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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...

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...

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...

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 9780738552385Author Paul R. KavieffFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 341gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Contrary to popular belief, the Eastern Theater during the late summer and fall of 1863 was anything but inconsequential. Generals George Meade and Robert E. Lee continued where they had left off, boldly maneuvering the chess pieces of war to gain a...

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 9781467123648Author New Milford Historical SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams)...

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...

"What is the value of Black life in America?" In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel-the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus-to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the...

The "enlightening" (The Guardian) true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors' founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day-by the journalist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805078442Author Tom DowneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Most of the synagogues are gone; a temple has been converted into a Baptist church. There is little indication to the passerby that the southern New Jersey's Salem and Cumberland counties once contained active Jewish colonies-the largest and most...

Bruce Springsteen brought international attention to the Jersey shore by naming his debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ. But the real Asbury Park has an even more fascinating story behind it: a seaside city of dreams that became a magnet for both...

Though New York's Lower East Side today is home to high-end condos and hip restaurants, it spent decades as an infamous site of blight, open-air drug dealing, and class conflict an emblematic example of the tattered state of 1970s and '80s Manhattan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467128001Author Bryan KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385120876Author Foxfire Fund, Inc.Format PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

Americans are fond of reflecting upon the Founding Fathers as selfless patriots who came together to force out the tyranny of the British and bring democracy to the land. Unfortunately, as Terry Bouton shows in this highly provocative first book, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for WILLA Literary Award (Scholarly Nonfiction) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781560374497Author Sarah CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint Farcountry...

Many people know the tale: In 1814 Francis Scott Key witnessed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry and the heroism of America's defenders; seeing the American flag still flying at first light inspired him to pen his famous lyric. What people don't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609497330Author Matthew J LuziFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 10mm

"Our people are very lucky to be here," says Albert White Hat Sr. He has lived through a time when Indians were under government control, were sent to boarding schools, and were not permitted to practice their own rituals. Now, although the Lakota people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892523983Author Troy TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Whitechapel ProductionsPublisher Whitechapel ProductionsWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632867346Author Miriam PawelFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 530g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805067347Author Paul SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Owl Books,U.S.Publisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

In the spring of 1871, Ralph Waldo Emerson boarded a train in Concord, Massachusetts, bound for a month-and-a-half-long tour of California-an interlude that became one of the highlights of his life. On their journey across the American West, he and his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865477155Author James GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 295g

"All that I do is go out and look at films and choose the ones I want to play-films that stimulate, and give some insight into our lives. I hope that people will come, but if they don't, that's okay too."Daniel Talbot changed the way the Upper West...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626195349Author Craig David MeekFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

The Canary Islanders, or Islenos, of Louisiana, like some of the state's other ethnic groups, have received little scholarly attention. Although they are a people who have remained largely unknown both inside and outside of Louisiana, the Islenos...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870204456Author Jerry AppsFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest's iconic city: Detroit. Miles has pieced together the experience of the unfree - both native and African American - in the frontier...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467138529Author Phillip Thomas, Ph.D. TuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams)...

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford co-founded a university to honour their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into...

No book on the emergence of Los Angeles, today a metropolis of more than four million people, has been more influential or elusive than this volume by Anton Wagner. Originally published in German in 1935 as Los Angeles: Werden, Leben und Gestalt der...

From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467199704Author Edited By Taylor BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint WildsamPublisher WildsamWeight(grams) 107g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061824586Author T J EnglishFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643439051Author Cindy WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Beaver's Pond PressPublisher Beaver's Pond PressWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 254mm...