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The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools
$34.95 Add to cartToday’s battles over Christianity in U.S. public schools have deep roots. In the nineteenth century it was an intramural struggle between Protestants and later-arriving Catholics. But at Christmastime… [more below]
- Author: Seligman, Scott D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1640126546
- Language: English
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Steam and Steel: The Eastern Shore of Virginia 1870-1884
$25.00 Add to cartThe years following the Civil War were fraught with change for the people of the Virginia counties of Accomack and Northampton on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay. War had altered patterns of trade… [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Brooks Miles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: November 21 2025
- ISBN10: 162806451X
- Language: English
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River: A Hudson Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartLeslie Day’s life changed forever when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin–a new home umbilically tied to Manhattan’s Upper West Side. In her hea
- Author: Day, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501783882
- Language: English
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The Archaeology of Kingston, New York
$29.95 Add to cartA comprehensive analysis of eighty-eight archaeological sites in and around the City of Kingston, New York.
The Archaeology of Kingston, New York covers Kingston (and New York State and the Hudson Vall
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Diamond, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 482
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855803983
- Language: English
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Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
$22.99 Read morePULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster–and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world today When the news broke in 1975- Author: Phillips-Fein, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160073
- Language: English
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A History Lover’s Guide to Washington, D.C.: Designed for Democracy
$24.99 Add to cartJoin author Alison Fortier for a walk through our United States Capital and its iconic locations.
This tour of the nation’s capital goes beyond the traditional guidebook to offer a historical journey
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Fortier, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1467170488
- Language: English
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Greater Philadelphia and the Nation: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 2
$44.95 Add to cartInformed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and its companion volumes The Greater Philadelphia Region and Greater P
- Author: Mires, Charlene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1512826634
- Language: English
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Greater Philadelphia and the World: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 3
$44.95 Add to cartInformed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia and the World and its companion volumes The Greater Philadelphia Region and Greater Ph
- Author: Heath, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 151282738X
- Language: English
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The Greater Philadelphia Region: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1
$44.95 Add to cartInformed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, The Greater Philadelphia Region and its companion volumes Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and Greater P
- Author: Gillette, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1512826049
- Language: English
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Who Put the ‘East’ in East Aurora?: And Other Chronicles of Our Past
$24.99 Add to cartIt’s been said that East Aurora, New York is straight out of a Hallmark Christmas movie, an observation perhaps given credence after the filming of an actual Hallmark Christmas movie in the village in
- Series: Historic East Aurora #1
- Author: Goller, Robert Lowell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999609106
- Language: English
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The Sewards of New York: A Biography of a Leading American Political Family
$37.95 Add to cartThe Sewards of New York shines a light on one of the most important and fascinating political families of the nineteenth century. Through recently discovered family correspondence, Thomas P. Slaughter
- Author: Slaughter, Thomas P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501782657
- Language: English
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The Bowery
$24.99 Add to cartThe Bowery is New York City’s oldest street. Stretching 1.25 miles from Chatham Square to Cooper Square, it was a Native American footpath, Dutch wagon road, and the triumphal march route as Washingto
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Mulkins, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 146716206X
- Language: English
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Fabulous Fountains of New York
$44.95 Add to cartA stunning exploration of New York’s most enchanting fountains
New York City’s fountains are more than just decorative features–they are historical landmarks, cultural icons, and dynamic works of ar- Author: Azzarone, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 153151183X
- Language: English
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Ten Thousand Central Parks: A Climate-Change Parable
$34.95 Add to cartA visionary look at Central Park’s creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate action
Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes,- Author: Brown Morris, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1531511643
- Language: English
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Philadelphia: A Walk Through History
$17.00 Add to cart- Author: Pompilio, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1681066106
- Language: English
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Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945
$45.00 Add to cart- Author: Wallace, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0199384517
- Language: English
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The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
$29.95 Add to cartA history of New York’s Yiddish popular culture from 1880 to the present.
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a new look at over a century of New York’s history of Yiddish popular
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Sapoznik, Henry H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855801736
- Language: English
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Murder in Old Forge, Pennsylvania: The Tragic Death of the Ziemba Children
$24.99 Add to cartOn July 26, 1981, eight-year-old Cheryl Ziemba and her four-year-old brother, Christopher, disappeared from their backyard in Old Forge, Pennsylvania.
Within hours, hundreds of neighbors, police and f
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Kincaid, Brian W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1467157155
- Language: English
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Almanac: A Murmuration
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the sanctuary of her one-hundred-and-twenty-acre horse farm in the upper Susquehanna River Valley, essayist and poet Christine Gelineau takes stock of what it means to care for a farm, a nation,
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Gelineau, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855801798
- Language: English
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Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis
$22.99 Add to cart“Instantly my favorite guide to the city. Walsh has a phenomenal eye and an almost fanatical attention to detail.” — Luc Sante, author of Low Life
An urban exploration of the oddities and artifacts of
- Author: Walsh, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0060754001
- Language: English
