Local history books

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Social life in old New Orleans: Being recollections of my girlhood

Social life in old New Orleans: Being recollections...

Author: Eliza Ripley
ISBN: 9789357963657
Format: Paperback
$52.11

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Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War

Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War

Author: Thomas Nelson Page
ISBN: 9789357965736
Format: Paperback
$40.31

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When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes

When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes...

Author: Benjamin G. Rader
ISBN: 9780252087844
Format: Paperback
$47.99

People in the Ozarks have long told humorous vignettes that make sense of triumph and tragedy, relay family and...  Read More >>

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational...

Author: Daniel Widener ,  Vijay Prashad
ISBN: 9781478030164
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing twentieth- and twenty-first-century...  Read More >>

History of the City of Lawrence [Massachusetts]

History of the City of Lawrence [Massachusetts]

Author: J F C Hayes
ISBN: 9780788442186
Format: Paperback
$63.36

"The aim of this volume is to present to the reader facts and incidents in the history of Lawrence. Although much...  Read More >>

Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas

Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball...

Author: Chris Holaday
ISBN: 9781469678849
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Offers readers the first book-length history of baseball’s integration in the Carolinas, showing its slow and unsteady...  Read More >>

Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008

Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers...

Author: Jesse Chanin
ISBN: 9781469678214
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Highlights the significant staying power and political, social, and community impact of the United Teachers of New...  Read More >>

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century...

Author: Sergio M. González
ISBN: 9780252087943
Format: Paperback
$70.99

Hospitality practices grounded in religious belief have long exercised a profound influence on Wisconsin’s Latino...  Read More >>

Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City

Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City...

Author: Adam J. Criblez
ISBN: 9781501773938
Format: Hardback
$84.35

"""During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the circumstances facing the New York Knicks of the National Basketball...  Read More >>

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational...

Author: Daniel Widener ,  Vijay Prashad
ISBN: 9781478025917
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing twentieth- and twenty-first-century...  Read More >>

Breaking Ground: The Inside Story of Chicago's Greek Nursing Home Movement

Breaking Ground: The Inside Story of Chicago's Greek...

Author: John P Psiharis
ISBN: 9798989072422
Format: Hardback
$105.57

"In December, 1982, a handful of Greek Americans gathered for coffee in the back room of the Elysion Restaurant,...  Read More >>

Oshkosh Remembered

Oshkosh Remembered

Author: Ron La Point ,  Mike Hert
ISBN: 9798869330949
Format: Paperback
$47.49

History of Oshkosh from the 1850s to the 1950s.  Read More >>

Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey, Reformed Dutch Church Baptisms, 1740-1850

Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey, Reformed Dutch Church...

Author: Howard Randolph ,  Russell Rankin
ISBN: 9781639142323
Format: Paperback
$72.60

By: Howard Randolph & Russell Rankin, Pub. 1935, reprinted 2024, 232 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-232-3....  Read More >>

Pioneers of Old Hopewell with Sketches of her Revolutionary Heroes, Mercer County, NJ

Pioneers of Old Hopewell with Sketches of her Revolutionary...

Author: Ralph Ege
ISBN: 9781639142347
Format: Paperback
$92.40

By: Ralph Ege, Pub. 1908, reprinted 2024, 320 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-234-7. Hopewell is a brough...  Read More >>

The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the other side of the American Revolution

The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the other side of...

Author: Wilbur H H Siebert
ISBN: 9781639142316
Format: Paperback
$132.00

By: James H. Stark, Pub. 1910, reprinted 2024, 606 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-231-6. This book...  Read More >>

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People...

Author: Laura J. Feller
ISBN: 9780806193892
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture

Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian...

Author: Patrick Moser
ISBN: 9780252088018
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships...  Read More >>

Chinatown, Honolulu: Place, Race, and Empire

Chinatown, Honolulu: Place, Race, and Empire

Author: Nancy E. Riley (A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences)
ISBN: 9780231196796
Format: Paperback
$57.95

This book offers a critical account of the history of Chinese in Hawai‘i from the mid-nineteenth century to the...  Read More >>

More Finish Lines to Cross: Notes on Race, Redemption, and Hope

More Finish Lines to Cross: Notes on Race, Redemption,...

Author: Cary Clack ,  Joe Holley
ISBN: 9781595342713
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A nationally loved columnist reflects on life in Texas and the times we live in  Read More >>

Creating the Hudson River Park: Environmental and Community Activism, Politics, and Greed

Creating the Hudson River Park: Environmental and Community...

Author: Tom Fox
ISBN: 9781978814011
Format: Hardback
$73.79

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Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture

Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian...

Author: Patrick Moser
ISBN: 9780252045912
Format: Hardback
$271.00

Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships...  Read More >>

Chinatown, Honolulu: Place, Race, and Empire

Chinatown, Honolulu: Place, Race, and Empire

Author: Nancy E. Riley (A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences)
ISBN: 9780231196789
Format: Hardback
$232.95

This book offers a critical account of the history of Chinese in Hawai‘i from the mid-nineteenth century to the...  Read More >>

A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999

A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill...

Author: Tom Maxwell
ISBN: 9780306830587
Format: Hardback
$55.00

The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like...  Read More >>

Rogues of Rhode Island

Rogues of Rhode Island

Author: Bobby Oliveira
ISBN: 9781928758174
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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Missouri Botanical Garden's Shaw Nature Reserve: 85 Years of Natural Wonders

Missouri Botanical Garden's Shaw Nature Reserve: 85...

Author: Cindy Gilberg ,  Barbara Perry Lawton
ISBN: 9780615415444
Format: Paperback
$39.60

"Only thirty-five miles from St. Louis, the Shaw Nature Reserve is consistently ranked a top natural attraction...  Read More >>

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