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  • Hauntings of Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown

    by Jackie Eileen Behrend ...
    Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown comprise Virginia's historic triangle. Some of the most important chapters of America's history unfolded in these settlements. The region has been the scene of violent confrontations between settlers and the original natives, an emotional struggle for independence, a bitter civil war, and, most recently, a transformation into one of the country's finest ... Read more

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  • Strategy & Soul: A Campaigner's Tale of Fighting Billionaires, Corrupt Officials, and Philadelphia Casinos

    by Daniel Hunter ...
    When Daniel Hunter and Jethro Heiko began planning at a kitchen table, they knew that their movement would be outspent by hundreds of millions of dollars. They were up against powerful elected officials, private investigators, hired thugs, and the state supreme court. Even before they started, newspapers concluded the movement had no chance.This riveting David versus Goliath story is a rare first ... Read more

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  • Astoria

    by Washington Irving ...
    In 1836, Irving published " Astoria ; or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains ;" a somewhat curious example of literary skill. A voluminous commercial correspondence was the dull ore of the earth which he refined and wrought into symmetry and splendor. Irving reduced to a regular narrative the events to which it referred, bringing out the picturesque whenever he found it, and ... Read more

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  • Wells, Fargo Detective

    A Biography of James B. Hume

    by Richard Dillon ...
    In the tradition of his award-winning biographies, Meriwether Lewis and Fool’s Gold, acclaimed historian Richard Dillon recreates the life of one of frontier America’s most gifted lawmen, James B. Hume.Dillon paints a vivid picture of Hume, the greatest of Wells, Fargo and company’s detectives, who ranged all over the West in search of robbers of the firm’s express shipments.Formerly a sheriff in ... Read more

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  • Noodling for Flatheads

    Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Com

    by Burkhard Bilger ...
    The Old South is slow to give up its secrets. Though satellite dishes outnumber banjo players a thousand to one, most traditions haven't died; they've just gone into hiding. Cockfighting is illegal in forty-eight states, yet there are three national cockfighting magazines and cockpits in even the most tranquil communities. Homemade liquor has been outlawed for more than a century, yet moonshiners ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The New History in an Old Museum

    Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg

    by Richard Handler, Eric Gable ...
    The New History in an Old Museum is an exploration of "historical truth" as presented at Colonial Williamsburg. More than a detailed history of a museum and tourist attraction, it examines the packaging of American history, and consumerism and the manufacturing of cultural beliefs. Through extensive fieldwork—including numerous site visits, interviews with employees and visitors, and archival ... Read more

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  • Milwaukee Mafia

    by Gavin Schmitt ...
    Series series Images of America
    Milwaukee is best known for its beer - and rightfully so. But in the days of Prohibition, the big alcohol suppliers were not Miller, Blatz, Schlitz, and Pabst. The Mafia had control, and it made its money by running alcohol as far away as Canada and Indiana, as well as with counterfeiting, the numbers racket, and two of the biggest heists in American history. From then on, the sky was the limit, ... Read more

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  • Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War 2

    The United States History for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults

    by Oldiees Publishing ...
    Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War tells stories about the ideas and issues that have shaped the United States in the era of Abraham Lincoln’s presidential term and the Civil War. You can think of it not just as a series of history of America and its people, but a series of lessons.Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving ... Read more

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  • The Nurseries on Randall's Island, New York City 1867 Illustrated.

    by W H Davenport ...
    Davenport's report, like his series on the work house and the lunatic asylum on Blackwell's Island, gives a good account of how orphans and the children of the poor and the indigent were handled in mid nineteenth century America. Bits of the history of social work is revealed in all three pieces. ... Read more

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  • On the Plains and Across the Plains, Illustrated

    by Theodore R Davis ...
    Denver was a small town at the foot of the mountains when Theodore Davis took a stagecoach across the plains on the Smoky Hill Route from Atchison, Kansas. Herds of Buffalo and unfriendly Indians made the journey both exhilarating and dangerous, with a cavalry escort on parts of the trail. " 'Here they come!' and the crack of a rifle was responded to by a yell, followed by the singing whiz of ... Read more

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  • Vengeance in a Small Town

    The Thorndale Lynching of 1911

    by George R. Nielsen ...
    One hundred years ago, in 1911, two young men lost their lives: one from a stab wound and the other by mob action. In an attempt to explain how such violence could take place in a prosperous and forward-looking community, the author first examines the growth of Thorndale as a small agricultural town on the railroad and then connects Thorndales geographical setting in central Texas with its ... Read more

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  • Iosco County, Michigan: Family History

    by Iosco County Historical Society ...
    Limited Edition, Iosco County, Michigan, some Early History of the area, with some family histories and including those of some local businesses and facilities. ... Read more

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