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Hard Road West: History and Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail
$21.00 Add to cartIn 1848 news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, an… [more below]
- Author: Meldahl, Keith Heyer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226519627
- Language: English
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First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies
$19.99 Read more“[A] gossipy, but surprisingly deep, look at the women who help and sometimes overshadow their powerful husbands.” — USA Today
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backs
- Author: Brower, Kate Andersen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0062439669
- Language: English
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How the States Got Their Shapes
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Give me the splendid irregularities any day. God bless the panhandles and notches, the West Virginias and Oklahomas.” — Wall Street Journal
Why does Oklahoma have that panhan
- Author: Stein, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0061431397
- Language: English
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Montana Historic Places on the National Register: From Banks and Barns to Bridges and Battlefields
$20.00 Add to cartMore than one thousand locations in Montana are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, from venerable mansions and hotels to less traditional sites of battlefields and buffalo jumps. This… [more below]
- Author: Ober, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0878427066
- Language: English
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Chicago in Stone and Clay: A Guide to the Windy City’s Architectural Geology
$24.95 Add to cartChicago in Stone and Clay explores the interplay between the city’s most architecturally significant sites, the materials they’re made of, and the sediments and bedrock they are anchored in. This uniq
- Author: Wiggers, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 150176506X
- Language: English
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Secret Jacksonville: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$22.50 Read more- Author: Delaney, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1681063344
- Language: English
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Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West
$22.95 Add to cartIf countless books and movies are to be believed, America’s Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men–a man’s world. Here, C
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493064770
- Language: English
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Conrad Weiser: Friend of Colonist and Mohawk
$49.95 Add to cartIf one man could be said to exemplify in his character the promise of America’s greatness, that man was Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania frontiersman of the Colonial period. This biography of one of the ke
- Author: Wallace, Paul A. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1620065339
- Language: English
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White Men’s Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism
$34.99 Add to cartA searing–and sobering–account of the legal and extra-legal means by which systemic white racism has kept Black Americans ‘in their place’ from slavery to police and vigilante killings of Black men … [more below]
- Author: Irons, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190914947
- Language: English
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The Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America
$7.70 Add to cartThe Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America is a eugenicist work by an American lawyer and biologist Madison Grant. The book deals with the settlement of American continent thro… [more below]
- Author: Grant, Madison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: December 30 2020
- ISBN10: 8027308372
- Language: English
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Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality
$22.50 Add to cartA concise overview of 400 years of Black history through the stories of key figures and events in Virginia that shaped the fight for Black equity, from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Vi… [more below]
- Author: Sherry, Karen A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1911282999
- Language: English
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Humbled: How California’s Monterey Bay Escaped Industrial Ruin
$36.00 Add to cartIn early 1965, Humble Oil and Refining Company Co. (now ExxonMobil) planned to expand to the West Coast by building an oil refinery in the heart of some of California’s most beautiful scenic coastline
- Author: Church, Glenn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: September 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1735109207
- Language: English
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Georgia Place Names from Jot-em-Down to Doctortown
$31.99 Add to cartEver wonder how Rough and Ready got its name? Or what Stonesthrow is a stone’s throw from? And surely the story behind Climax can’t be…that thrilling, can it? The curious Georgian can’t help ponderi… [more below]
- Author: Kaemmerlen, Cathy J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: July 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1540239861
- Language: English
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On Fascism: 12 Lessons from American History
$15.00 Add to cartAs featured on NPR’s On Point
The twelve lessons in On Fascism draws from American history and brilliantly complement those of Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny.
–Laurence Tribe An expert on American auth- Author: Macwilliams, Matthew C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1250752698
- Language: English
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Springfield’s Celebrated Horseshoe Sandwich
$31.99 Add to cartIn a town famous for its politics, one local favorite moves unchallenged across party lines. Open-faced, piled high with fries and slathered in cheese sauce, the Horsehoe Sandwich has represented Spri… [more below]
- Author: Harmon, Carolyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: May 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1540238792
- Language: English
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Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition
$39.95 Add to cartHow W.E.B. Du Bois combined photographs and infographics to communicate the everyday realities of Black lives and the inequities of race in America
At the 1900 Paris Exposition the pioneering sociologi
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1942884532
- Language: English
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
$17.95 Add to cartOn March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown–but when cor
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358151
- Language: English
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Sandals in the Snow: A True Story of One African Family’s Journey to Achieving the American Dream
$16.99 Add to cartRose and three young children walked onto American soil wearing Sandals in the Snow, an abrupt transition from Nigeria to New York. This fascinating memoir recounts the amazing journey of an African f
- Author: Ihedigbo, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1947247492
- Language: English
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Austin’s Old Three Hundred: The First Anglo Colony in Texas
$24.95 Add to cartThe Texas equivalent of the “Mayflower” adventures, the three hundred families who settled Stephen F. Austin’s original colony formed the foundation on which a republic and then a state was built. In … [more below]
- Author: Von-Maszewski, Wolfman M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: June 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1940130573
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of West Virginia
$41.99 Add to cartWest Virginia is a state of overwhelming beauty. Shared traditions, shared tragedies, and shared histories bind its people to the land and each other with a strong sense of place, family, and home.
In
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Swick, Gerald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 168442108X
- Language: English
