History Press Library Editions
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Engineering Pittsburgh: A History of Roads, Rails, Canals, Bridges and More
$32.99 Add to cartWestern Pennsylvania’s infrastructure is renowned for traversing valleys, mountains, rivers and everything in between. Early surveying in the region delineated state and local boundaries that allowed … [more below]
- Author: Asce Pittsburgh Section 100th Anniversar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: September 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1540235998
- Language: English
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Salem’s Witch House: A Touchstone to Antiquity
$31.99 Add to cartThough located on Massachusetts’s scenic North Shore, Salem is often remembered for its less than picturesque history. The “Witch City,” as it is internationally known, is home to numerous landmarks d… [more below]
- Author: Goff, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 154021902X
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Milwaukee
$31.99 Add to cartJoin OnMilwaukee.com’s Bobby Tanzilo for a behind-the-scenes tour of Milwaukee’s past. Sail out to the Breakwater Lighthouse, scramble up the wings of the Milwaukee Art Museum and dig up the city’s ro… [more below]
- Author: Tanzilo, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1540210049
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Utah
$31.99 Add to cartIn the 1840s, land west of the Missouri River was a new frontier for courage, adventure, freedom and true grit. During this era and the decades that followed, Utah became the focal point for many brav… [more below]
- Author: Stone, Eileen Hallet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: November 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1540209555
- Language: English
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Lake George Shipwrecks and Sunken History
$33.99 Add to cartLake George is bustling with boaters, swimmers, fishermen and many others, enjoying its scenic, quintessentially Adirondack shores. But the depths below hide a whole other world–one of shipwrecks and… [more below]
- Author: Zarzynski, Joseph W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1540205754
- Language: English
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A History of the Greenwich Waterfront: Tod’s Point, Great Captain Island and the Greenwich Shoreline
$31.99 Add to cartThe historic community of Greenwich is nestled along Connecticut’s famed Gold Coast. The shores and waves of Long Island Sound draw people to its unique seaside, which also maintains a peaceful “resid… [more below]
- Author: Jewell, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: June 21 2011
- ISBN10: 154020569X
- Language: English
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The Battle of Kings Mountain: Eyewitness Accounts
$34.99 Add to cartOn October 7, 1780, American Patriot and Loyalist soldiers battled each other at Kings Mountain, near the border of North and South Carolina. With over one hundred eyewitness accounts, this collection… [more below]
- Author: Dunkerly, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 20 2007
- ISBN10: 1540204553
- Language: English
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A Culinary History of Iowa: Sweet Corn, Pork Tenderloins, Maid-Rites & More
$35.99 Add to cartIowa s delectable cuisine is quintessentially midwestern, grounded in its rich farming heritage and spiced with diverse ethnic influences. Classics like fresh sweet corn and breaded pork tenderloins a… [more below]
- Author: Maulsby, Darcy Dougherty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 153169876X
- Language: English
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Battle of Guilford Courthouse: A Most Desperate Engagement
$32.99 Add to cartAround the North Carolina village of Guilford Courthouse in the late winter of 1781, two weary armies clashed on a cold, wet afternoon. American forces under Nathanael Greene engaged Lord Cornwallis’s… [more below]
- Author: Maass, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1540242382
- Language: English
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Surfing Newport Beach: The Glory Days of Corona del Mar
$31.99 Add to cartCorona del Mar was once California’s premier surfing spot, holding the sport’s first Pacific Coast competition in 1928. Attempts to tame Corona and to make the Newport Beach harbor mouth safe for wate… [more below]
- Author: Burnett, Claudine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: July 16 2013
- ISBN10: 1540232654
- Language: English
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Lost Omaha
$31.99 Add to cartThe landmarks of Omaha’s past reveal a history of industry, innovation and change. The Hotel Fontenelle, the Omaha Athletic Club and the Medical Arts Building disappeared in the wake of changes remaki… [more below]
- Author: Bednarek, Janet R. Daly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: April 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1540228649
- Language: English
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Shocking Stories of the Cleveland Mob
$31.99 Add to cartThey are the dirty little secrets of Cleveland’s past, mob guys so good–or so bad–that you rarely hear their stories. Men such as Micky McBride turned newsboys into sluggers, gave bookies a run for … [more below]
- Author: Schwarz, Ted
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: December 03 2010
- ISBN10: 154022404X
- Language: English
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West Virginia and the Civil War: Mountaineers Are Always Free
$32.99 Add to cartThe only state born as a result of the Civil War, West Virginia was the most divided state in the nation. About forty thousand of its residents served in the combatant forces about twenty thousand on … [more below]
- Author: Snell, Mark A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: August 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1540223957
- Language: English
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Duke Basketball: A Pictorial History
$31.99 Add to cartThe Duke University men’s basketball program is certainly one such tradition, and Lewis Bowling has assembled more than two hundred brilliant photographs spanning the entire history of the program to … [more below]
- Author: Bowling, Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1540218724
- Language: English
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Lost Cincinnati
$31.99 Add to cartCincinnati earned its nickname of “Queen City of the West” with a wealth of fine theaters and hotels, a burgeoning brewery district and the birth of professional baseball. Though many of these treasur… [more below]
- Author: Suess, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: June 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1540210669
- Language: English
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Lost Restaurants of Sacramento and Their Recipes
$33.99 Add to cartFrom saloons and tamale vendors to greasy spoons and neon-lit drive-ins, Sacramento natives Maryellen Burns and Keith Burns trace the trends of California’s capital city through 150 years of dining ou… [more below]
- Author: Burns, Maryellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1540208249
- Language: English
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The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told: Henry Flagler & the Florida East Coast Railway’s Key West Extension
$31.99 Add to cartAlthough several people had considered constructing a railroad to Key West beginning in the early 1800s, it took a bold industrialist with unparalleled vision to make it happen. In 1902, Henry Flagler… [more below]
- Author: Bramson, Seth H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1540206300
- Language: English
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Marblehead’s First Harbor: The Rich History of a Small Fishing Port
$34.99 Add to cartThe true beauty and fury of the Atlantic Ocean are known only by the rugged individuals who have made their living from the sea. In the seventy-five years from the American Revolution to the middle of… [more below]
- Author: Bishop, Hugh Peabody
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: November 18 2011
- ISBN10: 1540231143
- Language: English
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Nebraska POW Camps: A History of World War II Prisoners in the Heartland
$31.99 Add to cartDuring World War II, thousands of Axis prisoners of war were held throughout Nebraska in base camps that included Fort Robinson, Camp Scottsbluff and Camp Atlanta. Many Nebraskans did not view the POW… [more below]
- Author: Marsh, Melissa Amateis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1540223272
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Maine
$31.99 Add to cartThe history of the Pine Tree State would be bare but for the contributions of hardy and impassioned individuals–generals, governors, settlers and activists whose lives of leadership make up the story… [more below]
- Author: Gratwick, Harry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1540220788
- Language: English
