Distilled in Chicago
9781467152280
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9781467135290
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9781467138505
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9781596296015
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Founded in 1768 at the crossing of two Indian trails, Charlotte has a rich heritage to match its age. Hear the personal voices of discovery, hardship, wars, privation, segregation and achievement from village to boomtown.
In this extensively researched volume, accomplished author and historian Mary Kratt chronicles the history of Charlotte from the earliest Catawba inhabitants to the development of finance, culture and transportation, still centered on those ancient crossroads. Whether detailing the cotton fields and textile mills of yesterday or the banking center of tomorrow, Kratt's account is a fascinating history of the people who have made Charlotte a queen among southern cities.
Palm Springs Golf:
9781626199637
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9781467150996
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9781596290204
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%This compelling look at Charleston's twentieth-century history chronicles the changes and challenges faced by Charleston as its population exploded in response to expansion of the Charleston Navy Yard. As World War II called for the United States to flex her industrial might, the shipyard rose to meet the challenge and 55,000 new residents flooded into the city.
Charleston was unprepared for such dramatic expansion: the need for labor at the yard meant the sudden appearance of good jobs, but also resulted in severe housing shortages, food rationing and dilemmas over race and gender. Ongoing workforce shortages forced the navy to look to sources of labor previously regarded as unsuitable--African Americans and women--causing dramatic changes to the status quo.
Author and historian Fritz Hamer makes use of written documents and oral histories to argue that the war's effects pulled a reluctant "Holy City" into the twentieth century, setting the stage for further modernization and growth. Warm personal accounts from a range of individuals who witnessed the city's dramatic change provide a human element in Hamer's solid research.
Well written and imaginatively conceived, Charleston Reborn will interest the general reader as well as a wide range of historians--from students of World War II and chroniclers of gender and racial history, to urban historians and scholars of the modern American South.
Hidden History of Toledo
9781467140294
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Toledo's history as a frontier town turned manufacturing powerhouse is well known. However, few know that it was once home to a champion racehorse.
Many are unaware that East Toledo's verdant urban woodlands sprang from the work of just one man or that a local girl's meteoric rise in Golden Age Hollywood saw her play alongside Groucho Marx. Fewer still have heard of Officer Dell Hair, crime fighter and rhyme maker who walked the beat and walked into the history books as a celebrated cop-poet. These tales and more await as award-winning local broadcaster Lou Hebert shines a light into the forgotten corners of Glass City history.
Wicked Albuquerque
9781467137980
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9781626191228
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9781626197428
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9781467150095
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9781609491307
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9781626199835
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9781467144988
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9781467153034
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9781467136617
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9781626196766
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9781467152051
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Central New York, a region renowned as one of the snowiest in the world, has a long and stormy relationship with its winters.
From the Lake Ontario port in Oswego to the busy streets of Syracuse and Utica, every community in the region has found themselves buried from brutal snowstorms.
Author Jim Fafaglia draws from personal memories, family diaries and newspaper accounts to craft a two-hundred year history of Central New York's whiteouts, blizzards and snowstorms.
Hotel Roanoke
9781467144834
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9781625859877
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%One of the unsung heroes of the auto world, C. Harold Wills designed the Model T when he worked as Henry Ford's right-hand man.
Later, he founded his own company to produce the legendary Wills Sainte Claire. Every endeavor displayed his trademark inventiveness, from the development of the overhead cam engine to the toboggan run on the roof of his house. He used his money to create one of the first worker model cities at Marysville, Michigan. In this long-overdue biography, Alan and Lynn Lyon Naldrett preserve the legacy of an automotive icon.
Lost Restaurants of Detroit
9781467135597
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Through stories and recipes nearly lost to time, author Paul Vachon explores the history of the Motor City's fine dining, ethnic eateries and everything in between. Grab a cup of coffee - he's got stories to share.
While some restaurants come and go with little fanfare, others are dearly missed and never forgotten. In 1962, patrons of the Caucus Club were among the first to hear the voice of an eighteen-year-old Barbra Streisand. Before Stouffer's launched a frozen food empire, it was better known for its restaurants with two popular locations in Detroit. The Machus Red Fox was the last place former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa was seen alive.
Chicago by the Pint
9781609491253
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Historic Movie Theaters of Delaware
9781625858474
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%From the opera house and movie palace to the modern multiplex, the big screens in Delaware have been delighting moviegoers for more than a century.
Hollywood legend Cary Grant visited the Playhouse Theater in 1955, fondly recalling his days on its stage as a child actor. Clint Eastwood came to Wilmington for a secret test screening of his film The Gauntlet at the Branmar Cinema. The groundbreaking history of Star Wars includes a Delaware theater that was one of only forty-five in the country to open the film. Author Michael J. Nazarewycz recounts the cinematic history of Delaware's grand movie theaters.
Baltimore’s Historic Oakenshawe
9781467136235
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The story of Baltimore's historic Oakenshawe neighborhood is a tale of two families and a dream to create an idyllic place.
The powerful Wilson family made fortunes in colonial shipping and established a summer estate for more than one hundred years. The Mueller families were prominent Baltimore builders, and Phillip C. Mueller envisioned an upscale community of terraced townhomes on the Wilson estate. After purchasing the property, he died suddenly, and his family banded together to create a vibrant "streetcar suburb" providing affordable homes along newly accessible streetcar routes. Join author D.J. Wilson as he takes readers through the history of Baltimore's Oakenshawe.
Classic Restaurants of Coastal Virginia
9781467140171
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9781467150149
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9781467143219
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Inside are thirteen little-known tales from the Gulf Coast from Lake Borgne to Mobile.
Sail into the Mississippi Sound with Bienville, the Frenchman covered in serpentine tattoos. Meet the heroes of the Sound: fearless Father LeDuc, who faced down Yankee pillagers; the wild woman of Horn Island, who could shoot as well as any man; and Ray Nosaka, who fed his body to the dogs of war, all in service of his country. Glimpse a school of the Sound's own patron fish, the striped mullet, Biloxi's bacon. But don't get too comfortable on the beach - a hurricane is always on the horizon. Join authors Josh Foreman and Ryan Starrett on this journey into the hidden history of the Mississippi Sound.
Haunted Hamilton, Ohio
9781467149334
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Cross over to the spooky side of Hamilton history
To the casual glance, Hamilton is a typical Midwestern town, but a closer look reveals strange and inexplicable events of possibly supernatural origins. A mischievous poltergeist plays its tricks in a High Street tavern. More than a century ago, a young boy narrowly escaped death in a fall that left him gravely ill, and some say his cries still echo in his family home. A vaporous woman appears on the stairs of a Hamilton home once owned by one of the county's richest men. Could this be his daughter who died from suicide?
Hamilton native and contributor to the Dayton Lane Ghost Walk Shi O'Neill mines the history of the town's many spectral occurrences.
Faces of Union Soldiers at Antietam
9781467142786
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Join Matthew Borders and Joseph Stahl as they share their expertise and grant glimpses into the lives of those who fought to preserve the Union.
The Battle of Antietam, fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, was the bloodiest day in American history, with more than twenty-three thousand dead, wounded and missing. This book invites the reader to walk the routes of some of the units on the field through the stories of thirty-six individual soldiers who fought on that day. The images of the soldiers in this work, many of which have never been published before, give faces to the fighting men at Antietam, as well as insight into their lives
St. Charles, Missouri
9781467136198
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