United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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Real Philly History, Real Fast: Fascinating Facts and Interesting Oddities about the City’s Heroes and Historic Sites
$18.95 Read morePhiladelphia is known as the home of vibrant colonial history: the Liberty Bell, the Betsy Ross House, and Independence Hall. But the City of Brotherly Love is also home to–and less well known for–i
- Author: Murphy, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1439919240
- Language: English
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Wicked Carlisle:: The Dark Side of the Cumberland Valley
$21.99 Add to cartWith Wicked Carlisle, author Joe Cress revisits the criminal history of Cumberland County. Taking a more focused and less bloody approach, Cress will largely bring new stories of mischief to the table… [more below]
- Series: Wicked
- Author: Cress, Joseph David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 10 2012
- ISBN10: 160949525X
- Language: English
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Fort Pitt: A Frontier History
$31.99 Add to cart- Author: Crytzer, Brady
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: March 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1540206343
- Language: English
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Frederick County Characters: Innovators, Pioneers and Patriots of Western Maryland
$31.99 Add to cartSince its founding in 1748, Frederick County has been home to some of the nation’s most celebrated and dynamic historical figures. The quaint towns and farmlands with their serene mountain vistas of t… [more below]
- Author: Ashbury, John W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1540222624
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Lewes
$31.99 Add to cartProudly laying claim to the title of first town in the first state, Lewes, Delaware, has a history brimming with little-known tales of gentleman pirates, desperate acts of cannibalism and a failed Bri… [more below]
- Author: Morgan, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1540208532
- Language: English
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Long Island City
$31.99 Add to cartLong Island City captures the unique flavor of a former city (1870-1898) nestled between Manhattan and Queens that retains its identity to this day. Created by consolidating Old Astoria Village, Stein… [more below]
- Author: The Greater Astoria Historical Society
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 20 2004
- ISBN10: 1531621546
- Language: English
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New York Amish: Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State
$17.95 Add to cartTracing Amish settlement in New York from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on more than thirty years of participant-observation, interviews, and archival resea
- Author: Johnson-Weiner, Karen M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1501707604
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Bucks County
$23.99 Add to cartBucks County was an original county in William Penn’s newly formed Pennsylvania province and has carried the weight of history ever since. Join author Jennifer Rogers as she recounts the lesser-known
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Rogers, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1467138703
- Language: English
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The Best of the Adirondack Tales
$27.95 Add to cartThe best of W.H.H. Murray’s 19th century Adirondack stories, selected by Murray’s biographer and great, great grandson, Randall S. Beach
- Series: New York Classics
- Author: Murray, W. H. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 185
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1438490542
- Language: English
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Wilderness Regained: The Story of the Virginia Barrier Islands: SECOND EDITION: The Story of the Virginia Barrier Islands
$22.99 Add to cartThis is the second, expanded edition.
Curtis J. Badger’s Wilderness Regained award-winning book Salt Tide – Cycles and Currents of Life Along the Coast has become a classic when it comes to exploring … [more below]
- Author: Badger, Curtis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: October 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1628063599
- Language: English
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A Radical Suffragist in Washington, D.C.: An Inside Story of the National Woman’s Party
$24.99 Read moreIn September 1918 Elizabeth Kalb boarded a train to Washington, DC to fight for voting rights for women. For over two years, Elizabeth lived and worked at the National Woman’s Party headquarters a blo… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Marshall, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155888
- Language: English
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The Bronx
$30.00 Add to cartHome to the New York Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a haven for upwardly mobile second-generation immigrants eager to leave the crowded tenements of Manhatt
- Series: Columbia History of Urban Life
- Author: Gonzalez, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0231121156
- Language: English
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Bethlehem Steel
$40.99 Add to cartThe Lehigh Valley Railroad established the Bethlehem Iron Company in 1860 along the Lehigh River in South Bethlehem. The Bethlehem Iron Company manufactured the largest steel axle to date to support t… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Berger-Carmen, Tracy L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1540251594
- Language: English
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The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History
$50.00 Read moreA “delightful” (Vanity Fair) collection from the longest-running, most influential book review in America, featuring its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years
- Author: New York Times
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 0593234618
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of Jersey Shore
$41.99 Add to cartFor well over a century, the lure of scenic beaches and ocean waves have drawn visitors to the Jersey Shore. Presidents had summer homes where they could escape the pressures of office. Other visitors
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Czachowski, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1683369807
- Language: English
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A History of Rock Creek Park: Wilderness & Washington, D.C.
$23.99 Add to cartJoin National Park ranger, author and historian Scott Einberger as he traces the human, natural and urban history of Rock Creek Park, the largest park in the nation’s capital.
Washington, D. C. ‘s Rock
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Einberger, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1626195749
- Language: English
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Haunted Catskills
$21.99 Add to cartWashington Irving called the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York a spellbound region,” and the ghosts that linger from more than four hundred years of history provide proof of Irving’s intuition. I… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Lamonica, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 1626190119
- Language: English
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Forgotten Tales of Pennsylvania
$14.99 Add to cartWhat do you really know about the Keystone State?
William Penn, the Revolutionary figures of Philadelphia, and the strength of Pittsburgh’s steel all loom large in Pennsylvania’s history, but author Th
- Series: Forgotten Tales
- Author: White, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 159629812X
- Language: English
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The Enchanted Forest: Memories of Maryland’s Storybook Park
$31.99 Add to cartThe history of the Enchanted Forest is one of magical beginnings. When it first opened in 1955, Ellicott City’s storybook land became the first children’s theme park on the East Coast. Young visitors … [more below]
- Author: Kusterer, Janet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 1540208826
- Language: English
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W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Company
$31.99 Add to cartIn 1905, John Russell “Russ” Case brought the fledgling W. R. Case & Sons Company to Bradford, and it dominated the knife industry for the next century. From kitchen, hunting, and pocket knives to the… [more below]
- Author: Boser, Shirley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 12 2006
- ISBN10: 1531623441
- Language: English
