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Kansas City 1940: A Watershed Year
$21.99 Add to cart1940: It’s the year Nazis rain bombs on London and goose-step into Paris, when President Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term and Kansas Citians finally run the corrupt Pendergast political mach… [more below]
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Simonson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1626193231
- Language: English
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Wicked Portland:: The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town
$21.99 Add to cartTucked away in the northwestern frontier, Portland offered all the best vices: opium dreams, gambling, cheap prostitutes, and drunken brawling. In its early days, Portland was a combination rough-and-… [more below]
- Series: Wicked
- Author: John, Finn J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 1609495780
- Language: English
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Wicked Carlisle:: The Dark Side of the Cumberland Valley
$21.99 Add to cartWith Wicked Carlisle, author Joe Cress revisits the criminal history of Cumberland County. Taking a more focused and less bloody approach, Cress will largely bring new stories of mischief to the table… [more below]
- Series: Wicked
- Author: Cress, Joseph David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 10 2012
- ISBN10: 160949525X
- Language: English
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The Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900: In Atlanta or in Hell
$19.99 Add to cartGeorgia historian and professor Jeffery C. Wells recounts the tragic tale of the Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900.
On June 23, 1900, the Southern Railroad Company’s Engine #7 and its passengers were gree
- Series: Disasters (Saddleback)
- Author: Wells, Jeffery C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 159629826X
- Language: English
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Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks
$26.25 Add to cartA teaching edition of the “thought-provoking study” History in the Making, which explores how our view of the history changes over time (Library Journal).
Kyle Ward’s celebrated History in the Making- Author: Ward, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 1595581448
- Language: English
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Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb?: A Tour of Presidential Gravesites
$21.99 Add to cartSome presidents have been larger than life but none of them have been larger than death. Brian Lamb has visited the gravesites of every American president, living and dead, in order to put together th… [more below]
- Author: Lamb, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1586488694
- Language: English
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The Cajuns: Americanization of a People
$25.00 Add to cartThe past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period, they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained st… [more below]
- Author: Bernard, Shane K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 12 2003
- ISBN10: 1578065232
- Language: English
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The Spider Rock Treasure: A Texas Mystery of Lost Spanish Gold
$24.95 Add to cartHidden in the unforgiving earth of West Texas were clues: archaic clues etched upon buried rocks, stacked as artifacts upon other clues, or carved into rock walls. These centuries-old clues, placed to… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1571687769
- Language: English
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The Streets of Key West: A History Through Street Names
$19.95 Add to cartSimonton, Duval, Eaton, Whitehead, Southard, Truman–if you discover how these Key West streets, and all the others, came by their names, you will know much of the history of this little island at the
- Author: Burke, J. Wills
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1561647306
- Language: English
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Guardians of the Lights: Stories of U.S. Lighthouse Keepers
$21.95 Add to cartIn a charming blend of history and human interest, this book paints a colorful portrait of the lives of a vanished breed–the lighthouse keepers–from the year 1716, when the first lighthouse was esta
- Author: de Wire, Elinor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: June 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1561641197
- Language: English
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Fort Pitt: A Frontier History
$31.99 Add to cart- Author: Crytzer, Brady
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: March 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1540206343
- Language: English
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A History Lover’s Guide to Detroit
$31.99 Add to cartDetroit’s auto heritage is known worldwide, but this fascinating city’s history runs much deeper. Step inside the tiny recording studio where Berry Gordy, a young entrepreneur who faced tremendous pre… [more below]
- Author: Risko, Karin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: November 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1540236870
- Language: English
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Lost Restaurants of Houston
$35.99 Add to cartWith more than fourteen thousand eating establishments covering seventy different ethnic cuisines, Houston is a foodie town. But even in a place where eating out is a way of life and restaurants come … [more below]
- Author: Galvani, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: April 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1540228940
- Language: English
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Atlanta’s Historic Westview Cemetery
$31.99 Add to cartIn 1884, several leading citizens purchased 577 acres to open Atlanta’s Westview Cemetery. The rolling terrain, part of which was a site in the Civil War battle of Ezra Church, became the final restin… [more below]
- Author: Clemmons, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: April 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1540228525
- Language: English
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Frederick County Characters: Innovators, Pioneers and Patriots of Western Maryland
$31.99 Add to cartSince its founding in 1748, Frederick County has been home to some of the nation’s most celebrated and dynamic historical figures. The quaint towns and farmlands with their serene mountain vistas of t… [more below]
- Author: Ashbury, John W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1540222624
- Language: English
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Charlotte, North Carolina: A Brief History
$31.99 Add to cartFounded in 1768 at the crossing of two Indian trails, Charlotte has a rich heritage to match its age. In this extensively researched volume, accomplished author and historian Mary Kratt chronicles the… [more below]
- Author: Kratt, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 154021950X
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Lewes
$31.99 Add to cartProudly laying claim to the title of first town in the first state, Lewes, Delaware, has a history brimming with little-known tales of gentleman pirates, desperate acts of cannibalism and a failed Bri… [more below]
- Author: Morgan, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1540208532
- Language: English
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A History of South Carolina Barbeque
$34.99 Add to cart- Author: High, Lake E., Jr.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1540207803
- Language: English
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Lake Jocassee
$31.99 Add to cartThe creation of Lake Jocassee by Duke Power Company’s massive Keowee-Toxaway Project in the late 1960s and early 1970s flooded a quaint mountain valley whose earliest recorded history was in 1539, whe… [more below]
- Author: Fletcher, Debbie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1531668771
- Language: English
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Woodland
$31.99 Add to cartThe images in this book document the intertwining of country and city in the character of Woodland, California, since the town’s birth in 1853. The flat, rich land of the Great Central Valley, along w… [more below]
- Author: Datel, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 09 2012
- ISBN10: 1531659837
- Language: English
