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United in Rivalry

Michael Whitt

• Hardcover | Engels
• Around Richmond, it's simply known as "The Classic." From 1938 to 1979, Armstrong High and Maggie Walker High, the only two all-black high schools wit... Lees meer

San Francisco's St. Cecilia Parish

Frank Dunnigan

• Hardcover | Engels
• Originally housed in a two-story home and then in an old converted schoolhouse along Taraval Street in 1917, San Francisco s St. Cecilia Church today ... Lees meer

Wicked Fox Cities

Frank Anderson

• Hardcover | Engels
• Visit the wicked Fox Cities, full of place names like La Grand Butte des Morts (the Big Hill of the Dead") and Winneconne ("the Place of Skulls") that... Lees meer

Baltimore Civil Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams

Ida E Jones

• Hardcover | Engels
• Victorine Quille Adams was a Baltimore native and the first African American woman elected to the city council. Born in 1912, she lived through string... Lees meer

A Concise History of Florida

James C Clark

• Hardcover | Engels
• In 1513, Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon first set foot on Florida's east coast. The land he discovered was a geographic anomaly so distinctive that as... Lees meer

Provincetown

Debra Lawless

• Hardcover | Engels
• Between the Portland Gale of 1898 and the start of the Second World War, Provincetown, Massachusetts, was transformed from a rough-and-tumble whaling ... Lees meer

Charlottesville Beer

Lee Graves

• Hardcover | Engels
• Possibly the region s first craft brewer, Thomas Jefferson grew hops and created his own small-batch brews at his home at Monticello. His brewing, how... Lees meer

The Hollywood Scandal Almanac

Jerry Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels
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Wicked New Albany

Gregg Seidl

• Hardcover | Engels
• Join local historian Gregg Seidl on this deliciously wicked romp with New Albany's most heinous--the treacherous, greedy, drunken, insane and plain un... Lees meer

African Americans of Durham & Orange Counties

Jean Bolduc

• Hardcover | Engels
• Durham and Orange Counties have vibrant and active African American communities. Throughout the region s unjust past, generations have shown extraordi... Lees meer

An Antietam Veteran's Montana Journey

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this recently unearthed memoir, Civil War veteran James Howard Lowell offers a firsthand account of his brutal journey west on a wagon train attack... Lees meer

The Erie Canal Sings

Bill Hullfish

• Hardcover | Engels
• Life working along the banks of the Erie Canal is preserved in the songs of America's rich musical history. Thomas Allen's "Low Bridge, Everybody Down... Lees meer

Hidden History of the Mid-Hudson Valley

Carney Rhinevault, Tatiana Rhinevault

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Albany Post Road was the vital artery between New York City and the state capital in Albany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It saw a h... Lees meer

Lost Fort Worth

Mike Nichols

• Hardcover | Engels
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Abigail Scott Duniway and Susan B. Anthony in Oregon

Jennifer Chambers

• Hardcover | Engels
• It was the spring of 1871. Pioneer entrepreneur Abigail Scott Duniway, on a business trip to purchase stock for her millinery store back in Oregon, wa... Lees meer

Cincinnati Turner Societies

Dann Woellert

• Hardcover | Engels
• Seeking asylum after the failed German Revolution of 1848, refugees flocked to Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine Neighborhood. They brought their Germanic c... Lees meer

Birth of the Jersey Shore

Randall Gabrielan

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Jersey Shore evokes images of boardwalks and beach resorts, but its beginnings were far different. In the mid-nineteenth century, visionary entrep... Lees meer

St. Louis Jazz

Dennis C Owsley

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the early twentieth century, St. Louis was a hotbed for ragtime and blues, both roots of jazz music. In 1914, Jelly Roll Morton brought his music t... Lees meer

Sullivan County

John Conway

• Hardcover | Engels
• First inhabited by the Lenape Indians and settled by European colonists in the seventeenth century, New York's Sullivan County has experienced several... Lees meer

A Centennial History of Rutgers Law School in Newark

Paul Tractenberg

• Hardcover | Engels
• Founded in 1908 as New Jersey Law School, Rutgers School of Law, Newark possesses a distinctive spirit of excellence, opportunity and innovation. From... Lees meer

Arkansas Late in the Civil War

David E Casto

• Hardcover | Engels
• At the request of Union general Ulysses S. Grant, in 1864 Major General Frederick Steele stripped the Department of Arkansas of twelve thousand men--h... Lees meer

Haunted Chattanooga

Jessica Penot, Amy Petulla

• Hardcover | Engels
• It is the home of one of the most famous railways in American history, the site of a historically vital trade route along the Tennessee River and the ... Lees meer

Ghosts of Manhattan

Philip Schoenberg

• Hardcover | Engels
• Ghosts abound in Manhattan, and with the aid of Dr. Philip Ernest Schoenberg's extensive guide, you can still hobnob with cultural icons such as Dorot... Lees meer

Remembering the Kennebunks

Kathleen Ostrander

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Kennebunks--the phrase evokes peace, ocean breezes and small-town pride. In this captivating collection of vignettes, Kennebunk town historian Kat... Lees meer