State & Local
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Pacific Palisades
$31.99 Add to cartPacific Palisades owes its name to its geography. The cliffs looming above the beach reminded the early developers of the Hudson River Palisades in New York. The name for this eventually affluent coas… [more below]
- Author: Loomis, Jan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 05 2009
- ISBN10: 1531645682
- Language: English
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The Super Highway in Upstate South Carolina
$24.99 Read moreA Highway Runs Through It
When U.S. Highway 29 between Greenville and Spartanburg was completed in 1946, it became the first modern super highway in the Upstate region. Known by many as the Super Highw
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Withrow, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158232
- Language: English
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Twisting in Air: The Sensational Rise of a Hollywood Falling Horse
$24.95 Add to cartTwisting in Air chronicles the gritty and glittery era when an extraordinary group of horses made Western movies come alive and explores how one of them, Cocaine, overcame a debilitating injury to bec… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496239008
- Language: English
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Warriors for Liberty: William Dollarson & Michigan’s Civil War African Americans
$24.95 Add to cartMichigan’s African Americans played critical roles in winning the Civil War and setting millions of fellow Americans forever free. The 1st Michigan Colored Infantry Regiment, more than 1,500 strong, h
- Author: Dempsey, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: October 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1961302780
- Language: English
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Chuck Tanner and the Pittsburgh Pirates
$36.99 Add to cartBaseball’s Mr. Sunshine
A beloved son of Western Pennsylvania, Chuck Tanner spent a career in baseball both as a player and manager. He lead the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1977 to 1985 and helped capture
- Author: Perelman, Dale Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257894
- Language: English
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The Pennsylvania Dutch
$24.95 Add to cartFredric Klees’ The Pennsylvania Dutch is the best and most inclusive volume with an over-all approach to its subject. “I have tried,” he says, “to make this book a comprehensive treatment of the Penns
- Author: Klees, Fredric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1934597929
- Language: English
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Black Hand Black Sheep
$18.95 Add to cartAs a teenager, in the early 1900s, Antonio Caliendo left Italy in hopes of finding a better life in America. His journey from the Italian countryside would take him from the steel mills of Western Pen
- Author: Caliendo, Louis A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1662479549
- Language: English
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Bob Dylan’s New York: A Historic Guide
$19.95 Add to cartA walking tour and history of Bob Dylan’s life and time in New York, from Greenwich Village to Woodstock.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Weissman, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1438490860
- Language: English
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Moving the Chains: The Civil Rights Protest That Saved the Saints and Transformed New Orleans
$34.95 Add to cartWe remember the 1966 birth of the New Orleans Saints as a shady quid pro quo between the NFL commissioner and a Louisiana congressman. Moving the Chains is the untold story of the athlete protest that
- Author: Sapp, Erin Grayson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 080717792X
- Language: English
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Colorado Excursions with History, Hikes and Hops
$24.99 Add to cartColorado is replete with natural beauty, award-winning breweries and a history that reflects its wild and rugged character. Author Ed Sealover offers this detailed guide to ten three-day excursions fu… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Sealover, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119806
- Language: English
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The Beartooth Highway: A History of America’s Most Beautiful Drive
$21.99 Add to cartTraversing the spectacular Beartooth Highway in Montana and Wyoming is an unforgettable experience. The unspoiled mountain scenery along the highway inspired famed news correspondent Charles Kuralt to… [more below]
- Series: Transportation
- Author: Axline, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1467135798
- Language: English
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Murder in Chisago County: The Unsolved Johnson Family Mystery
$21.99 Add to cartAt 3:30 a.m. on April 11, 1933, neighbors and firefighters arrived at the farmhouse of Albin and Alvira Johnson to find a smoldering heap where a seemingly happy home once stood. Beneath the ruins, in… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Johnson, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1467142336
- Language: English
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Tar Heel Lightnin’: How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nation’s most restrictive laws on alcohol production and sale. For much of this era, it was also the nation’s l… [more below]
- Author: Pierce, Daniel S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1469653559
- Language: English
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
$23.99 Add to cartNow with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the Civil Rights Era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institu… [more below]
- Author: McWhorter, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1476709513
- Language: English
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The Bonanza King: John MacKay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West
$18.99 Add to cart“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of… [more below]
- Author: Crouch, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1501108204
- Language: English
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Governors Island
$31.99 Add to cartPurchased from the Manhattan tribe of the Wappinger
Confederacy by the Dutch, Governors Island has long been
the secret island in New York’s harbor. Although this pristine island has appeared on maps … [more below]- Author: Glen, Susan L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1531623174
- Language: English
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Opryland USA
$32.99 Add to cartBy the late 1960s, the Ryman Auditorium the fifth home of the Grand Ole Opry was a deteriorating firetrap in a seedy part of Nashville, yet it still attracted thousands of people each weekend to the s… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Stephen W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: August 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1531699782
- Language: English
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Fort Niagara: The Key to the Inland Oceans and the French Movement to Dominate North America
$28.99 Add to cartFort Niagara is located twelve miles downriver from the world-renowned Niagara Falls, yet few visitors to either site know this was once Iroquois territory and claimed by France. This volume summarize… [more below]
- Author: Utley, William Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1532070659
- Language: English
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Gilded Age Murder & Mayhem in the Berkshires
$31.99 Add to cartMurder and dark deeds shadowed the extravagance of the Gilded Age in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. In the summer of 1893, a tall and well-dressed burglar plundered the massive summer mansions of th… [more below]
- Author: Amelinckx, Andrew K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: October 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1540212483
- Language: English
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Lost Plantations of the South
$40.00 Add to cartThe great majority of the South’s plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diar… [more below]
- Author: Matrana, Marc R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1578069424
- Language: English
