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A collection of approximately forty portraits with mini biographies of Maryland's extraordinary African American men and women. Included are well known luminaries Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, "Baby Joe" Gans, Leon Day, Lillie Carroll...

The Baltimore Sun covered World War II with an outstanding team of combat correspondents, among them three future Pulitzer Prize winners. The correspondents witnessed momentous events: Anzio and Cassino, D-Day, Black Christmas in the Bulge, the crossing...

In 1898, the New York state legislature created Greater New York, a metropolis of three and a half million people, the second largest city in the world, and arguably the most diverse and complex urban environment in history. In this far-ranging study,...

It is not surprising to anyone who knows the Bay country that the Chesapeake captured the imagination of Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries," writes Arthur Pierce Middleton in this classic maritime history of the earliest years of Maryland and...

Visit the Ocean City, Maryland, that your grandparents visited. Historic photographs preserve images from the 1900s when bonneted women wore full-length dresses on the boardwalk. Then travel to the 1970s, when the crowds stopped at 38th Street. Aerial...

An invaluable primary resource for understanding nineteenth-century America. As a Georgetown resident for nearly a century, Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon (1815 - 1911) was close to the key political events of her time. Born into the prominent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467151405Author Rebecca BratspiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 445g

In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New York City's evolution from 1664, when the English captured the small Dutch outpost of New Amsterdam, to the eve of...

During the rise of New York from the capital of an upstart nation to a global metropolis, the visual language of Greek and Roman antiquity played a formative role in the development of the city's art and architecture. This compilation of essays offers a...

"He was the only one. He was the only man to have committed suicide in the town's seventeenth-century history." So begins Donna Merwick's fascinating tale of a Dutch notary who ended his life in his adopted community of Albany. In a major feat of...

Explore the first seventy-five years of Ocean City, New Jersey's grand history through this postcard pictorial. History comes alive with over 250 beautiful black and white and hand-tinted photos of the beaches, the strand, and many places of play and...

The busy metropolis of New York, so rich with history and life, is also home to some of the creepiest and spookiest ghosts around. From the Metropolitan Opera House to the dazzling lights of Broadway, and even down the massive network of subway lines...

A microcosm of the history of American slavery in a collection of the most important primary and secondary readings on slavery at Georgetown University and among the Maryland Jesuits Georgetown University's early history, closely tied to that of the...

A teacher of English and English History at the Friends School in Baltimore, Letitia Stockett was inspired to write her whimsical history of the city when a friend told her that nothing much had been done in the way of a history of Baltimore since J...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802142542Author Cherie BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

The Georgia of the North is a historical narrative about Black women and the long civil rights movement in New Jersey from the Great Migration to 1954. Specifically, the critical role played by Black women in forging interracial, cross-class, and...

The Georgia of the North is a historical narrative about Black women and the long civil rights movement in New Jersey from the Great Migration to 1954. Specifically, the critical role played by Black women in forging interracial, cross-class, and...

The story of one of the most influential labor leaders of the twentieth century reveals powerful lessons that still resonate At the dawn of the twentieth century, Black girls and women faced a harsh career landscape. Domestic labor and...

The story of one of the most influential labor leaders of the twentieth century reveals powerful lessons that still resonate At the dawn of the twentieth century, Black girls and women faced a harsh career landscape. Domestic labor and...

I Hope I Break Even, I Could Use the Money is a book of black and white photographs taken at Aqueduct Racetrack by NYC photographer Larry Racioppo. In a short accompanying essay, Larry describes a day spent there with his father and uncle who, like the...

Over 170 years, Pittsburgh rose from remote outpost to industrial powerhouse. With the formation of the United States, the frontier town located at the confluence of three rivers grew into the linchpin for trade and migration between established eastern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780801452598Author Susan A. BrewerFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Three HillsPublisher Three HillsWeight(grams) 907g

The entangled human and more-than-human histories of one of the world’s iconic urban green spacesFrom deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know as Central Park has long been home to an abundance of...

A Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery's history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno's absorbing chronicle that uncovers her Dutch ancestors' slave-holding past and leads to a deep connection with the descendants of the...

A sweeping history of New York’s urban development that chronicles the making of one of the world’s great cities. Between the 1880s and the 1930s, New York City experienced explosive growth, as nearly a million buildings, half a dozen bridges, countless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438499321Author Richard HeppnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438496221Author Mark Paul RichardFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremes. In the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transports readers to a pivotal moment of division and...

In Spiritualism's Place, four friends and scholars who produce the acclaimed Dig: A History Podcast, share their curiosity and enthusiasm for uncovering stories from the past as they explore the history of Lily Dale. Located in western New York State,...

Forthcoming Fall 2024Book InformationISBN 9781439924099Author Molly LesterFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 454g

They call it Spanish Harlem or sometimes just El Barrio. But for over a century, East Harlem has been a melting pot of many ethnic groups, including Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, and Mexican immigrants, as well as Italian, Jewish, and African-American...

A comprehensive history of Philadelphia from the region’s original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first century Philadelphia is famous for its colonial and revolutionary buildings and artifacts, which draw tourists from far...

Leon Trotsky was living in The Bronx with his common-law wife and two children when the Russian Revolution broke out. President Woodrow Wilson and his successor, Warren G. Harding, had little in common—except both came to New York City to indulge in...

Today we call most of it New York Route 5. Over the centuries it has been called the Iroquois Trail, Genesee Road, Mohawk and Seneca Turnpike, Buffalo Road. In Route 5 and the Great Genesee Road, author Richard Figiel takes readers on a historical...

New York State’s Adirondack region is as ancient as is it immense – over six million acres of wild forests, lakes, rivers, and mountains. Mapping the Adirondacks celebrates the overwhelming nature of this landscape by following two early visitors who...

The Tale of New York's Young Reds — A Riveting Journey through the YPA's Rise and Influence Young Reds in the Big Apple: The New York YPA, 1923-1934 by Jack Hodgson is a compelling historical account that delves into the heart of American communism...

The story of the African-American Montier family traces its roots to Philadelphia’s first mayor, the White Quaker Humphrey Morrey, appointed c. 1691. Richard, the son of the mayor, had a relationship with Cremona, a former slave of the wealthy Morrey...

Leon Trotsky was living in The Bronx with his common-law wife and two children when the Russian Revolution broke out. President Woodrow Wilson and his successor, Warren G. Harding, had little in common—except both came to New York City to indulge in...