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A large number of volunteers came to Texas in the 1830s: some for the promise of free land; a few for the cause of constitutional freedoms; many came for the adventure and a good fight. Such a group came to Texas in 1835. As a unit, they were born in a...

Winner of the 2019 Bancroft Prize: A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America"By making what we thought was a small story very large indeed-Ms. Brooks really does give us 'A New History of King...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781118014011Author Deborah DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male-and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold until now. The stories of ten African-American women are...

"Distilled Spirits" blends a religion reporter's memoir with the compelling stories of three men - Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, and Bill Wilson - who transformed the landscape of Western religion and spirituality in the twentieth century. Huxley,...

While the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly forgotten dynamo instrumental to the development of the park - fast-talking Texan C. V. Wood. Three Years in Wonderland presents the never-before-told,...

In April 1967, a year before his run for president, Senator Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried rice and beans spilled over the dirt floor as...

Harry Sinclair Drago writes with authority and a sense of drama about the bloodiest range conflicts in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Montana late in the nineteenth century. He details the background and events surrounding the Lincoln County...

Abandoned Gary, Indiana takes you on a photographic journey into the beautifully abandoned structures of a once-thriving Rust Belt city. Author and photographer Miki Lansdowne captures the timeless essence of raw beauty hidden under the dust and decay of...

Winner of the Bancroft PrizeLouisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Book of the Year"The main thrust of Horowitz's account is to make us understand Katrina-the civic calamity, not the storm itself-as a consequence of...

Newark's volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of...

The Montgomery Bus Boycott, which ignited the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, has always been vitally important in southern and black history. With the publication of this book, the boycott becomes a milestone in the history of American...

Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate rituals, this book explores how white southerners adjusted to and interpreted their defeat, and analyses the cultural implications of a central event in American history. Foster...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493064151Author Mike CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint TwoDot BooksPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 153mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451496393Author Gary KristFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Broadway BooksPublisher Broadway BooksWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401310110Author Laurence LeamerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467153171Author Paul KreingoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 155mm *...

From the minute it opened--on Christmas Day in 1865--it was Chicago's must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the Union...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626192492Author Corin HirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Has anyone today any conception of the grandeur, the extent, the million board feet a day production...the entire meaning of the forests of the Pacific Northwest-the "Big Woods"? The photographs alone in this absorbing book will instantly transport the...

An Englishwoman born in 1831, Isabella Bird was frequently ill as a child and young woman, and her doctors recommended a life of travel and fresh air as the cure. Ultimately, she took the advice and traveled the world. And traveled. And traveled. Bird...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953368294Author Phil ChristmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 176mm *...

Between Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, greed and race hatred-a street that inspired folk legends and reshaped American politics. Preston Lauterbach tells this story through the life of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467105958Author NoethFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566493840Author Erik O. RonningenFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Welcome Rain Publishers,USPublisher Welcome Rain Publishers,USWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626400672Author Nathan MarsakFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467121477Author Dick BoakFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120124Author Nathaniel PhilbrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525559467Author Mitch LandrieuFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316422314Author Will GrantFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)...

Few American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston's. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolutionary War through the civil rights movement, Boston has also been an influential literary and cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738580531Author Starley TalbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Surfing has been a significant sport and cultural practice in Hawai`i for more than 1,500 years. In the last century, facing increased marginalisation on land, many Native Hawaiians have found refuge, autonomy, and identity in the waves. In Waves of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626193970Author Sam BaltrusisFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467153515Author Scott FerraraFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 155mm *...

Silver Award Winner, 2016 Nautilus Book Award in Young Adult (YA) Non-FictionMoving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements of celebrity engineers and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge is the first book to primarily feature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467149020Author Erwin R TiongsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738538945Author Barry MorenoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634994484Author Beth Anne KeatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Fonthill Media LLcPublisher Fonthill Media LLcWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683901976Author Bob McLainFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Theme Park PressPublisher Theme Park PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...