State & Local
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San Luis Obispo County Architecture
$24.99 Read moreCalifornia is rare among states and nations in having two cultural capitals–Los Angeles and San Francisco–and San Luis Obispo is smack in the middle. In the middle of nowhere or equidistant from eve… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Papp, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1467160040
- Language: English
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A Culinary History of Mobile
$24.99 Read moreJoin author Christopher Andrews on a delectable romp through the long food history of Mobile, Alabama .
From its founding in 1702 by the French, Mobile has had a lot on its plate. Indeed, the story
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Andrews, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1467149055
- Language: English
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Forgotten Industry and Institutions of Maine: Tales of Milkmen, Axe Murderers, and Ghosts
$24.99 Read moreMaine has its share of industry, some current and some obsolete. Over the last century, many industrial practices have grown and flourished while others have vanished entirely. Likewise, state institu
- Series: America Through Time
- Author: Thibodeau, Arend T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1634994736
- Language: English
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Railroading in Western North Carolina: A Photographic Journey of Railroading in the Foothills and Mountains
$24.99 Read morePhotographer Joseph Bowman engages readers with a visual tour of the railroads of Western North Carolina. Enjoy scenes of busy mainline action on Norfolk Southern and CSX mainlines including unit coal
- Series: America Through Time
- Author: Bowman, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1634994655
- Language: English
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Lost Mackinac Island
$23.99 Read moreWhether prehistoric and glacially slow or swift and modern, countless changes to Mackinac Island have driven much of its history out of sight and memory. Eons ago, waves washed away soft rock to leave… [more below]
- Series: Lost
- Author: Pucci, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1467149187
- Language: English
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The Manhattan Project at Hanford Site
$24.99 Add to cartThe Manhattan Project at Hanford Site describes the top-secret effort undertaken during World War II to develop a weapon never imagined at “Site W” or “Hanford Engineer Works,” one of three sites sele… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Toomey, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1467134449
- Language: English
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Calamity Jane: The Life and Legend of Martha Jane Cannary
$17.95 Add to cartCalamity Jane follows the life of Martha Jane Cannary, a nineteenth-century woman who went from penniless orphan to one of the most famous figures of the American West. In an era when women had few op… [more below]
- Author: Herda, D. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1493031945
- Language: English
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Inside the Combat Zone: The Stripped Down Story of Boston’s Most Notorious Neighborhood
$18.95 Add to cartBoston has always been known for its stiff character. So how did this great New England city become home to one of the largest and most notorious adult entertainment districts in the nation? In this e… [more below]
- Author: Schorow, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1493048996
- Language: English
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Traces of Fremont: Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah
$34.95 Read moreFremont is a culture (ca. 300-1300 A.D.) first defined by archaeologist Noel Morss in 1928 based on characteristics unique to the area. Initially thought to be a simple socio-political system, recent
- Author: Simms, Steven R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1607810115
- Language: English
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Dead Kennedys’ Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seeme
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Foley, Michael Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1623567300
- Language: English
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An Illustrated History of Siesta Key: The Story of America’s Best Beach
$21.95 Read moreA history of a very popular beach destination near Sarasota on the Gulf coast of Florida. Reviewing the past century of Siesta Key development in the context of Florida’s ancient and recent emergence,
- Author: Farrrell, Thomas Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1683340167
- Language: English
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Arkansas Godfather: The Story of Owney Madden and How He Hijacked Middle America
$22.50 Add to cartOwney Madden lived a seemingly quiet life for decades in the resort town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, while he was actually helping some of America’s most notorious gangsters rule a vast criminal empire…. [more below]
- Author: Nown, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1935106511
- Language: English
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The Petersburg Campaign: Volume 1 – The Eastern Front Battles, June – August 1864
$22.95 Read moreThe wide-ranging and largely misunderstood series of operations around Petersburg, Virginia, were the longest and most extensive of the entire Civil War. The fighting that began in early June 1864 whe… [more below]
- Author: Bearss, Edwin C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1611215323
- Language: English
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New York City Yesterday and Today: Exploring the City’s Tax Photographs
$29.95 Read moreThe little-known, but utterly fascinating tax photographs from The City of New York’s Hall of Records and how those areas look today. The photographs are an interesting page in the history of the city
- Author: McDonald, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149305211X
- Language: English
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Secret Los Angeles: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$22.50 Add to cart- Series: Secret
- Author: Jensen, Danny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 168106216X
- Language: English
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Facing Georgetown’s History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation
$29.95 Read moreThese essays, articles, and documents introduce readers to the history of Georgetown University’s involvement in slavery and recent efforts to confront its troubling past. It traces Georgetown’s “Slav
- Author: Rothman, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1647120969
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Lost Ls
$23.99 Read moreChicago’s system of elevated railways, known locally as the L, has run continuously since 1892 and, like the city, has never stood still. It helped neighborhoods grow, brought their increasingly diver… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Sadowski, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 12 2021
- ISBN10: 146710602X
- Language: English
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Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
$21.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas–and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America
“If you’re one of those people w- Author: Chammah, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1524760285
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Motor Row
$23.99 Add to cartChicago’s Motor Row earned a spot in the National Register of Historic Places by pioneering a new way to market an invention that was remaking America–the automobile.
From approximately 1905 to 1936, … [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Hogan, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 03 2022
- ISBN10: 146710762X
- Language: English
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Five Floors Up: The Heroic Family Story of Four Generations in the Fdny
$29.00 Read moreRescue Me meets Blue Bloods in this riveting social history of the New York City Fire Department told from the perspective of the Feehan family, who served in the FDNY for four generations and countin… [more below]
- Author: McDonald, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1538753200
- Language: English
