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Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City
$24.95 Add to cartDedicated to all those living elsewhere who would rather be in Tucson
Tucson is the first comprehensive history of a unique corner of America, a city with its roots in Indian and Spanish colonial histo
- Author: Sonnichsen, C. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0806120428
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic
$24.95 Add to cartHere is the story of the Choctaws, a proud and gifted tribe among the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. It is the record of a people whose forced migration from their ancestral homes in the South to w… [more below]
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback) #06
- Author: Debo, Angie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: January 15 1961
- ISBN10: 0806112476
- Language: English
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The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader: 1865-1877
$19.95 Add to cartThe Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877 provides the first comprehensive look at the Indian Wars in Nebraska, focusing on the years immediately following the Civil War, when hostilities between Pla… [more below]
- Author: Paul, R. Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 289
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803287496
- Language: English
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It Happened in Maine: Remarkable Events That Shaped History
$16.95 Add to cartIt Happened in Maine takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Pine Tree State’s storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names… [more below]
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Parker, Gail Underwood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0762769696
- Language: English
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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
$19.99 Add to cartThe Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which the founding fathers struggled for four months to produce the Constitution: the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation-… [more below]
- Series: Simon & Schuster America Collection
- Author: Stewart, David O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0743286936
- Language: English
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The Texas Rangers
$24.99 Add to cartThe Texas Rangers. The words evoke exciting images of daring, courage, high adventure. The Rangers began as a handful of men protecting their homes from savage raiding parties; now in their third cent… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Parsons, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 02 2011
- ISBN10: 0738579823
- Language: English
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Mount Shasta
$24.99 Read moreFor thousands of years, native inhabitants revered this snowcapped volcano, its craggy peaks, thick forests, crystal waters, and abundant wildlife. “Lonely as god and white as a winter moon, Mount Sha… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Greb Mazariegos, Darla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 073855572X
- Language: English
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North Carolina Lighthouses and Lifesaving Stations
$23.99 Add to cartPresenting the tales behind North Carolina’s historic lighthouses and saving stations – illuminated in both words and images
Since the earliest days of European exploration, mariners have heard tales
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Hairr, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 16 2004
- ISBN10: 0738515205
- Language: English
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The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest
$40.00 Add to cartIs there any chapter in American history more dramatic than that of the Northwest from the time of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877? Heroic – and not so heroic -characters
- Series: American Heritage Library
- Author: Josephy, Alvin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0395850118
- Language: English
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Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
$29.99 Add to cartJames Merrell’s brilliant book is an account of the “go-betweens,” the Europeans and Indians who moved between cultures on the Pennsylvania frontier in efforts to maintain the peace. It is also a refl
- Author: Merrell, James H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393319768
- Language: English
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Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York
$26.99 Add to cartNew York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen.
In Appetite City, the former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a grand historical tour of New York’s dining
- Author: Grimes, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532494
- Language: English
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American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation
$22.00 Add to cartONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE
The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from- Author: Kazin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0307279197
- Language: English
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Puget’s Sound: A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound
$29.95 Add to cartWith the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, “the City of Destiny,” and southern P
- Author: Morgan, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0295744235
- Language: English
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American Feast: Cookbooks and Cocktails from the Library of Congress
$21.95 Add to cart- Series: Collection Close-Ups
- Author: Klitzman, Zach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0844495832
- Language: English
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The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
$15.00 Add to cartArguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of C
- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Smith, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226764729
- Language: English
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The American West: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPart geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific time a… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Aron, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0199858934
- Language: English
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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
$53.00 Add to cartIn this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers’ Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repre… [more below]
- Series: History of NYC
- Author: Wallace, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1196
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0195116356
- Language: English
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The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation
$23.99 Add to cart“The American Dream” is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fasci… [more below]
- Author: Cullen, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0195173252
- Language: English
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Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures wa… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0190454792
- Language: English
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In the Enemy’s House
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America’s history as he chro
- Author: Blum, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0062458264
- Language: English
