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Building the Blue Ridge Parkway
$31.99 Add to cartThe Blue Ridge Parkway began as a dream in the late 1800s and became reality in 1983 when the 469-mile scenic highway was completed. Construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway began in September 1935 at C… [more below]
- Author: Hall, Karen J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 15 2007
- ISBN10: 153163320X
- Language: English
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Boomtime Boca: Boca Raton in the 1920s
$31.99 Add to cartBoca Raton, Florida, was a tiny farming community on
the southeastern coast of Florida when the state’s 1920s real estate boom grew into a national phenomenon. Investors and new residents were drawn t… [more below]- Author: Gillis, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 25 2007
- ISBN10: 1531627188
- Language: English
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Great Smokies Myths and Legends: The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries
$18.95 Add to cartFrom Sam Houston’s childhood among the Cherokee to the mysterious “road to nowhere”, Great SmokiesMyths and Legends makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of this national park’s most fa… [more below]
- Series: Myths and Mysteries
- Author: Bradley, Michael R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 149304026X
- Language: English
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Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans
$24.95 Read moreCelebrate 300 years of New Orleans history
Originally written by Joan B. Garvey and Mary Lou Widmer, this book is widely regarded as the definitive text for tourists, locals, teachers, and students.
- Author: Garvey, Joan B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1455623415
- Language: English
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History Lover’s Guide to North Carolina
$45.99 Add to cartTour the Old North State’s famous–and not-so-famous–historic sites.
First in Freedom, First in Flight, and First, Farthest and Last are all honorifics that have been used to describe North Carolina’s
- Series: History Lovers Guide
- Author: Hardy, Michael C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: May 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1540252612
- Language: English
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The Classical Origins of Southern Literature, Second Edition
$45.95 Add to cartThis is the second edition of the first book-length treatment of the South’s veneration of the classics and how it has distinguished her literature and culture for four centuries. In this much enlarge
- Author: Kibler, James E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 173340757X
- Language: English
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West Virginia: A History
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Williams, John A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: October 23 2003
- ISBN10: 0937058564
- Language: English
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Sapelo: People and Place on a Georgia Sea Island
$38.95 Add to cartSapelo, a state-protected barrier island off the Georgia coast, is one of the state’s greatest treasures. Presently owned almost exclusively by the state and managed by the Georgia Department of Natur
- Author: Sullivan, Buddy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0820350168
- Language: English
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Bourbon Street: A History
$49.95 Add to cartNew Orleans is a city of many storied streets, but only one conjures up as much unbridled passion as it does fervent hatred, simultaneously polarizing the public while drawing millions of visitors a y
- Author: Campanella, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0807155055
- Language: English
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Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century
$19.95 Add to cartCherokee Americans combines . . . high-quality scholarship and eminent readability.―Choice
Much has been written about the forced removal of thousands of Cherokee Indians to present-day Oklahoma
- Series: Indians of the Southeast (Paperback)
- Author: Finger, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0803268793
- Language: English
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The Tarboro Three: Rape, Race, and Secrecy
$18.00 Add to cartOn an August evening in the summer of 1973 in Tarboro, North Carolina a young woman walking alone was offered a ride by three young men. All of their lives were changed dramatically as the ensuing eve
- Author: Lampkin, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1732932808
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of Fort Lauderdale
$42.99 Add to cartIn less than one hundred years, Fort Lauderdale grew from a wilderness stagecoach stop and trading post to become one of America’s favorite tourist destinations and the seat of government for Florida’
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Gillis, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1683369904
- Language: English
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Lost Miami Beach
$21.99 Add to cartAmerica’s Playground has seen many changes over the years. From architectural to botanical, Lost Miami Beach covers these changes and the development of the current preservation strategy.
Miami Beach
- Series: Lost
- Author: Klepser, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 23 2014
- ISBN10: 1626194289
- Language: English
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A Culinary History of Kentucky: Burgoo, Beer Cheese and Goetta
$23.99 Add to cartPull up a chair to the kitchen table and enjoy a delicious adventure through Bluegrass food history. Kentucky’s cuisine can be traced back to Cherokee, Irish, Scottish, English and German roots, among… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Young-Brown, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1626192634
- Language: English
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The Chattooga River: A Natural and Cultural History
$21.99 Add to cartThe Chattooga River has run through the American consciousness since the movie Deliverance” thrust it into the national spotlight. But this National Wild and Scenic River is much more than the make-be… [more below]
- Series: Natural History
- Author: Garren, Laura Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1609499859
- Language: English
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South: (And Why It Will Rise Again)
$21.99 Read moreWhat the PC Police don’t want you to know–and what they got plain wrong–about the South
From the Founding Fathers to the frontiersmen who tamed the West to the country music, NASCAR, Biblethumping he… [more below]- Series: Politically Incorrect Guides (Paperback)
- Author: Johnson, Clint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1596985003
- Language: English
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St. Petersburg’s Historic African American Neighborhoods
$21.99 Add to cartPepper Town, Methodist Town, the Gas Plant district and the 22nd Street South community–these once segregated neighborhoods were built by African Americans in the face of injustice. The resilient peo… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Peck, Rosalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 14 2008
- ISBN10: 1596292792
- Language: English
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Of Goats & Governors: Six Decades of Colorful Alabama Political Stories
$25.95 Add to cartFew states have as colorful a political history as Alabama, especially in the post-World War II era. During the past six decades, the state played a central role in the civil rights movement, largely
- Author: Flowers, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1588383865
- Language: English
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The Wreckers: The Florida Keys, Volume 3
$14.95 Add to cartIn this third book in a series on the history of the Florida Keys, John Viele tells the true story of the Florida Keys wreckers, the daring seamen who sailed out in fair weather or foul to save lives
- Series: Florida Keys (Paperback) #3
- Author: Viele, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: May 01 2011
- ISBN10: 156164496X
- Language: English
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West Virginia and the Civil War: Mountaineers Are Always Free
$32.99 Add to cartThe only state born as a result of the Civil War, West Virginia was the most divided state in the nation. About forty thousand of its residents served in the combatant forces about twenty thousand on … [more below]
- Author: Snell, Mark A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: August 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1540223957
- Language: English
