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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
$24.95 Add to cartThe Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we really know about those who experienced slavery?
In their p
- Author: Willis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1439909865
- Language: English
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Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America
$18.00 Read more“Our country has enough studies of failure and despair to last several lifetimes. Ferguson and Witcher do something much more interesting in this volume: they examine Black entrepreneurial success–un… [more below]
- Author: Ferguson, Rachel S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1637583443
- Language: English
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The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
$18.00 Add to cartIt is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, … [more below]
- Author: Bailey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 29 2005
- ISBN10: 080214229X
- Language: English
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Spokane and the Inland Empire: An Interior Pacific Northwest Anthology
$21.95 Read moreEssential aspects about the prehistory, history, geography, and architecture of the Inland Pacific Northwest are presented here in one succinct volume. This landmark collection features essays by note
- Author: Stratton, David H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 087422277X
- Language: English
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Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers
$55.00 Add to cartIn words and photographs, Power to the People is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded 50 years ago in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton.
In this incredible history, the wo- Author: Shames, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1419722409
- Language: English
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Death at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles
$21.99 Read moreBuilt during Los Angeles’s rapid growth in the Roaring Twenties, the Beaux Arts-style Cecil Hotel was briefly a glimmering downtown landmark until it became one of the most infamous sites of violence … [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Perelman, Dale Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150185
- Language: English
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The Old Leather Man: Historical Accounts of a Connecticut and New York Legend
$35.00 Read moreFascinating documentation of a mysterious figure
In 1883, wearing a sixty-pound suit sewn from leather boot-tops, a wanderer known only as the Leather Man began to walk a 365 mile loop between the Conn
- Series: Garnet Books
- Author: DeLuca, Dan W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0819568627
- Language: English
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A History Lover’s Guide to Baltimore
$23.99 Read moreNeither southern nor northern, Baltimore has charted its own course through the American experience. The spires of the nation’s first cathedral rose into its sky, and the first blood of the Civil War … [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Jensen, Brennen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1467145769
- Language: English
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Haunted Graveyard of the Pacific
$21.99 Add to cartDespite its idyllic setting, the coast of the Pacific Northwest has another, darker name by which it is known: the Graveyard of the Pacific. Two thousand ships and countless lives have been lost to th… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Kitmacher, Ira Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1467149500
- Language: English
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George Washington’s Farewell Address
$12.95 Add to cartOn September 17,1796, George Washington announced that he would leave the presidency. His famous farewell address encapsulates a view of the Union, the Constitution, and good citizenship that is an im… [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Washington, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: August 27 1999
- ISBN10: 1557094543
- Language: English
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Tall Trees, Tough Men
$26.99 Add to cartThe New England loggers and river drivers were a unique breed of men. Working with their axes and peaveys through Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, they contributed mightily to the development of the… [more below]
- Series: Vivid, Anecdotal History of Logging and Log-Driving in New E
- Author: Pike, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319172
- Language: English
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An Illustrated History of New Mexico
$24.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1992 and available now only from UNM Press, An Illustrated History of New Mexico combines more than two hundred photographs and a concise history to create an engaging, panoram
- Author: Chavez, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 267
- Publish Date: July 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0826330517
- Language: English
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Hardship to Homeland: Pacific Northwest Volga Germans (Revised, Expanded)
$24.95 Read moreHardship to Homeland recounts Volga Germans’ unique story in a saga that stretches from Germany to Russia and across the Atlantic. Burdened by war and debt, life was extremely difficult for impoverish
- Author: Scheuerman, Richard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0874223628
- Language: English
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Idaho Madams
$16.95 Add to cartIdaho Madams uncovers the enigmatic & salacious lives of 30 women who ran brothels in the Gem State from the 1850s to the 1980s.
- Author: Marsenich, Milana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 156037750X
- Language: English
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Utah’s Hidden Treasure: Outlaw Loot in Every County
$16.99 Add to cartStrike it rich in your own backyard This comprehensive guide to treasure-hunting across Utah proves you don’t need to go far to have an adventure. With detailed maps, stories, and records from the da… [more below]
- Author: Shaffer, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1462120563
- Language: English
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Katrina: A History, 1915-2015
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the Bancroft Prize
“The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina–the civ
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year- Author: Horowitz, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271076
- Language: English
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
$23.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book for 2011
Bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring
A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011
A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0312429266
- Language: English
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A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded
$16.95 Read more“I highly recommend reading this supplement in conjunction with Ms. Stowe’s novel to gain a better understanding of the history of our nation.” — The Literary South
In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publi- Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0486794822
- Language: English
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Southern California Funny Cars
$23.99 Add to cartSouthern California was the birthplace of organized drag racing, with the first organized race held at the Santa Ana airport in 1949 and the subsequent founding of the National Hot Rod Association in … [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Reyes, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 146710972X
- Language: English
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Snake Eyes: Murder in a Southern Town
$25.95 Add to cartBy 1966, Hot Springs, Arkansas wasn’t your typical sleepy little Southern town. Once a favorite destination for mobsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, illegal activities continued to lure out-of-s
- Author: Martin, Bitty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633887766
- Language: English
