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The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets
$22.00 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE – Every day, thousands of new secrets are created by the United States government. What is all this secrecy really for? And whom does it benefit?
“A brillian- Author: Connelly, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1101973676
- Language: English
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History of Arizona: A Captivating Guide to Historical Events and Facts You Should Know About the Grand Canyon State
$23.99 Add to cartDid you know that Arizona was the last of the contiguous states to be admitted into the Union?
Even being the last, Arizona’s rich history predates its statehood by centuries, and that can be hard to d
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1637169140
- Language: English
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Outer Banks Tales to Remember
$19.95 Add to cartNearly every time he visits the Outer Banks, the author hears a new tale or another version of an old one and gets “that itch” to write it down for everyone to enjoy. That itch produced the seventeen … [more below]
- Author: Whedbee, Charles Harry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 133
- Publish Date: January 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0895870444
- Language: English
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Another Country
$28.95 Add to cartThe southern Appalachians encompass one of the most beautiful, biologically diverse, and historically important regions of North America. In the widely acclaimed Another Country: Journeying toward the
- Author: Camuto, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 30 2000
- ISBN10: 0820322377
- Language: English
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Best of Covered Wagon Women
$21.95 Add to cartThe diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand … [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0806139145
- Language: English
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What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
$19.99 Add to cartWith a New Afterword by the Author
The New York Times bestseller, praised as “hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic a- Author: Frank, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 080507774X
- Language: English
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William Howard Taft
$35.00 Add to cartThe only man to serve as president and chief justice, who approached every decision in constitutional terms, defending the Founders’ vision against new populist threats to American democracy
William H- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Rosen, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0805069542
- Language: English
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Mormon Country
$26.95 Add to cartWhere others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their “lovely Deseret,” a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, … [more below]
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803293054
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850
$21.95 Add to cartThe women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner pa… [more below]
- Series: Coverd Wagon Women #2
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 080327274X
- Language: English
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Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches
$21.95 Add to cartThe legendary mountain men–the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half on the nineteenth century–formed the vanguard of the American e… [more below]
- Author: Hafen, Leroy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 401
- Publish Date: June 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0803272103
- Language: English
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
$22.00 Add to cartFrom before the dawn of the twentieth century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were … [more below]
- Author: Green, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0802124658
- Language: English
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The Park and the People: An Introduction
$32.95 Read moreThis “exemplary social history” (Kirkus Reviews) is the first full-scale account of Central Park ever published. Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzweig tell the story of Central Park’s people–the merc
- Author: Rosenzweig, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0801497515
- Language: English
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Early Warner Bros. Studios
$24.99 Read moreSince 1928, Warner Bros. has produced thousands of beloved films and television shows at the studio’s magical 110-acre film factory in Burbank. This collection of evocative images concentrates on the … [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Stephens, E. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0738580910
- Language: English
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Hollywoodland
$24.99 Read moreEstablished by real estate developers Tracy E. Shoults and S. H. Woodruff in 1923, Hollywoodland was one of the first hillside developments built in Hollywood. Touting its class and sophistication, th… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Mallory, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0738574783
- Language: English
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Tombstone
$23.99 Add to cartTombstone sits less than 100 miles from the Mexico border in the middle of the picturesque Arizona desert and also squarely at the heart of America’s Old West. Silver was discovered nearby in 1878, an… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Eppinga, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0738520969
- Language: English
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This Week in Estes Park: The Story of Our Town
$17.00 Add to cartEstes Park, Colorado has a fascinating history. The Estes family, first pioneer settlers; Lord Dunraven and Isabella Bird; Griff Evans and “Rocky Mountain Jim;” naturalist Enos Mills; Longs Peak, Rock
- Author: Busch, Mel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: December 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0692181830
- Language: English
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Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history–from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White Ci… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 24 1999
- ISBN10: 0609602330
- Language: English
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
$20.00 Add to cart“An arresting piece of popular history.” –Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book Review
Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in C
- Author: Lemann, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530696
- Language: English
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The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
$23.00 Add to cartBarbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War.
In The First Sa… [more below]- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 06 1989
- ISBN10: 0345336674
- Language: English
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Coronado’s Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
$16.95 Add to cartWritten in 1930, Coronado’s Children was one of J. Frank Dobie’s first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those ha
- Series: Barker Texas History Center Series
- Author: Dobie, J. Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01, 1978
- ISBN10: 0292710526
- Language: English
