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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
RRP: $24.38$16.89Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls - the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains where 'as far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a whole month, there... -
The Real Deadwood: True Life Histories of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Outlaw Towns, and Other Characters of the Lawless West by John Ames 9781596090316
RRP: $19.34$12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596090316Author John AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Chamberlain BrosPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 192g -
Truman by David McCullough
RRP: $21.92$15.58The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian.The life of... -
Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs
RRP: $19.35$15.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873489737Author Farrell DobbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books Ltd -
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough 9781501168703
RRP: $16.76$10.55As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of... -
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
RRP: $19.34$12.51From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum - out of many, one - has been featured on America's official government seals and... -
Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker by Katherine J. Cramer
RRP: $33.54$27.99Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall that... -
My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains by Jessa Crispin 9780226820101
RRP: $20.64$17.85Sharp and thought-provoking, this memoir-meets-cultural criticism upends the romanticism of the Great Plains and the patriarchy at the core of its ideals. For many Americans, Kansas represents a vision of Midwestern life that is good and wholesome and... -
The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900 by Jon K. Lauck 9780806190648
$30.20At the center of American history is a hole-a gap where some scholars' indifference or disdain has too long stood in for the true story of the American Midwest. A first-ever chronicle of the Midwest's formative century, The Good Country restores this... -
DK Eyewitness Chicago by DK
RRP: $15.47$10.87The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this historic city.Admire Impressionist masterpieces at the Art Institute of Chicago, window shop on the Magnificent... -
Graceland Cemetery: Chicago Stories, Symbols, and Secrets by Adam Selzer
RRP: $21.92$19.53Chosen for the 2024 Illinois Reads Program by the Illinois Reading Council One of Chicago's landmark attractions, Graceland Cemetery chronicles the city's sprawling history through the stories of its people. Local historian and Graceland tour guide Adam... -
The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America's Race to Space by Michael G. Smith 9781612498416
RRP: $38.64$31.13The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America's Race to Space focuses on the golden era of space exploration between 1946 and 1966, specifically the life and times of Purdue University's Dr. Maurice J. Zucrow, a pioneering teacher and... -
Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi by Susan Hendricks 9780306830242
RRP: $32.25$18.40Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-dive into the still-unsolved double homicide of two teens in Delphi, Indiana-and its lasting impact on the communityOn February 13, 2017, two teenage... -
The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science by Todd Tucker
RRP: $19.34$16.82"The Great Starvation Experiment is wide-ranging, weaving progress in the war into the day-to-day suffering of the hungry volunteers." -Saint Paul Pioneer Press "Fascinating . . ." -Minneapolis Star Tribune Near the end of World War II, thirty-six... -
Vacationland by Sarah Stonich 9780816687664
RRP: $19.34$15.30On a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge-only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. And there you might meet Meg, or the ghost of the girl she was, growing up under her grandfather's care in a... -
Action Park by Andy Mulvihill
RRP: $21.92$14.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134510Author Andy MulvihillFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The War for Missouri: 1861-1862 by Joseph W McCoskrie
RRP: $32.24$21.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467143141Author Joseph W McCoskrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Jazz from Detroit by Mark Stryker 9780472074266
RRP: $43.80$35.28Jazz from Detroit explores the city's pivotal role in shaping the course of modern and contemporary jazz. With more than two dozen in-depth profiles of remarkable Detroit-bred musicians, complemented by a generous selection of photographs, Mark Stryker... -
American Mafia: Chicago: True Stories Of Families Who Made Windy City History by William Griffith 9780762778447
RRP: $19.34$14.53Everyone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder. American Mafia: Chicago explores the Windy City, strolling through its neighborhoods and imagining scenes from the... -
The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs: A Decade-By-Decade History by Chicago Tribune Staff 9781572842175
$42.09The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs is a decade-by-decade look at one of baseball's most beloved if hard-luck teams, starting with the franchise's beginnings in 1876 as the Chicago White Stockings and ending with the newfound success of Joe... -
Chicago Then and Now (R) by Kathleen Maguire
RRP: $19.34$13.80Chicago Then and Now pairs vintage shots from 100 years of the city's history with the same view today Chicago is a city that through history has triumphed over nature and disaster. It has bounced back from a calamitous fire, re-engineered the... -
Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana Primary by Ray E. Boomhower 9780253023780
RRP: $23.21$20.06On April 4, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., arrived in Indiana to campaign for the Indiana Democratic presidential primary. As Kennedy boarded his flight from an appearance in Muncie to Indianapolis, he learned that civil rights leader Dr. Martin... -
Midwestern Food: A Chef’s Guide to the Surprising History of a Great American Cuisine, with More Than 100 Tasty Recipes by Paul Fehribach 9780226819495
RRP: $25.80$22.42An acclaimed chef offers a historically informed cookbook that will change how you think about Midwestern cuisine. Celebrated chef Paul Fehribach has made his name serving up some of the most thoughtful and authentic regional southern cooking-not in the... -
Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM by Paul Steinbeck 9780226829531
RRP: $25.80$25.03A groundbreaking study of the trailblazing music of Chicago's AACM, a leader in the world of jazz and experimental music. Founded on Chicago's South Side in 1965 and still thriving today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)... -
The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes by Claiborne A. Skinner 9780801888380
$34.74The Upper Country melds myth and conventional history to provide a memorable tale of French designs in the middle of what became the United States. Putting the reader on the battlefields, at the trading posts, and on the rivers with voyageurs and their... -
Life on Muskrat Creek: A Homestead Family in Wyoming by Ethel Waxham Love 9781611462661
RRP: $19.34$14.53Written by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who went to Wyoming in 1905 as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and her son, J. David Love, who later became an eminent geologist, Life on Muskrat Creek tells the fascinating story of a... -
The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland by James H. Madison
$17.83"Who is an American?" asked the Ku Klux Klan. It is a question that echoes as loudly today as it did in the early twentieth century. But who really joined the Klan? Were they "hillbillies, the Great Unteachables" as one journalist put it? It would be... -
Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football by Rich Cohen
RRP: $20.64$15.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250056047Author Rich CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 25mm -
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan 9780393355550
RRP: $18.05$15.43The Great Lakes-Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior-hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their... -
The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold by Billy Boy Arnold
RRP: $30.96$29.52Simply put, Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scene's raucous heyday. What's more, unlike most artists in this electrifying melting pot, who were Southern transplants, Arnold-a harmonica master who shared stages with... -
Showdown at Little Big Horn by Dee Brown 9780803262188
RRP: $20.63$15.45On Sunday afternoon, June 25, 1876, Gen. George Custer and 264 members of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry engaged more than 3,000 warriors of the Lakota Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne nations and were killed in the ensuing battle. Acclaimed historian Dee Brown... -
Absolute Madness: A True Story of a Serial Killer, Race, and a City Divided by Catherine Pelonero 9781510719835
RRP: $25.80$23.63Absolute Madness tells the disturbing true story of Joseph Christopher, a white serial killer who targeted black males and struck fear into the residents of Buffalo and New York City in the 1980s. Dubbed both the .22-Caliber Killer and the Midtown... -
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan 9780618773473
RRP: $24.50$15.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618773473Author Timothy EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)... -
Joe Biden: American Dreamer by Evan Osnos
RRP: $12.89$9.17The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos - A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the Year 'A thoroughly readable primer' Guardian 'Biden has overcome unimaginable... -
Fighting Son: A Biography of Philip F. La Follette by Jonathan Kasparek 9780870203534
RRP: $26.45$20.46As the second son of the most famous Wisconsin progressive, Philip La Follette's own political journey was incontrovertibly marked by his father's legacy. Growing up in the shadow of a major political figure like "Fighting Bob" La Follette made for a... -
North American Indian Tribes of the Great Lakes by Michael G. Johnson
RRP: $16.76$12.31This book details the growth of the European Fur trade in North America and how it drew the Native Americans who lived in the Great Lakes region, notably the Huron, Dakota, Sauk and Fox, Miami and Shawnee tribes into the colonial European Wars. During... -
The North Shore Line by David Sadowski
RRP: $30.95$19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467108966Author David SadowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams)... -
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon 9780393308730
RRP: $20.63$18.34In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its... -
Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery by Todd Mildfelt 9780806192901
RRP: $50.25$41.22A controversial character largely known (as depicted in the movie Glory) as a Union colonel who led Black soldiers in the Civil War, James Montgomery (1814-71) waged a far more personal and radical war against slavery than popular history suggests. It is... -
The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood by Carlo Rotella 9780226759616
RRP: $20.64$20.34An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day--and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it's also people--the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it can...