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  • The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1828

    by Thomas Perkins Abernethy ...
    Series series Library of Alabama Classics
    The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1828 is a beautifully crafted history of the evolution of the state written by Thomas Perkins Abernethy in 1922. The work shows how Alabama grew out of the Mississippi Territory and discusses the economic and political development during the years just before and just after Alabama became a state.Abernethy’s story begins when Alabama existed as the eastern ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • Silver Rights

    by Constance Curry ...
    The true story of a family's fight for their educational future in "a sure-to-be-classic account of 1960s desegregation" ( Los Angeles Times ).With an Introduction by New York Times –bestselling author Marian Wright Edelman"The most important thing we can give our children is an education." —Mae Bertha CarterIn 1965, the Carters, an Afric... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Oregon Trail

    An American Saga

    by David Dary ...
    A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West.Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to exploit, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • A Short History of San Francisco

    by Tom Cole ...
    A concise, "colorful, well-told" history of the City by the Bay, from the Gold Rush to the Summer of Love to the twenty-first century ( Los Angeles Times).This is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, the arrival of thousands of gold seekers and gamblers, crackbrains and dreamers, the building of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deckhand

    Life on Freighters of the Great Lakes

    by Nelson Haydamacker, Alan D. Millar ...
    Long before popular television shows such as Dirty Jobs and The Deadliest Catch, everyday men and women---the unsung heroes of the job world---toiled in important but mostly anonymous jobs. One of those jobs was deckhand on the ore boats.With numerous photographs and engaging stories, Deckhand offers an insider's view of both the mundane and the intriguing duties performed by deckhands on these ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Great Riots of New York 1712 to 1873

    Including a Full and Complete Account of the Four Days' Draft Riot of 1863

    by J. T. Headley ...
    CONTENTSPREFACE.CHAPTER I.CHAPTER II. — THE NEGRO RIOTS OF 1712-1741.CHAPTER III. — THE STAMP-ACT RIOT OF 1765.CHAPTER IV. — DOCTORS' RIOT, 1788.CHAPTER V. — SPRING ELECTION RIOTS OF 1834.CHAPTER VI. — ABOLITION RIOTS OF 1834 AND 1835.CHAPTER VII. — FLOUR RIOT OF 1837.CHAPTER VIII. — ASTOR-PLACE RIOTS, 1849.CHAPTER IX. — POLICE RIOT—DEAD-RABBITS' RIOT—BREAD RIOT.CHAPTER X. — DRAFT RIOTS OF 1863 ... Read more

    $5.63 CAD

  • Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915

    by Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
    Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country. ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • BART

    The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System

    by Michael C. Healy ...
    An insider's "indispensible" behind-the-scenes history of the transit system of San Francisco and surrounding counties ( Houston Chronicle).In the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider's account of the rapid transit system's inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operations, warts and all.With a master storyteller's wit and sharp ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charcoal and Blood

    Italian Immigrants in Eureka, Nevada, and the Fish Creek Massacre

    by Silvio Manno ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Charcoal and Blood is a detailed account of a heinous crime perpetrated on Italian immigrants engaged in the production of charcoal on Nevada’s mining frontier at the close of the nineteenth century. On August 18, 1879, in a canyon near Fish Creek, outside Eureka, Nevada, five Italian charcoal burners were slain and six more were wounded, while fourteen were taken prisoner by a sheriff’s posse ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Alaska

    by Ella Higginson ...
    When the Russians first came to the island of Unalaska, they were told that a vast country lay to the eastward and that its name was Al-ay-ek-sa. Their own island the Aleuts called Nagun-Alayeksa, meaning "the land lying near Alayeksa."The Russians in time came to call the country itself Alashka; the peninsula, Aliaska; and the island, Unalashka. Alaska is an English corruption of the original ... Read more

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  • Noodling for Flatheads

    Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Com

    by Burkhard Bilger ...
    The Old South is slow to give up its secrets. Though satellite dishes outnumber banjo players a thousand to one, most traditions haven't died; they've just gone into hiding. Cockfighting is illegal in forty-eight states, yet there are three national cockfighting magazines and cockpits in even the most tranquil communities. Homemade liquor has been outlawed for more than a century, yet moonshiners ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Chicago Death Trap

    The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903

    by Nat Brandt ...
    On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold-out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago’s Iroquois Theatre. In the short span of twenty minutes, more than six hundred people were asphyxiated, burned, or trampled to death in a panicked mob’s failed attempt to escape. In Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903, Nat Brandt provides a detailed chronicle of this horrific ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD