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  • Righting the Past

    A Florida Community Reclaims Its African American History

    Edited by Jamin Wells, Robin Reshard, Joe Vinson ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    Every community has stories that are remembered and forgotten. The histories we inherit reflect not only what is preserved but whose lives are valued enough to be recorded and shared. In Pensacola, Florida, generations of Black residents helped build, sustain, and transform their community, yet many of their stories remained absent from public memory. Righting the Past brings those lives into view ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

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  • Shipwrecked

    Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach

    by Jamin Wells ...
    Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation’s watery edges, Jamin Wells shows that disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach — they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested, and engineered places on the planet, few people visited it or called it home at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By the twentieth century, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    A History of Hawaii

    by James L. Haley ...
    The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of the first missionaries marked the beginning of the struggle between a native culture with its ancient ... Read more

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  • Spectacle

    The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga

    by Pamela Newkirk ...
    "A riveting account of one of the more startling episodes in the . . . history of race in America" ( Wall Street Journal).Ota Benga, a young African man, was featured as an exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair. Two years later, the New York Zoological Gardens displayed him in its Monkey House, caging him with an orangutan. The attraction became an international sensation, drawing thousands of New ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leviathan

    The History of Whaling in America

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    **A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History"The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." —Nathaniel Philbrick**The epic history of the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • African Founders

    How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    In this sweeping, foundational work of American history, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States.African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa ... Read more

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  • Hurricane of Independence

    The Untold Story of the Deadly Storm at the Deciding Moment of the American Revolution

    by Tony Williams ...
    The sleeper history hit of 2008, released in paperback to coincide with the heart of hurricane seasonOn September 2, 1775, the eighth deadliest Atlantic hurricane of all time landed on American shores. Over the next days, it would race up the East Coast, striking all of the important colonial capitols and killing more than four thousand people. In an era when hurricanes were viewed as omens from ... Read more

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  • The Mortal Sea

    fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail

    by W. Jeffrey Bolster ...
    Since the time of the Vikings, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend on it for survival, and people have shaped the Atlantic. In his account of this interdependency, Bolster, a historian and professional seafarer, takes us through a millennium-long environmental history of our impact on one of the largest ecosystems in the world. ... Read more

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  • The Lobster Coast

    Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier

    by Colin Woodard ...
    “A thorough and engaging history of Maine’s rocky coast and its tough-minded people.”—Boston Herald“[A] well-researched and well-written cultural and ecological history of stubborn perseverance.”—USA TodayFor more than four hundred years the people of coastal Maine have clung to their rocky, wind-swept lands, resisting outsiders’ attempts to control them while harvesting the astonishing bounty of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Brilliant Beacons

    A History of the American Lighthouse

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    "What Moby-Dick is to whales, Brilliant Beacons is to lighthouses—a transformative account of a familiar yet mystical subject." —Laurence Bergreen, author of Columbus: The Four VoyagesIn this "magnificent compendium" (New Republic), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin presents the definitive history of American lighthouses, and in so doing "illuminate[s] the history of America itself" ... Read more

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  • Possessing Meares Island

    A Historian's Journey into the Past of Clayoquot Sound

    by Barry Gough ...
    A fascinating account that links early maritime history, Indigenous land rights, and modern environmental advocacy in the Clayoquot Sound region by award-winning author and historian Barry Gough.Centred on Meares Island, located near Tofino on Vancouver Island’s west coast, Possessing Meares Island weaves a unique history out of the mists of time by connecting eighteenth century Indigenous ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gotham Unbound

    The Ecological History of Greater New York

    by Ted Steinberg ...
    **Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for US HistoryA “fascinating, encyclopedic history…of greater New York City through an ecological lens” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth.**Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation’s population. Ted ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD