History Press
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Killer Women of Michigan
$24.99 Read moreThey used arsenic to obtain chemical divorces and strychnine to settle scores. They bludgeoned husbands to make way for lovers. They flattened love triangles with blunt objects. They murdered for mone
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Buhk, Tobin T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1467156205
- Language: English
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The Soul of Pittsburgh: Essays on Life, Community and History
$24.99 Add to cart“Europe stretches to the Alleghenies, America lies beyond.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“They are my people and this is my town and it does my heart good just to be here.” – Art Rooney Sr.
What does it me… [more below]- Series: The History Press
- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1467157317
- Language: English
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Jane Austen’s Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England
$21.99 Add to cartEssential reading for anyone interested in this period, or simply curious as to how Christmas was celebrated in the past, this is a wonderful piece of indulgent nostalgia.
Christmas comes up time and- Author: Hubert, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1803993871
- Language: English
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Columbia Tusculum: A History of Cincinnati’s Oldest Neighborhood
$24.99 Read moreWith a history dating back 2000 years, Columbia Tusculum stands as a vital contributor to the region’s development.
The lush, strategically located land provided essential resources for native hunting
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Young, Dinese
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1467158550
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Alexandria, D.C.
$21.99 Add to cartGo inside the long-forgotten 19th century period when Alexandria left Virginia and incorporated itself into the fledging Distric of Columbia.
This groundbreaking history uncovers the time in the 19th c
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Pope, Michael Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 23 2011
- ISBN10: 1609492811
- Language: English
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A Brief History of St. Johnsbury
$21.99 Add to cartTucked away in the dark forests of Vermont’s Northeast
Kingdom, St. Johnsbury was mostly unbroken wilderness
when first chartered in 1786. Swinging axes soon made way
for the burgeoning split-level town,… [more below]- Series: Brief Histories (Paperback)
- Author: Pearl, Peggy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1596294957
- Language: English
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Mysterious Michigan: The Lonely Ghost of Minnie Quay, the Marvelous Manifestations of Farmer Riley, the Devil in Detroit & More
$21.99 Read moreEnigmatic mediums, murders, monsters, and more are all part of Michigan’s mysterious and sometimes supernatural history.
The will of Detroit’s first millionaire, Eber B. Ward, was hotly contested becau
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Hammond, Amberrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1467149926
- Language: English
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Mississippi Bear Hunter Holt Collier: Guiding Teddy Roosevelt and a Lifetime of Adventure
$24.99 Add to cartAuthor Mark Neaves guides readers on an incredible tale through the life of one of America’s greatest adventurers.
Born into slavery in the Mississippi Delta in 1847, Holt Collier was taught to hunt
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Neaves, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 146715458X
- Language: English
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Lost Cincinnati Concert Venues of the ’50s and ’60s: From the Surf Club to Ludlow Garage
$21.99 Add to cartThe nightspots, rock clubs, arenas & more that made the city swing
Cincinnati in the ’50s and ’60s offered a stunning array of live music and entertainment venues. Though many of them no longer exist,
- Series: Lost
- Author: Rosen, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1467147214
- Language: English
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Haunts of the White City: Ghost Stories from the World’s Fair, the Great Fire and Victorian Chicago
$23.99 Read moreAt the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity’s most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping horrors.
Even as the White City emerged from the ashe
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Bielski, Ursula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1467139653
- Language: English
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Irish Gothic Fairy Stories: From the 32 Counties of Ireland
$33.99 Read moreThe only fairy tale book to feature all 32 counties of Ireland.
In Ireland there are four provinces and, within these, are thirty-two counties. Each county and its people are unique, but the one thi- Author: Lally, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1803991240
- Language: English
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Death at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles
$21.99 Read moreBuilt during Los Angeles’s rapid growth in the Roaring Twenties, the Beaux Arts-style Cecil Hotel was briefly a glimmering downtown landmark until it became one of the most infamous sites of violence … [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Perelman, Dale Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150185
- Language: English
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Shipwrecks of Lake Erie: Tragedy in the Quadrangle
$21.99 Add to cartLake Erie has seen its share of disasters, claiming more ships per square mile than any other body of freshwater. Read the mysteries of its most mysterious and notorious wrecks and disappearances.
The
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Frew, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 162619551X
- Language: English
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A History Lover’s Guide to Baltimore
$23.99 Read moreNeither southern nor northern, Baltimore has charted its own course through the American experience. The spires of the nation’s first cathedral rose into its sky, and the first blood of the Civil War … [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Jensen, Brennen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1467145769
- Language: English
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Haunted Graveyard of the Pacific
$21.99 Add to cartDespite its idyllic setting, the coast of the Pacific Northwest has another, darker name by which it is known: the Graveyard of the Pacific. Two thousand ships and countless lives have been lost to th… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Kitmacher, Ira Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1467149500
- Language: English
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Marcus Daly’s Road to Montana
$23.99 Add to cartThe Making of a Copper King! Born in 1841 to tenant farmers, Marcus Daly came from rural Ireland to New York as a boy. Having learned the big city’s harsh lessons, he traveled west to the gold… [more below]
- Author: Wahler, Brenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153591
- Language: English
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Marquis de Lafayette Returns: A Tour of America’s National Capital Region
$24.99 Read moreWalk in the footsteps of the Marquis de Lafayette as he makes a final trip through the young United States. Against the backdrop of a tumultuous election, a beloved hero of the American Revolution ret… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Reese, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 29 2024
- ISBN10: 146715587X
- Language: English
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Atlanta Record Stores: An Oral History
$23.99 Add to cartAtlanta Record Stores is an oral history of the city’s rock music scene, as witnessed through the lens of Criminal Records, Fantasyland, Wax ‘N’ Facts, and many more. This is a rock-centric take on a … [more below]
- Author: Radford, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1467142972
- Language: English
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Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard: Inventor, Bootlegger and Psychedelic Pioneer
$21.99 Read moreSeattle has a long tradition of being at the forefront of technological innovation. In 1919, an eager young inventor named Alfred M. Hubbard made his first newspaper appearance with the announcement o… [more below]
- Author: Holden, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1467148067
- Language: English
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Rumrunning in Suffolk County: Tales from Liquor Island
$21.99 Read moreNicknamed Liquor Island, Long Island was rumrunner’s paradise during Prohibition.
With its proximity to major markets and coastal communities for easy transit, Suffolk County was awash in illegal hooc
- Author: Folk, Amy Kasuga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1467151610
- Language: English
