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Vision Accomplished

Vision Accomplished

Author: W Galligan
ISBN: 9780253068330
Format: Hardback
$82.99

The remarkable story of the Kansas City Southern tells of a company that from day 1 followed its own path, led by...  Read More >>

The Doctor Was a Woman: Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier

The Doctor Was a Woman: Stories of the First Female...

Author: Chris Enss
ISBN: 9781493062928
Format: Hardback
$57.99

""The long-awaited follow up title to Chris Enss's bestselling Doctor Wore Petticoats, profiles 10 new female physicians...  Read More >>

Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches from Alaska's Frontier

Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches from...

Author: Seth Kantner ,  Gabriel Vaughan
ISBN: 9798874768935
Format: Audio
$105.57

Compelling Alaska stories from Seth Kantner, bestselling author of Ordinary Wolves  Read More >>

Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches from Alaska's Frontier

Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches from...

Author: Seth Kantner ,  Gabriel Vaughan
ISBN: 9798874768942
Format: Audio
$121.31

Compelling Alaska stories from Seth Kantner, bestselling author of Ordinary Wolves  Read More >>

Speed Capital: Indianapolis Auto Racing and the Making of Modern America

Speed Capital: Indianapolis Auto Racing and the Making...

Author: Brian M. Ingrassia
ISBN: 9780252045554
Format: Hardback
$285.00

How a speedway became a legendary sports site and sparked America’s car culture The 1909 opening of the Indianapolis...  Read More >>

Advertising Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Tom Burrell

Advertising Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Tom...

Author: Jason P. Chambers
ISBN: 9780252045530
Format: Hardback
$251.00

The ad exec who revolutionized the image of Black Americans in advertising Over a forty-year career, Chicagoan Tom...  Read More >>

My Life of High Adventure

My Life of High Adventure

Author: Grant H Pearson ,  Philip Newill
ISBN: 9798869096494
Format: Paperback
$44.85

My Life of High Adventure, first published in 1962, is the autobiography of Grant Pearson, park ranger and later...  Read More >>

Exiled to Motown: A Community History of Japanese Americans in Detroit

Exiled to Motown: A Community History of Japanese Americans...

Author: Scott Kurashige (James and Grace Lee Boggs Foundation)
ISBN: 9780295749020
Format: Paperback
$79.20

During World War II, Detroit emerged as a relative space of freedom for Nisei permitted by the War Relocation Authority...  Read More >>

Before Lawrence v. Texas: The Making of a Queer Social Movement

Before Lawrence v. Texas: The Making of a Queer Social...

Author: Wesley G. Phelps
ISBN: 9781477329474
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The grassroots queer activism and legal challenges that led to a landmark Supreme Court decision in favor of gay...  Read More >>

Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West

Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West

Author: Bryce Andrews
ISBN: 9780063316515
Format: Paperback
$50.13

"""Beautifully observed. . . This jewel of a book belongs on the shelf with our best Western writers--Norman MacLean,...  Read More >>

Granbury and Hood County

Granbury and Hood County

Author: Melinda Jo Ray
ISBN: 9781467161169
Format: Paperback
$65.97

"Granbury and Hood County's history is both an American pioneer saga and a 20th-century rags to riches story. In...  Read More >>

St. Edward's University Athletics: A History from Saints to Tigers to Hilltoppers

St. Edward's University Athletics: A History from Saints...

Author: John Knorr
ISBN: 9781467156332
Format: Paperback
$71.25

Celebrate the athletes of St. Edwards University. Competitive sports have crowned the St. Edward's University hilltop...  Read More >>

Fiorello La Guardia: The People's Mayor - A Champion of Democracy in New York City

Fiorello La Guardia: The People's Mayor - A Champion...

Author: Scott J Holmes
ISBN: 9798883796912
Format: Paperback
$39.57

"A comprehensive tour through the colorful life and revolutionary leadership of one of New York City's most well-known...  Read More >>

Lost Ohio Treasure

Lost Ohio Treasure

Author: Mark Strecker
ISBN: 9781467155908
Format: Paperback
$65.97

"The Buckeye State is rich in buried treasure stories, but what's true and what's not? Wild yarns and plausible...  Read More >>

Fifty Years of Energy Policy, 1973-2023: Lessons for the Future

Fifty Years of Energy Policy, 1973-2023: Lessons for...

Author: John M Deutch
ISBN: 9781736772041
Format: Hardback
$76.43

"An exemplar of ""applied history"" as pioneered by Ernest May and Richard Neustadt, Fifty Years of Energy Policy,...  Read More >>

Original Ohio: Dreamsville, the Magic City & Other Historic Ohio Communities

Original Ohio: Dreamsville, the Magic City & Other Historic...

Author: David W Meyers ,  Elise Meyers Walker
ISBN: 9781467156233
Format: Paperback
$65.97

"""Every community begins with a dream--a dream of a better life."" Home to thousands of settlements extending...  Read More >>

Inland Empire and San Gabriel Valley Movie Theatres

Inland Empire and San Gabriel Valley Movie Theatres...

Author: Kelli Shapiro Phd
ISBN: 9781467107242
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Los Angeles County's San Gabriel Valley and the adjacent Inland Empire, encompassing San Bernardino and Riverside...  Read More >>

Aberdeen by Tram in photographs by E.N.C. Haywood

Aberdeen by Tram in photographs by E.N.C. Haywood

Author: Lewis Hutton
ISBN: 9781840339697
Format: Paperback
$33.51

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Lost Delaware

Lost Delaware

Author: Rachel Kipp ,  Dan Shortridge
ISBN: 9781467156424
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Former Delaware journalists Rachel Kipp and Dan Shortridge document the past, present, and sometimes the future...  Read More >>

The Niagara River

The Niagara River

Author: Archer Butler Hulbert
ISBN: 9791041984329
Format: Paperback
$60.72

The Niagara River from Archer Butler Hulbert. Historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history...  Read More >>

Pulaski County

Pulaski County

Author: Brian David Irby
ISBN: 9781467160940
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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Vestry Minutes of St. Paul's Parish, Chowan County, North Carolina, 1701-1776 (2nd Edition)

Vestry Minutes of St. Paul's Parish, Chowan County,...

Author: Raymond Parker Fouts
ISBN: 9781639141760
Format: Paperback
$79.20

"By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1983, reprinted 2024, 144 pages, (2nd Edition) 8 1/2"" x 11"" soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-176-0....  Read More >>

Child-Life on the Tidewater: A Memoir of Coastal Georgia

Child-Life on the Tidewater: A Memoir of Coastal Georgia...

Author: Buddy Sullivan
ISBN: 9798350930931
Format: Hardback
$79.99

A memoir of ancestry and upbringing in the Georgia low country with historical essays, images and maps  Read More >>

In Common With: The Fish Wars, the Boldt Decision, and the Fight to Save Salmon in the Pacific Northwest

In Common With: The Fish Wars, the Boldt Decision, and...

Author: Bill Wilkerson ,  Don Pugnetti
ISBN: 9781737595335
Format: Hardback
$71.15

""After a court ruling turned a fight over salmon into chaos, a group of leaders had a new idea: bringing adversaries...  Read More >>

A Gold Hunter's Experience

A Gold Hunter's Experience

Author: Chalkley J Hambleton
ISBN: 9789361423499
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Early in the summer of 1860 I had a bad attack of gold fever. In Chicago the conditions for such a malady were all...  Read More >>

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