian land, but Indigenous peoples are often left out of the na
- Author: Rule, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1647123208
- Language: English
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Deadly Gamble: The Wreck of Schooner Levin J Marvel, The true story of Chesapeake Bay’s worst sailing disaster
$15.00 Add to cartHurricane Connie wobbled like a drunken pirate toward the mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S. In the late hours of August 11, 1955, Connie turned inland and began tracking a course up Chesapeake Bay. Here,
- Author: Smith, Kathy Bergren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: November 8, 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985347753
- Language: English
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
$20.00 Add to cart“Sure to become the definitive account of the fire. . . . Triangle is social history at its best, a magnificent portrayal not only of the catastrophe but also of the time and the turbulent city in whi… [more below]
- Author: Drehle, David Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: August 16, 2004
- ISBN10: 080214151X
- Language: English
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Growing Up Yinzer: Memories from Beloved Pittsburghers
$24.99 Read moreIn the Steel City, “Yinzer” is a term of endearment, reserved for the city’s most beloved and embraced by locals as a symbol of the grit and determination that Pittsburgh endows anyone from there.
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- Series: The History Press
- Author: Roberts, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152048
- Language: English
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Mason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation
$35.00 Read more“A magisterial yet highly nuanced account that ventures back and forth across Mason and Dixon’s fabled demarcation line as audaciously as 18th-century raiding parties once did.”–Harold Holzer, Wall S
- Author: Gray, Edward G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0674987616
- Language: English
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The Johnstown Flood
$18.99 Add to cartThe stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnst- Series: Touchstone Books (Paperback)
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: January 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0671207148
- Language: English
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The Maid and The Socialite
$17.95 Add to cartA GREEN BAY HISTORICAL TRUE CRIME STORY
At the turn of the 20th century cities around the world were rife with syphilis yet no blood test could prove it. Two women in Green Bay Wisconsin found their li
- Author: Drews, Lynda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: February 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1955656479
- Language: English
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
$23.00 Add to cart“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.”
“A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowl
-The New York Times- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0345476395
- Language: English
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Hidden Alleyways of Washington, DC: A History
$29.95 Add to cartThe remarkable architectural and social history of DC’s multifaceted alleyways
Alleyways in Washington, DC, have always been a fundamental part of the city’s life and economy. Deliberately hidden from
- Author: Williams, Kim Prothro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1647123925
- Language: English
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Notorious Pittsburgh
$14.95 Add to cartHopes have been crushed. Fortunes gained. Lives celebrated while others were snuffed out too soon. In the shadows, where corners are cut, and ambition unchecked – that is where the notorious stories l
- Author: Whitlatch, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: March 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987863206
- Language: English
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102 Minutes
$25.00 Add to cart“102 Minutes does for the September 11 catastrophe what Walter Lord did for the Titanic in his masterpiece, A Night to Remember . . . Searing, poignant, and utterly compelling.”–Rick Atkinson, Pulitz
- Author: Dwyer, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 02, 2011
- ISBN10: 0805094210
- Language: English
