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  • Gotham

    A History of New York City to 1898

    by Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace ...
    Series series The History of NYC Series
    To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Blue Sky Dream

    A Memoir of America's Fall from Grace

    by David Beers ...
    In Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America’s Fall from Grace, award-winner David Beers offers a powerful, personal vision of the rise and fall of the American middle class. Here is a dazzling literary chronicle of a family, a people, and a nation: the “blue sky tribe” of ever-optimistic middle-class Americans who believed in something called the American Dream, then woke up one day to discover it was ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Alaska

    by Ella Higginson ...
    When the Russians first came to the island of Unalaska, they were told that a vast country lay to the eastward and that its name was Al-ay-ek-sa. Their own island the Aleuts called Nagun-Alayeksa, meaning "the land lying near Alayeksa."The Russians in time came to call the country itself Alashka; the peninsula, Aliaska; and the island, Unalashka. Alaska is an English corruption of the original ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Waterman's Song

    Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina

    by David S. Cecelski ...
    The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman’s Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers. Demonstrating the vitality and significance of this ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Banned in Boston

    The Watch and Ward Society's Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil

    by Neil Miller ...
    “I want to be intelligent, even if I do live in Boston.”—an anonymous Bostonian, 1929In this spectacular romp through the Puritan City, Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city in America, forever linked with the infamous catchphrase “Banned in Boston.”Bankrolled by society’s upper crust, the New ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Touring the Shenandoah Valley Backroads

    by Andrea Sutcliffe ...
    Shenandoah—most often translated as "Daughter of the Stars"—is one of the loveliest names in the language. Backroads travelers will find that it fits the Valley perfectly. Most people know the Shenandoah Valley for its Civil War–era history, from Robert E. Lee's capture of John Brown at Harpers Ferry in 1859 to Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign of 1862 to the Battle of New Market in 1864. Fewer ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Traveler's Guide to the Great Sioux War

    The Battlefields, Forts, and Related Sites of America's Greatest Indian War

    by Paul Hedren ...
    “The Great Sioux War was the most famous Indian war in American history but most of its sites have been known to only a few students of the conflict—until now! This invaluable guide, by one of the leading historians of the military frontier, is essential reading for anyone interested in this epic moment from our past.”—Paul Andrew Hutton, author of Phil Sheridan and His Army, and editor of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • War in Kanawha County

    School Textbook Protest in West Virginia in 1974

    by Don Means ...
    In 1974, the Board of Education in Kanawha County West Virginia introduced a set of new textbooks into the standard curriculum. These textbooks contained offensive language, compared Bible stories to well-known myths and fables, and also, in the opinion of some citizens, lacked the basic ideals of right and wrong. War in Kanawha County: School Textbook Protest in West Virginia in 1974, written by ... Read more

    $8.99 USD