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  • Hidden History of South Jersey

    From the Capitol to the Shore

    by Gordon Bond ...
    Series series Hidden History
    South Jersey is perhaps best known for its beachside boardwalks, glitzy Atlantic City hotels and blueberry farms, but behind these iconic symbols are the overlooked tales that are unique to New Jersey. While much of Harriet Tubman's life is well known, her time in Cape May is usually overlooked by biographers. Few know that the classic American drive-in movie theaters were born in South Jersey. ... Read more

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  • North Jersey Legacies

    Hidden History from the Gateway to the Skylnds

    by Gordon Bond ...
    Series series
    Did you know that the Dust Bowl hit New Jersey? Twice? How about that a mysterious experiment in "subliminal advertising" was conducted at a Fort Lee, New Jersey movie theater? Or that railroad communication was advanced on a northwest New Jersey railroad line? Or that America first heard about the Russians launch of Sputnik 2 (with a dog onboard) thanks to a Ukrainian refugee in Perth Amboy, New ... Read more

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  • The Race Underground

    Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway

    by Doug Most ...
    In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding, horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 crippled the entire northeast, a solution had to be found. Two brothers from one of the nation's great families-Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York-pursued the dream of his city ... Read more

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  • The Poisoner's Handbook

    Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

    by Deborah Blum ...
    **Equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is "a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie." —**The New York Observer**“The Poisoner’s Handbook breathes deadly life into the Roaring Twenties.” —Financial Times“Reads like science fiction, complete with suspense, mystery and foolhardy guys in lab coats ... Read more

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  • Reveille in Washington

    1860-1865

    by Margaret Leech ...
    **Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeFeaturing a foreword by Battle Cry of Freedom author James McPhersonA vibrant portrait of Civil War-era Washington, D.C. that is “packed and running over with the anecdotes, scandals, personalities, and tragi-comedies of the day”—from the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for History (The New Yorker)**1860: The American capital is sprawling, fractured, squalid, ... Read more

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  • The Routes Not Taken

    A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System

    by Joseph B. Raskin ...
    A fascinating journey into the past—and under the ground—that offers "an insightful look at the what-might-have-beens of urban mass transit" ( The New York Times).From the day it broke ground by City Hall in 1900, it took about four and half years to build New York's first subway line to West 145th Street in Harlem. Things rarely went that quickly ever again.The Routes Not Taken explores the often ... Read more

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  • Washington County Murder & Mayhem

    Historic Crimes of Southwestern Pennsylvania

    by A Parker Burroughs ...
    Explore the chilling history behind some of southwestern Pennsylvania's most horrifying murders.In 1907, a young girl was found dead in the Lyric Theatre, leaving behind an unwanted pregnancy and an abusive lover. On an otherwise quiet morning in 1891, a cartful of nitroglycerin exploded. The remains of the driver had to be gathered in a peck basket. The Cannonball Express lived up to its name in ... Read more

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  • Legends & Lore of Western Pennsylvania

    by Thomas White ...
    Series series American Legends
    Thomas White spins a beguiling yarn with tales that reach from the misty hollows of the Alleghenies to the lost islands of Pittsburgh. Oppaymolleah's Curse. General Braddock's buried gold. The original man of steel, Joe Magarac. Such legends have found a home among the rich folklore of Western Pennsylvania. White invites readers to learn the truth behind the urban legend of the Green Man, ... Read more

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  • The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn

    by Henry P. Johnston ...
    The site now occupied by the city of New York is pre-eminently "Revolutionary soil." Very few of our historic places are more closely associated with the actual scenes of that struggle. As at Boston in 1775, so here in 1776, we had the war at our doors and all about us. In the present volume the record of what has occured is given as a single connected account, with many additional particulars ... Read more

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  • The Man with the Sawed-Off Leg and Other Tales of a New York City Block

    by Daniel J. Wakin ...
    They stand proudly gazing across the Hudson River at the cliffs of New Jersey. Their brows are marked by ornamental pediments. Greek columns stand as sentries by their entrances and stone medallions bedeck their chests. They are seven graceful relics of Beaux Arts New York, townhouses built more than 100 years ago for a new class of industrialists, actors and scientists -- many from abroad -- who ... Read more

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  • Before the Trumpet

    Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905

    by Geoffrey C. Ward ...
    Before Pearl Harbor, before polio and his entry into politics, FDR was a handsome, pampered, but strong-willed youth, the center of a rarefied world. In Before the Trumpet, the award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward transports the reader to that world—Hyde Park on the Hudson and Campobello Island, Groton and Harvard and the Continent—to recreate as never before the formative years of the man who ... Read more

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  • Dispensing Beauty in New York & Beyond

    The Triumphs and Tragedies of Harriet Hubbard Ayer

    by Annette Blaugrund ...
    "An excellently researched mixture of history and biography about a maverick Victorian woman who made beauty her business." —Barbara Goldsmith, New York Times-bestselling authorHarriet Hubbard Ayer moved to New York City by 1883 and established Recamier Preparations, Inc., the earliest cosmetic company owned and operated by a woman. First with her creams and balms and then with her words about ... Read more

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