State & Local
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Just Freedom: Inside Florida’s Decades-Long Voting Rights Battle
$28.00 Add to cartThe story of an extraordinary
When
expansion of voting rights and the obstacles holding back its implementation
Florida citizens voted in 2018 to pass Amendment 4 to the state constitution, which
promi- Author: Rivero, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0813081165
- Language: English
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Tassajara Stories: A Sort of Memoir/Oral History of the First Zen Buddhist Monastery in the West–The First Year, 1967
$32.99 Add to cart“As priceless as discovering a previously unknown time capsule.”–Peter Coyote (Hosho Jishi), actor, director, author
This is what happened at the famous Zen monastery south of San Francisco.
From the b
- Author: Chadwick, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1958972894
- Language: English
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History Hiding Around Broadway: Backstage Lore, Secrets & Surprises from New York’s Famed Theater District
$25.00 Add to cartGo behind the scenes of the Great White Way with this illustrated guide to the Theater District’s hidden history–an essential book for your explorations of the district from a seasoned Broadway guide… [more below]
- Author: Dvornik, Teale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0762489103
- Language: English
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The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at Uc Berkeley
$22.00 Add to cartNow in paperback: “A profound alternative institutional history, one that sees the long arm of institutional racism implicated everywhere.” (Publishers Weekly)
“This is a land acknowledgment.” –Ruth Wi
- Author: Platt, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1597146803
- Language: English
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The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South
$18.99 Add to cart“A memorable narrative of a civil rights case that deserves a larger place in American memory.” –Jon Meacham
“Riveting. . . . It’s like a real-life To Kill a Mockingbird, but with even more subtlety a
- Author: Heard, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0061284165
- Language: English
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Along Lake Michigan: Shipwreck Stories of Life and Loss
$24.95 Read moreNotable shipwrecks of Lake Michigan throughout a century of enterprise, industry, heroism, and disaster on the Great Lakes
The Great Lakes are graveyards of a vast number of shipwrecks (30,000 by some
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1517916771
- Language: English
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Wicked Strange: Your Guide to Ghosts, Monsters, Oddities, and Urban Legends from New England
$23.95 Add to cartGo legend hunting with explorer of the unexplained Jeff Belanger, visiting haunted places, where monsters lurk, and other roadside oddities.
“Legends have always run deep in New England–thankfully,- Author: Belanger, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1637480210
- Language: English
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The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
$29.95 Add to cartA history of New York’s Yiddish popular culture from 1880 to the present.
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a new look at over a century of New York’s history of Yiddish popular
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Sapoznik, Henry H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855801736
- Language: English
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Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1891, when coal companies in eastern Tennessee brought in cheap convict labor to take over their jobs, workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prisoners, and loading them onto frei
- Author: Shirley, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 19 2015
- ISBN10: 1849352070
- Language: English
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Complete Citizens: The Morton Legacy
$14.99 Add to cartBenjamin Andrew Morton and Family: A Legacy of Integrity and Civic Duty in East Tennessee, Celebrating the Scots Irish Heritage and Community Commitment of the Morton Family from Philadelphia to the G
- Author: Morton, Lauralie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822968646
- Language: English
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A History of Montana in 101 Places: Sites and Stories from the Montana Historical Society
$29.95 Add to cart- Author: Baumler, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0972152202
- Language: English
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Ring the Bell: How the Philadelphia Phillies Built Baseball’s Best Fan Base
$32.99 Add to cartRalph Waldo Emerson famously said, “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”
He must’ve been a Phillies fan. The Philadelphia Phillies, a franchise nearly 150 years old, has only reached its grand- Author: Reavy, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 168358497X
- Language: English
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Saving the Big Sky: A Chronicle of Land Conservation in Montana
$50.00 Add to cart“The essential purpose of Saving the Big Sky is to inspire the reader to help conserve even more of Montana,” write Bruce Bugbee, Robert Kiesling, and John Wright in this compelling study of how six
- Author: Bugbee, Bruce A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645363
- Language: English
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The Emmett Till Case
$15.99 Add to cartAt the end of August 1955, the lifeless and disfigured body of a teenager was fished out of the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. The body was that of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old Black boy from … [more below]
- Series: 50 States of Crime #4
- Author: Pottier, Jean-Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1613166923
- Language: English
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Tennesseans and Their History
$26.95 Add to cartThe history of Tennessee is full of dramatic episodes and colorful characters that give the Volunteer State a major place in the American saga. From the bloody battle of Shiloh in 1862 to the Dayton “… [more below]
- Author: Bergeron, Paul H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 30 1999
- ISBN10: 1572330562
- Language: English
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A Big Mess in Texas: The Miraculous, Disastrous 1952 Dallas Texans and the Craziest Untold Story in NFL History
$31.00 Add to cartThe incredible, untold true story of the 1952 Dallas Texans–the most dysfunctional team in the craziest season in NFL history.
Rattlesnakes on the practice field, barroom brawls between teammates, bo- Author: Fleming, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1250374308
- Language: English
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Jamestown: Architecture, Landscape, and the Making of a Rhode Island Paradise
$44.95 Add to cartA highly visual and new study of the rustic and whimsical shingled houses of Jamestown, Rhode Island from the colonial era to the development of the town as a picturesque report set in a coastal lands… [more below]
- Author: Tschirch, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1913875709
- Language: English
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Secret Birmingham: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$27.00 Add to cart- Author: Fluker, Cherith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1681066122
- Language: English
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Monsters of the South: Stories of Swamp Creatures, Aliens, and Other Legendary Beasts
$9.95 Add to cartRead 26 chilling stories, from two paranormal investigators, about reportedly true encounters with monsters in the South and Southeast.
A mysterious winged creature descends upon a community, leaving b
- Series: Hauntings, Horrors & Scary Ghost Stories
- Author: Freeburg, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1647555485
- Language: English
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The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr: From Gentleman Bandit to Movie Star and Back Again
$32.95 Add to cartIn 1921 headlines across the country announced the death of Henry Starr, a burgeoning silent film star who was killed while attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas. Cynics who knew the real Sta… [more below]
- Author: Archuleta, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 31 2025
- ISBN10: 1574419781
- Language: English
