State & Local
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Historic Tales of Flathead Lake
$24.99 Add to cartWhen asked about the greatest accomplishment of his 34-year congressional career, Mike Mansfield, one of America’s revered political figures, offered a simple reply– “Saving Flathead Lake.”
The large
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Larcombe, Butch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1467154741
- Language: English
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Wildsam Field Guides: Las Vegas
$24.00 Add to cartWildsam Field Guides: Las Vegas leads travelers into the heart of the desert metropolis, where glitter and gaming meet close-knit community and stunning desert surroundings. The guide delves into all … [more below]
- Series: American City Guide
- Author: Bruce, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467199826
- Language: English
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Texian Exodus: The Runaway Scrape and Its Enduring Legacy
$39.95 Read moreA narrative account of the evacuation of the Texians in 1836, which was redeemed by the defeat of the Mexican army and the creation of the Republic of Texas.
Two events in Texas history shine so brigh
- Author: Hardin, Stephen L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1477330054
- Language: English
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Detroit’s Lost Stove Industry: From Open Hearth to Cast Iron
$24.99 Read moreCasting a legacy
Long before automobiles made Detroit the Motor City, the city boasted a flourishing and diverse industrial economy, albeit on a more modest scale. Among the myriad industries that defi
- Series: Lost
- Author: Van Dusen, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 146715699X
- Language: English
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Brunswick
$24.99 Add to cartBrunswick, Georgia, was laid out from a plan by Gen. James Oglethorpe in 1771. Growing quickly after the Civil War, Brunswick became a thriving Gilded Age port for naval industries and shipping as wel
- Series: Past and Present
- Author: Hurley, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1467162078
- Language: English
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Heart Mountain Chronicles: The History of a Japanese Relocation Center
$36.00 Read moreThis is the story of a city. The Heart Mountain Relocation Center, located in northwest Wyoming, was one of ten Japanese-American internment camps built by government in the summer of 1942 to hold per
- Author: Murphy, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 678
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 173348972X
- Language: English
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Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation
$29.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking account of Sherman’s March to the Sea–the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy–told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslave… [more below]
- Author: Parten, Bennett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1668034689
- Language: English
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Secret Bend, Oregon: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$27.00 Add to cart- Author: Savage, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1681065584
- Language: English
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Grass of the Earth: The Story of a Norwegian Immigrant Family in Dakota
$19.95 Add to cartAn engaging, richly detailed biography of a family of Norwegian immigrant homesteaders in eastern North Dakota in the late 1800s. Educator and world traveler Aagot Raaen wrote this reminiscence late i… [more below]
- Series: Borealis Books
- Author: Raaen, Aagot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0873512952
- Language: English
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Celebrating Palouse Country: A History of the Landscape in Text and Images
$34.95 Read moreEnhanced with spectacular photographs from John Clement, travel through time among the Palouse Country’s beauty and expanse, starting with its First Peoples. Depending on the season, the four Plateau
- Author: Scheuerman, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1638640262
- Language: English
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Death in Briar Bottom: The True Story of Hippies, Mountain Lawmen, and the Search for Justice in the Early 1970s
$27.00 Add to cartOn July 3, 1972, twenty-four hippies from Clearwater, Florida, set up tents and settled in for the night at Briar Bottom, a public US Forest Service campground in western North Carolina. The impromptu… [more below]
- Author: Silver, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1469682869
- Language: English
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This Is The Place: Glimpses of Warren County, Iowa
$14.99 Add to cartIowa’s Warren County experienced the same history as others in the Midwest, making the people in countless communities the only difference between this homeplace and another. These glimpses burrow dee
- Author: Opstad, Elodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 21 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218480288
- Language: English
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Lost East Chicago and Indiana Harbor
$24.99 Read moreExplore the city of yesteryear
East Chicago, Indiana, was a melting pot. The Indiana Harbor neighborhood drew comparisons to Ellis Island as immigrants flocked from all over the world to work at its st
- Series: Lost
- Author: Pete, Joseph S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1467152927
- Language: English
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Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory
$44.95 Add to cartCourt Carney’s Reckoning with the Devil grapples with the troubled, complex legacy of Nathan Bedford Forrest–a slave trader, Confederate general, and prominent Klansman. More than a century after his
- Author: Carney, Court
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0807171530
- Language: English
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Sweet Success: How Industry, Immigrants, and Working Women Shaped a Town
$24.95 Add to cartSweet Success tells a story, a vivid narrative of a California company town – Crockett – as it evolved in the 20th century. It weaves a rich tapestry of Italian immigrants, women, and industry, forgin… [more below]
- Author: Pagni Denton, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1631322397
- Language: English
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Spiritualism’s Place: Reformers, Seekers, and S?ances in Lily Dale
$28.95 Add to cartIn Spiritualism’s Place, four friends and scholars who produce the acclaimed Dig: A History Podcast, share their curiosity and enthusiasm for uncovering stories from the past as they explore the histo
- Author: Earls, Averill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1501777262
- Language: English
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A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
$19.99 Add to cartA “masterful” (Taylor Branch) and “striking” (The New Yorker) portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history–about the first school … [more below]
- Author: Martin, Rachel Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1982186852
- Language: English
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St. Petersburg: A Walk Through History
$17.00 Add to cart- Author: Kile, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1681065630
- Language: English
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Angles of Atlanta: A Culture of Resilience and Soul
$44.95 Add to cartAngles of Atlanta introduces the photographic artistic expressions of diasporic photojournalist and street photographer, Desiree James. As a historic documentarian, she exposes an examination of her a
- Author: James, Desirée
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1665307765
- Language: English
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Forest Under Siege: The Story of Old Growth After Gifford Pinchot
$24.95 Add to cartGifford Pinchot, Chief of the United States Forest Service (USFS) from 1905 to 1910, marveled at the Cascades’ old growth trees. Yet sadly, despite what its namesake championed, no current visitor to
- Author: Schenck, Rand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1638640254
- Language: English
