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Tell Us a Story
$49.95Supplemented by recollections from the present era, Tell Us a Story is a colorful mosaic of African American autobiography and family history set in Springfield, Illinois, and in rural southern…
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The Conquest of The Illinois
$19.50Written only a decade after George Rogers Clark’s conquest of Illinois, this firsthand account shows the region as it existed in the 1770s, explains how British occupation affected Kentucky settlers,…
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The Great Cyclone at St Louis and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896
$21.50Shortly after 5:00 P.M. On Wednesday, May 27, 1896, a Herculean tornado shattered the St. Louis Area. Within twenty minutes, 137 people had perished in St. Louis, with 118 dead…
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The Lost Villages of Scituate
$21.99In 1915, the general assembly appointed the Providence Water Supply Board to condemn 14,800 acres of land in rural Scituate. The hardworking people of the five villages were devastated.By December…
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The Mayors, 3rd Edition
$27.50The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition taps America’s most qualified observers to scrupulously assess the city’s mayors within the vigorous and tumultuous history of Chicago government. This revised and updated…
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The Military History of the Cape Cod Canal
$21.99During 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…
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The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock
$21.95Exceptionally rare and valued by book collectors, Otto A. Rothert’s riveting saga of the outlaws and scoundrels of Cave-in-Rock chronicles the adventures of an audacious cast of river pirates and…
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The United States of Cryptids
$19.99Come and meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to batsquatch and beyond!Welcome to the United States of cryptids, where mysterious monsters lurk in the dark forests, deep lakes,…
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Thomas Jefferson
$21.99In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father. Situating Jefferson within the context…
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