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  • Syosset People and Places

    by John Delin ...
    Series series Images of America
    The hamlet of Syosset, located on Long Island�s North Shore, was settled by the Dutch and English in 1648 and was known as Eastwoods. It was not until 1854, when the Long Island Rail Road named its new stop, that the hamlet was given the name Syosset. The presence of the railroad led to a continued population expansion as local farmers prospered and newcomers discovered and joined the desirable ... Read more

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  • Heaven's Ditch

    God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal

    by Jack Kelly ...
    A page-turning narrative, Heaven's Ditch offers an excitingly fresh look at a heady, foundational moment in American history.The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • New Labor in New York

    Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement

    Edited by Ruth Milkman, Edward Ott ...
    New York City boasts a higher rate of unionization than any other major U.S. city—roughly double the national average—but the city's unions have suffered steady and relentless decline, especially in the private sector. With higher levels of income inequality than any other large city in the nation, New York today is home to a large and growing precariat—workers with little or no employment ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Ukrainians of Western Pennsylvania

    by Stephen P. Haluszczak ...
    Series series Images of America
    Originally known as Ruthenians, Ukrainians began to immigrate to western Pennsylvania in the late 1800s. Attracted by the region�s growing importance as an industrial center, they settled in cities and towns close to their work. Like other immigrants, they faced many economic and social hardships, but they were proud to call themselves Americans as they firmly preserved and celebrated their ethnic ... Read more

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  • A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith: Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia

    by Lauren F. Winner ...

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  • The Imperial Season

    America's Capital in the Time of the First Ambassadors, 1893-1918

    by William Seale ...
    This story of the young city of Washington coming up in the international scene is populated with presidents, foreign diplomats, civil servants, architects, artists, and influential hosts and hostesses who were enamored of the idea of world power but had little idea of the responsibilities involved.Between the Spanish American War and World War I, the thrill of America's new international role in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry

    A History of Misery and Medicine

    by John Paul Webster ...
    This account of the infamous asylum is "an excellent record of greed and corruption, but it is also a powerful testimonial to compassion and kindness" ( Hidden City).The Quaker City and its hospitals were pioneers in the field of mental health. Yet by the end of the nineteenth century, its institutions were crowded and patients lived in shocking conditions. The mentally ill were quartered with the ... 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

    $9.99 USD

  • The Ellis Island Snow Globe

    by Erica Rand ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In The Ellis Island Snow Globe, Erica Rand, author of the smart and entertaining book Barbie’s Queer Accessories, takes readers on an unconventional tour of Ellis Island, the migration station turned heritage museum, and its neighbor, the Statue of Liberty. By pausing to reflect on what is and is not on display at these two iconic national monuments, Rand focuses attention on whose heritage is ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Haunted Ocean City and Berlin

    by Mindie Burgoyne ...
    Series series Haunted America
    A vacation destination and a historic small town: two places that make Maryland great—and ghostly. More chills from the author of Haunted Eastern Shore.A ghostly sea captain, an ill-fated lover and jazz musicians who go on playing long after their last songs—these are the spirits that make their presence known from Ocean City's Boardwalk to the picturesque town square of Berlin. The phantom scent ... Read more

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  • University of Baltimore

    by Thomas L. Hollowak ...
    Series series Campus History
    Since its founding in 1925, the University of Baltimore has become one of Maryland's premier educational institutions. Originally organized as a practical solution for working men and women seeking a college degree, the institution developed rapidly-the School of Law and the College of Business Administration, begun in the founding year as evening professional schools, were joined by a day ... Read more

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  • Yardley

    by Vince Profy ...
    Series series Images of America
    Yardley revisits the 200 year history of the borough through photographs. In the eighteenth century, a ferry and mill marked the crossroads beginnings of Yardleyville in Makefield Township. New modes of transportation transformed the village, commerce and industry flourished, and the population increased substantially. Soon the people of Yardley yearned for their own government--their own town- ... Read more

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