Local History

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    • Pittsburgh and the Struggle for Authority on the Western Pennsylvania Frontier, 1744-1794
    • De: Daniel P. Barr
    • Narrado por: Michael Kazalski
    • Duración: 11 h y 24 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-21-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 calificaciones
    • The early settlement of the region around Pittsburgh was characterized by a messy collision of personal, provincial, national, and imperial interests....

    Precio regular: $24.95

    • An Autobiography
    • De: Geronimo
    • Narrado por: Stephen F. Clark
    • Duración: 2 h y 46 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-29-10
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 calificaciones
    • Hear, in his own words, the war story of Geronimo and his Chiricahua band of Apache Indians.....

    Precio regular: $17.00

    • History & Guide
    • De: Alison Fortier
    • Narrado por: Candace Joice
    • Duración: 9 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-25-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • New York is a city of superlatives. It has the largest population, greatest wealth, broadest diversity, and most elegant museums in the nation. With that comes an amazing history that you can experience firsthand with this unique guide.

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
    • De: Thomas Healy
    • Narrado por: Larry Herron
    • Duración: 12 h y 38 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-02-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 calificaciones
    • Author Thomas Healy resurrects a forgotten saga of race, capitalism, and the struggle for equality in this fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in the heart of “Klan Country”....

    Precio regular: $20.24

    • A True Story of an American Tragedy
    • De: Stewart O'Nan
    • Narrado por: Dick Hill
    • Duración: 11 h y 15 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-04-08
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 241 calificaciones
    • One of America's most acclaimed novelists turns to nonfiction in this account of the great Hartford circus fire, which took the lives of 167 people and forever changed the city and its people....

    Precio regular: $25.00

    • 25th anniversary edition
    • De: Robert A. Gross, Alan M. Taylor - foreword
    • Narrado por: Tom Perkins
    • Duración: 8 h y 41 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-10-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 calificaciones
    • In The Minutemen and Their World, Robert Gross has written a remarkably subtle and detailed reconstruction of the lives and community of Concord, Massachusetts, and a compelling interpretation of the American Revolution as a social movement....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
    • De: Sean Flynn
    • Narrado por: Richard Rohan
    • Duración: 7 h y 12 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-02-03
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 315 calificaciones
    • On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department...

    Precio regular: $23.36

    • An American Tragedy
    • De: Brian VanDeMark
    • Narrado por: Daniel Henning
    • Duración: 12 h y 55 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-13-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 calificaciones
    • Historian Brian VanDeMark focuses on the thirteen victims of the Kent State shooting and a painstaking reconstruction of the days surrounding it.

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri
    • De: Joseph M. Beilein Jr.
    • Narrado por: Clyde Walker
    • Duración: 8 h y 35 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-10-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 48 calificaciones
    • Bushwhackers adds to the growing body of literature that examines the various irregular conflicts that took place during the American Civil War. Author Joseph M. Beilein Jr. looks at the ways....

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • Women Who Opened the West
    • De: Lesley Poling-Kempes
    • Narrado por: Joana Garcia
    • Duración: 10 h y 50 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-24-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 calificaciones
    • Lesley Poling-Kempes provides the history of the women who went West to work in Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Santa Fe railway—and went on to shape the American Southwest....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place, Second Edition
    • De: David E. Stuart
    • Narrado por: Kenneth Lee
    • Duración: 10 h y 59 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-21-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 calificaciones
    • Developed over the course of centuries and thriving for more than 200 years, the Chacoans' society collapsed dramatically in the twelfth century, in a mere 40 years....

    Precio regular: $24.95

    • Race, Water, and the Coming Storm
    • De: Susan Crawford, Annette Gordon-Reed - foreword
    • Narrado por: Carrie Coello
    • Duración: 10 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-30-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 calificaciones
    • At least thirteen million Americans will have to move away from American coasts in the coming decades, as rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms put lives at risk and cause billions of dollars in damages.

    Precio regular: $20.99

    • Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
    • De: Kyle Paoletta
    • Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
    • Duración: 10 h y 23 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-14-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • Iconic American cities surrounded by desert and rust. Teeming metropolises that seem to exist independently of the seemingly inhospitable and arid landscape that surrounds them, belying the rich insight they offer into American stories of migration, industry, bloodshed, and rebirth.

    Precio regular: $20.25

    • A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational, and Scientific
    • De: Martin A. Lee
    • Narrado por: Nick Podehl
    • Duración: 21 h y 36 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-14-12
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 494 calificaciones
    • Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana, from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased....

    Precio regular: $38.00

    • De: David Halberstam
    • Narrado por: Mel Foster
    • Duración: 4 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-22-08
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 193 calificaciones
    • Engine 40, Ladder 35, was one of the firehouses hardest hit in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade towers....

    Precio regular: $16.00

    • Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway
    • De: Doug Most
    • Narrado por: John H. Mayer
    • Duración: 15 h y 26 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-04-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 154 calificaciones
    • In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew larger, the streets became increasingly clogged with horse-drawn carts....

    Precio regular: $22.50

    • Great Lakes Books Series
    • De: Mark L. Thompson
    • Narrado por: Scott MacDonald
    • Duración: 15 h y 53 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-02-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 calificaciones
    • In Graveyard of the Lakes, Thompson suggests that most of the accidents and deaths on the lakes have been the result of human error, ranging from simple mistakes to gross incompetence....

    Precio regular: $24.95

    • Richard J. Daley of Chicago
    • De: Mike Royko
    • Narrado por: Charles Constant
    • Duración: 7 h y 27 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-28-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 calificaciones
    • In the turbulent world of Chicago politics, Boss dives deep into the captivating life and legacy of Richard J. Daley, the influential politician and mastermind behind the city's Democratic Party machine.

    Precio regular: $17.49

    • The Runaway Scrape and Its Enduring Legacy
    • De: Stephen L. Hardin
    • Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee
    • Duración: 14 h y 30 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-11-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • Texian Exodus transports us to the frigid, sodden spring of 1836, when thousands of Texians—Anglo-American settlers—fled eastward for the United States in fear of Antonio López de Santa Anna's advancing Mexican army.

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
    • De: Walter Johnson
    • Narrado por: Tom Perkins
    • Duración: 10 h y 22 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-21-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 calificaciones
    • Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself....

    Precio regular: $15.47