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  • The New History in an Old Museum

    Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg

    The New History in an Old Museum is an exploration of "historical truth" as presented at Colonial Williamsburg. More than a detailed history of a museum and tourist attraction, it examines the packaging of American history, and consumerism and the manufacturing of cultural beliefs. Through extensive fieldwork—including numerous site visits, interviews with employees and visitors, and archival ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Hillbilly Elegy

    A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    by J. D. Vance ...
    THE#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO**"You will not read a more important book about America this year.**"—The Economist"A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal**"Essential reading."—David Brooks,**New York TimesHillbilly Elegy is a passionate ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Johnstown Flood

    The summer of 1889 will ever be memorable for its appalling disasters by flood and flame. In that period fell the heaviest blow of the nineteenth century—a blow scarcely paralleled in the histories of civilized lands. Central Pennsylvania, a center of industry, thrift and comfort, was desolated by floods unprecedented in the records of the great waters. On both sides of the Alleghenies these ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remembering Youngstown

    Tales from the Mahoning Valley

    Edited by Mark C. Peyko ...
    Series series American Chronicles
    With stories of inventors, movie moguls, local cuisine and sports heroes, Editor Mark C. Peyko and the writers of the Metro Monthly not only chronicle the history of Youngstown, but also capture the essence of their home.The blows of hammers and the humming of mills once echoed throughout the Mahoning Valley. Steel reigned supreme, and immigrants from every corner of Europe came to forge new lives ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gettysburg

    A Testing of Courage

    America's Civil War raged for more than four years, but it is the three days of fighting in the Pennsylvania countryside in July 1863 that continues to fascinate, appall, and inspire new generations with its unparalleled saga of sacrifice and courage. From Chancellorsville, where General Robert E. Lee launched his high-risk campaign into the North, to the Confederates' last daring and ultimately ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Decent, Orderly Lynching

    The Montana Vigilantes

    The deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers. Hailed as great heroes at the time, the Montana vigilantes are still revered as founding fathers.Combing through original sources, including eye-witness accounts never before published, Frederick Allen concludes that the vigilantes ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hill Folks

    A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image

    The Ozark region, located in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, has long been the domain of the folklorist and the travel writer--a circumstance that has helped shroud its history in stereotype and misunderstanding. With Hill Folks, Brooks Blevins offers the first in-depth historical treatment of the Arkansas Ozarks. He traces the region's history from the early nineteenth century through ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Forgotten People

    Cane River's Creoles of Color

    Out of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acres, which they tilled alongside hundreds of their own bondsmen. Furnishings of quality and taste graced their homes, and private tutors educated their children. Cultured, deeply religious, and highly ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Browns of California

    The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation

    by Miriam Pawel ...
    "Miriam Pawel's fascinating book . . . illuminates the sea change in the nation's politics in the last half of the 20th century."--New York Times Book ReviewCalifornia Book Award Gold Medal Winner * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * A Los Angeles Times Bestseller * San Francisco Chronicle's "Best Books of the Year" List * Publishers Weekly ... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Wicked Nashville

    Series series Wicked
    While known for the twang of its country music, Nashville is also home to a colorful and salacious past. A must-read for Nashville history enthusiasts.The earliest settlers to lay claim to the land surrounding Nashville brought with them betrayal, murder and thievery.As the city grew, authorities unsuccessfully attempted to outlaw and remove vice. During the Civil War, the number of soiled dovesin ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Dillinger Slept Here

    A Crooks' Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936

    by Paul Maccabee ...
    "Paul Maccabee's John Dillinger Slept Here is not just one of the best books ever written about Minneapolis-St. Paul, it is one of the best books of local history I have ever read—about any city anywhere on Earth. While writing Public Enemies I kept it on my desk at all times. I daresay one cannot call himself a real Minnesotan if you haven't read it. The book is just that darned good."&emdash ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Illiberal America: A History

    by Steven Hahn ...
    If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That’s not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep-seated in the American past as the founding ideals.A storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6 ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Loft Jazz

    Improvising New York in the 1970s

    The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. Faced with a flagging jazz economy, a group of young avant-garde improvisers chose to eschew the commercial sphere and develop alternative venues in the abandoned factories and warehouses of Lower Manhattan. Loft Jazz provides the first book-length study of this period, tracing its history amid ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Sworn to Silence

    The Truth Behind Robert Garrow and the Missing Bodies Case

    by Jim Tracy ...
    Jim Tracy’s Sworn to Silence is an unforgettable story of two American lawyers who did the unprecedented. They searched for, found, and photographed the lifeless bodies of their client’s victims and then kept it secret. They did so in the face of unendurable pressure from the authorities and the victims’ families, who suspected the lawyers knew more than they were saying.When the American public ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Bittersweet Legacy

    The Black and White 'Better Classes' in Charlotte, 1850-1910

    Bittersweet Legacy is the dramatic story of the relationship between two generations of black and white southerners in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1850 to 1910. Janette Greenwood describes the interactions between black and white business and professional people--the 'better classes,' as they called themselves. Her book paints a surprisingly complex portrait of race and class relations in the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Haunted Memphis

    Series series Haunted America
    Author Laura Cunningham expertly blends fright with history and presents the ghostly legends of haunted Memphis.Much like its muddy riverbanks, the mid-South is flooded with tales of shadowy spirits lurking among us. Beyond the rhythm of the blues and tapping of blue suede shoes is a history steeped in horror. From the restless souls of Elmwood Cemetery to the voodoo vices of Beale Street, phantom ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Now You Hear My Horn

    The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, 1820–1887

    Jim Nichols was a lively, vigorous frontiersman who came to Texas about the time of its Revolution. As with many men of that day, Nichols' formal education was lacking, but he was a born writer with a vivid way of saying things. He had an abundance of exciting events to write about: fighting against Mexicans and Indians, Ranger activities, an attack by wolves, a buffalo stampede, and many other ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Wells, Fargo Detective

    A Biography of James B. Hume

    In the tradition of his award-winning biographies, Meriwether Lewis and Fool’s Gold, acclaimed historian Richard Dillon recreates the life of one of frontier America’s most gifted lawmen, James B. Hume.Dillon paints a vivid picture of Hume, the greatest of Wells, Fargo and company’s detectives, who ranged all over the West in search of robbers of the firm’s express shipments.Formerly a sheriff in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

    Washington Post • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020Finalist • Kirkus Prize for NonfictionKirkus Reviews • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020Library Journal • Best Science & Technology Books of 2020Booklist • 10 Top Sci-Tech Books of 2020New York Times Book Review • Editor's ChoiceWith A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself ... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • These Truths: A History of the United States

    by Jill Lepore ...
    **“Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR BooksA New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the YearIn the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation.**Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ghosts of Alexandria

    Series series Haunted America
    A hair-raising ride through Alexandria's greatest ghostly past. A must-read for fans of the supernatural and Virginia history!The ghost of a Revolutionary War spy that fosters a centuries-old grudge against the British, two young lovers parted by fire but reunited in death and Union and Confederate soldiers who still battle at the Hotel Monaco are among the haunts of Alexandria, Virginia.Beside ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Wilson’s Raid

    The Final Blow to the Confederacy

    Series series Civil War Series
    Relive the final days of the Civil War with this compelling account of Wilson's Raid told by memoirs of those who witnessed it.In the closing months of the Civil War, General James Wilson led a Union cavalry raid through Alabama and parts of Georgia. Wilson, the young, brash "boy general" of the Union, matched wits against Nathan Bedford Forrest, the South's legendary "wizard of the saddle." ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Five Points

    The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum

    Nineteenth-century NYC’s most dynamic and dangerous neighborhood comes vividly to life in this “careful, intelligent, and sympathetic history” (The New York Times Book Review).Located in today’s Chinatown, Five Points was home to poor immigrants and other marginalized communities. It witnessed more riots, scams, prostitution, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in America. But at the same ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Red Dirt

    Roots Music Born in Oklahoma, Raised in Texas, At Home Anywhere

    Red Dirt tells the story of a roots music scene that grabbed a foothold in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and spread across the country. The scene took roots in the late 1970s as an outlet for college-town hippies. The scene gave rise to Garth Brooks, who credits it with helping his early rise to prominence. Later, The Great Divide, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Jason Boland and the Stragglers and Stoney LaRue ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus