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  • Milwaukee Frozen Custard

    by Kathleen McCann, Robert Tanzilo ...
    Series series American Palate
    Frozen custard is more than a dessert in Milwaukee. It's a culture, a lifestyle and a passion. Find the stories behind your favorite flavor at local festivals and homegrown neighborhood stands.From the stand that inspired television's Happy Days to the big three - Gilles, Leon's and Kopp's - take a tour through the history of this guilty pleasure. Learn about its humble origins as an unexpected ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Milwaukee Police Station Bomb of 1917

    by Robert Tanzilo ...
    On a chilly day in September, the patriotic, pro-Protestant preaching of an Italian immigrant pastor, August Giuliani, ignited a riot in Milwaukee's small Italian enclave of Bay View that injured two policemen and killed two rioters. Two months later, someone placed a bomb in Giuliani's Third Ward church in an apparent act of retaliation, and a parishioner carried the explosive to Central Police ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Historic Milwaukee Public Schoolhouses

    by Robert Tanzilo ...
    Series series
    It's no surprise we feel a connection to our schools, where we learn to read, write and forge social bonds of all kinds. They are potentially the scenes of our first crushes (and the second and third). They are where we learn to create ourselves. For more than a century, Milwaukee has taken its schoolhouses seriously, and it has a matchless variety of gorgeous landmarks to prove it. Robert Tanzilo ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hidden History of Milwaukee

    by Robert Tanzilo ...
    Series series Hidden History
    Join a local history expert for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of Milwaukee's incredible past.Sail out to the Breakwater Lighthouse, scramble up the wings of the Milwaukee Art Museum, and dig up the city's roots on the corner of Water Street and Wisconsin Avenue. Seize the chance to do a little urban spelunking and explore basilicas, burial grounds, and breweries. Ring the bell in the city ... Read more

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  • When Did the Statue of Liberty Turn Green?

    And 101 Other Questions About New York City

    by The Staff of the New-York Historical Society Library ...
    A treasury of trivia from the New-York Historical Society: "An extraordinary tapestry depicting New York's story.... An almost addictive read."— Library JournalFor years, the librarians at the New-York Historical Society have kept a record of the questions posed to them by curious locals and visitors to the city. Who was the first woman to run for mayor of New York? Why are beavers featured on the ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Vatican Connection

    The True Story of a Billion-Dollar Conspiracy Between the Catholic Church and the Mafia

    by Richard Hammer ...
    Winner of the Edgar Award: The riveting account of an audacious fraud scheme that stretched from a Mafia hangout on the Lower East Side to the Vatican.With a round, open face and a penchant for tall tales, Matteo de Lorenzo resembled everyone's kindly uncle. But Uncle Marty, as he was known throughout the Genovese crime family, was one of the New York mob's top earners throughout the 1960s and ... Read more

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  • Brooklyn

    The Once and Future City

    by Thomas J. Campanella ...
    An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades—celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas J. Campanella unearths ... Read more

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  • The Gateway Arch

    by Tracy Campbell ...
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    This "fascinating, engaging" history of St. Louis's monument to American expansion reveals a story of greed, discrimination, and community displacement (NextSTL.com).Rising to a triumphant height of 630 feet, the Gateway Arch is one of the world's most widely recognized structures and attracts millions of tourists to St. Louis every year. Envisioned in 1947 but not completed until the mid-1960s, ... Read more

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  • The Incorruptibles

    A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

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  • How to Build a Museum

    Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture

    by Tonya Bolden ...
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    Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is truly groundbreaking!The first national museum whose mission is to illuminate for all people, the rich, diverse, complicated, and important experiences and contributions of African Americans in America is opening.And the history of NMAAHC--the last museum to be built on the National Mall--is the history of America.The ... Read more

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    The Real Lucky Luciano

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    For the first twenty-five years of his criminal career, Charles "Lucky" Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multimillionaire king of the New York underworld. For the next twenty-five years of his life, Luciano was a legend---but a fake master criminal without real power, his evil reputation manipulated and maintained by the government agents who had put him behind bars.Drawing on ... Read more

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