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Nebraska has spent most of American history being underestimated. Flat, boring, forgettable. Flyover country. Which is impressive, considering Nebraska helped feed the nation, fuel westward expansion, shape the Populist movement, host the command center for America’s nuclear arsenal, and quietly become one of the most important agricultural regions on Earth.

Every animal deserves safety, dignity, and love. Paws on the Ground shows you how to help—whether you have a spare room for fostering, a few hours to volunteer, or simply a voice to share adoption stories online.

In Clear Space, Clear Mind, you’ll be gently guided through a complete life reset, room by room, thought by thought. More than just another decluttering book, this uplifting guide helps you simplify your space and soothe your mind with compassion, clarity, and grace. Whether you’re drowning in stuff, stuck in overthinking, or craving more space to breathe, this book meets you where you are, with zero shame and plenty of encouragement.

West Virginia is what happens when a group of mountain counties looks at the rest of their state and says, "Absolutely not."Created during the Civil War through one of the strangest political maneuvers in American history, West Virginia became a land of coal booms, labor wars, moonshine legends...

Everyone thinks they know New Jersey. It's the Turnpike. The Shore. The traffic. The smell. But beneath the jokes lies one of the most important, influential, and downright bizarre states in American history. New Jersey gave America its first dinosaur skeleton, hosted more Revolutionary War battles than any other state, launched the age of modern industry, survived foreign sabotage, witnessed the Hindenburg disaster, inspired The Sopranos, and somehow became the birthplace of both suburbia and several environmental disasters.

Canada's official national strategy has long been simple: Make a mistake. Say sorry. Change the subject. In So Sorry, Jordan Blake Carter takes listeners on an unforgettable journey through the history Canada would often rather not discuss. You'll encounter vanished peoples, ambitious explorers, fur-trade empires, rebellions, political scandals, broken promises, constitutional showdowns, and generations of Canadians trying to figure out who they are.

Indiana was never supposed to be interesting. It was supposed to be orderly. In Hoosier Discipline: An Irreverent History of Indiana, Jordan Blake Carter dismantles the familiar image of Indiana as a bland flyover state and replaces it with something stranger, sharper, and far more revealing. Beneath the cornfields, courthouse squares, basketball gyms, and perfectly straight roads lies a state obsessed with systems: systems of land, government, morality, labor, race, education, and control. This is not a nostalgic celebration of covered bridges and small-town charm.

Flat. Empty. Forgettable. Wrong. South Dakota is a place of ancient stone, broken treaties, gold rush chaos, and histories that still echo today. What looks quiet from the highway turns out to be anything but. Flat Out: An Irreverent History of South Dakota digs into the real story with humor and honesty, revealing a state that is far more complicated, and far more interesting, than it gets credit for.

Flat, Fast, and Frequently Important: An Irreverent History of Ohio is the story of the state that somehow keeps ending up in the middle of everything while maintaining the energy of a place people mostly drive through on the way somewhere else. In this sharp, funny, and deeply researched history, Jordan Blake Carter traces Ohio’s transformation from glacial wilderness and ancient Indigenous crossroads to industrial powerhouse, political kingmaker, and recurring main character in the American story.

Maryland is tiny. Maryland is consequential. Maryland has never once confused these two facts as being in tension. From the Chesapeake Bay's Indigenous trading world to tobacco plantations to Civil War battlefields to crab-seasoned identity politics, Crabs, Catholics, and Constant Drama is the history of a state that has spent four centuries being more important than people remember and more contradictory than it will admit. It was founded as a Catholic refuge and immediately started running on coercion.

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum. It fired the first shots of the Civil War. It invented nullification. It blockaded its own harbor with pirates. It sent Strom Thurmond to the Senate for 48 years. It built one of the great cities of the colonial world on the labor of enslaved people, nearly got destroyed by the people it was enslaving, survived Sherman's march with its attitude intact, and produced, in the same 350 years, some of the most consequential villains and most remarkable heroes in American history, often from the same county.

American democracy has always survived on a strange blend of hope, spectacle, and pure human unpredictability. This book follows fourteen politicians who pushed the limits of behavior, ambition, and reality itself. Some were brilliant. Some were reckless. Some were dangerous. All of them changed the American story in ways the textbooks still avoid. With humor, grit, and a clear eye for political absurdity, this irreverent history dives into the characters who made the United States impossible to ignore.

Kentucky has been explained to death. It has been flattened into a punchline, romanticized into a symbol, and studied into abstraction. None of it has worked, because none of it has taken the place seriously on its own terms. This book does.

Pennsylvania is the state that built America while grumbling the entire time. This rollicking, sharply funny history traces its journey from Penn’s peaceful “holy experiment” to the roaring furnaces of the Industrial Revolution, from whiskey rebels to steel barons, from Amish buggies to AI labs, and from political meltdowns to nuclear ones.

Delaware: the First State, the Forgotten State, and the strangest little powerhouse you never paid attention to. This is not your high school history textbook. From Lenape fishing villages to Dutch and Swedish turf wars, from Caesar Rodney’s wheezing midnight ride to the explosive rise of DuPont, Delaware has been shaping America while pretending to be invisible. Along the way it perfected the art of being indispensable without being noticed: chickens, chemicals, corporations, and boardwalks all rolled into one.

New Mexico has always lived between extremes. It is ancient and futuristic, sacred and absurd, breathtaking and infuriating, a place where thousand-year-old pueblos sit down the highway from a spaceport, where UFO museums coexist with world-class art, and where chile is a state religion. Enchantment and Exasperation is a romp through thousands of years of survival, reinvention, rebellion, and weirdness.

Illinois never waited to be admired. It made itself necessary. This book tells the story of a state that learned early how to move things, reroute systems, and survive contradiction without apology. Illinois didn’t rise on speeches or symbolism. It rose on rivers, railroads, deals, and decisions that kept everything else running. Illinois: Prairie, Power, and the Audacity to Reverse a River is an unsentimental history of power built through connection, adaptation, and stubborn refusal to collapse.

Lakes, Labor, and Long Memory traces the real history beneath the politeness, from Indigenous governance and broken treaties to logging camps, iron mines, labor movements, cities shaped by paperwork, and a political culture built on memory rather than myth. This is not a brochure and it is not an apology. It is an irreverent, unsentimental look at how people in Minnesota learned to survive through cooperation, argue without disengaging, and build systems because isolation failed them again and again. Niceness here was never softness. It was strategy.

From the outside, it looks easy to explain. Rain. Trees. Coffee. A few volcanoes. People in fleece jackets who pretend they are not staring at the mountains even though they absolutely are. But that version of Washington leaves out nearly everything that matters. This is a history of a place built on contradiction. Rain forests and deserts. Ports and wheat fields. Counterculture coffee shops and irrigation canals. Fierce environmental protection alongside relentless industrial ambition. A state that argues constantly with itself and somehow survives stronger for it.

Georgia has always been the South’s wild card. It built empires from cotton, birthed legends of justice, produced presidents, shaped hip hop, hosted the world, and flipped national elections when no one was looking. But beneath the peaches and pageantry lies a history of resistance, reinvention, and relentless contradiction.