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Gerrie Schipske
The Long Beach Gay Trials

How Long Beach caused the death of John A. Lamb.Immediately after his 1914 election as mayor of Long Beach, Louis Napoleon Whealton fired the chief of police and raided the city treasury. To replenish the…

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Gavin Schmitt
Big Safe

Some say it was the biggest theft in American history. Maybe it was.The multimillion-dollar burglary at eccentric gambler LaVere Redfield's Reno mansion was an endless comedy of errors. A target who hides…

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Jane H Sciacca
Enslavement in the Puritan Village

Colonial Sudbury, Massachusetts, was designated the Puritan Village by author Sumner Chilton Powell in his 1964 Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the founding of this quintessential New England town in 16…

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Adam Selzer
Graveyards of Trinity Church and St. Paul's

Below the bustling skyscrapers of Wall Street lie a connection to the city's colonial and revolutionary past...The graveyards of historic Trinity Church and St. Paul's have endured for centuries, even as …

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Christopher P Semtner
Edgar Allan Poe at Home

**Author Christopher P. Semtner takes readers inside the homes of Edgar Allan Poe.**Edgar Allan Poe's terror tales and melancholy poetry carved a bold new path across literary genres. Meet the man behind …

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Joshua M Shanley
Cold War Massachusetts

Massachusetts played a pivotal role during the Cold War era.In 1957, the Strategic Air Command established the Notch Bunker, a three-story hardened facility built into the Holyoke Mountain Range near West…

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Simmons
Carolina Beach Music Compilation Albums

The Stories Behind the AlbumsCarolina beach music--those often-soulful songs about the beach, parties, that special love, dancing or just relaxing in the sun--has long been a mainstay of culture in the So…

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Wayne Soini, Robert Fitzgibbon
Murder in Rockport, Massachusetts

"On May 21, 1932, Arthur Oker, a mild-mannered Finnish tailor, was brutally murdered in his shop in the small seaside town of Rockport, Massachusetts. While this unsolved crime terrified local reside…

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Robert Sorrell
Historic Theaters of the Tennessee Tri-Cities

The Stories Behind Iconic VenuesTheaters in the Tri-Cities featured everything from early minstrel shows of the nineteenth century to the modern multiplex movie houses of the twenty-first century. It's a …

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Dianna Higgs Stampfler
Kalamazoo County Characters

Local Luminaries, Famous Passersby & Everyone in BetweenSince its founding in the early 1800s, Kalamazoo has welcomed a variety of notable characters who have shaped the community's legacy in their ow…

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Ryan Starrett, Joshua Keith Foreman
Hidden History of Vicksburg

Authors Ryan Starrett and Josh Foreman uncover all-but-forgotten elements of Vicksburg history.Vicksburg had an especially inauspicious start when its inhabitants were massacred by locals. The generation…

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Taylor
Murder of the Jujube Candy Heiress

One candy heiress, two bullets and three suspects.The small Southern California island of Coronado rarely makes news for violent crime. But in the spring of 1975, World War II widow and retired librarian …

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D Michael Thomas
Hidden History of Civil War South Carolina

"Author D. Michael Thomas has uncovered accounts of lost history pertaining to the state and its men during the war ... See the connection between South Carolina College and its Confederate generals.…

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Paul A Thomas, Matt M Matthews
Union Guerrillas of Civil War Kansas

A Tumultuous Time in KansasBoth before and during the American Civil War, ragtag groups of Kansas militants patrolled the Kansas-Missouri border. Known as "Jayhawkers" and later "Red Legs,&…

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Mark A Torres
Long Island and the Legacy of Eugenics

"In the early twentieth century, eugenics was at the forefront of scientific discourse in the quest to understand human genetics. On Long Island and throughout the nation, eugenicists were granted un…

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Michael J Travis
Kansas Baseball

Baseball has long been synonymous with Kansas. Go back to the late 1800s and the birth of Walter Johnson and George Sweatt, Humboldt kids who played baseball at the highest level but in different leagues …

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Christina Volpe
The Barnes Museum and Homestead

Victorian Era TreasuresOnce the center of bolt manufacturing in the United States, Southington has been affectionately called Connecticut's "City of Progress." At the center of this progress was…

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Emily Welch
The Nutcracker

In this bayou retelling of the classic Christmas tale, a family of mice celebrate Christmas.They dance to zydeco music and play games, but their revelry is interrupted as a caped raccoon sweeps through th…

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White, William Ryan Smith, Peter Bolton Mangum
Shreveport Martyr Father Jean Pierre

Father Jean Pierre, a missionary priest from Brittany, France, answered a call to serve in sparsely populated Shreveport, where he chose to remain when a yellow fever epidemic struck in 1873. From a persp…

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Nancy K Williams
Colorado Outlaws & Lawmen

Taming a Tumultuous TerritoryHollywood westerns of the twentieth century brought a history of raucous frontier justice to life, but 1800s Colorado was anything but fiction. Bandits held up the Denver and …

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