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Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette
$30.00 Read moreSpanning a century, Pushing Cool reveals how the twin deceptions of health and Black affinity for menthol were crafted–and how the industry’s disturbingly powerful narrative has endured to this day. … [more below]
- Author: Wailoo, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 022679413X
- Language: English
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The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, and Boston’s Struggle for Justice
$27.95 Add to cartShortlisted for the 2021 Agatha Award for Best Non-Fiction and the 2022 Anthony Award for Best Critical or Nonfiction Work
At the end of the 1976 football season, more than forty Harvard athletes wen- Author: Brogan, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1625346093
- Language: English
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Astoria: An Oregon History
$19.95 Read moreBefore Seattle, before Portland, there was Astoria.
The rest of the country is just beginning to discover Astoria, Oregon, that historic gem of a town at the mouth of the Columbia River west of Portl- Author: Leedom, Karen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0870711660
- Language: English
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The San Francisco Doodler Murders
$23.99 Read moreIn 1974, one of San Francisco’s most horrific unsolved serial murder cases began.
In less than two years, the man police called The Doodler took at least five lives, terrorized the LGBTQ community, an
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Zaliznock, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 26 2022
- ISBN10: 146714987X
- Language: English
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Ottawa
$24.99 Read moreOttawa is a city rich in history going back to the 1820s. It was the site of the first Lincoln-Douglas debate, and even a famous Civil War general was from Ottawa. The city has an enormous heritage in… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Ridings, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0738588571
- Language: English
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul
$19.00 Read moreStep into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history-and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Levee dist… [more below]
- Author: Abbott, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0812975995
- Language: English
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Sedona Treasure of the Southwest
$12.95 Read moreA visual tour of Sedona’s many attractions.
- Author: Bryant, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0873588185
- Language: English
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Brewtown Tales: More Stories from Milwaukee and Beyond
$24.95 Read moreJohn Gurda’s South Side Milwaukee family loved potluck dinners. “From the Jell-O salads at the start of the line through the hot dishes in the middle and on to the pumpkin bars at the end, the food wa… [more below]
- Author: Gurda, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 087020999X
- Language: English
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St. Paul Murder & Mayhem
$24.99 Read moreA fledgling community in the midst of stunning natural scenes, the St. Paul of yesteryear had a well-earned reputation for beauty and danger.
Whiskey made the river city a byword for peril. Men brawl
- Series: Murder & Mayhem
- Author: de Beaulieu, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155063
- Language: English
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The War of 1812
$20.00 Read moreIn this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Carl Benn examines the War of 1812 and its significance in US history.
The war of 1812-1815 was a bloody confrontation that tore through th- Series: Essential Histories (Osprey Publishing)
- Author: Benn, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1472858565
- Language: English
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Streeterville: Chicago’s Most Exciting Neighborhood
$24.99 Read moreMeet the Chicagoans who had the vision — or the chicanery — to turn a worthless marsh into the amazing cityscape that is modern Streeterville.
The towering buildings between beautiful Lake Michigan a
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Klatt, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151572
- Language: English
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Chicago Marching: A History of Protest, Authority & Violence
$23.99 Read moreExamine the inflection points in Chicago’s history of protest. A word packed with meaning and emotion, “protest” can be synonymous with both free speech and rioting. Chicago’s citizens and city offici… [more below]
- Author: Rulli, Joseph Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151432
- Language: English
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48 Liberal Lies about American History: (That You Probably Learned in School)
$18.00 Add to cartOver the last forty years, history textbooks have become more and more politically correct and distorted about our country’s past, argues professor Larry Schweikart. The result, he says, is that stude… [more below]
- Author: Schweikart, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1595230564
- Language: English
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Moondoggle: Franklin Roosevelt and the Fight for Tidal-Electric Power at Passamaquoddy Bay
$45.00 Add to cartFor 25 years, Franklin Roosevelt tried to build the world’s first tidal-electric power plant-by harnessing the Bay of Fundy’s giant tides. The enormous project would have dammed-up 110 square miles of… [more below]
- Author: Borton, Mark C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1608937143
- Language: English
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
$21.99 Add to cart“Better and more comprehensive than any prior account. . . . Those of us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11, or who
- Author: Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0062275658
- Language: English
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Blm: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution
$28.99 Read moreThe George Floyd riots that have precipitated great changes throughout American society were not spontaneous events. Americans did not suddenly rise up in righteous anger, take to the streets, and dem
- Author: Gonzalez, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1641772239
- Language: English
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The Shattering: America in the 1960s
$22.00 Read moreOn July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the fol
- Author: Boyle, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036117
- Language: English
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Ohio Ice Cream: A Scoop of History
$21.99 Read moreCups, Cones & Claims to Fame in the Buckeye State
Drawing on a rich dairy heritage, Ohio has whipped up an ice cream industry worthy of tourism. The state has legitimate claims as the birthplace of th
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Cook, Renee Casteel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150967
- Language: English
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
$17.95 Read moreProhibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to r
- Author: McGirr, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353524
- Language: English
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Lewis and Clark Trail Maps: A Cartographic Reconstruction, Volume I: Missouri River Between Camp River DuBois (Illinois) and Fort Mandan (North Da
$30.00 Read moreThe Lewis and Clark Expedition bicentennial is producing an unprecedented flurry of interest in the United States, and an array of commemorative activities are being planned in the regions visited by
- Series: Cartographic Reconstruction #1
- Author: Plamondon II, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: September 13 2000
- ISBN10: 087422232X
- Language: English
