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Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America’s Deadliest Rock Concert
$24.95 Read moreOn February 20, 2003, the deadliest rock concert in U.S. history took place at a roadhouse called The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island. That night, in the few minutes it takes to play a hard-rock… [more below]
- Author: Barylick, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1611688531
- Language: English
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Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
$32.00 Read moreThe half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling w
- Author: Masur, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1324005939
- Language: English
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The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
$30.00 Add to cartA penetrating, character-filled history “in the manner of David McCullough” (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics.
Democracy was broken. Or that was what many American- Author: Grinspan, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1635574625
- Language: English
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Secret Denver: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$22.50 Read moreWhere do the tunnels under the Colorado State Capitol go and why were they dug there in the first place? What is the backstory behind Tom’s Baby, the largest piece of gold ever unearthed in Colorado? … [more below]
- Series: Secret
- Author: Peterson, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1681061058
- Language: English
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A Block in Time: A New York City History at the Corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street
$28.00 Read moreGotham meets The Island at the Center of the World in this dazzling history of a single block in Manhattan from the Age of Exploration to the present.
This is the story of New York City, told through- Author: Bird, Christiane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1632867427
- Language: English
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American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
$20.00 Read moreIn this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The new
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021802
- Language: English
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Cleveland’s Cultural Gardens: A Landscape of Diversity
$35.00 Add to cartHonoring and embodying the cultural heritages of a region through the beauty of shared outdoor spaces
From their beginnings as private farmland to their current form as monuments to cultural and ethni
- Author: Grabowski, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1606354418
- Language: English
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
$15.95 Read moreForsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and ch
- Author: Phillips, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354733
- Language: English
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Beaufort
$24.99 Read moreBeaufort, South Carolina, the Palmetto State’s second-oldest town, is a paradigm of the Low Country.
Historic mansions overlook the bay with century-old oaks standing sentinel. Visitors to Beaufort fee
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Cooper, Polly Wylly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0738515221
- Language: English
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Legends & Lore of Southwest Virginia
$24.99 Read moreExplore the traditional tales of the hills and hollers of southwestern Virginia. From the infamous Black Sisters of Christiansburg to the ghost of the famed Barter Theatre in Abingdon, the region is f… [more below]
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Simmons, Shane S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155047
- Language: English
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Chronicles of the British Occupation of Long Island
$23.99 Read moreLong Island was occupied under the brutal yolk of the British army and navy from 1776-1783. The scars, trials and experiences of the occupation would not soon be forgotten… Author David M. Griffin p… [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Griffin, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151394
- Language: English
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Literary New Hampshire: A History & Guide
$23.99 Read moreNew Hampshire’s literary roots are long and rich, with names like Robert Frost, Celia Thaxter and Willa Cather beckoning book lovers. Travel to Cornish and discover the connections between one of the … [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Crooker, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153788
- Language: English
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Beyond Vietnam
$22.99 Read moreWith a new foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech “Beyond Vietnam,” part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.
At New
- Series: Essential Speeches of Dr. Martin Lut #3
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 006335103X
- Language: English
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The Counterfeiters of Bosque Redondo: Slavery, Silver and the U.S. War Against the Navajo Nation
$21.99 Read moreDiscover the staggeringly true story of how the first Navajo silversmiths fed and freed a nation.
Old Pounder, they called him — the very first Navajo silversmith. Yet Herrero Delgadito’s greatest leg
- Author: Fitzsimons, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1467151424
- Language: English
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
$18.00 Add to cart“‘The history of its Post Office is nothing less than the story of America, ‘ Ms. Gallagher’s opening sentence declares, and in this lively book she makes the case well.”–Wall Street Journal
A master- Author: Gallagher, Winifred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0143130064
- Language: English
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Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
$21.99 Add to cartThe history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be “little short of madness,” and that others compared with going to the moon,
- Author: Bernstein, Peter L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393327957
- Language: English
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Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments
$15.95 Read moreAn urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them.
- Author: Thompson, Erin L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050497
- Language: English
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Kentucky’s Lost Bourbon Distilleries
$23.99 Read moreKentucky bourbon is world-renowned, and the distilling of this corn-based liquor has deep roots in almost every corner of the state. Hundreds of distilleries dotted the landscape, beginning with the e… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Scott, Berkeley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1467109908
- Language: English
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Baltimore and the Civil Rights Movement
$23.99 Read moreIn all aspects of life, from politics and education to religion and business, the Black Baltimore community has been a leader for civil rights. From the 19th century until the 1970s, Baltimore has bee… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Merrill, Philip J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467160008
- Language: English
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Washington’s Fisher Scones: An Iconic Northwest Treat Since 1911
$23.99 Read moreA Delicious Pacific Northwest Legacy.
Fisher Scones, a Pacific Northwest tradition, were introduced at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. This sweet treat, slathered with butter and… [more below]- Series: American Palate
- Author: Erickson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 146715301X
- Language: English
