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A Short History of Greenville

A Short History of Greenville

Author: Judith T. Bainbridge
ISBN: 9781643364674
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Beginning when Greenville was Cherokee hunting grounds, then following its growth from frontier settlement to village...  Read More >>

Forest Under Siege: The Story of Old Growth After Gifford Pinchot

Forest Under Siege: The Story of Old Growth After Gifford...

Author: Rand Schenck
ISBN: 9781638640257
Format: Paperback
$42.90

Focusing primarily on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, environmental activist Rand Schenk reviewed numerous...  Read More >>

Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate

Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery,...

Author: Jared Ross Hardesty
ISBN: 9781479830985
Format: Paperback
$47.99

"""Mutiny on the Rising Sun is a deeply human history of smuggling that demonstrates how interconnected the future...  Read More >>

Before Ishi

Before Ishi

Author: Steve Schoonover
ISBN: 9781935807735
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This book is an attempt to reconstruct the history of the Yahi Indians of Northern California, a history the author...  Read More >>

Yooper Poetry: On Experiencing Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Yooper Poetry: On Experiencing Michigan's Upper Peninsula...

Author: Raymond Luczak
ISBN: 9781615997930
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"Sometimes the best way to learn about a unique region is to listen to the stories told by those who've actually...  Read More >>

Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries

Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s...

Author: Davida Siwisa James
ISBN: 9781531506148
Format: Hardback
$68.99

Explores four centuries of colonization, land divisions, and urban development around this historic landmark neighborhood...  Read More >>

Red Sulphur Springs, West Virginia: A Nineteenth Century Health Spa in the Allegheny Foreland

Red Sulphur Springs, West Virginia: A Nineteenth Century...

Author: Fred Ziegler
ISBN: 9798988902041
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"Red Sulphur Springs was part of a social phenomenon centered in the nineteenth century and shared by over one hundred...  Read More >>

Tent City, Seattle: Refusing Homelessness and Making a Home

Tent City, Seattle: Refusing Homelessness and Making...

Author: Tony Sparks
ISBN: 9780295752617
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United States Tent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people...  Read More >>

Dale L. Morgan: Mormon and Western Histories in Transition

Dale L. Morgan: Mormon and Western Histories in Transition...

Author: Richard L Saunders
ISBN: 9781647691202
Format: Hardback
$250.80

An influential Utah historian whose work shaped new approaches to the history of Mormonism and the American West....  Read More >>

Fallen Comrade: A Story of the Korean War

Fallen Comrade: A Story of the Korean War

Author: Walter Howell
ISBN: 9781496850768
Format: Hardback
$47.30

Part biography and part military history, Fallen Comrade examines what happened to three young men from Clinton,...  Read More >>

The Santee Canal: South Carolina's First Commercial Highway

The Santee Canal: South Carolina's First Commercial...

Author: Elizabeth Connor ,  Richard Dwight Porcher Jr.
ISBN: 9781643364711
Format: Hardback
$105.57

A richly illustrated study that examines the engineering as well as the commercial, environmental, and human impacts...  Read More >>

Carolina Currents, Studies in South Carolina Culture: Volume 1. New Directions

Carolina Currents, Studies in South Carolina Culture:...

Author: Christopher Johnson
ISBN: 9781643364636
Format: Paperback
$65.97

The first in a collection of essays and book reviews devoted to vital aspects of South Carolina history and culture....  Read More >>

From Farmland to Card Shop: A History of Shadyside Through the Windows of 5522 Walnut St

From Farmland to Card Shop: A History of Shadyside Through...

Author: Jason Kirin ,  Dana Kaufman
ISBN: 9798987849651
Format: Paperback
$66.00

This book is a tapestry of unbroken historical threads stretching from 1868 to the present day. Stitched together...  Read More >>

Yooper Poetry: On Experiencing Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Yooper Poetry: On Experiencing Michigan's Upper Peninsula...

Author: Raymond Luczak
ISBN: 9781615997947
Format: Hardback
$92.27

"Sometimes the best way to learn about a unique region is to listen to the stories told by those who've actually...  Read More >>

Mississippi Scoundrels: Murderers, Marauders & Downright Vile Characters

Mississippi Scoundrels: Murderers, Marauders & Downright...

Author: Dr Brown
ISBN: 9781467155755
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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Tent City, Seattle: Refusing Homelessness and Making a Home

Tent City, Seattle: Refusing Homelessness and Making...

Author: Tony Sparks
ISBN: 9780295752600
Format: Hardback
$277.20

Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United States Tent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people...  Read More >>

Tudor Palaces of London

Tudor Palaces of London

Author: Hazel Baker
ISBN: 9781399064958
Format: Hardback
$59.99

An expert history of Tudor Palaces, told from a fresh new angle.  Read More >>

Woodland Cemetery in Des Moines: A History

Woodland Cemetery in Des Moines: A History

Author: Mary Christopher ,  Mike Rowley
ISBN: 9781467154291
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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The Letters of George Long Brown: A Yankee Merchant on Florida's Antebellum Frontier

The Letters of George Long Brown: A Yankee Merchant...

Author: James M. Denham ,  Keith L. Huneycutt
ISBN: 9780813080635
Format: Paperback
$73.92

In 1840, twenty-three-year-old George Long Brown migrated from New Hampshire to north Florida, a region just emerging...  Read More >>

Crossing under Cover: Covered Bridges of Chester County, Pennsylvania, and Surrounding Regions

Crossing under Cover: Covered Bridges of Chester County,...

Author: Sara Beth Kohut
ISBN: 9780764367502
Format: Hardback
$42.99

A photo book profiling the history, architecture, conservation status, and visit details of every covered bridge...  Read More >>

Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory

Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering...

Author: Marc Howard Ross
ISBN: 9781512826128
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Inviting the reader to accompany him on his own journey of discovery, Ross recounts the processes by which northerners...  Read More >>

Cleveland's Riverside Cemetery

Cleveland's Riverside Cemetery

Author: Jamie Lynne Owens ,  William G Krejci
ISBN: 9781467161428
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Positioned west of the Cuyahoga River and occupying 96 acres is Riverside Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. Established...  Read More >>

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