State & Local

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101979877Author Doug J. SwansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and shoe shop, standing behind the shattered window, Klansmen tossed a lit match inside the store, now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802120700Author Julia Flynn SilerFormat PaperbackPage Count 415Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476794051Author Denise KiernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467144520Author Charles H LagerbomFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

How could the Mississippi Delta, one of the world's most prolific cultural centres, be demolished by a predictable natural disaster? This revised edition of Clyde Woods's classic book examines disaster relief and reconstruction conflicts after Hurricane...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780375725609Author Erik LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA...

Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians and the New York State Historical Association Manuscript Prize.About the AuthorTimothy J. Gilfoyle is an acclaimed historian. His first book, City of Eros, won the prestigious Nevins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061288517Author Jane ZiegelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467122917Author Janice Wible EarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966724677Author Donnie Sergent, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Mothman Lives PublishingPublisher Mothman Lives PublishingWeight(grams)...

Most of the roughly 140,000 Holocaust survivors who came to the United States in the first decade after World War II settled in big cities such as New York. But a few thousand chose an alternative way of life on American farms. More of these accidental...

A comprehensive history of the deep South - the bottomlands between Memphis and Vicksburg, lined by the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers - from the first white settlement in the 1820s to the present. A portrait of the development and survival of a society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorHistory has always fascinated BILL MARKLEY leading to his participation in Dances with Wolves and four other films. Bill has written the novel Deadwood Dead Men,...

This newly revised edition includes up-to-date information and historical photographs on everything you need to know about the Last Frontier, all in one travel-friendly package. Alaska's rich and cultural history comes to life in this vivid, take-along...

An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781534868595Author Kerby JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561644964Author John VieleFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467142991Author Foster Ockerman JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062661401Author Earl SwiftFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Exploring the mental worlds of the major groups interacting in a borderland setting, Cynthia Cumfer offers a broad, multiracial intellectual and cultural history of the Tennessee frontier in the Revolutionary and early national periods, leading up to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738513041Author Barry MorenoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Winner of the Bancroft Prize After more than two decades, Origins of the New South is still recognised both as a classic in regional historiography and as the most perceptive account yet written on the period which spawned the New South.Historian Sheldon...

In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467107006Author Con TrumbullFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams)...

Hurricanes menace North America from June through to November every year, each as powerful as 10,000 nuclear bombs. These megastorms will likely become more intense as the planet continues to warm, yet we too often treat them as local disasters and TV...

A New York Times Bestseller Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Winner in True Crime *Selected as one of "2016's Great Reads" by NPR *Finalist for the 2016 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year *An unforgettable cauldron of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560988984Author Ephraim G. SquierFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1270g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540227102Author Jim GregoryFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

The Bad Old Days of Colorado celebrates the state's glorious and rowdy past. Many people born and bred here relish just how "bad" things used to be: the terrain, the inhabitants and especially the quality of whiskey. It almost goes without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015832Author Richard WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 13mm

Living history is one of the most popular, and accessible ways for people of all ages to step back in time. From Colonial Williamsburg, to Mount Vernon, to signs along roadways identifying George Washington stopping points, living history continues to be...

Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham's "1909 Plan of Chicago", co-authored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, proposed many of the city's most...

In the 1920s, an upstart West Coast college began to challenge the Eastern universities in the ancient sport of crew racing. Sportswriters scoffed at the "crude western boats" and their crews. But for the next forty years, the University of Washington...

In the 140 years since the defeat of George Armstrong Custer and his troops at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, scholars and other visitors have combed the site of today's Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument for evidence that might clarify the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467152600Author June HershFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 160mm * 8mm

On 22 September 1928, four-year-old Barbara Griffith strayed into the woods surrounding Massena in New York. Hundreds of people looked for the child but could not find her; then someone suggested that Barbara had been kidnapped and killed by Jews. The...

On May 18, 1927, in a horrific conflagration of dynamite and blood, a madman forever changed a small Michigan town. ""Bath Massacre"" takes readers back more than eighty years to that fateful day, when Andrew Kehoe set off a cache of explosives concealed...

An exploration into what America was, is, and can become through the lens of the rapidly changing American metropolis From its origins as a primitive Dutch outpost to the sprawling urban complex it is today, the defining characteristic of New York has...

The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking "A...