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  • Spanning Centuries

    The Remarkable True Legend of Martin's Mill Bridge (and the Community Who Saved Her)

    Folks in these parts have been marrying their stories to this old covered bridge for at least seven generations. By the measures of kin, that would be your great-grandmother's great-grandmother's mother. They carved their initials, maybe a date or a name if it were short enough. Sweetest perhaps are those lovers' hearts- etched on the woven trusses that shielded kisses from the censure of a ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Manasses (Bull Run) National Battlefield Park-Virginia (Illustrations)

    National Park Service Historical Handbook No.15

    Example in this ebookThe First Days of the WarThe flash and the dull roar of a 10-inch mortar, April 12, 1861, announced to a startled countryside the firing of the opening gun of the Civil War. Two days later Fort Sumter surrendered. The reverberations of this shot were to shake the very foundations of the Nation. Gone was the period of apathy and indecision. Events now moved with lightning-like ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • Under the L

    A Chronicle of Growing up in the Near North Side of Chicago in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s

    Growing Up In The Near North Side Of Chicago is an oral history, turned into a chronicle, obtained by personal interviews with my childhood friends recorded on audiotape. This book is not a scientific social document. It is not a confession, nor does it try to achieve catharsis.This book was written out of awe. I hold my childhood in awe. Awe that so much of the human condition can flow from such ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Secret Tucson: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

    de Clark Norton ...
    What onetime New York crime boss spent his last decades in Tucson? Which cutting-edge scientific lab is hidden below a football stadium here? Why does the Beatles’ classic song “Get Back” include a nod to Tucson? And what on earth is a “stravenue?” To find the answers to some of the most intriguing and entertaining questions about Tucson, look no further than Secret Tucson: A Guide to the Weird, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Elites and Change in the Kentucky Mountains

    Many Americans who trace their roots to communities similar to those of Appalachian Kentucky are becoming aware of the extent to which the problems of such communities represent the price paid for keeping alive traditions that are beginning to be missed in the wider society. Using fresh data and ingenious ways of letting local people speak for themselves, Mary Jean Bowman and H. Dudley Plunkett ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War 1

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

    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 ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Manhattan in Maps 1527-2014

    Series series New York City
    More than 400 years of history unfold in the pages of this lavishly illustrated volume, which presents sixty-five full-color maps of America's oldest major city. This is Manhattan's first atlas of historical maps, gathered from private collections and libraries throughout the world. From Giovanni da Verrazzano's first glimpse of New York Harbor in the sixteenth century to a modern aerial survey of ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Pioneers of Riverside County

    The Spanish, Mexican and Early American Periods

    de Steve Lech ...
    Riverside County encompasses more than two million people and most of the width of California, from Los Angeles's eastern suburbs to the Arizona state line at the Colorado River. Historian Steve Loch captures the vanished past of this vast swath of deserts and mountains--the eras of Spanish and then Mexican rule and the exploits of the earliest settlers of the American period. Juan Bautista de ... Leer más

    $13.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Legendary Locals of Bel Air

    Residents of Bel Air, a small county seat located in northern Maryland, played inordinately large roles in the evolution of the state and nation. Bel Air boasts two Maryland governors, William Paca and Augustus Bradford; the fi rst woman elected to the Maryland State Senate, Mary Risteau; as well as Milton Reckord, whose 65-year military career is unequaled. Other local legends include radio ... Leer más

    $13.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Wild West

    History, myth & the making of America

    On 14 May 1804, one Captain Meriwether Lewis and his companion William Clark led a thirty-three-man expedition to the new lands of Louisiana. 8,000 miles and two years later, after rafting up the Missouri and crossing the Rocky Mountains, they reached the far side of the world, the Pacific Ocean.Fredrick Nolan explores the first US settlers of the American West, including the remarkable stories of ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Erie's Backyard Strangler

    Terror in the 1960s

    On a cold morning in December 1960, sixty-year-old Laura Mutch was found strangled behind a house in downtown Erie.... The city was reaching new heights, including a triumphant run for the coveted "All-American City" award, yet the incident created pandemonium. As investigations progressed, attacks on women continued, sending citizens and seasoned investigators to the brink of chaos. Seventy-two ... Leer más

    $3.01 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • West Virginia

    A History

    " An essential resource for scholars, students, and all lovers of the Mountaineer State. From bloody skirmishes with Indians on the early frontier to the Logan County mine war, the story of West Virginia is punctuated with episodes as colorful and rugged as the mountains that dominate its landscape. In this first modern comprehensive history, Otis Rice and Stephen Brown balance these episodes of ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Founding Mothers

    The Women Who Raised Our Nation

    de Cokie Roberts ...
    Legendary journalist Cokie Roberts' New York Times bestseller, Founding Mothers, is an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families—and their country—proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it.While much has been written about the men who signed the Declaration of ... Leer más

    $12.79 USD

  • A Culinary History of Southern Delaware

    Scrapple, Beach Plums and Muskrat

    Historic farms and waterways crisscross Southern Delaware, connecting its residents to a set of rich culinary traditions. The original Nanticoke inhabitants baked hearty johnnycakes and hunted wild game. Hungry for a taste of home, German settlers developed scrapple from local ingredients. Today's home cooks and chefs draw their bounty from the land and sea for a distinct, seasonal cuisine. Summer ... Leer más

    $13.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Marion Popcorn Festival

    A Fun-Filled History

    In 1981, a small group of local business leaders put Marion, Ohio, on the path to hosting the largest popcorn festival on the planet. Founded in part to honor the achievements of Marion-based Wyandot, Incorporated, once the world's largest popcorn exporter, the Marion Popcorn Festival celebrates the city's dynamic industrial past. Free and open to the public for more than three decades, the ... Leer más

    $13.09 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Great Day to Fight Fire

    Mann Gulch, 1949

    de Mark Matthews ...
    Mann Gulch, Montana, 1949. Sixteen men ventured into hell to fight a raging wildfire; only three came out alive. Searing the fire into the nation’s consciousness, Norman Maclean chronicled the Mann Gulch tragedy in his award-winning book Young Men and Fire. Still, the silence of the victims’ families robbed Maclean’s account of an essential personal dimension. Shifting the focus from the fire to ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • A Caines Family Tradition

    A Native Son's Story of Fishing, Hunting and Duck Decoys in the Lowcountry

    In Winyah Bay, near Georgetown, South Carolina, the Caines family is known for three things: fishing, hunting and hell-raising.Jerry Caines and his younger brother Roy�the Caines boys�grew up following the untamed example of their grandfather, Hucks Caines, and great-uncles�collectively known as the Caines brothers�who were renowned hunting guides at Hobcaw Barony. In this book, follow two ... Leer más

    $13.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • In Their Shoes

    In Their Shoes

    de Grace Halsell ...
    Series series Chisholm Trail Series
    Probably no American journalist, man or woman, has had a more extraordinary career than Grace Halsell. Before President Lyndon Johnson personally hired her to work in the White House, Halsell had, over a period of two decades, written her way around the world - Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Orient, and the Americas.Born on the windswept plains of West Texas, Halsell was encouraged from the ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD

  • Forgotten Tales of Tennessee

    de Kelly Kazek ...
    Series series Forgotten Tales
    Tennessee has never been a stranger to strangeness.Stories of the weird, wild, and wonderful abound in the Volunteer state. Join author and seasoned journalist Kelly Kazek as she tracks down the extraordinary stories that other history books overlook. Each section covers a different outlandish theme of Tennessee history colorful characters, strange sites, intriguing incidents, tombstone tales, odd ... Leer más

    $11.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • High Vistas

    An Anthology of Nature Writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains, 1900-2009

    High Vistas is the first anthology devoted to nature and descriptive writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains, inclusive of the Tennessee side of the present day Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Arranged chronologically with annotations, the twenty-one selections in this second of two volumes display the variety and development of nature and descriptive writing in the ... Leer más

    $3.01 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Laudonniere & Fort Caroline

    History and Documents

    This classic historical resource remains the most complete work on the establishment of Fort Caroline, which heralded the start of permanent settlement by Europeans in North America. America's history was shaped in part by the clash of cultures that took place in the southeastern United States in the 1560s. Indians, French, and Spaniards vied to profit from European attempts to colonize the land ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Rise & Fall of Nashville Lawyer Tommy Osborn

    Kennedy Convictions

    Author William L. Tabac describes the extraordinary legal proceeding with the twists and turns of a modern television drama and the fall of a prominent attorney.Tommy Osborn's star was rising. The young Nashville lawyer led a band of Tennessee reformers to victory in a landmark Supreme Court case. Hailed by Chief Justice Earl Warren as the most important of his career, Baker v. Carr's "one man, ... Leer más

    $13.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Extraordinary Women Conservationists of Washington

    Mothers of Nature

    de Dee Arntz ...
    Courageous women are to thank for many of Washington's environmental conservation successes. Bonnie Phillips, Melanie Rowland and Helen Engle battled harmful timber cutting. Polly Dyer and Emily Haig worked to expand Olympic National Park and organized efforts to establish North Cascades National Park. Women helped create the Washington Environmental Council and Washington Conservation Voters. As ... Leer más

    $3.01 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Caffeinated PDX

    How Portland Became the Best Coffee City in America

    de Will Hutchens ...
    In Portland, Oregon, coffee is an important part of the city’s highly regarded quality of life. Under oft-gray skies, independent roasters and cafés flourish, providing a wide array of styles and tastes for discerning Portlanders to choose from. The Portland coffee culture attracts visitors from around the world, who come to enjoy the diverse options and to find inspiration for bringing great ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD