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Building the Skyline
The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles...
The Carter Journals
Time Travels in Early U.S. History
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
When fourteen-year-old Cody Carter’s grandfather gives him a box of dusty leather journals written by their Carter ancestors, even the history-loving Cody could not have predicted the adventure he was about to take. Journal by journal, Cody is physically transported back in time to experience the...
West from Appomattox
The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
“This thoughtful, engaging examination of the Reconstruction Era . . . will be appealing . . . to anyone interested in the roots of present-day American politics” (Publishers Weekly).
The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. In many...
Brooklyn By Name
How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Visit the blog for the book at www.brooklynbyname.comFrom 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...
The Third Coast
When Chicago Built the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
**Winner of the Chicago Tribune‘s 2013 Heartland Prize
A critically acclaimed history of Chicago at mid-century, featuring many of the incredible personalities that shaped American culture**
Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop in Chicago,...
by Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Josiah Henson
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
This book contains slave narratives from Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Reverend Noah Davis, Josiah Henson, James W. C. Pennington, John Thompson, and Henry Watson, all of whom had major connections to Maryland. It also contains twenty-two additional slave narratives collected by...
97 Orchard
An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
“Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and through it she has crafted a unique and aromatic narrative of New York’s immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the family...
Alaska
Saga of a Bold Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuable resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold!";...
by Porter Fox
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
“Romantic, urgent, valuable and appealing as hell.” —Andrew McCarthy, New York Times Book Review
Writer Porter Fox spent three years exploring 4,000 miles of the border between Maine and Washington, traveling by canoe, freighter, car, and foot. In Northland, he blends a deeply reported...
by H.S. Contino
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
European settlement of Coos County began with a shipwreck. The Captain Lincoln wrecked on the north spit of the Coos Bay in January 1852. The crewmen built a temporary camp out of the ship's sails and named it "Camp Cast-Away." This was the first white settlement in the area. The men eventually traveled...
by Christopher McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
This accurate and exciting pictorial history will acquaint the reader with the seacoast defense of New Bedford. Fortified since the 1700s, seacoast defenses provided important protection for the New Bedford area. By the time of the Civil War, a strong granite fortress was under construction to guard...
by Capt. Gerald Butler
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2002
During World War II, with Allied merchant and navy ships under the threat of German U-boats, the eastern seaboard was on high alert. The Cape Cod Canal, a vital waterway for commercial and military traffic, underwent a period of strict control, occupation, and defense. This pictorial history documents...
Gangland Boston
A Tour Through the Deadly Streets of Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Welcome to Boston’s criminal underworld
Author covers crime for the Boston Globe
An entire chapter dedicated to Whitey Bulger: “Whitey’s World”
150 photos from author’s own Boston crime archives and more
Organized criminals have haunted Greater Boston’s history, lurking just around...
Brat Pack America
A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
From the fictional towns of Hill Valley, CA, and Shermer, IL, to the beautiful landscapes of Astoria and Brownsville, OR, from the iconic suburbs of the San Fernando Valley to the seemingly scary inner cities of Chicago, '80s teen movies had one thing in common: locations mattered. Perhaps moreso...