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  • The Last Soul of Witherspoon

    Life in a Kentucky Mountain Settlement School

    by Alex Browning ...
    THE LAST SOUL OF WITHERSPOON takes a global approach in its history of the school.Readers will find this book to be autobiographical as well as a social history told on three levels.Herein is a story of a person from Long Shoal in Lee County, Kentucky, whose childhood innocence collides head-on with adolescence while a student in the mountain settlement school of Witherspoon. Readers will find at ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein ...
    50th Anniversary Edition—With a new foreword on what Watergate means today.“The work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” (Time)—from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Final Days.The most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation . ... Read more

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  • Alaska Days with John Muir

    Journeying into Alaska's Wild Heart with a Nature Conservation Pioneer

    by Samuel Hall Young ...
    In "Alaska Days with John Muir," Samuel Hall Young intricately weaves a narrative that captures the breathtaking landscapes and profound experiences shared with naturalist John Muir during their expedition in Alaska. Through evocative prose, Young immerses readers in the stark beauty of the Alaskan wilderness, illustrating Muir's passionate advocacy for nature and conservation. This work, situated ... Read more

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  • Sleuthing the Alamo:Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution

    Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution

    by James E. Crisp ...
    Series series New Narratives in American History
    In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths often obscured by both racism and "political correctness," as history has been hijacked by combatants in the culture wars of the past two centuries. Beginning with a very personal prologue recalling both the pride and the prejudices that ... Read more

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  • Ghosts of 42nd Street

    A History of America's Most Infamous Block

    by Anthony Bianco ...
    Imagine shuffling down Broadway through the hustle and bustle right into the nonstop, neon heart of New York City: 42nd Street.Once a quiet neighborhood of brownstones and churches, the area wastransformed in the early 1900s into an entertainment hub unlike any in theworld. No place has ever evoked the glamour and romantic possibility of bigcity nightlife as vividly as did 42nd Street. It was the ... Read more

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  • Lasso the Wind

    Away to the New West

    by Timothy Egan ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Mountains and Plains Book Seller's Association Award"Sprawling in scope. . . . Mr. Egan uses the past powerfully to explain and give dimension to the present." --The New York Times"Fine reportage . . . honed and polished until it reads more like literature than journalism." --Los Angeles Times"They have tried to tame it, shave it, fence it, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes

    by William D. Westervelt ...
    "A richly entertaining series of Hawaiian tales with explanatory facts, which will delight and inform both the folklore fan and the general reader…" -The Honolulu AdvertiserHawaiian Legends of Volcanoes made its first appearance in 1916, in both American and British editions, as the third in a series that represented a pioneering study of Hawaiian folklore. The rich tradition of Hawaiian legends ... Read more

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  • The Center of the World of Steel: Pittsburgh 1900. Illustrated

    by Walden Fawcett ...
    Pittsburgh Pennsylvania was the center of the world of Steel at the beginning of the 20th century. Take a look at Steel and Steel making in the industrial powerhouse of turn of the century Pittsburgh. ... Read more

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  • Voices From the Trail of Tears

    Edited by Vicki Rozema ...
    During the first half of the 19th century, as many as 100,000 Native Americans were relocated west of the Mississippi River from their homelands in the East. The best known of these forced emigrations was the Cherokee Removal of 1838. Christened Nu-No-Du-Na-Tlo-Hi-Lu—literally “the Trail Where They Cried”—by the Cherokees, it is remembered today as the Trail of Tears. In Voices from the Trail of ... Read more

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  • Making Home from War

    Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement

    Edited by Brian Komei Dempster ...
    The sequel to the award-winning From Our Side of the Fence—personal stories of life after the WWII internment camps from twelve Japanese Americans.Many books have chronicled the experience of Japanese Americans in the early days of World War II, when over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were taken from their homes along the West Coast and imprisoned ... Read more

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  • Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920

    by William Thorndale, William Dollarhide ...
    This work shows all U.S. county boundaries from 1790 to 1920. On each of the nearly 400 maps the old county lines are superimposed over the modern ones to highlight the boundary changes at ten-year intervals. Also included are a history of census growth; the technical facts about each census; a discussion of census accuracy; an essay on available sources for each state's old county lines; and a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Somebody Forgot to Tell Harry

    Harry Reid's Journey from Searchlight to Spotlight

    by Adrienne Tropp ...
    Series Book 1 - Nevada Biographies for Children
    Harry Reid was born into a life that provided little promise for success. He grew up in poverty. As a child, he experienced his parents’ drinking and domestic violence. The small town of Searchlight, Nevada, where he was born, had no high school.Yet, with the help of mentors and an education in college and law school, he achieved great success as an attorney, going on to become Nevada’s youngest ... Read more

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