United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania
$23.99 Add to cartAuthor and journalist Cody McDevitt tells the story of one of the worst civil rights injustices in Western Pennsylvania history.
In 1923, in response to the fatal shooting of four policemen, the mayor
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: McDevitt, Cody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1467142743
- Language: English
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Wild Women of Maryland: Grit & Gumption in the Free State
$23.99 Add to cartDiscover Maryland’s legacy of daring women who made their mark on history as spies, would-be queens and fiery suffragettes.
Maryland’s history is punctuated by women who refused to be forgotten. Sarah
- Author: Silberman, Lauren R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 21 2015
- ISBN10: 162619811X
- Language: English
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
$21.99 Add to cart“Enthralling; it is well worth the trip.” —New York Journal of Books
Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York’s Blackwell’s Island, site of a lun… [more below]- Author: Horn, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1616209356
- Language: English
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Hudson Valley Curiosities: The Sinking of the Steamship Swallow, the Poughkeepsie Seer, the UFOs of the Celtic Stone Chambers and More
$31.99 Add to cartHudson Valley is steeped in mysteries, from Celtic chambers resting in the deep woods of Putnam to Millbrook’s abandoned Bennett College. In the Highlands, Iroquois chief Daniel Nimham gave his life f… [more below]
- Author: Marchese, Allison Guertin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1540225615
- Language: English
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Forgotten Maryland Cocktails: A History of Drinking in the Free State
$35.99 Add to cartUsing historic recipes with modern twists from renowned mixologists, Greg and Nicole Priebe present Maryland s golden age of the cocktail. Recipe cards included for Farmer s Bishop, a Christmas Punch;… [more below]
- Author: Priebe, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: May 18 2015
- ISBN10: 154021298X
- Language: English
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Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay’s Foundation and Future
$35.99 Add to cartCrassostrea virginica, the eastern oyster. These humble bivalves are the living bones of the Chesapeake and the ecological and historical lifeblood of the region. When colonists first sailed these imp… [more below]
- Author: Livie, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: October 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1540212696
- Language: English
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Randolph
$31.99 Add to cartThroughout its history, Randolph has had a diverse array of residents, including the Minsi Native Americans, European settlers, and Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland. The land proved fertile fo… [more below]
- Author: Hari, Gail M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 19 2009
- ISBN10: 1531642705
- Language: English
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Kaufmann’s: The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store
$17.00 Add to cartIn 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the shores of New York. His brother Isaac soon followed, and together they joined an immigrant community
- Author: Pitz, Marylynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0822967138
- Language: English
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The Great Hurricane: 1938
$16.00 Add to cartOn the night of September 21,1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was no mention of any severe weather. By the time oceanfront residents noticed an ominous color i… [more below]
- Author: Burns, Cherie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142540
- Language: English
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Beaver River Country: An Adirondack History
$24.95 Add to cartEncompassing the lands immediately surrounding the upper reaches of the Beaver River from its headwaters at Lake Lila to Beaver Lake at the settlement of Number Four, Beaver River country is the large
- Series: New York State
- Author: Pitts, Edward I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0815611331
- Language: English
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The Haunted History of Pelham, New York: Including Ghostly Tales of The Bronx, Westchester County, and Long Island Sound
$21.95 Add to cartA fascinating fusion of New York history and local folklore sure to send shivers up your spine!
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Bell, Blake A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 143848674X
- Language: English
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Historic Haunts of Long Island: Ghosts and Legends from the Gold Coast to Montauk Point
$24.99 Add to cartExplore the mysterious past of Long Island and learn about the spirits that haunt the historic American island.
Take a ghostly journey through Long Island’s history, from Native American legends and be
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Brosky, Kerriann Flanagan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2015
- ISBN10: 1626196680
- Language: English
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Long Island’s Gold Coast
$31.99 Add to cartIn the spotlight with the publication of The Great Gatsby, the North Shore’s Gold Coast boasted perhaps the greatest concentration of wealth in the country during the first half of the 20th century. I… [more below]
- Author: Mateyunas, Paul J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 07 2012
- ISBN10: 1531661610
- Language: English
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Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York
$26.99 Add to cartNew York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen.
In Appetite City, the former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a grand historical tour of New York’s dining
- Author: Grimes, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532494
- Language: English
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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
$53.00 Add to cartIn this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers’ Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repre… [more below]
- Series: History of NYC
- Author: Wallace, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1196
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0195116356
- Language: English
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The Hedges: The Story of Twelve Precious Acres on Blue Mountain Lake
$19.95 Add to cartLike the smooth entry of an Adirondack guideboat, The Hedges transports the reader to the golden years of Blue Mountain Lake when a Civil War hero and extraordinary businessman built a private camp on… [more below]
- Author: Kessel, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1977237290
- Language: English
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The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America
$25.99 Add to cartThe Dalzells . . . do an astonishing job of placing Kykuit in historical context while weaving the larger-than-life Rockefeller personalities into its very walls and hallways.–Los Angeles Times
One h- Series: John MacRae Books
- Author: Dalzell, Robert F., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0805088571
- Language: English
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Ellis Island
$23.99 Add to cartThe United States is considered the world’s foremost refuge for foreigners, and no place in the nation symbolizes this better than Ellis Island.
Through Ellis Island’s halls and corridors more than twe
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Moreno, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0738513040
- Language: English
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George Washington’s Long Island Spy Ring: A History and Tour Guide
$40.99 Add to cartIn 1778, two years after the British forced the Continental Army out of New York City, George Washington and his subordinates organized a secret spy network to gather intelligence in Manhattan and Lon… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Bleyer, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1540247368
- Language: English
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Freedomland: Co-Op City and the Story of New York
$32.95 Add to cartIn Freedomland, Annemarie H. Sammartino tells Co-op City’s story from the perspectives of those who built it and of the ordinary people who made their homes in this monument to imperfect liberal ideal
- Author: Sammartino, Annemarie H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501716433
- Language: English
