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Military history buffs and scholars will revel in Wiley Sword's exciting narrative, the first comprehensive history of the United States-Indian war of 1790-1795. The struggle for the Old Northwest Territory (modern-day Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870207389Author Mary Elise AntoineFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg - who had fled Nazi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649670168Author Andrew BraunbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint State House PressPublisher State House PressWeight(grams) 138g

Devils Walking stands as an important milestone in the ongoing struggle to create justice from truth, and perhaps even reconciliation in a nation that must collectively move in this direction or face an uncertain future.""- David Ridgen, Canadian...

In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians,...

Berthed today at NAUTICUS, the National Maritime Center, the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) was the last authorized of the four Iowa-class battleships, the largest American dreadnoughts ever built. Wisconsin saw action in World War II and the Korean Conflict for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467121286Author William Alan MorrisonFormat 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 9780738573144Author Arthur NashFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 167mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634993968Author Eric HammonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through Time

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467141123Author Brenna MichaelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Rarely recognized outside its boundaries today, the Pacific Northwest region known at the turn of the century as the Inland Empire included portions of the states of Washington and Idaho, as well as British Columbia. Katherine G. Morrissey traces the...

Completed in 1931, New York's Waldorf-Astoria towers over Park Avenue as an international landmark and a masterpiece of Art Deco architecture. A symbol of elegance and luxury, the hotel has hosted countless movie stars, business tycoons, and world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250621405Author Hugh RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

"When Floyd Collins became trapped in a cave in southern Kentucky in early 1925, the sensationalism and hysteria of the rescue attempt generated America's first true media spectacle, making Collins's story one of the seminal events of the century. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385143080Author Foxfire Fund, Inc.Format PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 233mm...

On the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, "We're heading into nut country today." That day's events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald was a lone gunman, but the city that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634992657Author Jay FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 295g

Abandoned structures are places that open the imagination and invite interpretation. Distressed wood and weathered remnants of human life are crossed by time and animal tracks, inviting one to picture what once was. Abandoned homes and buildings offer a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889963051Author Lydia BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska Press

In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700604746Author H.Craig MinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of KansasWeight(grams) 200g

Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land they worked on, to the men they worked for, and to the government...

Most readers of the Wild West know Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp, and Morgan Earp for the famous shootout on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona. But few know the later years of the close-knit Earp family, which revolved around patriarch Nicholas Earp, and their...

In 1869, Civil War veteran and amputee Major John Powell led an expedition down the uncharted Colorado River through the then-nameless Grand Canyon. This is the story of what started as a geological survey, but ended in danger, chaos, and blood. The men...

In 1920s Middle America, the Ku Klux Klan gained popularity not by appealing to the fanatical fringes of society, but by attracting the interest of "average" citizens. During this period, the Klan recruited members through the same unexceptional channels...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781071398357Author Gp HaggartFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870234194Author David P. SzatmaryFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945551918Author George GearyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Prospect Park BooksPublisher Prospect Park Books

In Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty J. Kehaulani Kauanui examines contradictions of indigeneity and self-determination in U.S. domestic policy and international law. She theorizes paradoxes in the laws themselves and in nationalist assertions of...

Webb's classic history of the Texas Rangers has been popular ever since its first publication in 1935. This edition is a reproduction of the original Houghton Mifflin edition.About the AuthorWalter Prescott Webb (1888-1963) was a historian of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809080199Author Steven StollFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)...

In the summer of 1841, Mary Rogers disappeared without a trace from her New York City boarding house. Three days later, her body, badly bruised and waterlogged, was found floating in the shallow waters of the Hudson River just a few feet from the Jersey...

Describes the devastating 1911 fire that destroyed the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village, the deaths of 146 workers in the fire, the Jewish and Italian immigrants, mostly women, who made up the majority of the victims, and the...

Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.'s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250184894Author John BoesseneckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's GriffinPublisher Thomas Dunne Book for St...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802870100Author William RatiganFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596299351Author Sherri BrakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Chicago has long served as a symbol of urban pathology in the public imagination. The city's staggering levels of violence and entrenched gang culture occupy a central place in the national discourse, yet remain poorly understood and are often...

First Impressions: A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the...