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A Short History of Greenville

A Short History of Greenville

Author: Judith T. Bainbridge
ISBN: 9781643364674
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Beginning when Greenville was Cherokee hunting grounds, then following its growth from frontier settlement to village...  Read More >>

A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the Southern Road

A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the...

Author: Pete Candler ,  Rosanne Cash
ISBN: 9781643364797
Format: Paperback
$73.89

A series of road trips through the American South leads to a personal confrontation with history.  Read More >>

Forest Under Siege: The Story of Old Growth After Gifford Pinchot

Forest Under Siege: The Story of Old Growth After Gifford...

Author: Rand Schenck
ISBN: 9781638640257
Format: Paperback
$42.90

Focusing primarily on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, environmental activist Rand Schenk reviewed numerous...  Read More >>

A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting: The Decoys, Guides, Clubs, and Places - 1870s to 1970s

A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting: The Decoys,...

Author: R K Sawyer
ISBN: 9781681793740
Format: Hardback
$131.97

The days are gone when seemingly limitless numbers of canvasbacks, mallards, and Canada geese filled the skies above...  Read More >>

Abyssinia: Hornsey's Lost Village

Abyssinia: Hornsey's Lost Village

Author: Hugh Flouch
ISBN: 9780905794822
Format: Paperback
$47.87

Abyssinia Village was part of Hornsey Vale in the former borough of Hornsey. Within a hundred years of being established,...  Read More >>

Great Lakes Oil Spill Response Capabilities Evaluation

Great Lakes Oil Spill Response Capabilities Evaluation...

Author: Aaron C Davenport ,  Katherine Anania
ISBN: 9781977412904
Format: Paperback
$131.87

This report presents an assessment of the ability of government agencies and the private sector to collectively...  Read More >>

Off the Hook Too!: Off-Beat Reporter's Tales from Michigan's Upper Peninsula (U.P.)

Off the Hook Too!: Off-Beat Reporter's Tales from Michigan's...

Author: Nancy Besonen
ISBN: 9781615998265
Format: Hardback
$92.27

A collection of humor columns she successfully slipped by her editor over a 30-year reporting career, her second...  Read More >>

City of Vice: Transience and San Francisco's Urban History, 1848–1917

City of Vice: Transience and San Francisco's Urban History,...

Author: James Mallery
ISBN: 9781496230263
Format: Hardback
$158.40

James Mallery explores the implications of such social constructs as gender, race, and class for the development...  Read More >>

Appalachian Ghost: A Photographic Reimagining of the Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster

Appalachian Ghost: A Photographic Reimagining of the...

Author: Raymond Thompson ,  Rebecca Altman
ISBN: 9780813198996
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Aside from a small plaque at Hawks Nest State Park, which inaccurately admits to only 109 victims, there is little...  Read More >>

Forward without Fear: Native Hawaiians and American Education in Territorial Hawai'i, 1900–1941

Forward without Fear: Native Hawaiians and American...

Author: Derek Taira
ISBN: 9781496236166
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Derek Taira argues that during the territorial period many Hawaiians neither subscribed nor succumbed to public...  Read More >>

The Sugar King of California: The Life of Claus Spreckels

The Sugar King of California: The Life of Claus Spreckels...

Author: Sandra E. Bonura
ISBN: 9781496235114
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Sandra E. Bonura tells the overlooked yet genuine rags-to-riches story of Claus Spreckels and his pioneering role...  Read More >>

Fort Monmouth: The US Army's House of Magic

Fort Monmouth: The US Army's House of Magic

Author: Melissa Ziobro
ISBN: 9781955041225
Format: Paperback
$57.99

From celebrity homing pigeons to the radars that detected the incoming Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor to early...  Read More >>

Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South

Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of...

Author: Shannon Eaves
ISBN: 9781469678818
Format: Paperback
$47.30

Unflinchingly investigates how both enslaved people and their enslavers experienced the systematic rape and sexual...  Read More >>

On the Trail of Robert the Bruce

On the Trail of Robert the Bruce

Author: David R. Ross
ISBN: 9781913025137
Format: Paperback
$23.26

This text is an illustrated story of Scotland's hero-king and freedom-fighter. The text follows the life of Robert...  Read More >>

100 Years 100 Lumberjacks

100 Years 100 Lumberjacks

Author: Scott Sosebee ,  Perky Beisel
ISBN: 9781622882472
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Stephen F. Austin State Teacher’s College - now Stephen F. Austin State University - opened its doors to students...  Read More >>

Processioners' Records of Chowan County, North Carolina, 1755/1756, 1764/1765, 1795/1797, 1800 and 1808

Processioners' Records of Chowan County, North Carolina,...

Author: Raymond Parker Fouts
ISBN: 9781639142491
Format: Paperback
$79.20

"By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1993, reprinted 2024, 126 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-249-1. Processioning...  Read More >>

The Southern Food & Beverage Museum Cookbook: Recipes from the Modern South

The Southern Food & Beverage Museum Cookbook: Recipes...

Author: Elizabeth M. Williams ,  Maddie Hayes
ISBN: 9780807181584
Format: Hardback
$92.27

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a small group of dedicated dreamers opened the Southern Food & Beverage Museum...  Read More >>

Dale L. Morgan: Mormon and Western Histories in Transition

Dale L. Morgan: Mormon and Western Histories in Transition...

Author: Richard L Saunders
ISBN: 9781647691202
Format: Hardback
$250.80

An influential Utah historian whose work shaped new approaches to the history of Mormonism and the American West....  Read More >>

La dégringolade (Edition1)

La dégringolade (Edition1)

Author: Charles Francis Adams
ISBN: 9789357966481
Format: Book
$40.66

Some Phases of Sexual Morality and Church Discipline in Colonial New England, a classical book, has been considered...  Read More >>

Les esclaves de Paris (Edition1)

Les esclaves de Paris (Edition1)

Author: H Reese
ISBN: 9789357966597
Format: Book
$43.48

Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota, Or, From the Ox Team to the Aeroplane, a classical book, has...  Read More >>

The Violent World of Broadus Miller: A Story of Murder, Lynch Mobs, and Judicial Punishment in the Carolinas

The Violent World of Broadus Miller: A Story of Murder,...

Author: Kevin W. Young
ISBN: 9781469679006
Format: Hardback
$168.30

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Watershed: Herman Murrah and the Pascagoula River Swamp

Watershed: Herman Murrah and the Pascagoula River Swamp...

Author: Davy Murrah ,  John McLain
ISBN: 9798874851682
Format: Audio
$163.65

The Pasagoula River is the largest unobstructed river in the continuous United States. Because of this lack of restraint,...  Read More >>

Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms

Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on...

Author: Seth Stern ,  Barry Abrams
ISBN: 9798874858797
Format: Audio
$190.05

The first book to chronicle a little-known chapter in American Jewish history when mostly Eastern European refugees...  Read More >>

Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt

Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American...

Author: Amanda McMillan Lequieu
ISBN: 9780231198752
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Through the cases of the former steel manufacturing hub of southeast Chicago and a shuttered mining community in...  Read More >>

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