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Travels and Trails: A Historical Tour Guide to East Las Vegas and Storrie Lake, New Mexico

Travels and Trails: A Historical Tour Guide to East...

Author: Patricia Halverson
ISBN: 9781632936288
Format: Paperback
$52.67

A tour guide of East Las Vegas, New Mexico and the people who helped to develop the area.  Read More >>

Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: Faith & Liberty in Fredericksburg

Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Statute for Religious...

Author: Michael Aubrecht
ISBN: 9781467156585
Format: Paperback
$65.97

"Jefferson's Legacy of Freedom for the Old Dominion Prior to his death Thomas Jefferson left behind specific instructions...  Read More >>

True Crime Northern Virginia in the '50s & '60s

True Crime Northern Virginia in the '50s & '60s

Author: Zachary G Ford
ISBN: 9781467156660
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Discover crimes that made headlines across northern Virginia in the 1950s and 60s. As the suburbs of Washington,...  Read More >>

Citizen Carl: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge, and Invented the Parking Meter

Citizen Carl: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot...

Author: Jack McElroy
ISBN: 9780826365767
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Educator, lawyer, editor, inventor, entrepreneur, and civic booster, Carl Magee helped shape New Mexico and Oklahoma...  Read More >>

The Violent World of Broadus Miller: A Story of Murder, Lynch Mobs, and Judicial Punishment in the Carolinas

The Violent World of Broadus Miller: A Story of Murder,...

Author: Kevin W. Young
ISBN: 9781469679013
Format: Paperback
$50.60

Vividly illustrates the violence-wracked world of the early twentieth century in the Carolinas. Kevin Young provides...  Read More >>

Legend & Lore of the Lost Adams

Legend & Lore of the Lost Adams

Author: John Lemay
ISBN: 9781953221193
Format: Paperback
$52.77

For years, the tale of a group of miners who found a hidden canyon of gold only to be massacred by the Apache was...  Read More >>

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton...

Author: Kathryn Olivarius
ISBN: 9780674295551
Format: Paperback
$38.95

In antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were...  Read More >>

California Gold: Sidney Robertson and the WPA California Folk Music Project

California Gold: Sidney Robertson and the WPA California...

Author: Catherine Hiebert Kerst ,  Library of Congress
ISBN: 9780520391314
Format: Hardback
$57.95

California Gold offers a compelling cultural snapshot of a diverse California during the 1930s at the height of...  Read More >>

Six Constitutions Over Texas: Texas' Political Identity, 1830-1900

Six Constitutions Over Texas: Texas' Political Identity,...

Author: William Chriss ,  H. W. Brands
ISBN: 9781648431715
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Replete with insights on the ways in which systems of law impact social control and political identity, Six Constitutions...  Read More >>

The Texas Lowcountry: Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 1822-1895

The Texas Lowcountry: Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf...

Author: John R. Lundberg
ISBN: 9781648431753
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Examines slavery and Reconstruction in a region of Texas the author terms the lowcountry - an area encompassing...  Read More >>

100 Years 100 Lumberjacks

100 Years 100 Lumberjacks

Author: Scott Sosebee ,  Perky Beisel
ISBN: 9781622882472
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Stephen F. Austin State Teacher’s College - now Stephen F. Austin State University - opened its doors to students...  Read More >>

More Historic Homes of Waco, Texas

More Historic Homes of Waco, Texas

Author: Kenneth Hafertepe
ISBN: 9781648431180
Format: Hardback
$110.88

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Irish Fever: An Archaeology of Illness, Injury, and Healing in New York City, 1845-1875

Irish Fever: An Archaeology of Illness, Injury, and...

Author: Meredith Linn
ISBN: 9781621908456
Format: Hardback
$158.40

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The German Texas Frontier in 1853 Volume 1: Ferdinand Lindheimer's Newspaper Accounts of the Environment, Gold, and Indians

The German Texas Frontier in 1853 Volume 1: Ferdinand...

Author: Daniel J. Gelo ,  Christopher J. Wickham
ISBN: 9781574419290
Format: Hardback
$92.27

In late 1852, Ferdinand Lindheimer became founding editor of a German-language weekly newspaper for the German settler...  Read More >>

On the Trail of Robert the Bruce

On the Trail of Robert the Bruce

Author: David R. Ross
ISBN: 9781913025137
Format: Paperback
$23.26

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Hell Put To Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

Hell Put To Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and...

Author: Earl Swift
ISBN: 9780063265387
Format: Hardback
$65.00

"""Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of the single most savage episode in the long decades of...  Read More >>

Great Lakes Oil Spill Response Capabilities Evaluation

Great Lakes Oil Spill Response Capabilities Evaluation...

Author: Aaron C Davenport ,  Katherine Anania
ISBN: 9781977412904
Format: Paperback
$131.87

This report presents an assessment of the ability of government agencies and the private sector to collectively...  Read More >>

One Thousand Days: Northern Vermont, 1970s

One Thousand Days: Northern Vermont, 1970s

Author: Bob Verneuille
ISBN: 9781637775639
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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Memphis Hoops: Race and Basketball in the Bluff City,1968-1997

Memphis Hoops: Race and Basketball in the Bluff City,1968-1997...

Author: Keith Brian Wood
ISBN: 9781621908579
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Tells the story of basketball in Tennessee’s southwestern-most metropolis following the 1968 assassination of Martin...  Read More >>

Progressive New York: Change and Reform in the Empire State, 1900-1920: A Reader

Progressive New York: Change and Reform in the Empire...

Author: Bruce W. Dearstyne
ISBN: 9781438497372
Format: Hardback
$261.36

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The Gospel According to This Moment: The Spiritual Message of Henry David Thoreau

The Gospel According to This Moment: The Spiritual Message...

Author: Barry M. Andrews
ISBN: 9781625347794
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Henry David Thoreau is best known today as a writer, naturalist, and social critic. He was also a schoolteacher,...  Read More >>

The Violent World of Broadus Miller: A Story of Murder, Lynch Mobs, and Judicial Punishment in the Carolinas

The Violent World of Broadus Miller: A Story of Murder,...

Author: Kevin W. Young
ISBN: 9781469679006
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Vividly illustrates the violence-wracked world of the early twentieth century in the Carolinas. Kevin Young provides...  Read More >>

Ascension: The Sociology of an African American Family's Generational Journey

Ascension: The Sociology of an African American Family's...

Author: Lois Benjamin
ISBN: 9781469678672
Format: Paperback
$42.90

In this masterful work of family-focused sociology, Lois Benjamin considers the lives of Pennie and Roscoe James...  Read More >>

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