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  • Sale! A History of Spiritualism and the Occult in Salem: The Rise of Witch City

    A History of Spiritualism and the Occult in Salem: The Rise of Witch City

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    Salem, Massachusetts, is the quintessential New England town, with its cobbled streets and strong ties to the sea. With the notoriety of the Salem witch trials, the city’s reputation has been irrevocably linked to the occult. However, few know the history behind the religion of Spiritualism and the social movement that took root in this…

  • Sale! A History of Spirituality in Santa Fe

    A History of Spirituality in Santa Fe

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    Shaped by early volcanic activity, the Sangre De Cristo and Jemez Mountain ranges surrounding Santa Fe create a uniquely spiritual landscape. Centuries ago, the Anasazi and their Pueblo Indian descendants believed the land was sacred and established communities in the area. In the early seventeenth century, the Spanish brought Catholicism to Santa Fe and christened…

  • Sale! A History of St. Rita Parish

    A History of St. Rita Parish

    Original price was: $24.99.Current price is: $19.99.

    A Century of Faith The first Mass was offered for what would eventually be known as St. Rita Church in the humblest of places, a cobblers shop on East Custis Avenue in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria. The ladies of the yet-to-be-established parish provided its nameSt. Rita of Cascia is the patron of impossible…

  • Sale! A History of Submarine Warfare along the Jersey Shore

    A History of Submarine Warfare along the Jersey Shore

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    The ingenious people of the Garden State were instrumental in the early development of the submarine. The first American submarine sank off Fort Lee in 1776, and the first successful one adopted by the U.S. Navy was invented by Paterson’s John Holland at the end of the nineteenth century. Those early vessels were tested in…

  • Sale! A History of the Belknap Mill: The Pride of Laconia’s Industrial Heritage

    A History of the Belknap Mill: The Pride of Laconia’s Industrial Heritage

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    Laconia’s Belknap Mill thrived in the boom of the Industrial Revolution. The historic mill swiftly rose to the forefront of the city’s hosiery industry in the nineteenth century. Lakes Region historian Carol Lee Anderson reveals the mill’s unique history, including its inventive, entrepreneurial owners, their climb to industrial success and the challenges they overcame. This…

  • Sale! A History of the Boston & Maine Railroad: Exploring New Hampshire’s Rugged Heart by Rail

    A History of the Boston & Maine Railroad: Exploring New Hampshire’s Rugged Heart by Rail

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    On June 27, 1835, New Hampshire chartered the Boston & Maine Railroad, and a juggernaut was born. By 1900, the B&M operated some 2,300 miles of track in northern New England, having taken over an astonishing forty-seven different railroads since its inception. The B&M loomed particularly large in the Granite State, where it controlled 96…

  • Sale! A History of the Boston Braves: A Time Gone By

    A History of the Boston Braves: A Time Gone By

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    Boston has been a proud baseball town for over a century. For those lucky enough to have passed through the turnstiles of Braves Field, the Boston Braves will forever live in the corridors of their collective memory. Baseball legend Babe Ruth finished his career on the historic diamond at Braves Field, while Hall of Famer…

  • Sale! A History of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal

    A History of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    A thousand hands shaped its banks and a thousand ships have traversed the waters of a canal that defined a region. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal has both provided an important route between the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and acted as a secondary and unofficial boundary between the North and South. Yet this historic waterway…

  • Sale! A History of the City of Brooklyn

    A History of the City of Brooklyn

    Original price was: $30.95.Current price is: $24.76.

    NMM7441353786A History of the City of Brooklyn

  • Sale! A History of the Destruction of His Brit

    A History of the Destruction of His Brit

    Original price was: $11.95.Current price is: $9.56.

    NMM7441365602A History of the Destruction of His Brit

  • Sale! A History of the Diocese of Charleston

    A History of the Diocese of Charleston

    Original price was: $26.99.Current price is: $21.59.

    In 1820, the Catholic Diocese of Charleston was established, and Bishop John England arrived from Ireland. His new diocese encompassed North and South Carolina, Georgia and, for a time, Haiti. From 1859 to 1885, when Patrick Lynch and Henry Northrop were bishops of Charleston, the diocese included the Bahama Islands. However, the history of Catholics…

  • Sale! A History of the Homes and People of Williamsburgh District

    A History of the Homes and People of Williamsburgh District

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    Just within South Carolina’s shoreline and tucked next to Georgetown County is Williamsburg County. While Williamsburg is one of the larger counties of South Carolina and has long been inhabited by genteel Southern families, it is also one of the lesser known areas of the Palmetto State. A History of the Homes and People of…

  • Sale! A History of the Kent Island Volunteer Fire Department

    A History of the Kent Island Volunteer Fire Department

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    Once, Kent Island homes that caught fire often burned to the ground. That changed in 1947 with the founding of the Kent Island Volunteer Fire Department, and for more than half a century, local volunteers have protected their community from fire and flood. Author Brent Lewis charts the history of this Kent Island institution with…

  • Sale! A History of the Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island: Keepers of the Bay

    A History of the Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island: Keepers of the Bay

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    A history of the Narragansett Tribe of RI from early European encounters to the tribe’s return to sovereignty in the 20th Century. Before Roger Williams set foot in the New World, the Narragansett farmed corn and squash, hunted beaver and deer, and harvested clams and oysters throughout what would become Rhode Island. They also obtained…

  • Sale! A History of the National Society of Sons of the American Revolution

    A History of the National Society of Sons of the American Revolution

    Original price was: $25.00.Current price is: $20.00.

    05/18/99 25 Copies12/06/99 25 Copies05/21/03 25 Copies05/08/03 25 Copies Printer/Source –: Last Printing —:5/03Quan:25 Last Pri Chg:7/99inv. corr. 8/7/09 cat9/16/09 inventory verified 10 cps 3/1/11 physical inv-13 cps 7/1/13 physical inv-3 copies 1/22/14 rec’d 3 cps from LTN 3/7/14 physical inventory-2 copies 12/3/14 physical inv-0 copies 3/10/15 physical inv-0 9/3/15 rec’d 1 copy from LTN…

  • Sale! A History of the Nets

    A History of the Nets

    Original price was: $23.99.Current price is: $19.19.

    Relive the Ups and Downs of the Storied Saga of the Nomadic Nets The Nets have led a wandering existence spanning over five decades. The team has been known as the New Jersey Americans, New York Nets, New Jersey Nets and now Brooklyn Nets, while constantly relocating throughout the New York metropolitan area. Though often…