Cultural Region/Midwest
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Lost Restaurants of Chicago
$35.99 Add to cartMany of Chicago’s greatest or most unusual restaurants are “no longer taking reservations,” but they’re definitely not forgotten. From steakhouses to delis, these dining destinations attracted movie s… [more below]
- Author: Borzo, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: December 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1540237060
- Language: English
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The Boys in Chicago Heights: The Forgotten Crew of the Chicago Outfit
$31.99 Add to cartChicago Heights was long the seat of one of the major street crews of the Chicago Outfit, but its importance has often been overlooked and misunderstood. The crew’s origins predate Prohibition, when C… [more below]
- Author: Luzi, Matthew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 1540207463
- Language: English
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African Americans in Chicago
$31.99 Add to cartThe story of black Chicago is so rich that few know it all. It began long before the city itself. “The first white man here was a black man,” Potowatami natives reportedly said about Jean Baptiste Poi… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Lowell D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: February 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1531659470
- Language: English
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It Happened in Nebraska: Stories of Events and People that Shaped Cornhusker State History
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the organization of the first Arbor Day to the invention of Kool-Aid, It Happened in Nebraska features thirty-sixevents from the history of the Cornhusker State.
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Partsch, Tammy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1493039083
- Language: English
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Springfield’s Celebrated Horseshoe Sandwich
$24.99 Add to cartIn a town famous for its politics, one local favorite moves unchallenged across party lines. Sample secret recipes while delving in to the history of the Horseshoe Sandwich.
Open-faced, piled high with
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Harmon, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1467139882
- Language: English
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One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season
$21.99 Add to cart“One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational. . . This isn’t merely a book about baseball. It’s a book about heart.” — Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Will Be Boys and The… [more below]
- Author: Ballard, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1401312667
- Language: English
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Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago
$19.95 Add to cartAn essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicago’s South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to movements both past and present.
Geographically, histor- Author: Kaba, Mariame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599018
- Language: English
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The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival
$21.95 Add to cart“Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end,” Denise Low writes, “as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by sno… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Low, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236890
- Language: English
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Roadside Geology of Indiana
$24.00 Read moreHundreds of millions of years ago, warm, coral-rich seas deposited mud on the ocean floor, and in time it became limestone–the cornerstone of Indiana geology. From the fossil-studded rocks and twisti… [more below]
- Series: Roadside Geology
- Author: Camp, Mark J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: June 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0878423966
- Language: English
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Stolen from the Garden: The Kidnapping of Virginia Piper
$22.95 Add to cartThe inside story of the shocking Piper kidnapping: from the abduction and recovery, through the grueling investigation and trials, and into the Pipers’ haunted final years.
- Author: Swanson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0873519930
- Language: English
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Hmong in Minnesota
$17.95 Add to cartAn engaging history of the arrival of the Hmong in Minnesota in the 1970s, their struggle to build community in a new land, and the challenges they face today.
From bountiful booths at local farmers’- Series: People of Minnesota
- Author: Vang, Chia Youyee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0873515986
- Language: English
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Chippewa Customs
$22.95 Add to cartChippewa Customs, first published in 1929, remains an authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Chippewa (Ojibway) I… [more below]
- Series: Borealis Books
- Author: Densmore, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: October 15 1979
- ISBN10: 0873511425
- Language: English
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Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux
$21.95 Add to cartPerhaps no Indian leader of the mid-nineteenth century was as well known in his time as the great Lakota Sioux Red Cloud. Although his fame later was eclipsed by that of the legendary heroes who crush… [more below]
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #13
- Author: Larson, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: April 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0806131896
- Language: English
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Nebraska: An Illustrated History
$36.95 Add to cartA unique history of Nebraska is presented in these pages, drawing on fifty-eight short topical chapters and a rich gallery of illustrations. Professor Frederick C. Luebke’s lifelong commitment to the … [more below]
- Series: Great Plains Photography
- Author: Luebke, Frederick C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803280424
- Language: English
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American Mafia: Chicago: True Stories Of Families Who Made Windy City History
$18.95 Add to cartEveryone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder. American Mafia: Chicago explores the Windy City, strolling through its… [more below]
- Author: Griffith, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 076277844X
- Language: English
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Wisconsin Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
$15.95 Add to cartPopular public radio show host Michael Feldman and coauthor Diana Cook introduce Wisconsin’s weirdest, wackiest, and most outrageous people, places, and things including a man who owes his life to a f
- Series: Wisconsin Curiosities: Quirky Characters Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
- Author: Feldman, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0762748184
- Language: English
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The Chicago L
$26.99 Read moreDiscover the world-famous Chicago L – in all its grit and glory.
The thundering L is one of Chicago’s most enduring icons. Operating 247 since 1892, it is not only an antique but a working antique. Mor
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Borzo, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0738551007
- Language: English
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Rosebud Sioux
$24.99 Read moreThe Sicangu (burnt thighs) received their name when some of the Lakota peoples’ legs were burned in a great prairie fire. The French later named them Brule, and two large groups of the band would be s… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Sprague, Donovin Arleigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 24 2005
- ISBN10: 0738534471
- Language: English
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Blind Eye: The Terrifying True Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder
$19.99 Add to cartA medical thriller from Pulitzer Prize-winning author James B. Stewart about serial killer doctor Michael Swango and the medical community that chose to turn a blind eye on his criminal activities.No … [more below]
- Author: Stewart, James B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0684865637
- Language: English
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The 100-Yard War: Inside the 100-Year-Old Michigan-Ohio State Football Rivalry
$32.50 Add to cart“A rough-and-tumble pop-culture look at the history of this storied game.”
–National Review Online“”The 100-Yard War”” showcases two great football teams who want nothing more than to beat each other,
- Author: Emmanuel, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: August 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0471675520
- Language: English
