Brewing Up a Business: Adventures in Beer from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Revised and Updated by Wiley $18.95
Updated business wisdom from the founder of Dogfish Head, the nation's fastest growing independent craft brewery Starting with nothing more than a home brewing kit, Sam Calagione turned his entrepreneurial dream into a foamy reality in the form of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, one of America's best and fastest growing craft breweries. In this newly updated Second Edition,...

Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by Oxford University Press, USA $19.95
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia.Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling...

The Philadelphia Campaign: Volume One: Brandywine and the Fall of Philadelphia by Stackpole Books $36.95
The first in a monumental two-volume set on the pivotal 1777 campaign of the American Revolution, this book is an in-depth examination of the military engagements that resulted in the British capture of Philadelphia. Based on surviving accounts of soldiers and civilians, the author weaves together the compelling story of the fight for the Continental capital. In the winter of 1777, after the...

Delaware Politics and Government (Politics and Governments of the American States) by University of Nebraska Press $35.00
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of both the historical and the contemporary dimensions of the politics and government of the “First State.” Once a sparsely populated, agrarian, and relatively insignificant polity, Delaware has become a densely and diversely populated financial and legal center often called the “corporation capital of the world.” Delaware’s prime location...

The Hidden History of Delaware County (PA): Untold Tales from Cobb's Creek to the Brandywine by The History Press $19.99
Andrew Wyeth is renowned for his paintings of the Chadds Ford countryside, but what about the his brother, the inventor of the plastic soda bottle? Then there is Bill Haley of Booth's Corner who, along with the help of a few Delaware Valley teenagers, came up with a new sound called rock-and-roll. With a fascinating and occasionally uproarious collection of his Main Line Today magazine columns,...

The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware (Bcl1 U. S. History Series) by Reprint Services Corp $140.00
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our...

The Divided Family in Civil War America by The University of North Carolina Press $22.95
The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting "brother against brother." The divided family is an enduring metaphor for the divided nation, but it also accurately reflects the reality of America's bloodiest war. Connecting the metaphor to the real experiences of families whose households were split by conflicting opinions about the war, Amy Murrell Taylor provides a social and cultural...

The Philadelphia Campaign: Volume Two: Germantown and the Roads to Valley Forge (Philadelphia Campaign) by Stackpole Books $34.95
This second in a monumental two-volume set on the 1777 campaign of the American Revolution follows the saga from Cornwallis' triumphal march of his British and Hessian troops into Philadelphia in late September to Washington's movement of the weary Continental forces to camp at Valley Forge in December. Based on soldiers' and civilians' vivid accounts - many uncovered for the first time from...

A History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Illustrated) by Bob Henry $2.99
Illustrated with 10 unique illustrations.The National Historical Association's illustrated history of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, volume I, history (the second volume being biographies). CHAPTER I.- GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY AND NATURAL RESOURCES CHAPTER II -INDIAN INHABITANTS AND FIRST EUROPEAN EXPLORERS CHAPTER III- SETTLEMENTS BY THE SWEDES, FINNS, DUTCH AND ENGLISH CHAPTER IV- COLONIAL...

Fort DuPont (Images of America) by Arcdia Publishing $21.99
Fort DuPont is named in honor of Rear Adm. Samuel Francis Du Pont and located on the Reeden Point tract, land initially granted to Henry Ward in 1675. Fort DuPont originated during the Civil War as a heavily armed earthwork fortification. In 1864, Sgt. Bishop Crumrine wrote, "these guns command the channel and could blow to atoms any vessel rash enough to attempt to pass." In the decades to...