History Press
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A Culinary History of Kentucky: Burgoo, Beer Cheese and Goetta
$23.99 Add to cartPull up a chair to the kitchen table and enjoy a delicious adventure through Bluegrass food history. Kentucky’s cuisine can be traced back to Cherokee, Irish, Scottish, English and German roots, among… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Young-Brown, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1626192634
- Language: English
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Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music
$23.99 Add to cartAn estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, dubbed “the Swampers.”
- Author: Whitley, Carla Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1626192391
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Portland, Oregon
$21.99 Add to cartIn this engaging narrative, author JD Chandler crafts a people’s history of Portland, Oregon, sharing the lesser-known stories of individuals who stood against the tide and fought for liberty and repr… [more below]
- Series: Hidden History Of…
- Author: Chandler, Jd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1626191980
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Fort Collins
$21.99 Add to cartFrom its Wild West days to the early twentieth century, Fort Collins boasted its share of colorful characters. British import Edith Boothroyd saved a mare from meeting a tragic fate after the bridge s… [more below]
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Fleming, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1625858949
- Language: English
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The Chattooga River: A Natural and Cultural History
$21.99 Add to cartThe Chattooga River has run through the American consciousness since the movie Deliverance” thrust it into the national spotlight. But this National Wild and Scenic River is much more than the make-be… [more below]
- Series: Natural History
- Author: Garren, Laura Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1609499859
- Language: English
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Lost Restaurants of Sacramento and Their Recipes
$23.99 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]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Burns, Maryellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1609499735
- Language: English
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A History of Howard Johnson’s: How a Massachusetts Soda Fountain Became an American Icon
$21.99 Add to cartLearn more about the “Father of the Franchise Industry” in this illuminating history about the Howard Johnson restaurant franchise and the man behind it all.
Howard Johnson created an orange-roofed emp
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 1609494288
- Language: English
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Cahokia Mounds: America’s First City
$23.99 Add to cartAbout one thousand years ago, a phenomenon occurred in a fertile tract of Mississippi River flood plain known today as the “American Bottom.” This phenomenon came to be called Cahokia Mounds, America’
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Iseminger, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 03 2010
- ISBN10: 1596297344
- Language: English
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St. Petersburg’s Historic African American Neighborhoods
$21.99 Add to cartPepper Town, Methodist Town, the Gas Plant district and the 22nd Street South community–these once segregated neighborhoods were built by African Americans in the face of injustice. The resilient peo… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Peck, Rosalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 14 2008
- ISBN10: 1596292792
- Language: English
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Beacon Hill, Back Bay and the Building of Boston’s Golden Age
$21.99 Add to cartVenture back to the Boston of the 1800s, when Back Bay was just a wide expanse of water to the west of the Shawmut Peninsula and merchants peddled their wares to sailors along the docks. Witness the b… [more below]
- Author: Clarke, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 13 2010
- ISBN10: 1596291613
- Language: English
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World War II POW Camps of Wyoming
$21.99 Add to cartWyoming’s nineteen prisoner of war camps held several thousand incarcerated Italian and German prisoners during World War II. Historical records, photographs and personal stories shared by camp reside… [more below]
- Series: Military
- Author: O’Brien, Cheryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1467143820
- Language: English
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Leavenworth Seven: The Deadly 1931 Prison Break
$21.99 Add to cartOn December 11, 1931, chaos erupted behind Leavenworth’s limestone penitentiary walls as seven desperate men put months of planning into action. Aided by notorious gangsters Frank Nash, George Machine… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Lamaster, Kenneth M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1467140406
- Language: English
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Florida Made: The 25 Most Important Figures Who Shaped the State
$24.99 Add to cartOnce considered just an insect-ridden swampland, Florida is now a top destination for tourism, business, agriculture and innovation thanks to these 25 individuals.
Florida is in many ways both the olde
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: LeMieux, George S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1467140031
- Language: English
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Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice
$21.99 Add to cartLike most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Simonson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1467138711
- 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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Wicked Women of Missouri
$23.99 Add to cartMarauders like Jesse James and the Younger gang earned Missouri the title of “Outlaw State,” but the male desperadoes had nothing on their female counterparts. Belle “Queen of the Bandits” Starr and C… [more below]
- Series: Wicked
- Author: Wood, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119660
- Language: English
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Telling the Seasons: Stories, Celebrations and Folklore Around the Year
$33.99 Add to cartA month-by-month treasury of stories and traditions that bring to life the changing seasons and celebrate the turning year
Telling the Seasons takes us on a journey through the twelve months of the ye- Author: Maudsley, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0750996714
- Language: English
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Pirates and Lost Treasure of Coastal Maine
$21.99 Add to cartMaine has never been regarded as a pirate haven, but only because witnesses were few and far between. With a rugged coast and more than four thousand offshore islands, Maine’s dark waters attracted se… [more below]
- Author: Latimer, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1467141003
- Language: English
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Minnesota Mysteries: A History of Unexplained Wonders, Eccentric Characters, Preposterous Claims & Baffling Occurrences in the Land of 10,0
$23.99 Add to cartAny Minnesotan worth his lutefisk has heard of the Kensington Runestone. But have you heard of Victor Setterlund? In 1949, he uncovered another runestone less than ten miles away. How about Newmann th… [more below]
- Author: Welter, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1626193622
- Language: English
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Colorado’s Carlino Brothers: A Bootlegging Empire
$21.99 Add to cartFrom 1922 to 1931, Pete and Sam Carlino controlled the flow of Prohibition alcohol from southern Colorado to Denver before their empire suffered a gruesome, bloody demise. The brothers battled their o… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Carlino, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1467143278
- Language: English
