Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic
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Play Ball! The Story of Little League Baseball
$21.95 Add to cartOn any given spring evening, 360,000 children around the world can be found on the dusty mounds and grassy fields of a Little League field. With more than four million people playing or volunteering i
- Series: 2nd Edition
- Author: Van Auken, Lance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0998681199
- Language: English
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Bringing the Heat
$20.00 Add to cartBringing the Heat is the story of one team’s season-long campaign for the NFL championship, told through the personal stories of the men on the field and the coaches, managers, and owner on the sideli… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 02 1999
- ISBN10: 0871137720
- Language: English
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Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks: The Story of the Lake, the Land, and the People
$24.95 Add to cartBig Moose Lake in the Adirondacks is the lively and well documented story of the growth of the lake side community made famous by the incident that inspired Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy. The
- Author: Barlow, Jane A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: June 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0815607741
- Language: English
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Cornell: A History, 1940-2015
$54.95 Add to cartIn their history of Cornell since 1940, Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick examine the institution in the context of the emergence of the modern research university. The book examines Cornell duri
- Author: Altschuler, Glenn C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 080144425X
- Language: English
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Erie Canal
$24.99 Add to cartTravel back in time through the heyday of the old Erie Canal and see how it unleashed the growth of the United States.
The building of the Erie Canal was spearheaded by the vision of Gov. Dewitt Clinto
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Erie Canal Museum
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0738508691
- Language: English
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Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
$20.99 Add to cartIn the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would la… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: McMillen, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195393333
- Language: English
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The Franchise: New York Yankees: A Curated History of the Bronx Bombers
$28.00 Read moreIn The Franchise: New York Yankees, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of the baseball’s most successful team.
This thoughtful and engaging collection of essays captures the ast- Series: The Franchise
- Author: Feinsand, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1629379948
- Language: English
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The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Familes: a Genealogical History of the Upper Monongahela Valley
$65.95 Add to cart“Tenmile Country” refers to an area of land in Greene and Washington counties in southwestern Pennsylvania that is traversed by Tenmile Creek. During the early colonial period, this region of the Uppe
- Author: Leckey, Howard L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 746
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1596414618
- Language: English
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Massapequas: Two Thousand Years of History
$40.99 Add to cartWhether as a town, village or hamlet, the communities of East Massapequa, North Massapequa, Massapequa Park and Massapequa proper all share a rich historic legacy. The area’s abundant supply of fish a… [more below]
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Kirchmann, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: May 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1540248011
- Language: English
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The Foggy Bottom Gang: The Story of the Warring Brothers of Washington, DC
$17.95 Add to cartIn the town of lawmaking, three brothers thrived in lawbreaking
Before Prohibition, Leo, Emmitt, and Charles “Rags” Warring worked as laborers in their father’s barrel shop. When the (illegal) booze st
- Author: Warring, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1950843327
- Language: English
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Blackbeard and Other Pirates of the Atlantic Coast
$18.95 Add to cartThey were bold, arrogant, brutal. They strode the rolling deck of a ship more easily than the tame streets of a town. They were wealthy–some beyond the wildest dreams of the governors and kings who f
- Author: Roberts, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 21 1993
- ISBN10: 194946718X
- Language: English
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Freemasons at Gettysburg
$14.95 Add to cartAlthough it has been traced to the 10th Century, BC, history indicates that the fraternity of Freemasons was introduced into England in 926 AD. As an association that continues to thrive today, the br
- Author: Munn, Sheldon a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: April 21 2014
- ISBN10: 1620064022
- Language: English
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Lo-Life: An American Classic
$39.95 Read moreLo-Life: An American Classic takes the reader on a tripto New York City in the early 80s-a time when crimeand violence ran the streets. The infamous Lo-Lifegang emerged from this tumultuous time. Form… [more below]
- Author: Blount, Jackson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1576878120
- Language: English
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Niagara Falls in World War II
$21.99 Add to cartNiagara Falls, both a natural wonder and a tourist destination, played a prominent role on the homefront during the Second World War. Many men and women worked diligently stateside in wartime industri… [more below]
- Series: Military
- Author: Kratts, Michelle Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1467137375
- Language: English
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New York in Bloom
$24.99 Add to cartNew York in Bloom leads you on a beautiful floral tour of the metropolis–past stylish floral studios and corner shops overflowing with fresh-cut blooms, through bustling flower markets, to blooming t
- Author: Lane, Georgianna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1419730797
- Language: English
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The Livingstons of Livingston Manor
$27.95 Add to cartThe complete history of one of New York State’s-and the nation’s-founding families.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Livingston, Edwin Brockholst
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 588
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1438494025
- Language: English
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Chronicles of the British Occupation of Long Island
$35.99 Add to cartLong Island was occupied under the brual yolk of the British army and navy from 1776-1783. The scars, trials and experiences of the occupation would not soon be forgotten… Author David M. Griffin pr… [more below]
- Author: Griffin, David M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257266
- Language: English
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Who Are These People Anyway?
$19.95 Add to cartIn the rich tradition of oral storytelling, Chief Irving Powless Jr. of the Beaver Clan of the Onondaga Nation reminds us of an ancient treaty. It promises that the Haudenosaunee people and non-Indige
- Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors
- Author: Powless, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 081561070X
- Language: English
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Almost a Woman: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartFollowing the enchanting story recounted in When I Was Puerto Rican of the author’s emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the prestigious Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, Esmeralda Santia… [more below]
- Series: Merloyd Lawrence Book
- Author: Santiago, Esmeralda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 030682082X
- Language: English
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Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
$18.99 Add to cart“Reads like a nail-biting thriller.” — Library Journal, starred review
A gripping new history celebrating the remarkable heroes of the Johnstown Flood–the deadliest flood in U.S. history–from NBC h
- Author: Roker, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062445537
- Language: English
