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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nat...

Regarded by many of his contemporaries as the greatest baseball player of all time, John Peter "Honus" Wagner enjoyed a remarkable career with the Pittsburg...

Describes The Origins Of Nascar Racing In The World Of Southern Moonshiners, Who Used Fast Ford Cars To Transport Bootleg Alcohol During The Depression And ...

Wild As A March Hare -- The Model Plan For Legal Marijuana -- A True Pioneer In The Kentucky Spirit -- Spectacular Bid -- The War On Drugs, The Militia, And...

In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life. George W. Bus...

The inspiring story of New York Fire Department Chaplain Father Mychal Judge His death certificate bears the number one. As chaplain to the Fire Departmen...

Product Description INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERINSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER“Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with...

The 1971-72 Basketball Season Was One To Go Down In History. For The Los Angeles Lakers It Was A Season Of Records, An Incredible Championship, And Many Per...

This Book Tells Stories From Jon Falk's 40 Years With The Michigan Football Program--Categories: History United StatesState & Local

Ann Douglas. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 485-575) And Index. Discography: P. 575.Categories: History United StatesState & Local

Smell the bark of the aromatic Sassafras. Wonder at the Lodgepole Pine, whose heat-activated cones reseed forests destroyed by fire. Search for the Sugar M...

Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico contains a remarkable set of Ancestral Puebloan buildings. Occupied between AD 850 and 1150, Chaco appears to have b...

The second volume in a four-volume work detailing the work of Catholic missionaries in the early Midwest, and the founding and growth of Catholic institutio...

The Nuclear Borderlands explores the sociocultural fallout of twentieth-century America's premier technoscientific project--the atomic bomb. Joseph Masco o...

For six years, Helene Hanff held captive audiences all over the world with her monthly broadcasts on the BBC's Woman's Hour. In five-minute vignettes, she m...

In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows And Mike Wallace Have Written An Epic As Vast And Varied As The City It Chronicles. Drawing On The Work Of Hundreds Of Scholars ...

Across the country, white ethnics have fled cities for suburbs. But many have stayed in their old neighborhoods. When the busing crisis erupted in Boston i...

The Inside Story Of How President Donald Trump Became King Of Palm Beach, And How Palm Beach, And The Resort Mar-a-lago, Continue To Be His Spiritual Home E...

Rachel Maddow's Blowout Offers A Dark, Serpentine, Riveting Tour Of The Unimaginably Lucrative And Corrupt Oil-and-gas Industry. With Her Trademark Black Hu...

now Revered As One Of North America's Top Birders, Kenn Kaufman Hit The Road At Age Sixteen And Spent A Year Crisscrossing The Country To See As Many Bird...

In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called for and four...

“Michael Gross’s new book…packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map ex...

All the Art That's Fit to Print reveals the true story of the world's first Op-Ed page, a public platform that—in 1970—prefigured the Internet blogosph...

By Thomas G. Alexander. A Utah Statehood Centennial Project Of The Utah State Historical Society. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 460-472) And Index...

Cape Cod has a rich tradition of local lore, stretching back to a time before the Pilgrims arrived. Ancient Wampanoag legends like Granny Squannit and Princ...

When Pres. John F. Kennedy established the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1961, it was acclaimed as the "finest victory ever recorded for the cause of conser...

Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska—an area known as the Bohemian A...

Farrell Dobbs, a central leader of the labor battles and debates recorded here, tells how in the 1930s the leadership of Teamsters Local 544 in Minneapolis ...

It was a midsummer afternoon, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus performance, when the big top caught fire. The tent had been wat...

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the sho...

“A protest against the wall and a forecast about its future.”—Allison Arieff, The New York Times "Rael’s courageous mixture of subversion and compr...

Herbert E. Bolton. Reprint. Originally Published: Coronado On The Turquoise Trail, Knight Of Pueblos And Plains. Albuquerque : University Of New Mexico Pres...

Heartbreaking and wicked: a memoir of stunning beauty and remarkable grace. Improbable friendships and brushes with death. A schoolgirl affecting the cour...

Book by Irwin, John RiceCategories: History United StatesState & Local