Chronological Period/1900-1949
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Lassie Come-Home
$34.99 Add to cartA beloved classic gets a beautiful new look.
Lassie is Joe’s prize collie and constant companion. But when Joe’s father loses his job, Lassie must be sold. Three times she escapes from her new owner,- Author: Knight, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0805072063
- Language: English
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Twice as Good: The Story of William Powell and Clearview, the Only Golf Course Designed, Built, and Owned by an African American
$16.95 Read moreTo nine-year-old Willie Powell, there was no prettier sight than the smooth grass lawns of Edgewater Golf Cource. He had been so eager to see them that he’d run seven miles to where the course was sit
- Author: Michelson, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 15, 2012
- ISBN10: 1585364665
- 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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Ernie Pyle’s War: America’s Eyewitness to World War II
$19.99 Add to cartWhen a machine-gun bullet ended the life of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him in the same breath as they mourned Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, th
- Author: Tobin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0743284763
- Language: English
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A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
$24.99 Add to cartWith America’s current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle cl… [more below]
- Author: McGerr, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0195183657
- Language: English
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A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told
$45.00 Add to cartWinner of the Best Book Award from the Wild West History Association
True West Magazine Editors’ and Readers’ Choice award for Best Author and Historical Non-Fiction Book of the Year Wyatt Earp is on- Author: Young, Roy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 936
- Publish Date: July 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1574417738
- Language: English
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Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle
$21.95 Add to cartCharles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry–an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher.
Goodnight’s story is now re-examined by William T. Hagan in this bri
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #21
- Author: Hagan, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141956
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth
$8.95 Read moreThe enlightening memoir of the industrialist as famous for his philanthropy as for his fortune.
His good friend Mark Twain dubbed him “St. Andrew.” British Prime Minister William Gladstone called him- Author: Carnegie, Andrew
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0451530381
- Language: English
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The Greatest Generation
$22.00 Read moreThe instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years.
In this magn… [more below]- Author: Brokaw, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0812975294
- Language: English
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In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz
$26.95 Add to cartThe beginnings of jazz and the story of Charles “Buddy” Bolden (1877-1931) are inextricably intertwined. Just after the turn of the century, New Orleanians could often hear Bolden’s powerful horn from
- Author: Marquis, Donald M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0807130931
- Language: English
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Burning Lights
$19.00 Add to cartThis charming memoir by Bella Chagall recalls her childhood in Vitebsk, the Russian-Jewish market town where she and her husband, Marc Chagall, grew up. Her warm reminiscences of Jewish family life in… [more below]
- Author: Chagall, Bella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: March 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0805208631
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life
$19.00 Add to cartA Washington Post Notable Book
In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hi
With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race- Author: Ryback, Timothy W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0307455262
- Language: English
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East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart
$21.99 Add to cartAmelia Earhart (1897-1937) captured the hearts of America after becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1928. Nine years later, her disappearance on an around-the-world flight brought h
- Author: Butler, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: August 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 030681837X
- Language: English
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Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work
$29.95 Add to cartThis biography of Aldo Leopold follows him from his childhood as a precocious naturalist to his profoundly influential role in the development of conservation and modern environmentalism in the United
- Author: Meine, Curt D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 676
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0299249042
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Vienna: A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man
$21.00 Add to cartWhat turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to … [more below]
- Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Author: Hamann, Brigitte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 1848852770
- Language: English
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21st Century Ellis: Operational Art and Strategic Prophecy for the Modern Era
$25.95 Add to cartFor years, the Marine Corps has touted the prescience of Lt. Col. “Pete” Ellis, USMC, who predicted in 1921 that the United States would fight Japan and how the Pacific Theater would be won. Now the w… [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Foundations
- Author: Friedman, Brett A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1612518079
- Language: English
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Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist Who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell
$21.99 Add to cartIn the 1930s, while the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression sent most of America into the doldrums, a lively intellectual and artistic community formed in the West, revolving around three legendary fri
- Author: Tamm, Eric Enno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 28 2005
- ISBN10: 1560256893
- Language: English
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Berkeley 1900: Daily Life at the Turn of the Century
$24.95 Add to cartSince its initial publication a decade ago, Berkeley 1900: Daily Life at the Turn of the Century has captivated readers with its unprecedented blend of serious history, fascinating images, and heartfe… [more below]
- Author: Schwartz, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: September 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0967820448
- Language: English
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Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik
$19.95 Add to cartHayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) is considered Israel’s national poet and one of the greatest Hebrew poets of all time. Several of his poems, particularly his immensely popular children’s verse, were s
- Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
- Author: Hadari, Atar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815606052
- Language: English
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Trotsky
$27.99 Add to cartTrotsky was a hero to some, a ruthless demon to others. To Stalin, he was such a threat that he warranted murder by pickax. This polarizing figure set up a world conflict that lasted through the twent
- Author: Geary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: September 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0809095084
- Language: English
