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History of the Americas
"A hilarious full-color guide to Midwestern culture, from comedian and journalist Charlie Berens, creator of the viral comedic series "The Manitowoc Minute""--. ISBN: 9780063074958Publisher: William MorrowImprint: William MorrowPublished date: 16 No..
34.41£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Agricultural fairs have played an important economic and cultural role in our nation's growth, and nowhere is this more evident than in New York, where the Mineola Fair began during the nineteenth century. The Mineola Fair Through Time traces the c..
24.51£
Brand: McFarland Publishers
The Nashville and Decatur Railroad was in operation five months before the start of the Civil War and 17 months before the Federals took control of Nashville and the railroad. Running through Central Tennessee to Alabama, the highly contested line p..
59.23£
Brand: Southern Historical Press
By: Frank D. Henderson, Pub. 1929, reprinted 2022, 463 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-046-6.This book is an authentic and complete list of Revolutionary soldiers that were buried in the state of Ohio. The large numbers of Revolutionary soldier..
73.59£
Brand: Southern Historical Press
By: D.A.R. of Ohio, Pub. 1938, reprinted 2022, 436 pages, ISBN #978-1-63914-047-3.This book contains the data of some 1,500 applications for pensions for those persons who had moved to Ohio following their service in 1775-1783. These persons were fr..
72.70£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
At the dawn of automobile travel in the United States, visionary entrepreneurs proposed a Southern transcontinental route called the Old Spanish Trail (OST) that would stretch across eight states from Florida to California. The central third of the..
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This richly illustrated volume explores Edison's inventive and personal pursuits from 1888 to 1889, documenting his responses to technological, organizational, and economic challenges.Thomas A. Edison was received at the 1889 Paris Exposition Univer..
127.98£
Brand: University of Texas Press
What would Thanksgiving be without pecan pie? New Orleans without pecan pralines? Southern cooks would have to hang up their aprons without America's native nut, whose popularity has spread far beyond the tree's natural home. But as familiar as the ..
23.41£
What was antebellum life like for the two communities of people-one white and one black-who lived and worked on a plantation on the Eastern Shore of Maryland?Thomas Marsh Forman was in his early twenties when he returned from the Revolutionary War t..
53.84£
Brand: University of Virginia Press
No figure in American history has generated more public interest or sustained more scholarly research around his various homes and habitations than has George Washington. The Permanent Resident is the first book to bring the principal archaeological..
43.66£
Brand: Creative Media Partners LLC
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United St..
16.21£
With a storyteller's style and a historian's fidelity, Jacqueline Dougan Jackson records the life and death of the internationally renowned Dougan Dairy farm near Beloit, Wisconsin. Volume four completes the story by documenting the family's interac..
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This third volume of The Round Barn continues the story of the Dougan farm and its denizens, expanded now to include a nearby farm, with its landscaping and remodeling under the direction of the University of Wisconsin. The growing hybrid seed corn ..
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Fifty-two years after the pink-headed duck was last seen in the wild, Rory Nugent set off for India in search of this exceptionally rare bird. In Calcutta he prowled the fowl market, where a few of the ducks used to appear during the Raj. Traveling ..
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Brand: Cornell University Press
Show business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as David Monod demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home was not "natural": it developed slowly over the course of the nin..
64.93£
This engaging and unprecedented work captures the compelling story of John F. Kennedy's role in advancing the United States' space program, set against the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The stunning collection of history and photographs crafted by..
56.36£
Brand: University of Oklahoma Press
On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand, a sternwheeler bound from St. Louis to Fort Benton in Montana Territory, hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. The crew removed only a few items before the boat was silted ov..
72.03£
Brand: NYU Press
On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history-depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it. June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liqu..
38.51£
Brand: Southern Historical Press
ISBN: 9780893085858Publisher: Southern Historical PressImprint: Southern Historical PressPublished date: 29 Apr 2022DEWEY: 929.3758DEWEY edition: 19Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 374Weight: 562gHeight: 229mmWidth: 152mmSpine width: 22mm..
68.42£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
For hundreds of years, the Mississippi River has delivered incredible benefits, but near-annual flooding and poor navigation required continual improvements. Starting in 1824, the US Army Corps of Engineers worked to develop solutions to these prob..
24.83£
Brand: North Atlantic Books
A History Book of the Year in The Times 'Cozzens is a master storyteller; his books weave a wealth of intricate detail into gripping historical narrative.' The Times 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' S.C...
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Brand: Princeton University Press
The author offers many new insights for students of migration and ethnicity across several social science disciplines. Focusing on the ordinary immigrants who have often been ignored in the historical record, he demonstrates that German newcomers ar..
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An in-depth look at the key advisers to Woodrow Wilson during the course of his tumultuous presidency.Nearly 100 years after Woodrow Wilson's death, historians continue to be divided over the impact of his presidency and his political leadership. Th..
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Brand: The Lyons Press
The SS Portland was a solid and luxurious ship, and its loss in 1898 in a violent storm with some 200 people aboard was later remembered as "New England's Titanic." The Portland was one of New England's largest and most luxurious paddle steamers, an..
21.48£