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No Haven: The Connecticut Mob and the Rise of America's Model City

No Haven: The Connecticut Mob and the Rise of America's...

Author: Paul Bleakley ,  Joe Barrett
ISBN: 9798874882877
Format: Audio
$121.41

Boston to the north and New York City to the south, Connecticut’s history of organized crime is often overlooked....  Read More >>

No Haven: The Connecticut Mob and the Rise of America's Model City

No Haven: The Connecticut Mob and the Rise of America's...

Author: Paul Bleakley ,  Joe Barrett
ISBN: 9798874882884
Format: Audio
$121.31

Boston to the north and New York City to the south, Connecticut’s history of organized crime is often overlooked....  Read More >>

Nelson Rockefeller's Dilemma: The Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism

Nelson Rockefeller's Dilemma: The Fight to Save Moderate...

Author: Marsha E. Barrett
ISBN: 9781501776236
Format: Hardback
$97.55

""A history of the political career of Nelson Rockefeller, New York Governor (1959-1973) and Vice President under...  Read More >>

Pricing the Land: The Buying and Selling of Frontier New York and the Cayuga Reservation

Pricing the Land: The Buying and Selling of Frontier...

Author: Scott W. Anderson
ISBN: 9781501775697
Format: Hardback
$123.95

""Attempts to determine and provide a methodology for assessing the value of land in the Cayuga Land Claim case...  Read More >>

Faulkner, Welty, Wright: A Mississippi Confluence

Faulkner, Welty, Wright: A Mississippi Confluence

Author: Annette Trefzer ,  Jay Watson
ISBN: 9781496851086
Format: Hardback
$185.90

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“Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children”: John Reynolds’ I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863

“Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children”: John...

Author: John Michael Priest
ISBN: 9781611216899
Format: Hardback
$105.00

The fighting on the first day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, was heavy, confusing, and decisive. Much of it consisted...  Read More >>

On This Day In Standish Maine: Events in Standish History from Every Day of the Year

On This Day In Standish Maine: Events in Standish History...

Author: Bruce L Douglass ,  Lil Barcaski
ISBN: 9781959608929
Format: Hardback
$79.17

"""Something happens somewhere, every single day. From the mundane to the momentous, it doesn't matter, as almost...  Read More >>

Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England

Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family...

Author: Gloria McCahon Whiting
ISBN: 9781512824490
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Explores how Black New Englanders maintained a sense of belonging among their kin in the face of slavery As winter...  Read More >>

The Green Children of Woolpit: Chronicles, Fairies and Facts in Medieval England

The Green Children of Woolpit: Chronicles, Fairies and...

Author: John Clark
ISBN: 9781804131367
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book introduces the story of the ‘Green Children’ and how it has been interpreted, retold, and reworked. Analysing...  Read More >>

Fort Fisher

Fort Fisher

Author: John Hairr
ISBN: 9781467161657
Format: Paperback
$65.97

John Hairr is an award-winning author and maritime historian who explores the past of unique and often forgotten...  Read More >>

Treasured Stories of the War Between The States By Those Who Witnessed It

Treasured Stories of the War Between The States By Those...

Author: Dr Tony Zeiss
ISBN: 9781942806660
Format: Paperback
$21.12

Each of the stories in this book originated from eye witnesses of the U. S. War Between the States and have been...  Read More >>

A Southern Underground Railroad Lib/E: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country

A Southern Underground Railroad Lib/E: Black Georgians...

Author: Paul M Pressly ,  Bill Andrew Quinn
ISBN: 9798874887544
Format: Audio
$190.05

"Despite its apparent isolation, the Southeast provided a vital connecting link between the Black self-emancipation...  Read More >>

Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro

Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro

Author: Andrew Martin
ISBN: 9781472157904
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A unique look at Paris through the history of the Métro from award-winning author, Andrew Martin.  Read More >>

Cemeteries of Grundy County, Tennessee & More Volume 3

Cemeteries of Grundy County, Tennessee & More Volume...

Author: Janelle Layne Taylor ,  Joan Bishop Nasso
ISBN: 9781947589810
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Burials of individuals with Grundy County, Tennessee connections. Features burial locations, parents' names, spouse's...  Read More >>

97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement

97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families...

Author: Jane Ziegelman ,  Nan McNamara
ISBN: 9798874818036
Format: Audio
$176.85

This delicious saga of how immigrant food became American food follows European immigrants on a remarkable journey...  Read More >>

Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers

Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Marie Carter ,  Marie Carter
ISBN: 9798874856878
Format: Audio
$176.85

"Under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B., humor writer Mortimer Thomson went undercover to investigate...  Read More >>

Haunted Springfield, Illinois

Haunted Springfield, Illinois

Author: Garret Moffett
ISBN: 9781467156837
Format: Paperback
$58.05

Springfield has launched a lot of history, from the career of Abraham Lincoln to the wagon train that bore the doomed...  Read More >>

Haunted Newaygo County

Haunted Newaygo County

Author: Marie Cisneros
ISBN: 9781467157018
Format: Paperback
$58.05

Listen to the stories of the restless dead Amidst the sparkling lakes and rolling hills of Northern Michigan lies...  Read More >>

Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough

Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest...

Author: Ian Frazier
ISBN: 9780374280567
Format: Hardback
$92.40

""Ian Frazier's magnum opus: a love song to New York City's most various and alive borough""--  Read More >>

Wicked Lawrence County, Ohio

Wicked Lawrence County, Ohio

Author: Lori Shafer
ISBN: 9781467157865
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Lawrence County may seem a sleepy little place, but looks are deceiving. The red light district in Ironton attracted...  Read More >>

Ventura County Lima Beans: A History

Ventura County Lima Beans: A History

Author: Jeffrey Wayne Maulhardt
ISBN: 9781467157049
Format: Paperback
$65.97

The One Time Lima Bean Capitol of the World. For over a century, Ventura County was famous for growing lima beans....  Read More >>

Ghosts of Old Muncie

Ghosts of Old Muncie

Author: Chris Flook
ISBN: 9781467157872
Format: Paperback
$58.05

From Muncie's past come weird tales of supernatural encounters, creepy ghostlights, haunted houses, and eerie hoaxes....  Read More >>

Missouri Botanical Garden's Shaw Nature Reserve: 85 Years of Natural Wonders

Missouri Botanical Garden's Shaw Nature Reserve: 85...

Author: Cindy Gilberg ,  Barbara Perry Lawton
ISBN: 9780615415444
Format: Paperback
$39.60

"Only thirty-five miles from St. Louis, the Shaw Nature Reserve is consistently ranked a top natural attraction...  Read More >>

Memories of a Mackinac Island Native: Life on the Island from 1940s to 2020s

Memories of a Mackinac Island Native: Life on the Island...

Author: Tom Chambers
ISBN: 9781615998319
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Join me on a trip to Mackinac Island's past, from the late 1940s to the present day. These are my memories of growing...  Read More >>

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