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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438499833Author Richard A. WinesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Devil’s Mile tells the rip-roaring story of New York’s oldest and most unique street The Bowery was a synonym for despair throughout most of the 20th century. The very name evoked visuals of drunken bums passed out on the sidewalk, and New Yorkers...

Pricing the Land reconstructs the complicated history of buying and selling land along the New York frontier after the American Revolution. Scott W. Anderson focuses on the prices bid for lots in central New York that had been set aside for veterans of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501773051Author Robert Polner C/O and Robert PolnerFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint Three HillsPublisher Three HillsWeight(grams) 907g

Defending the Old Dominion describes historical events in Virginia during the War of 1812, examining how Virginia's militia was organized, supplied, and financed by the Commonwealth. The book discusses the militia's unpreparedness in training, its lack...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626195516Author David FrewFormat PaperbackImprint History Press (SC)Publisher History Press (SC)Weight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467124010Author David KunzFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467107846Author Suzanne Cloud PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467161244Author Elizabeth A KarcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 9g

A Fascinating Biography of One City Block in Upper Manhattan, Bringing Buildings to Life through Stories Drawn from the Flesh-and-Blood Beings who Pass Through Them If only the walls could talk, what would they say? Standing proudly, gazing across the...

This unique historical and genealogical resource draws on the extraordinarily intact legislative, judicial, religious, and personal records of members of the first Maryland legislature. The two-volume set contains profiles of nearly fifteen hundred men...

Twentieth-century New York is now famous as the city of "cliff dwellers," but in the second half of the nineteenth century, middle-class apartments in Manhattan were a new—and somewhat suspect—architectural form. Alone Together presents a history of the...

Women held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Their lives were limited by the bonds of kinship and labor, but farm women found strength in these bonds as...

In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. Patrick Erben challenges the long-standing historical myth--first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin--that language diversity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738535869Author Joshua StoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467156738Author Michael J EulaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742719Author Ben GwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953368263Author Gary M AlmeterFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation's largest municipal water system, the task of providing water to New Yorkers transformed the natural and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935248019Author Anthony M GrazianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint Leapfrog PressPublisher Leapfrog PressWeight(grams) 794g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634992701Author Kathleen ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 272g

Broad Channel Through Time by Dan Guarino traces the story of the unique, close-knit community, residing on the last inhabited island in New York City's Jamaica Bay. Variously known as "The Venice of New York," "Little Cuba,"...

Despite years of growth that dramatically altered Staten Island's landscapes, the Island retains its unique identity as a borough apart. The least populated of New York City's boroughs, the Island continues to be recognized for independence of spirit and...

The area once associated with the Delaware and Hudson Railroad and farming communities, now finds residents traveling to and from their jobs, thus making a transition to a bedroom community from once busy village life and little farms dotting the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634992404Author Kathleen ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

"No chapter in the annals of the most important battle of America's national epic has been more celebrated than the key struggle for possession of the rocky hill at the extreme southern flank of the battle line at Gettysburg, Little Round Top. And no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467156424Author Rachel KippFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

From the late 1940s through the 1950s, McCarthyism disfigured the American political landscape. Under the altar of anticommunism, domestic Cold War crusaders undermined civil liberties, curtailed equality before the law, and tarnished the ideals of...

The racially charged stereotype of "welfare queen"-an allegedly promiscuous waster who uses her children as meal tickets funded by tax-payers-is a familiar icon in modern America, but as Gunja SenGupta reveals in From Slavery to Poverty, her...

Each of the nearly 100 essays in Insight Philadelphia tells a succinct, compelling, and little-known tale of the city's past. Some stories are quirky, like how early gas stations were designed to resemble classical temples, or the saga of how a museum...

Since opening in 1931, the George Washington Bridge, linking New York and New Jersey, has become the busiest bridge in the world, with 103 million vehicles crossing it in 2016. Many people also consider it the most beautiful bridge in the world, yet...

Deep within New York's compelling, sprawling history lives an odd, ornery Manhattan native named Diedrich Knickerbocker. The name may be familiar today: his story gave rise to generations of popular tributes-from a beer brand to a basketball team and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761873327Author Martin A SweeneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press of America

From Revolutionary Era bank notes to the 2008 financial collapse, Capital of Capital explores how New York City gave rise to a banking industry that in turn made the American and world economies. Capital of Capital also examines the frequently...

Upsetting the Apple Cart surveys the history of black-Latino coalitions in New York City from 1959 to 1989. In those years, African American and Latino Progressives organized, mobilized, and transformed neighborhoods, workplaces, university campuses, and...

Marking the centennial of the founding of Columbia University's school of journalism, this candid history of the school's evolution is set against the backdrop of the ongoing debate over whether journalism can-or should-be taught in America's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634991773Author Cindy VaskoFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Fonthill Media LLcPublisher Fonthill Media LLcDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 8mm

Explore Bloomfield's past through richly detailed photographs digitally repaired and enhanced from original negatives of Bloomfield scenes 100 years ago. The photos tell the story of a town that went from farms and water-powered-mills to industrial to...

More than just a farming community turned residential over time, Southern Lehigh has a diverse past the includes mines, mills, factories, taverns, and baseball. A trip through the area today is like looking through a scrapbook of early American towns and...

Streetcars "are as dead as sailing ships," said Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in a radio speech, two days before Madison Avenue's streetcars yielded to buses. LaGuardia was determined to eliminate streetcars, demolish pre-1900 elevated lines, and...