Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic
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The C&o Canal Companion: A Journey Through Potomac History
$26.95 Read moreAn indispensable guide to a regional treasure–now thoroughly updated and expanded.
A comprehensive guide to one of America’s unique national parks, The C&O Canal Companion takes readers on a mile-by-m
- Author: High, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1421415054
- Language: English
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
$40.00 Add to cartThe dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1451683235
- Language: English
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Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River
$24.99 Read moreThe Thousand Islands’ very name conjures up images of great natural beauty and nautical wonders. They are forested islands replete with storybook stone castles. Exquisite mahogany runabouts can be see… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Kunz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 146712401X
- Language: English
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Sermons in Stone: The Stone Walls of New England and New York
$16.95 Read moreWhat do we actually know about stone walls? about the people who built them, and why? Stone walls are not simply monuments to the skill of Yankee farmers. The historical record makes clear that many w… [more below]
- Author: Allport, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1581571658
- Language: English
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Times Square: A New York Number Book
$16.95 Read moreA perfect companion to our “E is for Empire: A New York State Alphabet”, “Times Square: A New York State Number Book” teaches children about numbers, using state landmarks, historical events, and famo… [more below]
- Series: Count Your Way Across the U.S.A. (Hardcover)
- Author: Burg, Ann E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 158536195X
- Language: English
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Lily’s New Home (Confetti Kids #1): (Dive Into Reading)
$10.95 Read moreIn this early chapter book in the popular Confetti Kids series, Lily and her parents move from their suburban neighborhood to New York City and Lily must adapt to her new life.
Lily and her parents mov
- Series: Confetti Kids
- Author: Yoo, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1620142589
- Language: English
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Buffalo Everything: A Guide to Eating in the Nickel City
$24.95 Read moreBuffalo isn’t just a city full of great wings. There is a great hot dog tradition, from Greek- originated “Texas red hots” to year-round charcoal-grilling at Ted’s that puts Manhattan’s dirty water do
- Series: Countryman Know How #0
- Author: Bovino, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 168268122X
- Language: English
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Love Walked in
$17.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Us Shine comes a “bewitching, warmhearted grown-up fairy tale about old movies, charming princes, and finding happily ever after in the place where … [more below]
- Author: de Los Santos, Marisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0452287898
- Language: English
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Allegany County
$24.99 Read moreAllegany County was established in 1789 and is truly one of America’s historic transportation and industrial centers. The images presented here portray this heritage and were selected with care from t… [more below]
- Series: Postcard History
- Author: Feldstein, Albert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0738543810
- Language: English
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African Americans of St. Lawrence County: North Country Pioneers
$24.99 Read moreDiscover the Black pioneers who shaped St. Lawrence County through grit and determination.
From its origins as part of New France through the Civil War and eventual industrialization of the region, St.
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Thompson, Bryan S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154032
- Language: English
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Loyalists in the Adirondacks: The Fight for Britain in the Revolutionary War
$23.99 Read moreFrom the outbreak of the Revolutionary War to the summer of 1777, Loyalists and Patriot forces wove their way through the mountains and valleys of the Adirondacks, vying for land and control of the ke… [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Williams, Marie Danielle Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152064
- Language: English
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Colonial Taverns of New Jersey: Libations, Liberty & Revolution
$23.99 Read moreEat, Drink, Be Merry and Join the Revolution New Jersey was the “Crossroads of the American Revolution,” and its colonial taverns were havens for Patriots and Loyalists alike to debate the political q… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Gabriele, Michael C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1467148962
- Language: English
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Enterprising Waters: The History and Art of New York’s Erie Canal
$39.95 Read moreAt the New York State Museum, Brad L. Utter, Ashley Hopkins-Benton, and Karen E. Quinn are all Senior Historians and Curators. Hopkins-Benton is the coauthor (with Jennifer A. Lemak) of Votes for Wome… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Utter, Brad L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1438478267
- Language: English
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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
$29.95 Read moreIn the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and Anglo-American colonists, a pair of colonial fur traders brutally
- Author: Eustace, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1631495879
- Language: English
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Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology
$35.00 Read moreHistoric Philadelphia has long yielded archaeological treasures from its past. Excavations required by the National Historic Preservation Act have recovered pottery shards, pots, plates, coins, bones,… [more below]
- Author: Yamin, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1439922101
- Language: English
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The Tapper Twins Run for President
$13.99 Read moreIn their third uproarious oral history, the Tapper Twins take their sibling feud to the political stage as they race to become class president
Told as a series of interviews, screenshots, text mess- Series: Tapper Twins #3
- Author: Rodkey, Geoff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0316297852
- Language: English
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Trees of the Eastern and Central United States and Canada: The Identification, Habits, Distribution Woodlore and Uses of Conifers and Hardwoods, Both
$17.95 Read moreBest one-volume guide to 140 trees. Full descriptions, woodlore, range, more. Over 600 illustrations. Handy size.
- Author: Harlow, William M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 1957
- ISBN10: 0486203956
- Language: English
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The Broken Lands
$15.99 Add to cartA crossroads can be a place of great power. So begins this deliciously spine-tingling prequel to Kate Milford’s The Boneshaker, set in the colorful world of nineteenth-century Coney Island and New Yo
- Author: Milford, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0544439422
- Language: English
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Strength in What Remains
$18.00 Read moreNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:
In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder
Los Angeles Times – San Francisco Chronicle –Chicago Tribune – The Christian Science Monitor – Publishers Weekly- Series: Random House Reader’s Circle
- Author: Kidder, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0812977610
- Language: English
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Maine Roads to Gettysburg: How Joshua Chamberlain, Oliver Howard, and 4,000 Men from the Pine Tree State Helped Win the Civil War’s Bloodiest Bat
$39.95 Read moreEveryone knows about Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and his 20th Maine Regiment, but there’s much more to the story of Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg. Soldiers from Maine made their presence felt all … [more below]
- Author: Huntington, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0811718409
- Language: English
