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Wrecked: The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy
$29.95 Add to cartWrecked links the story of America’s most infamous shipwreck to the story of an even larger disaster–the wreck of the American industrial economy. When the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in a Lake Super… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Thomas M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1611865417
- Language: English
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Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters
$29.99 Add to cartAt the beginning of 1776, virtually no one in the colonies was advocating independence: Americans based their grievances against Parliament on their rights as British subjects. By the end of 1776, ind
- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324078979
- Language: English
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A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore
$30.00 Add to cartA comprehensive narrative history of Mt. Rushmore, written in light of recent political controversies, and a timely retrospective for the monument’s 100th anniversary in 2025
“Well, most people want t- Author: Davis, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1250285100
- Language: English
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New York City Monuments of Black Americans: A History and Guide
$24.99 Add to cartNew York City is blessed with an incredible array of public sculptures.
One overlooked aspect of this collection is its monuments of Black Americans, each with its own remarkable story. The first appe
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Felsen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159050
- Language: English
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Texas Takes Shape: A History in Maps from the General Land Office
$45.00 Read moreA comprehensive volume on historical mapping in Texas.
The Texas General Land Office’s map collection contains over 45,000 maps, some dating from the sixteenth century, making it one of the most impor
- Author: Lambert, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1477330925
- Language: English
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The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War
$28.95 Add to cartHow do good people find the courage to resist and end the greatest evil in their country? An untold story of the Civil War Era: pacifists in Boston who led the fight to end slavery without violence an
- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1567927653
- Language: English
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The Plight of Southeastern Native American Indian Tribes: Fighting Systemic Eracism
$28.99 Add to cartErasing Indigenous Identity: Chief Creel’s Fight for Recognition of Native American Tribes Amidst Systemic Bias in US Records & Documentation.
In this captivating account, Chief John Glenn Creel, the
- Author: Creel, John Glenn Creel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822983977
- Language: English
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Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City’s Everyday Architecture
$37.00 Add to cartA comprehensive, first-of-its-kind book about Chicago’s residential architecture and the stories that shaped it. This is an entertaining and precisely illustrated story of Chicago homes from the city’
- Author: Bruni, Carla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1572843578
- Language: English
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Princess Cheyenne: My Life as Boston’s Most Famous Stripper
$34.99 Read more“It’s a riotous, raucous story, and Wightman is particularly adept at bringing the people around her to life . . . An often exhilarating ride.”-Kirkus Reviews
How did a debutante from Lake
Forest, Illin… [more below]- Author: Wightman, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1949590860
- Language: English
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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
$21.99 Add to cartThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the so-called “burned-over district” of upstate New York, which was producing seers and prophets daily. Most of t… [more below]
- Author: Park, Benjamin E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096683
- Language: English
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Cruising J-Town: Japanese American Car Culture in Los Angeles
$50.00 Add to cartA visual history of Japanese American car culture in Los Angeles, from gardeners’ trucks and family sedans to hot rods and race cars.
Cruising J-Town: Japanese American Car Culture in Los Angeles explo
- Author: Wang, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1626401357
- Language: English
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The Great Fire of 1947: And the End of Bar Harbor’s Golden Era
$24.95 Add to cartThe Great Fire of 1947 and the End of Bar Harbor’s Golden Era tells the riveting story of the desperate evacuation of residents through the heart of an uncontrolled forest fire burning all across Moun
- Author: Smith, Mac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1684752604
- Language: English
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Ypsilanti in the 20th Century
$31.99 Add to cartFrom 1900 through 1975, the city of Ypsilanti underwent a multitude of changes as it developed from a small farming community into a center of education and business. The rise of the automobile and th… [more below]
- Author: Mann, James Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 05 2003
- ISBN10: 1531617794
- Language: English
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Clout City: The Rise and Fall of the Chicago Political Machine
$32.50 Add to cartUnearths the religious and cultural roots of a powerful political machine that empowered some everyday Chicagoans but ruled all of the city for decades.
In politics, clout is essential. Too often, it
- Author: Pacyga, Dominic a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 022673370X
- Language: English
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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
$29.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History
Winner of the 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History
Winner of the 2024 Caughey Western History Prize
Winner of the 2024 Spur Award
Named a Best Civil
- Series: History of the American West
- Author: West, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 708
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496243013
- Language: English
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The Carolinian Murder at Nags Head: The Janet Siclari Story
$24.99 Read moreThe Saga of a Brutal Murder
Janet Siclari, a beautiful 35-year-old visitor to the Outer Banks, was found raped and fatally stabbed on the early morning of August 28, 1993, behind the iconic Carolinian
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Railey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159174
- Language: English
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Bring Me the Head of Joaquin Murrieta: The Bandit Chief Who Terrorized California and Launched the Legend of Zorro
$32.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author and award-winning historian John Boessenecker–as seen on Netflix’s Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War–brings the authoritative account of one of the most notorious outla… [more below]
- Author: Boessenecker, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1335007032
- Language: English
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Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe: A Memoir
$29.95 Add to cartA compelling on-the-ground account of Native activism in the Northwest
A relentless advocate for Native rights, Ramona Bennett Bill has been involved in the battles waged by the Puyallup and other N
- Author: Bennett Bill, Ramona
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753501
- Language: English
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Murder in Old Forge, Pennsylvania: The Tragic Death of the Ziemba Children
$24.99 Add to cartOn July 26, 1981, eight-year-old Cheryl Ziemba and her four-year-old brother, Christopher, disappeared from their backyard in Old Forge, Pennsylvania.
Within hours, hundreds of neighbors, police and f
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Kincaid, Brian W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1467157155
- Language: English
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The Third Coast: America’s Great Lakes Shoreline
$30.00 Read moreA full-color photographic journey around the Great Lakes
Locals affectionately call the Great Lakes the “third coast”–though at 4,500 miles, this beloved freshwater shoreline is the nation’s longest- Author: Zurick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0810148676
- Language: English
