State & Local
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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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The Red Coast: Radicalism and Anti-Radicalism in Southwest Washington
$24.95 Read moreThe Red Coast is a lively and readable informal history of the labor, left-wing, and progressive activists who lived, worked, and organized in southwest Washington State from the late nineteenth centu… [more below]
- Author: Goings, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 20 2019
- ISBN10: 087071967X
- 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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The Value of Hawaiʻi 3: Hulihia, the Turning
$24.99 Read more“Hulihia” refers to massive upheavals that change the landscape, overturn the normal, reverse the flow, and sweep away the prevailing or assumed. We live in such days. Pandemics. Threats to ʻ
- Series: Biography Monographs
- Author: Goodyear-Ka’ōpua, Noelani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0824889185
- 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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The Upper Tanana Dene: People of This Land
$34.95 Read moreThe Upper Tanana Dene conveys the history and knowledge of Dene elders to current and future generations. Oral accounts reveal a unique and compelling perspective on a traditional way of life and offe… [more below]
- Author: Simeone, William E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 164642333X
- Language: English
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Wild! Weird! Wonderful! Maine.
$18.95 Read moreSo, you think you know Maine? Think again It’s not just the woods, waters, mountains, lobsters and lighthouses that define Maine. From Kittery to Eastport, from Fort Kent to Monhegan, Maine is home t… [more below]
- Author: Brechlin, Earl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1944762809
- Language: English
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The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell’s Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West
$19.00 Read more“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”–The Wall Street Journal
A timely, thrilling acc
“A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history.”–Nature- Author: Ross, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0143128957
- 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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Spokane and the Inland Empire: An Interior Pacific Northwest Anthology
$21.95 Read moreEssential aspects about the prehistory, history, geography, and architecture of the Inland Pacific Northwest are presented here in one succinct volume. This landmark collection features essays by note
- Author: Stratton, David H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 087422277X
- Language: English
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Welcome to Maine (Welcome To)
$10.99 Add to cartWelcome to Maine! Whether they’re locals or visitors, young readers will love this bright, cheerful, fact-filled picture book celebration of “The Pine Tree State.”
With information about the state’s a- Series: Welcome to
- Author: Gilland, Asa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0593308107
- 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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The Old Leather Man: Historical Accounts of a Connecticut and New York Legend
$35.00 Read moreFascinating documentation of a mysterious figure
In 1883, wearing a sixty-pound suit sewn from leather boot-tops, a wanderer known only as the Leather Man began to walk a 365 mile loop between the Conn
- Series: Garnet Books
- Author: DeLuca, Dan W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0819568627
- 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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Tall Trees, Tough Men
$26.99 Add to cartThe New England loggers and river drivers were a unique breed of men. Working with their axes and peaveys through Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, they contributed mightily to the development of the… [more below]
- Series: Vivid, Anecdotal History of Logging and Log-Driving in New E
- Author: Pike, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319172
- Language: English
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An Illustrated History of New Mexico
$24.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1992 and available now only from UNM Press, An Illustrated History of New Mexico combines more than two hundred photographs and a concise history to create an engaging, panoram
- Author: Chavez, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 267
- Publish Date: July 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0826330517
- Language: English
