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  • LEE IN THE LOWCOUNTRY
    DANIEL J. CROOKS
    This Civil War biography sheds light on the Confederate General’s first year serving the newly formed Southern Republic.   Early in the Civil War, General Robert E. Lee was given command of the Department of South Carolina, Georgia and East Florida. Making him, in effect, the first line of defense for for Confederacy and two of its key cities: Charleston and Savannah. In Lee in...

    $229.00

  • PROHIBITION NEW YORK CITY
    DAVID ROSEN
    “The drunken ’20s started roaring almost immediately, but they were loudest in Manhattan. David Rosen’s [book] has all the snazzy, jazzy details.” —NY Daily News Texas Guinan was the queen of New York’s speakeasies in the Roaring Twenties. Her clubs were backed by leading gangsters and welcomed some of the city’s biggest sharks and swankest swells. Movie stars, flappers, madams...

    $251.00

  • CAJUN PIG
    DIXIE LEE POCHE
    “When it comes to swining and dining in Louisiana, Dixie Poché has it covered. From snout to tail . . . it’s all here.” —Chef John D. Folse, Louisiana’s “Culinary Ambassador to the World” Southwest Louisiana is famous for time-honored gatherings that celebrate its French Acadian heritage. And the culinary star of these gatherings? That’s generally the pig. Whether it’s a bouche...

    $229.00

  • A HISTORY LOVER'S GUIDE TO KANSAS CITY
    PAUL KIRKMAN
    Discover the sights, sounds, and rich history of Kansas City—from ancient burial mounds to a world-class jazz museum. Kansas City is often seen as a “cow town” with great barbecue and steaks. But it’s also a city with more boulevards than Paris and more working fountains than Rome. There are burial mounds that date back more than two thousand years. The National World War I Mus...

    $229.00

  • TRUE MURDER MYSTERIES OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
    A. PARKER BURROUGHS
    Historical true crime stories from the southwestern corner of the Keystone State, reaching as far back as 1795. In the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, beyond the picturesque scenes of the Monongahela River Valley, there are long-forgotten mysteries of scandal and murder. Amid the hardship of life on the frontier of Washington County in 1795, young Isabel Stewart was found dea...

    $229.00

  • CONFRONTATION AT GETTYSBURG
    JOHN DAVID HOPTAK
    “A clear and concise telling” of America’s most famous battle. “[Hoptak] has crafted a narrative that is similar to a well led tour of the battlefield” (Civil War Librarian).   Fought on the first three days of July 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg was one of the largest and by far the bloodiest of the Civil War. Yet the importance of this great conflagration cannot be measured i...

    $229.00

  • A HISTORY LOVER'S GUIDE TO LEXINGTON & CENTRAL KENTUCKY
    FOSTER OCKERMAN / PETER BRACKNEY
    “Give[s] a history of Lexington and the region with a special focus on the historic neighborhoods of Lexington and historic sites around the Bluegrass.” —The Kaintuckeean The Athens of the West. The Horse Capital of the World. The Home to the Greatest Tradition in College Basketball. Heart of the Bluegrass. Lexington has a lot of names and an even richer history. The region pla...

    $229.00

  • FINDING DANIEL BOONE
    TED FRANKLIN BELUE
    Follow the final days of an American frontier icon as a historian examines what happened to him after he died. Finding Daniel Boone is a unique tribute to America’s frontier hero and offers closure to the greatest of all his mysteries: where he was buried. Part biography, part historical travelogue, and eloquently narrated using fresh sources, rare forensic data, and new field ...

    $229.00

  • LONG ISLAND'S VANISHED HEIRESS
    STEVEN C. DRIELAK
    A new look at the 1937 abduction of a wealthy wife and mother, based on previously classified FBI documents—includes photos.   When she was kidnapped from Long Meadow Farm in Stony Brook, New York, in 1937, Alice McDonell Parsons was the heir to a vast fortune among Long Island’s wealthy elite. The crime shocked the nation and was front-page news for several months.   J. Edgar ...

    $251.00

  • A HISTORY LOVER'S GUIDE TO LINCOLN
    GRETCHEN M. GARRISON
    A neighborhood-by-neighborhood tour of the Cornhusker State’s capital city by an author who “is a wealth of Nebraska knowledge” (Oh My! Omaha). Dramatic change accompanied Lincoln’s growth from a village of 30 settlers to a city of 300,000. Today, Lincoln retains the residue of its fascinating past for those who know where to look. Tour Lincoln’s storied heritage by charting th...

    $229.00

  • HEMINGWAY'S SUN VALLEY
    PHIL HUSS
    A Hemingway expert shares untold stories of the writer’s life in Idaho, together with passages from his works, to shed light on the ideals he lived by.   It was a cold, "windless, blue sky day" in the fall of 1939 near Silver Creek—a blue-ribbon trout stream south of Sun Valley. Ernest Hemingway flushed three mallards and got each duck with three pulls. He spent the morning wor...

    $229.00

  • THE BATTLE OF BRICE'S CROSSROADS
    STEWART L BENNETT
    The history of this unexpected Confederate victory in Civil War Mississippi, told through a collection of first-person soldier accounts.   An insignificant crossroads in northeast Mississippi was an unlikely battleground for one of the most spectacular Confederate victories in the western theater of the Civil War. But that is where two generals determined destiny for their men....

    $229.00

  • A HISTORY LOVER'S GUIDE TO DENVER
    MARK A. BARNHOUSE
    Colorado’s Mile High City sits atop a mountain of Old West history—from stories of fortune seekers to captains of industry, immigrants to activist women. Founded in an unlikely spot where dry prairies meet formidable mountains, Denver overcame its doubtful beginning to become the largest and most important city within a thousand miles. This tour of the Queen City of the Plains ...

    $229.00

  • THE LOST COLONY AND HATTERAS ISLAND
    SCOTT DAWSON
    New archeological discoveries may finally solve the greatest mystery of Colonial America in this history of Roanoke and Hatteras Islands.   Established on what is now North Carolina’s Roanoke Island, the Roanoke Colony was intended to be England’s first permanent settlement in North America. But in 1590, the entire population disappeared without a trace. The only clue to their ...

    $229.00

  • PIRATES AND LOST TREASURE OF COASTAL MAINE
    GREG LATIMER
    The little-known history of the pirates who roamed Maine’s rocky coast and remote islands—and what they left behind . . . Maine has never been regarded as a pirate haven—but only because witnesses were few and far between. With a rugged coast and more than four thousand offshore islands, Maine’s dark waters attracted sea raiders like Dixie Bull from the 1600s through colonial t...

    $229.00

  • FLAVORS UNDER THE BIG SKY
    STELLA FONG
    Explore the big, wild flavors of Montana with this collection of recipes and stories from Big Sky Country’s culinary trailblazers.   With more than eighty recipes and stunning photography, writer and Montana radio host Stella Fong combines cherished local ingredients with world flavors. Sourced from waterways, mountains, plains and local farmers’ markets, Montana's resources sh...

    $229.00

  • TALES FROM THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB
    GIL KLEIN
    A behind-the-scenes history of the organization behind the White House Correspondents’ Dinner—and the news-breakers and newsmakers who’ve been part of it.   Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the National Press Club has been the hub of Washington journalism. Started by reporters as a watering hole for late-night card games, the Club soon attracted not only icons from...

    $229.00

  • MEMORIES OF MOUNT ST. HELENS
    JIM ERICKSON
    “Takes a local and regional perspective in looking back on the mountain’s history, the frenzied days surrounding the eruption, and its aftermath.” —The Oregonian In the spring of 1980, Mount St. Helens awoke from a century-long slumber with a series of dramatic changes. Most threatening was a bulge on the side of the snowy peak, pushing steadily outward. Near Spirit Lake, local...

    $251.00

  • A HISTORY LOVER'S GUIDE TO HOUSTON
    TRISTAN SMITH
    A guide to the history of the Bayou City for Texans, visitors and armchair tourists alike. Houston earned its international reputation as a hub for space flight and the oil industry. But visitors don't need to search out the secrets of the stars or the depths of the earth to experience the impressive legacy of the nation's fourth-largest city. Traverse the streets of downtown a...

    $251.00

  • THE FATHER OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
    GEORGE BIRD GRINELL
    The story of this glorious Montana landmark, told through the journals and letters of the man who fought to conserve it—maps and photos included.   With his small group of explorers, George Bird Grinnell discovered and named forty geological features east of the Continental Divide and west of the Blackfeet Reservation. He also happened to be a prolific writer and record-keeper ...

    $251.00

  • PIRATES OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY
    JAMIE L.H. GOODALL
    “An epic history of piracy . . . Goodall explores the role of these legendary rebels and describes the fine line between piracy and privateering.” —WYPR The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy. From the golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and...

    $229.00

  • EDGAR ALLAN POE'S CHARLESTON
    CHRISTOPHER BYRD DOWNEY
    An in-depth history of Poe’s time spent in the South Carolina port city where he secretly enlisted in the United States Army. Edgar Allan Poe arrived in Charleston in November 1827 chased by storms, both literal and figurative. Some of the author’s previous indiscretions caused him to enlist in the U.S. Army six months earlier under the pseudonym Edgar A. Perry. The more than o...

    $229.00

  • NEW MEXICO'S STOLEN LANDS
    RAY JOHN DE ARAGON
    “Surprisingly lively . . . An absorbing tale about the land shenanigans that took place in New Mexico after the Mexican-American War ended in 1848.” —Albuquerque Journal At the end of the Mexican-American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo guaranteed previous Spanish and Mexican land grants, as well as rights for Native Americans to their ancestral homelands. However, organiz...

    $229.00

  • THE GREY EAGLES OF CHIPPEWA FALLS
    JOHN E. KINVILLE
    A women’s chapter of the KKK in the early twentieth-century Midwest is uncovered in this fascinating and meticulously researched social history. In the xenophobic atmosphere of the 1920s and 1930s, Ku Klux Klan activity spiked in Wisconsin and gave rise to Women’s Klan no. 14, also known as the Grey Eagles of Chippewa Falls. Against a national backdrop that saw the Klan hurl it...

    $229.00

  • WOODSTOCK'S INFAMOUS MURDER TRIAL
    RICHARD R. HEPPNER
    A local historian uncovers a racially charged murder trial in upstate New York in this examination of prejudice and punishment in the early twentieth century. In 1905, the quiet rural community of Woodstock, New York, was shocked by the murder of Oscar Harrison, a member of a prominent local family. A suspect, Cornell Van Gaasbeek, was quickly identified. As a black man accused...

    $229.00

  • SEATTLE'S FORGOTTEN SERIAL KILLER
    CLOYD STEIGER
    “An in-depth look at the 1971 trial of a serial killer who’s been mostly forgotten—except to those who were forever impacted” (The Seattle Times). In 1969, the body of a young woman was discovered in the woods of Renton, Washington, rocking the communities along Puget Sound. Three more brutal murders followed, drawing the attention of multiple police agencies as they tried to p...

    $251.00

  • THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS
    LORA-MARIE BERNARD
    A journalist searches for the truth behind the traditional folk song, and a free black woman’s role in the Texas Revolution. The legend of the Yellow Rose of Texas holds an indisputable place in Lone Star culture, tethered to a familiar song that has served as a Civil War marching tune, a pop chart staple, and a halftime anthem. Almost two centuries of Texas mythmaking successf...

    $200.00

  • LIFE AND LEGACY OF B. B. KING
    DIANE WILLIAMS
    This biography of the iconic blues musician features interviews with family members, fellow musicians, and those who knew his best. Born on a cotton plantation in 1925, Riley B. King would grow up to be one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, being crowned “The King of the Blues.” Never wavering from his vocation, King gathered other musicians together and meld...

    $229.00

  • NEW MEXICO DEATH RITUALS
    ANA PACHECO
    A look at the Land of Enchantment’s burial customs, from the Pueblo Indians and Spanish colonists to Jewish immigrants and American veterans. New Mexico’s harsh terrain, countless wars and epidemics were a challenging and fascinating environment for the many cultures and peoples who settled there. When tragedy struck, their faith and religious rituals allowed them to mourn, cel...

    $229.00

  • PIRATES & ROGUES OF MONTEREY BAY
    TODD COOK
    Explore the California bay’s colorful history with pirates. The age of pirates spanned nearly two hundred years and was considered a plague on the high seas. Even the far reaches of what was then Alta California weren’t safe, and a surprising number of unexpected visitors sailed into Monterey Bay. Argentinian Hippolyte Bouchard, spurred by revolutionary fervor, attacked Montere...

    $229.00