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Freedom’s Champion
$22.50In this revised edition of his earlier biography, Paul Simon provides an inspiring account of the life and work of Elijah Lovejoy, an avid abolitionist in the 1830s and the…
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French and Indians of Illinois River
$19.50Complex and paradoxical, Nehemiah Matson (1816–1873) celebrated the occupation of the Middle West by European pioneers even as he labored to preserve the memory of the natives these pioneers replaced….
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Governor Henry Horner, Chicago Politics, and the Great Depression
$24.50Many have never heard of Governor Henry Horner of Illinois, yet his story is remarkable. Governor Henry Horner, Chicago Politics, and the Great Depression focuses on Horner’s career in law…
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Greater French Valley
$21.99The Greater French Valley covers the hills and valleys of southwest Riverside County, north of Temecula and south of Hemet. Lueseno Indians knew this area well, seeking out food and…
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Hawkins County
$21.99Historic Hawkins County in northeast Tennessee is an area so rich and diverse in history that it is actually 10 years older than the state itself. Organized in 1786, it…
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Highlands
$21.99Discover the rich past of Highlands, North Carolina in this pictorial history told through the lens of over 200 vintage images.Perched on the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains and…
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History 31st Regiment
$24.50The story of John A. Logan’s famed 31st Regiment Illinois Volunteers, told by three veterans, follows the regiment from the battles of Belmont, Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Kenesaw Mountain, and Atlanta…
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Holyoke
$21.99Originally called Ireland Parish, Holyoke was incorporated as a town in 1850 and took on the namesake of one of its founding settlers and community leaders, Captain Elizur Holyoke. It…
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John A. Logan
$22.95James Pickett Jones is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Florida State University. “A splendid witness in ‘Reds’ looked out at her audience and said, ‘If men really wanted…
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Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion
$30.00On April 5, 1918, as American troops fought German forces on the Western Front, German American coal miner Robert Prager was hanged from a tree outside Collinsville, Illinois, having been…
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Long Beach Island
$21.99Historical photographs, previously unpublished, portray historical Long Beach Island of New Jersey, from beaches to resorts to fishing.Long Beach Island stretches for eighteen miles alongside the southern New Jersey mainland….