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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595580726Author Studs TerkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 473g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063090767Author Imani PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742924Author Ed SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 183mm * 124mm * 15mm

Mountains-so beautiful, the land dominated by the Colorado Rockies, that miners who "thought of returning to the comfort and dull security of their homes back east," in Marshall Sprague's words, "found themselves held by the appeal of...

For years, the librarians at the New-York Historical Society have kept a record of the questions posed to them by curious New Yorkers and visitors to the city. Who was the first woman to run for mayor of New York? Why are beavers featured on the city's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625858658Author PH D Phillip Thomas TuckerFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 20gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A groundbreaking examination of Saul Alinsky's organizing work as it relates to race. Saul Alinsky is the most famous-even infamous-community organizer in American history. Almost single-handedly, he invented a new political form: community federations,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467117258Author Charlie B. DahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

On October 1, 1962, James Meredith was the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Preceded by violent rioting resulting in two deaths and a lengthy court battle that made it all the way to the Supreme Court, his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467133203Author John BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626197206Author R. Scott WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

In the popular imagination, freedom for African Americans is often assumed to have been granted and fully realized when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation or, at the very least, at the conclusion of the Civil War. In reality, the...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547896984Author Marion Dane BauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

The Texas Longhorn made more history than any other breed of cattle the world has known. These wiry, intractable beasts were themselves pioneers in a harsh land, moving elementally with drouth, grass, Arctic blizzards, and burning winds. Their story is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401308896Author Michael PunkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 130mm *...

This is a thoroughly revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Colorado, which was coauthored by Tom Noel and published in 1994. Chock-full of the best and latest information on Colorado, this new edition features thirty new chapters, updated text, more...

On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day on which the temperature would eventually climb to 106 degrees. It was the start of an unprecedented heat wave that would last a full week - and leave more than seven hundred people dead...

Lawman or outlaw? Black-hatted "villains" and white-hatted "good guys" of the Old West walk the streets of our imagination. Hollywood draws a convenient line in the Western dirt, differentiating between the two. But in reality, at times it was difficult,...

By July 1692, the witch hunt surrounding the town of Salem and Salem Village had been raging for four months. The Massachusetts Bay colony's new governor, William Phips, had established a special court to try the suspected witches and the trials were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410455765Author Erik LarsonFormat HardbackPage Count 691Imprint Thorndike PressPublisher Thorndike PressWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 142mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375701269Author Sally DentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This book tells the little-known story of the origins of the US Border Patrol, starting during the final days of the "Wild West" on the US-Mexico border and tracing the origins of the modern federal agency as it came into its own during the violence of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540222220Author Rose O'KeefeFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467142274Author Josh S. CutlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

The mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in United States history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanese Americans spent...

No one denies that New York City is unique-but what makes it sui generis? Sam Roberts, a longtime city reporter, has puzzled over this in print and in his popular New York Times podcasts for years. In Only in New York, updated with new tales and...

Badasses of the Old West brings together thirty-six tales of the worst (and best) robbers, rustlers, and bandits who shaped the history of the Wild West in one compelling volume. From the famous, such as Billy the Kid and the Wild Bunch, to the...

In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805072938Author William LutzFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873512169Author Gary Clayton AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

When most people hear the name Earp, they think of Wyatt, Virgil, Morgan, and sometimes the lesser known James and Warren. They also had a half-brother named Newton, who lived a fairly quiet, uneventful life. While it's true these men made history on...

From 1860 to 1900, many towns in Nevada sprang up to serve the mining camps in the area. These towns provided the breeding ground for a unique character known as "the mining camp gunman." This book delves into the violent and gritty lives of various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467135740Author Joseph Anthony RulliFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467142014Author Gerald Van DusenFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738581439Author Louise B. GabrielFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Between 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a desperate journey of exploration across the Southeast. His path has been one of history's most intriguing mysteries. With ""Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun"", Charles Hudson offers a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826316530Author Elliott WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint University of New Mexico PressPublisher University of New Mexico Press

From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America. But they did not all disembark in San Francisco; instead, most were ferried across the bay to the Angel Island Immigration Station. For...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780609608449Author Erik LarsonFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA...