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Rowdy Boundaries: True Mississippi Tales from Natchez to Noxubee

Rowdy Boundaries: True Mississippi Tales from Natchez...

Author: James L. Robertson
ISBN: 9781496847102
Format: Hardback
$59.40

Dwelling along the Mississippi River, the Tennessee state line, the Tenn-Tom Waterway, and the Gulf of Mexico are...  Read More >>

Useful to the Church and Kingdom: The Journals of James H. Martineau, Pioneer and Patriarch, 1850-1918, Volume: 2: Volume 2

Useful to the Church and Kingdom: The Journals of James...

Author: Noel A Carmack ,  Charles M Hatch
ISBN: 9781560854623
Format: Hardback
$105.47

After receiving a liberal arts education at the Munro Academy in Elbridge, New York, and a stint in the U.S.-Mexican...  Read More >>

Channel Island Monsters

Channel Island Monsters

Author: Erren Michaels ,  Amelia Wilde
ISBN: 9781803994727
Format: Hardback
$42.99

An exquisitely illustrated guide to the monster myths of the Channel Islands: dark yet playful retellings of ancient...  Read More >>

Visionary Road to the Capital: The Little Known Story of John Harris, Jr.

Visionary Road to the Capital: The Little Known Story...

Author: David Biser
ISBN: 9781960007308
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Pioneer, patriot, politician... John Harris Jr. was a true visionary in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania-during...  Read More >>

Aggression and Sufferings: Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South

Aggression and Sufferings: Settler Violence, Native...

Author: F Evan Nooe ,  James R Cheatham
ISBN: 9798874682828
Format: Audio
$190.05

"In 1823, Tennessee historian John Haywood encapsulated a foundational sentiment among the white citizenry of Tennessee...  Read More >>

Capitol America: A Photographic Portrait of the Fifty State Capitols

Capitol America: A Photographic Portrait of the Fifty...

Author: Robert Lisak ,  David Ottenstein
ISBN: 9780764366765
Format: Hardback
$125.00

An unprecedented photographic portrait of all 50 US state capitol buildings, exploring architecture, interior spaces,...  Read More >>

A Remarkable Story to Tell: TCU 1973-2023

A Remarkable Story to Tell: TCU 1973-2023

Author: Dan Williams ,  Peggy Watson
ISBN: 9780875658513
Format: Hardback
$84.70

Narrated by hundreds of individuals who have played important roles in TCU’s flourishing third half-century, this...  Read More >>

London's Secret Square Mile

London's Secret Square Mile

Author: David Long ,  Nicholas Lyons
ISBN: 9781803994864
Format: Paperback
$32.99

All the fascinating hidden features that London's Square Mile has to offer the tourist or the seasoned Londoner...  Read More >>

On Foot in Bath: Fifteen Walks Around a World Heritage CIty

On Foot in Bath: Fifteen Walks Around a World Heritage...

Author: Andrew Swift
ISBN: 9780993398841
Format: Paperback
$43.96

Bath is one of the best cities in the world to explore on foot, and is surrounded by unspoilt countryside. This...  Read More >>

Millie's: Then and Now

Millie's: Then and Now

Author: Jeffrey Smith
ISBN: 9798869015204
Format: Paperback
$26.40

It's been more than eight decades since the bar and dance hall originally known as The Cedars opened in 1942 on...  Read More >>

She Devils at the Door

She Devils at the Door

Author: Eliza Smith Brown
ISBN: 9780887486982
Format: Paperback
$76.56

The true story of the Gilded Age’s “political twins” who brought women’s suffrage and political reform to the city...  Read More >>

Enter the Jungle: Photographs and History of the Cincinnati Bengals

Enter the Jungle: Photographs and History of the Cincinnati...

Author: James Rapien ,  Dan Hoard
ISBN: 9781940647999
Format: Hardback
$66.00

Get the beautiful book that presents the history of the Cincinnati Bengals football team, with full-color photography...  Read More >>

White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port

White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at...

Author: Kate Storey
ISBN: 9798885793124
Format: Hardback
$92.37

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Dirty Deeds: Land, Violence, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee

Dirty Deeds: Land, Violence, and the 1856 San Francisco...

Author: Nancy J. Taniguchi
ISBN: 9780806193083
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Tells a story in which a band of men took over a city in an attempt to control the most valuable land on the West...  Read More >>

The Lightning Field: Travels in and around New Mexico

The Lightning Field: Travels in and around New Mexico...

Author: Robert Eaton
ISBN: 9798988611196
Format: Paperback
$39.47

The Lightning Field is a series of portraits of people and out-of-the-way places in New Mexico and, occasionally,...  Read More >>

Another Day: More Stories from the Early Colonial Records of Virginia's Eastern Shore

Another Day: More Stories from the Early Colonial Records...

Author: Jenean Hall
ISBN: 9780983266037
Format: Paperback
$58.05

"""Error in history is like a flock of sheep jumping over a bridge; if one goes, the rest all follow."" (Charles...  Read More >>

My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera

My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera

Author: Beth Kephart
ISBN: 9781439923948
Format: Hardback
$79.20

""Highly personal and idiosyncratically historical, this book is a memoirist's guide to more than fifty paper objects,...  Read More >>

Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils of Washington State

Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils of Washington...

Author: Elizabeth A. Nesbitt ,  David B. Williams
ISBN: 9780295752327
Format: Paperback
$50.99

From trilobites near the Idaho border and primitive horses on the Columbia Plateau to giant bird tracks near Bellingham...  Read More >>

The Lightning Field: Travels in and around New Mexico

The Lightning Field: Travels in and around New Mexico...

Author: Robert Eaton
ISBN: 9798988611189
Format: Hardback
$65.87

The Lightning Field is a series of portraits of people and out-of-the-way places in New Mexico and, occasionally,...  Read More >>

Up the Rhondda!: A peculiar sort of hiraeth

Up the Rhondda!: A peculiar sort of hiraeth

Author: John Geraint
ISBN: 9781800994874
Format: Paperback
$25.85

In this kaleidoscopic portrait, John Geraint captures with a filmmaker’s eye the exuberant life of this former mining...  Read More >>

Against the Tide: The Turbulent Times of a Black Entrepreneur

Against the Tide: The Turbulent Times of a Black Entrepreneur...

Author: J H Sullivan
ISBN: 9798989076505
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Against the Tide is a true story that captures the fear and hardships faced by African Americans during a disturbing...  Read More >>

American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail

American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland...

Author: Sarah Keyes
ISBN: 9781512824513
Format: Hardback
$105.47

""This book reinterprets the historic touchstone of the Overland Trail as a story of death and Native activism....  Read More >>

Our Bird Comrades

Our Bird Comrades

Author: Earl H Reed
ISBN: 9789357911672
Format: Book
$35.48

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On Angels Wings

On Angels Wings

Author: Mary Johnston ,  Allen Johnson
ISBN: 9789357720885
Format: Book
$34.21

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