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B Is for Brooklyn by Selina Alko Publisher Comments What do Prospect Park, Coney Island, and Atlantic Avenue have in common? They are all located in Brooklyn, New York, a magical place where you can listen to jazz music, eat bagels and lox, and sit on the stoop of a brownstone and daydream. Children... (read more) Available August 21, 2012 Your price: $16.99 New - Hardcover 
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The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War by Donald Stoker Publisher Comments Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides for the... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Chicago Race Riots: July, 1919 by Carl Sandburg Publisher Comments Nearly a century ago, an African American teenager crossed an invisible line of segregation at a Chicago beach and paid with his life. The incident set off days of violence, resulting in dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries. This contemporary... (read more) Available January 2013 Your price: $8.95 New - Trade Paper
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Life's Journey-Zuya: Oral Teachings from Rosebud by Albert White Hat Publisher Comments “Our people are very lucky to be here,” says Albert White Hat Sr. He has lived through a time when Indians were sent to boarding schools and were not permitted to practice their own rituals. Although the Lakota people can practice their... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $49.95 New - Hardcover
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Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story by S. D. Nelson Publisher Comments This fascinating picture book biography tells the childhood story of Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born around 1839. Through her true story, readers will learn what it was like to be part of this Native American community that lived along the... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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The Giant and How He Humbugged America by Jim Murphy Publisher Comments Two-time Newbery Honor Book author has written an amazing account of one of America's most famous hoaxes! When a 10-foot tall purported "petrified man" is unearthed from a backyard in upstate New York in 1869, the discovery immediately turns into a... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $19.99 New - Hardcover
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Princeton Impressions by Robert Gambee Publisher Comments Princeton is many things to many people, from those who have attended this great university to casual visitors who come to appreciate the extraordinary architecture or the spacious and tranquil surroundings. The great gift of this book is that it touches... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $59.95 New - Hardcover
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Speaking for the Enslaved: Heritage Interpretation at Antebellum Plantation Sites (Heritage, Tourism & Community) by Antoinette T. Jackson Synopsis Focusing on the agency of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the South, this work argues for the systematic recovery of subjugated knowledge, histories, and cultural practices of those traditionally silenced and overlooked by national heritage... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $108.50 New - Hardcover
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The Geoarchaeology of Lake Michigan Coastal Dunes (Environmental Research) by William A. Lovis Publisher Comments Complex sets of environmental factors have interacted over the past 5,000 years to affect how changes in climate, temperature, relative precipitation, and the levels of Lake Michigan influence the preservation of archaeological sites in coastal sand... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $35.95 New - Trade Paper
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Matrons and Maids: Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson, 1914-1934 by Victoria K. Haskins Publisher Comments From 1914 to 1934 the US government sent Native American girls to work as domestic servants in the homes of white families. Matrons and Maids tells this forgotten history through the eyes of the women who facilitated their placements. During those two... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
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It Happened in Maryland (It Happened in) by Judy Colbert About the Author An award-winning author and photographer, Judy Colbert has had articles and photos appear in Washingtonian, Chesapeake Life, Howard County Times, USA Today, AAA World, Latitudes, Maryland Life, Marketing Review, and more than 500 other... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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It Happened in New Jersey, 2nd (It Happened in) by Fran Capo Synopsis This collection of thirty fascinating stories reveals events that helped make New Jersey what it is today. Authors Fran Capo writes with a comedic yet dramatic flair and an easy to read style that will entertain readers as they learn more about the... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Green Hornet Street Car Disaster by Craig Cleve Publisher Comments As rush hour came to a close on the evening of May 25, 1950, one of Chicagos new fast, colorful, streamlined streetcars—known as a Green Hornet—slammed into a gas truck at State Street and 62nd Place. The Hornets motorman allegedly... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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Sight Unseen: How Fremont's First Expedition Changed the American Landscape by Andrew Menard Publisher Comments John C. Frémont was the most celebrated explorer of his era. In 1842, on the first of five expeditions he would lead to the Far West, Frémont and a small party of men journeyed up the Kansas and Platte Rivers to the Wind River Range... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America by Linford D. Fisher Publisher Comments The First Great Awakening was a time of heightened religious activity in the colonial New England. Among those whom the English settlers tried to convert to Christianity were the region's native peoples. In this book, Linford Fisher tells the gripping... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $42.25 New - Hardcover
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We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861 by William J. Cooper, Jr. Publisher Comments From a highly regarded historian, a new perspective on the period between Lincoln's election in November 1860 and the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861 when all efforts to avoid or impede secession and prevent war failed. In rapid succession a series... (read more) Available September 11, 2012 Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Reforming Hollywood: How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies by William D. Romanowski Publisher Comments Hollywood and Christianity often seem to be at war. Indeed, there is a long list of movies that have attracted religious condemnation, from Gone with the Wind with its notorious "damn," to The Life of Brian and The Last Temptation of Christ. But the... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $36.75 New - Hardcover
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Texas at Sea (Texas Small Books) by Mark Lardas Publisher Comments Perhaps your average fourth grader can recite the pivotal stories of Texas’ fight for independence on land—we all remember the Alamo, of course—but how many of us can recall battles waged over the sea? In Texas at Sea, the latest... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $9.95 New - Hardcover
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Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, the Mafia, and the CIA by Lamar Waldron Synopsis While Richard Nixon's culpability for Watergate has long been established—most recently by PBS in 2003—what's truly remarkable that after almost forty years, conventional accounts of the scandal still don't address Nixons motive. Why was... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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My American Revolution by Robert Sullivan Publisher Comments Americans tend to think of the Revolution as a Massachusetts-based event orchestrated by Virginians, but in fact the war took place mostly in the Middle Colonies—in New York and New Jersey and the parts of Pennsylvania that on a clear day you... (read more) Available September 4, 2012 Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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