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A History of the Ninth Regiment
$17.50When the Civil War erupted in April 1861, many German immigrants in Illinois rushed to enlist in the Union Army. Volunteers from Illinois towns in St. Clair County—Belleville, Millstadt, Mascoutah,…
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A Knight of Another Sort
$25.95In 1913 Charlie Birger began his career as a bootlegger, supplying southern Illinois with whiskey and beer. He was charismatic, with an easygoing manner and a cavalier generosity that made…
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A Southern Illinois Album
$24.95Life on the road was anything but glamorous for Farm Security Administration photographers traveling through southern Illinois in the mid-1930s. Often their most promising subjects lived at the end of…
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A Woman’s Story of Pioneer Illinois
$19.50Christiana and John Tillson moved from Massachusetts to central Illinois in 1822. Upon arriving in Montgomery County near what would soon be Hillsboro, they set up a general store and…
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All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me Was to Work
$19.95From All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me Was to Work… “Starting around 1950, people stopped raising chickens, milking cows, and raising hogs. They just buy it at the store, ready…
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All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me Was to Work
$29.95From All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me Was to Work… “Starting around 1950, people stopped raising chickens, milking cows, and raising hogs. They just buy it at the store, ready…
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Always of Home
$19.95Edgar Allen Imhoff renders a series of touching, colorful vignettes about growing up in southern Illinois during the Great Depression. He writes poignantly of his family and their struggles (including…
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Asheville
$21.99Land of the Sky. New Age Mecca. Paris of the South San Francisco of the East. Asheville, North Carolina is all of these things and more!Throughout the 20th Century, this…
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Baltimore’s Patterson Park
$21.99Patterson Park is an urban oasis, a sacred green space surrounded by red brick row homes and generations of diverse cultures and neighborhoods. This refuge is also an urban emerald…
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Black Jack
$19.95John A. Logan, called “Black Jack” by the men he led in Civil War battles from the Henry-Donelson campaign to Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and on to Atlanta, was one of the…
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Charles County Revisited
$21.99Charles County was chartered in 1658 and marked its 350th anniversary in 2008. In its lifespan, it has transformed itself from an agriculturally based English colony to an explosive commercial…