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Once Upon a Time: The Way America Was
$8.95 Add to cartThis book is about once-upon-a-time in America. — Eric Sloane. Writer and artist Eric Sloane had an abiding love for America and worked throughout a long and productive life to capture the American s… [more below]
- Author: Sloane, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0486444112
- Language: English
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The Jekyll Island Club
$23.99 Add to cartIn the late 19th century, some of America’s wealthiest families joined together to form the Jekyll Island Club.
Operating for over 50 years, from 1888 until 1942, the Club attracted an elite clientele,
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Bagwell, Tyler E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 18 1998
- ISBN10: 0738517968
- Language: English
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Wit and Wisdom: The Forgotten Literary Life of New England Villages
$25.95 Read moreThe lyceum movement gained momentum in the decades preceding the Civil War, presenting members with the opportunity to participate in literary life and engage with the issues of the day. While urban
- Author: Radner, Joan Newlon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1625347383
- Language: English
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Italians in the Pacific Northwest
$24.99 Read moreFrom hardscrabble days as homesteaders and farmers in the 1880s to becoming successful entrepreneurs of the postwar boom generation, Italians settled and later thrived in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Floreano, Tessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1467160466
- Language: English
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Wicked Hampton County
$23.99 Read moreThe Darker Side of Hampton County Hampton County is a rural county in South Carolina with a long and storied history, but it has a shady side. Author Michael DeWitt details the corruption, murders and… [more below]
- Series: Wicked
- Author: DeWitt Jr, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153400
- Language: English
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True Tales of Tennessee: Earthquake to Railroad
$23.99 Read moreThe Beginnings of the Volunteer State Tennessee was a remote place in 1810. By 1850, some of the most influential people in America had come from Tennessee, such as Sequoyah, David Crockett, the filib… [more below]
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Carey, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153893
- Language: English
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A Moving Meditation: Life on a Cape Cod Kettle Pond
$24.95 Read moreCape Cod is known for its beaches, throngs of summer visitors, and the activities that accompany seaside living, but it is also home to many kettle ponds, which offer a more tranquil setting. Formed
- Author: Waller, Stephen G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 17 2023
- ISBN10: 162534774X
- Language: English
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American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865
$35.00 Read moreThe first telling of the unknown story of America’s two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation
“A work of impressive breadth, deep research, and evenhanded analysis.”–James Oakes, New York Re- Author: Kelley, Sean M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0300263597
- Language: English
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Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
$38.00 Read moreThe New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2022
Named one of Vanity Fair‘s “Best Books of 2022“
“Not since Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of hi- Author: Kirchick, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1627792325
- Language: English
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Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition
$24.95 Read moreOften viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from ancient Native American cities to French colonial machi… [more below]
- Author: Walczynski, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0252087356
- Language: English
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Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
$30.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for non
- Author: Ricks, Thomas E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0374605165
- Language: English
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Lost Treasures of St. Louis, 2nd Edition
$42.00 Read more- Series: Lost Treasures
- Author: Collins, Cameron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064812
- Language: English
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High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
$19.99 Read moreJoining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and nat
- Author: Austen, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0062235079
- Language: English
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When Washington Burned: The British Invasion of the Capital and a Nation’s Rise from the Ashes
$29.95 Read moreAn insightful re-examination of one of the most dangerous moments in US history, the British assault on Washington, DC
Perhaps no other single day in US history was as threatening to the survival of th
- Author: Watson, Robert P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 164712350X
- Language: English
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Playing Indian
$18.00 Read morePhilip J. Deloria’s classic exploration of white America’s drive to “play Indian,” from the Boston Tea Party to the New Age
“[A] brilliant book. . . . This book reminds us that at least one question… [more below]- Series: Yale Historical Publications
- Author: Deloria, Philip J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0300264844
- Language: English
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The Perfect Amount of Wrong: The Rise of Alt Comedy on Chicago’s North Side
$24.99 Read moreIn just over a decade, a tiny, do-it-yourself stand-up scene on the North Side of Chicago produced some of the most successful and influential stand-up comedians of their generation. Hannibal Buress,
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Mike Bridenstine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154075
- Language: English
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Small Town, Big Music: The Outsized Influence of Kent, Ohio, on the History of Rock and Roll
$21.95 Add to cart2020 IPPY Awards Gold Medalist, Great Lakes Best Regional Nonfiction
Relying on oral histories, hundreds of rare photographs, and original music reviews, this book explores the countercultural fringes
- Author: Prufer, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1606354477
- Language: English
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The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War
$18.00 Read moreHow partisan politics lead to the Civil War
What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this bril- Author: Holt, Michael F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0809044390
- Language: English
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Walk Through Fire: The Train Disaster That Changed America
$28.00 Read moreThe first book to examine the rarely-acknowledged Waverly Train Disaster of 1978 – the catastrophic accident that changed America forever and led to the formation of FEMA. Coinciding with the 45th ann… [more below]
- Author: Ali, Yasmine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0806542187
- Language: English
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Crazy But True St. Louis History
$22.50 Read more- Author: O’Neill, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1681065002
- Language: English
