Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
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Ypsilanti in the 20th Century
$31.99 Add to cartFrom 1900 through 1975, the city of Ypsilanti underwent a multitude of changes as it developed from a small farming community into a center of education and business. The rise of the automobile and th… [more below]
- Author: Mann, James Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 05 2003
- ISBN10: 1531617794
- Language: English
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Mackinac Island
$31.99 Add to cartFrom historical richness to unparalleled natural beauty, Michigan’s Mackinac Island is the crown jewel of the Great Lakes, unique in America. Native American visitors preceded French explorers and mis… [more below]
- Author: North, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 1531656315
- Language: English
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Mackinac Bridge
$31.99 Add to cartOn November 1, 1957, traffic officially opened on the Mackinac Bridge. That was the culmination of 70 years of talking and dreaming about a bridge across
the Straits of Mackinac, of discouraging attem… [more below]- Author: Fornes, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 29 2007
- ISBN10: 1531631649
- Language: English
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Johnson Space Center: The First 50 Years
$31.99 Add to cartNASA ‘s Johnson Space Center (JSC ) in Houston, Texas, has been the home of human spaceflight operations since its inception in 1961. The first US manned spaceflight controlled from its iconic Mission… [more below]
- Author: Bruns, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: February 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1531664237
- Language: English
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Pacific Palisades
$31.99 Add to cartPacific Palisades owes its name to its geography. The cliffs looming above the beach reminded the early developers of the Hudson River Palisades in New York. The name for this eventually affluent coas… [more below]
- Author: Loomis, Jan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 05 2009
- ISBN10: 1531645682
- Language: English
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Lake of the Ozarks: Vintage Vacation Paradise
$31.99 Add to cartWhen the Union Electric Company finished constructing Bagnell Dam in 1931, they had done more than build a source of electrical power-they had created a vacation paradise. Bordered by lush hills and a… [more below]
- Author: Weaver, Dwight H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 15 2002
- ISBN10: 1531613322
- Language: English
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Governors Island
$31.99 Add to cartPurchased from the Manhattan tribe of the Wappinger
Confederacy by the Dutch, Governors Island has long been
the secret island in New York’s harbor. Although this pristine island has appeared on maps … [more below]- Author: Glen, Susan L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1531623174
- Language: English
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Opryland USA
$32.99 Add to cartBy the late 1960s, the Ryman Auditorium the fifth home of the Grand Ole Opry was a deteriorating firetrap in a seedy part of Nashville, yet it still attracted thousands of people each weekend to the s… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Stephen W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: August 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1531699782
- Language: English
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Tulane University
$31.99 Add to cart- Author: Case, Ann E. Smith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 153169909X
- Language: English
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Mexico Beach
$40.99 Add to cartAs French interests in the Americas dwindled, records indicate very little activity around Mexico Beach until rumors of buried riches and sunken ships brought treasure hunters to the coast. In the ear… [more below]
- Author: Cathey, Al
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1531669239
- Language: English
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Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
$31.99 Add to cartWhat came to be known as the World’s Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s 1492 landfall in the New World. Chicago beat out New York City, St…. [more below]
- Author: Di Cola, Joseph M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1531664059
- Language: English
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Key Largo
$31.99 Add to cartKey Largo is a subtropical escape. The island’s history has been shaped by coral reefs as well as wreckers, farmers, and fishermen. Key Largo was homesteaded by intrepid families who braved life befor… [more below]
- Author: Bertelli, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 05 2012
- ISBN10: 1531661041
- Language: English
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RMS Queen Mary
$31.99 Add to cartLaunched in an era when speed and grandeur went hand in hand, the RMS Queen Mary is the last survivor of the golden age of ocean liners. From the time of her maiden voyage in 1936, passengers crossed … [more below]
- Author: Tarbell Cooper, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 14 2010
- ISBN10: 1531653383
- Language: English
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Area 51
$31.99 Add to cartArea 51, a top secret military installation for testing unacknowledged, or black, projects, lies in a desert valley northwest of Las Vegas. During the Cold War, CIA and Air Force officials chose this … [more below]
- Author: Merlin, Peter W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 21 2011
- ISBN10: 1531650376
- 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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Chicago’s WLS Radio
$31.99 Add to cartFrom its early days as the farmer’s companion to over a quarter century as the nation’s premier rock-and-roll station, WLS has touched the lives of millions of listeners. Many well-known celebrities, … [more below]
- Author: Childers, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1531640249
- Language: English
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Carmel: A History in Architecture
$31.99 Add to cartCarmel is a microcosm of California’s architectural heritage, sited at one of the most scenic meetings of land and sea in the world. Mission San Carlos Borromeo became a root building for California’s… [more below]
- Author: Seavey, Kent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1531628672
- Language: English
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Cruisin’ the Original Woodward Avenue
$31.99 Add to cartIn the 1950s, cruising swept the nation. American street became impromptu racetracks as soon as the police turned their backs. Young people piled into friends’ cars and cruised their main streets with… [more below]
- Author: Ambrogio, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 12 2006
- ISBN10: 153162426X
- 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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Around Ebarb and the Toledo Bend
$31.99 Add to cartThe Ebarb and Toledo Bend area of Louisiana has a fascinating and colorful history. Founded in 1716, the French Fort St. Jean Baptiste was the first settlement in the area, followed soon after by the … [more below]
- Author: Rivers, Mary Lucille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 02 2007
- ISBN10: 1531626874
- Language: English
