Midwest

2024 Jon Gjerde Prize Winner for best book in Midwestern History After the War of 1812 and the removal of the region's Indigenous peoples, the American Midwest became a paradoxical land for settlers. Even as many settlers found that the region provided...

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476748399Author David MaranissFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

As 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540202345Author Lisa M Bolt SimonsFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846777561Author Fanny KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 413g

Apologies 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)...

From 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...

Get the beautiful book that presents the history of the Minnesota Vikings football team, with full-color photography and fascinating text. The Minnesota Vikings are a proud and storied franchise. Some of the NFL's all-time best players-and all-time...

Raised in poverty on an Iowa farm, the Cherry Sisters had little education and no training. But they possessed a burning desire to take to the stage and show the world what they could do-and what they could do was awful. Their unique act was "so bad it...

The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the guerrilla theater, the conflict was a vast sequence of home invasions, local traumas, and social...

Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach led the hunt for John Dillinger during the violent early 1930s. Pushing a media campaign aimed at smoking out the fugitive, Leach elevated Dillinger to unprecedented notoriety. In return, Dillinger taunted him...

"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...

On 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...

Between the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life. Samantha Ege tells the stories of the Black women whose acumen and energy transformed Chicago's South Side...

Ara: The Life and Legacy of a Notre Dame Legend captures the personality, courage, and character of a great man who faced adversity on and off the field. Through his unprecedented access to Ara Parseghian’s personal files, author Mark O. Hubbard explores...

In 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983703754Author Allan R MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 650Imprint Conallan Press LLCPublisher Conallan Press LLCWeight(grams) 857g

An 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...

Sun Ra (1914-93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540220967Author Paul KirkmanFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

Former 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060781026Author Simon BaatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

The Edmund Fitzgerald, a colossal ore carrier, had been fighting her way through a pounding November storm on Lake Superior. Then the Fitz's radar went out, and she started to take on water. Despite gale-force winds and thirty-foot seas, there was no...

Told with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Wooden Leg remembers the world...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953368294Author Phil ChristmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 176mm *...

Written 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...

Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a 'City on the Make.' Carl Sandburg dubbed it the 'City of Big Shoulders.' Upton Sinclair christened it the 'Jungle,' while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it the 'Second City.' At last...

New York Times Bestseller! "Sam Giancana tells all . . . Controversial . . . ties seven United States presidents to the mob."-Larry King, CNNOne of the most feared Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting...

Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet - City of Lake and Prairie - with this compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history. Sitting at the southwestern tip of Lake...

As the Revolutionary War raged on fields near the Atlantic, Native Americans and British rangers fought American settlers on the Ohio River frontier in warfare of unsurpassed ferocity. When their attacks threatened to drive the Americans from their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914091677Author Josh NoelFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review Press

Everyone 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...

Absolute 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467149860Author Kenneth J. SchoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

The 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...

2019 Tucson Weekly "40 Essential Arizona Books" pick 2014 One Book Yuma selection 2010 Best of the Best from the University Presses (ALA) selection 2010 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Finalist 2009 Southwest Book of the Year"The Blue Tattoo is well...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Northeastern Minnesota Book Award (Nonfiction) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780873518543Author Arnold R. AlanenFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint...

The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's "as resonant today as ever" (The Wall Street Journal)-the settling of the Northwest Territory by...