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Black Communities of Fairfax: A History
$24.99 Add to cartThe story of Black Fairfax has long been untold. The free Black population of Fairfax Court House dates to at least the 1820s. After the Civil War, newly freed Black citizens expanded the hamlet of Je… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Willson, Etta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155497
- Language: English
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Historic Tales of Fort Benton
$23.99 Read more“…more romance, tragedy and vigorous life than many a city a hundred times its size and ten times its age.” – Historian Hiram M. Chittenden
Deep in the heart of Blackfoot country on the Upper Miss
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Robison, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154873
- Language: English
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Secret Wichita: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$27.00 Read more- Series: Secret
- Author: Whiteside, Vanessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064936
- Language: English
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Pittsburgh Sports in the 1970s: Tragedies, Triumphs and Championships
$24.99 Read moreSports in the Steel City has never reached the highs and lows that fans in Pittsburgh experienced in the 1970s.
Most remembered may be the multiple championships celebrated in city during the era, incl
- Series: Sports
- Author: Finoli, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155004
- Language: English
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The Georgia Farmers’ Strike: The American Agricultural Movement vs. Jimmy Carter
$23.99 Read moreAuthor Lee Lancaster retraces the movement of a remarkable time in our nation’s agricultural history.
In 1976, America sent a peanut farmer from Plains to Washington, D.C. Farmers throughout the nat
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Lancaster, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154253
- Language: English
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Professional Wrestling in Mississippi: A History
$23.99 Read moreBounce off the ropes for a high-flying jaunt through the history of Magnolia State professional wrestling. At its peak, professional wrestling was arguably the most popular sport in Mississippi. The p… [more below]
- Series: Sports
- Author: Martin, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154288
- Language: English
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Cracker Horses and Cattle: A History of Florida’s Heritage Breeds
$24.99 Read moreJoin author Carol Matthews on a galloping romp through the long history of Florida’s cracker horses and cattle.
The first horses and cattle to set foot on the North American continent stepped onto Flo
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Matthews, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151009
- Language: English
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House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
$14.95 Read moreOn September 11, 1857, some 120 men, women, and children from the Arkansas hills were murdered in the remote desert valley of Mountain Meadows, Utah. This notorious massacre was, in fact, a mass execu
- Author: Novak, Shannon A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 27 2008
- ISBN10: 1607811693
- Language: English
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Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives
$22.00 Read moreThe variety of LGBTQ life in Chicago is too abundant and too diverse to be contained in a single place. But since 1981, the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives has striven to do just that, amassing a wea… [more below]
- Author: D’Emilio, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 28 2020
- ISBN10: 022672753X
- Language: English
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Historic Illinois: A Tour of the State’s Top National Landmarks
$21.95 Add to cartHistoric Illinois: A Tour of the State’s Top National Landmarks is a carefully curated travel guide, written by a local historian, featuring the most intriguing and significant of the state’s national… [more below]
- Author: O’Connor Davis, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493055399
- Language: English
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The Cereal Killer Chronicles of Battle Creek
$21.99 Add to cartAt the convergence of the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo Rivers lies Cereal City, USA. Named after a bloody battle between Native Americans and land surveyors, Battle Creek is most famously the home of th… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Carpenter, Jenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1467149497
- Language: English
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Something in the Water
$35.00 Add to cartThe history of Macon, Georgia, has an exceptional soundtrack, and SOMETHING IN THE WATER provides a lively narrative of the city’s musical past from its founding in 1823 to 1980. From its pioneer orig… [more below]
- Author: Wynne, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0881468029
- Language: English
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Roswell
$24.99 Read moreBest known as the site of an alleged flying saucer crash in 1947 and the “Roswell Incident,” Roswell began as a humble trading post in the late 1860s along the Goodnight-Loving Cattle Trail and eventu… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Lemay, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0738558540
- Language: English
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Heaven’s Harsh Tableland: A New History of the Llano Estacado
$42.00 Read moreThe Llano Estacado–dubbed by author Paul H. Carlson as “heaven’s harsh tableland”–covers some 48,000 square miles of western Texas and eastern New Mexico. In this new survey of the region, the story… [more below]
- Series: American Wests, Sponsored by West Texas A&m University
- Author: Carlson, Paul H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1648431542
- Language: English
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The Witch of Mansfield: The Tetched Life of Phebe Wise
$24.99 Read moreMeet one of Richland County’s most colorful citizens.
There are those who thought Phebe Wise was a witch. More thought that the cranky old lady was “tetched,” meaning crazy. And she was crazy–like
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Jordan, Mark S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155217
- Language: English
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Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives
$30.00 Read moreThe never-before-told story of the extraordinary women behind a trailblazing British magazine.
During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accom- Author: Adams, Jad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147891
- Language: English
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Murder and Mountain Justice in the Moonshine Capital of the World
$23.99 Read moreA Story of Hard Spirits and Defiant Souls Franklin County, Virginia has long been known as the Moonshine Capital of the World. That history can seem romantic, but the county has a dark and violent pas… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Gibbs, Phillip Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153389
- Language: English
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The Thirty-First of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson
$19.95 Read moreAn intimate retelling of Lyndon B. Johnson’s politics and presidency by one of his closest advisors.
Horace Busby was one of LBJ’s most trusted advisors; their close working and personal relationship- Author: Busby, Horace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1477327479
- Language: English
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Colorful Characters of Pittsburgh
$24.99 Read moreBeyond the world famous artists, singers, actors and more from Pittsburgh are the city’s celebrities known locally for their quirky style, unique mannerisms, and outlandish behavior.
From Joe Barker, t
- Series: The History Press
- Author: King, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 146714858X
- Language: English
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Legends & Lore of Cape Cod
$21.99 Read moreCape Cod has a rich tradition of local lore, stretching back to a time before the Pilgrims arrived.
Ancient Wampanoag legends like Granny Squannit and Princess Scargo are as familiar as tales of pirate
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Smith-Johnson, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119040
- Language: English
