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“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” —Yogi Berra Happy Free Book Friday! Today’s giveaway offers a plethora of mouth-watering recipes from the Lone Star State’s capital… Read the free chapter excerpt below (recipes included) and then comment on this post by Sunday, April 7 (by midnight) for your chance [...]
Happy Free Book Friday! Today’s giveaway, Historic Cape May, New Jersey: The Summer City by the Sea, comes from journalist and historian Emil R. Salvini. You can enter to win by commenting on this post by Sunday, December 9 (12:oo a.m., EST)! The winners (picked by the robots at Random.org) will be announced Monday morning. Oh, that’s [...]
“I don’t want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.” ―Paula Deen With Thanksgiving just around the corner, and turkey/stuffing comas pending, it may be the perfect time to rekindle your relationship with the sweeter side of the holiday. For centuries the meal’s crowning [...]
Happy Free Book Friday! Today’s giveaway, Asheville Beer: An Intoxicating History of Mountain Brewing, comes from beer scholar and journalist Anne Fitten Glenn, with a foreword by Zane Lamprey. You can enter to win by commenting on this post by Sunday, October 21 (12:oo a.m., EST)! The winner (picked by the robots at Random.org) will [...]
Happy Friday! We hope you’re pumped for today’s freebie, Charleston Beer: A High Gravity History of Lowcountry Brewing. Today’s giveaway comes from the hoppy stomping grounds of Timmons Pettigrew, and just in time for the first annual Charleston Beer Garden 2012. You can enter to win by commenting on this blog post by 12 a.m. [...]
Happy Father’s Day weekend! We want to help you celebrate this special occasion with today’s #FreeBookFriday giveaway. You get to choose your freebie this week…for the dad(s) in your life! To win, just comment on this post, and tell us which History Press book you’d like, and why. We’d also love to hear what the [...]
Texas has always answered the call to “play ball!” The Texas Rangers will meet the Houston Astros this weekend as each team strives to win the Silver Boot in a Lone Star diamond face-off. With the Houston Astros’ notable improvements this season, and the Texas Rangers considered by many in baseball circles as the league’s best team in 2012, the match has a “go big or go home” kind of [...]
“I think to lose Kentucky is nearly to lose the whole game.” –President Abraham Lincoln, 1861 The Ides of March has passed and Free Book Friday is here–it’s time to celebrate! We picked today’s giveaway, The Civil War at Perryville: Battling for the Bluegrass, because it covers one of the most significant battles in Kentucky Civil [...]
Celebrate Friday! …with our new, weekly “Free Book Friday” giveaway, of course. Today’s featured book, The Battle of Antietam by Ted Alexander, has been specially selected to commemorate the Civil War Sesquicentennial. Answer the question at the end of this post and your name will be entered into a random drawing that ends at 12:00 [...]
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Guest post by author Cindy Grisham Long before he explored the wilds of the Congo in search of a lost missionary and uttered the now famous words, “Dr. Livingston, I presume?” Sir Henry Morton Stanley explored the wilds of Arkansas. He often spent evenings with local families who shared what little they had with him. [...]
Guest post by Sarah Falter, History Press Publicity & Marketing Wisps of smoke floated through the crisp November sky towards the palmetto trees that framed the battlefield, and then curled casually towards the bright Charleston sun. … [Read More...]
