2,334円 In Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America’s Fall from Grace, award-winner David Beers offers a powerful, personal vision of the rise and fall of the American middle class. Here is a dazzling literary chronicle of a family, a people, and a nation: the “blue sky tribe” of ever-optimistic middle-class ...

496円      In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the American Merchant Marine went into a terrible and tragic decline, and sailors were forced to serve under conditions that were little better than serfdom.      Seamen were exploited in wholesale fashio...

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164円 Volume 7 of the series "Historic Highways of America". According to Wikipedia: "Archer Butler Hulbert (26 Jan 1873 24 Dec 1933), historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history... He was Vice-Principal of the Putnam Military Academy, Zanesville, Ohio, until 1897. Hulbert then did...

496円 In A Little Something About Kentucky, James Lane Allen, Kentucky's first and one of her foremost novelists gives us two essays that predate his first successful novel, “A Kentucky Cardinal.” Here we learn something of life in Kentucky during the latter part of the nineteenth Century. First publi...

1,921円 Images of America: Delaware Army National Guard presents images of this fabled organization that survived from the Spanish-American War to the present. The Delaware National Guard traces its roots to 1655, when the Swedish Colonial government formed a militia to defend itself. That tradition carr...

2,122円 Over one hundred and fifty years after it began, the Civil War still fascinates usーthe vast armies marching to war, iconic leaders like Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, the drama of a nation divided. But the Civil War was also about individuals, the hundreds of thousands of ordinary men and bo...

496円 The Hudson’s Bay Fur Company route to California was the fur trappers’ and traders’ road in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s from Fort Vancouver (now in Washington State) to San Francisco and beyond. Does “road” mean a six-lane paved freeway to you? Turn the calendar back and ponder a path that was ro...

164円 Volume 8 of the series "Historic Highways of America". According to Wikipedia: "Archer Butler Hulbert (26 Jan 1873 24 Dec 1933), historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history... He was Vice-Principal of the Putnam Military Academy, Zanesville, Ohio, until 1897. Hulbert then did...

662円 This book is a written survey of Choctaw history from the late Mississippian era in the 16th century. Simms has presented an incident he was told or viewed about when he traveled from his home in South Carolina to visit his father. Simms' particularly realistic style is evident throughout the boo...

164円 The early Bohemians, poets, anarchists and immigrants all converged on Bowery Street in New Yorks Lower East Side during the 1890's. Bunner looks at Life on Bowery in this short illustrated essay.

496円 If you are looking for a quirky and unusual date in New York City, then this book is perfect for you! This book contains 50 clue-based questions that will send you and your date on a scavenger hunt throughout the city. If you want to add a little bit of history into your relationship, then you wo...