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  • Walking Broad

    Looking for the Heart of Brotherly Love

    de Bruce Buschel ...
    **Wedged between the hustle of New York and the grandeur of Washington, D.**C., Philadelphia is America's smallest big city, America's biggest small city, and America's most American city. It is also a city in flux. Bruce Buschel is a native Philadelphian who revisits his hometown and, in doing so, revisits his personal history and the city's complex identity.Buschel was born on Broad Street, his ... Leer más

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  • Travel New York City: Illustrated City Guide And Maps (Mobi Travel)

    This illustrated Travel Guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. Articles feature information about attractions, landmarks, districts, transportation, cultural venues, dining, history and much more. Addresses, telephones, hours of operation and admissions ... Leer más

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  • Radical Walking Tours of New York City

    de Bruce Kayton ...
    Traditional walking tours of New York enshrine the wealthy and war heroes by emphasizing what they’ve left behind. Rarely seen are those buried in their wake—those who fought the power, pushing for a better world. In Radical Walking Tours of New York Bruce Kayton leads us to monuments of those other heroes.Through Kayton’s lens, the history of all hitherto existing neighborhoods is the history of ... Leer más

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  • Gone to New York

    Adventures in the City

    Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, a city more downtown than up, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and the man who climbed the World Trade Center, and an eighty-three-year-old typewriter repairman whose shop on Fulton Street has drawers full of umlauts. Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes, and meander ... Leer más

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  • The Big Onion Guide to New York City

    Ten Historic Tours

    A guide to a variety of witty, informative walking tours in New York CityWhether you're a tourist or a native New Yorker, you will appreciate this witty, informative walking guide to New York City, as authors Seth Kamil and Eric Wakin peel back the layers of New York's most popular neighborhoods. Here in one volume are their award-winning tours. In their "Immigrant New York" tour you can take a ... Leer más

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  • CHANT OF AGES; CRY OF COTTON

    THE BIOGRAPHY OF A SOUTH GEORGIA JEWISH COMMUNITY'S BEGINNINGS, 1865-1908

    de Louis Schmier ...
    The beginnings of the contemporary Jewish community in Valdosta starts with the arrival of two Jewish confederate veterans, Abraham Ehrlich and Benjamin Kaul, in 1866 and ends with the formal establishment of the present-day congregation in 1908.  It is a very warm, personal tale of real people that fleshes out  the sterile charts, statistics, and sweeping generalizations found in history books. ... Leer más

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  • On Montauk

    A Literary Celebration

    Why an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essay on Montauk?One of the world’s great fishing ports; site of the first cattle ranch in the US; refuge for Teddy Roosevelt’s Roughriders back from San Juan Hill; rum-runner headquarters during Prohibition; very nearly the Miami Beach of the north; site of the premier US lighthouse; home to unique, endangered species and second home to generations of New ... Leer más

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  • Brooklyn By Name

    How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names

    How the places in Brooklyn got their names--complete with vivid photographs and mapsFrom Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and history. Uncovering the remarkable stories behind the landmarks, Brooklyn By Name takes readers on a stroll through the streets and places of this thriving metropolis to reveal the borough's textured past.Listing ... Leer más

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  • Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775

    Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina’s fast-growing slave population, increasingly bound on large plantations, included many slaves born in Africa who ... Leer más

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  • Family Stories from the Attic

    Bringing letters and archives alive through creative nonfiction, flash narratives, and poetry

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    FAMILY STORIES FROM THE ATTIC is an anthology of essays, creative nonfiction, and poetry inspired by family letters, objects, and archives. Nearly two dozen contributors from the United States and Australia tell stories of immigration and migration, loss, discovery, secrets, questions, love, and the search for meaning and identity. Editors Christi Craig and Lisa Rivero bring together both ... Leer más

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  • Crescenta Valley History

    Hidden in Plain Sight

    de Mike Lawler ...
    The Crescenta Valley is a typical suburb of the metropolis of Los Angeles, containing residential neighborhoods nestled in chaparral-covered hills. But hidden in these typical neighborhoods are remnants of an atypical past, a past made up of Hollywood legends, Prohibition-era bootleggers, and pioneers in women's rights. Crescenta Valley History: Hidden in Plain Sight tells the stories behind six ... Leer más

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  • Big Muddy Blues

    True Tales and Twisted Politics Along Lewis and Clark's Missouri River

    America's Missouri River may be the nation's longest and most historically significant river, encompassing many of America's natural wonders between Missouri and Montana, draining almost 600,000 square miles in ten states and part of Canada, and, after Lewis and Clark's expedition 200 years ago, opening the West to a frenzied rush of expansion.But the Missouri is also the site of a vast, ... Leer más

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