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  • Hidden History of Vermont

    by Mark Bushnell, Tom Slayton ...
    Series series Hidden History
    Discover the lively and lesser-known history of the Green Mountain State—illustrations included.Vermont's history is marked by fierce independence, generosity of spirit—and plenty of quirky characters and colorful events that have occurred among its steep slopes and fertile valleys. In this lively book, you can:Meet the widow who outwitted Tories and may have spied for the Green Mountain ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • It Happened in Vermont

    Stories of Events and People that Shaped Green Mountain State History

    by Mark Bushnell ...
    Series series It Happened In Series
    From a cross-border Confederate attack to the underdressed men from Maple Corner, It Happened in Vermont looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of the Green Mountain State.Learn why a militia sent to defuse a dangerous mob of striking miners ended up handing out their own rations.Read about the shocking “ball of light” that descended upon early twentieth-century Burlington, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • American Colossus

    by H. W. Brands ...
    From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War: a "first-rate" narrative history (The New York Times)that brilliantly portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably modern America.American Colossus captures the decades between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century, when a few breathtakingly wealthy ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Year of the Century, 1876

    by Dee Brown ...
    An in-depth exploration of a momentous year in American history from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee .In 1876, America was eager to celebrate its centenary but questioned what might lie ahead. The American Republic had grown to four times its original population, and was in the midst of enormous changes. Industrialization was booming, a... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wedding of the Waters

    The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation

    by Peter L. Bernstein ...
    **New York Times BestsellerThe epic account of how one narrow ribbon of water forever changed the course of American history.**The history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be “little short of madness,” and that others compared with going to the moon, soon turned into one of the most successful and influential public ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Empire Express

    Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

    by David Haward Bain ...
    After the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad was the nineteenth century's most transformative event. Beginning in 1842 with a visionary's dream to span the continent with twin bands of iron, Empire Express captures three dramatic decades in which the United States effectively doubled in size, fought three wars, and began to discover a new national identity. From self--made ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Vermont

    by Charles T. Morrissey ...
    For many Americans, Vermont still seems what the United States at least in myth once was--a bucolic landscape of wooded hills, neat farms, and handsome villages--before modern forces transformed our agrarian nation into an urban-industrial giant.Vermonters have long been respected as sturdy Americans who prize hard work, honest dealing, town-meeting government, and dry humor. Their way of life, ... Read more

    $15.69 USD

  • Tennessee: A Bicentennial History

    by Wilma Dykeman ...
    Tennessee, the long, thin state stretching from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Mississippi River, is as richly varied in history as in terrain. And from Davy Crockett, "Old Hickory" Andrew Jackson, and presidential candidate Estes Kefauver's coonskin cap, it has derived the colorful image of a frontier state.Tennessee has been a land of many kinds of frontiers--from the day in 1540 when ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Inside U.S.A.

    by John Gunther ...
    The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of Gunther’s classic portrait of AmericaJohn Gunther’s Inside series were among the most popular books of reportage of the 1930s and 1940s. For Inside U.S.A., his magnum opus, Gunther set out from California and visited every state in the country, offering frank, lucid, and humorous observations along the way in what legendary publisher Robert Gottlieb, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Glastenbury

    The History of a Vermont Ghost Town

    by Tyler Resch ...
    The curious history of a tiny town that all but disappeared . . . Includes photos!Founded by a famously scheming New Hampshire governor, Glastenbury struggled for over a century to break triple digits in population. A small charcoal-making industry briefly flourished after the Civil War, yet by 1920 Glastenbury counted fewer than twenty inhabitants.The end came officially in 1937, when the state, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Galveston and the 1900 Storm

    Catastrophe and Catalyst

    by Patricia Bellis Bixel, Elizabeth Hayes Turner ...
    Spur Award Nominee: How Galveston, Texas, reinvented itself after historic disaster: "A riveting narrative . . . Absorbing [and] well-illustrated." — Library JournalThe Galveston storm of 1900 reduced a cosmopolitan and economically vibrant city to a wreckage-strewn wasteland where survivors struggled without shelter, power, potable water, or even the means to summon help. At least 6,000 of the ... Read more

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  • The Roar and the Silence

    A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode

    by Ronald M. James ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Nevada’s Comstock Mining District has been the focus of legend since it first burst into international prominence in the late 1850s, and its principal settlement, Virginia City, endures in the popular mind as the West’s quintessential mining camp. But the authentic history of the Comstock is far more complex and interesting than its colorful image. Contrary to legend, Virginia City spent only its ... Read more

    $21.59 USD