United States - 19th Century
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Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland
$30.00 Read moreA Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year
A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and na- Author: Shane, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1250843219
- Language: English
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The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang
$30.00 Read moreThe definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author.
The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250282381
- Language: English
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Astoria: Astor and Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: A Tale of Ambition and Survival on the Early American Frontier
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an A
- Author: Stark, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0062218301
- Language: English
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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
$28.00 Read more“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society.”-
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 0399590862
- Language: English
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Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
$30.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of George Washington’s Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washingto… [more below]
- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593543823
- Language: English
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Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
$33.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of George Washington’s Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washingto… [more below]
- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0593792629
- Language: English
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Cowboy American Icon: A Short History of Wild West Culture
$40.00 Read moreMay your belly never grumble
May your heart never ache
May your horse never stumble
May your cinch never break–Cowboy blessing
A sweeping visual history of the iconic figure of the Old West — a
- Author: Pruitt, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0228104491
- Language: English
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Wyoming Range War: The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County
$24.95 Add to cartWyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts
- Author: Davis, John W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 01, 2012
- ISBN10: 0806142618
- Language: English
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The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
$20.00 Add to cart“An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history.” —Los Angeles Times
Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane’s Eye, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mayflower, and- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119605
- Language: English
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Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
$28.99 Add to cartWhat could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch’s country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, rooted in the beguiling tim
- Author: Weisberg, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 20, 2024
- ISBN10: 039353152X
- Language: English
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Wilmington’s Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
$18.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to mo
- Author: Zucchino, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 19, 2021
- ISBN10: 0802148654
- Language: English
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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller!
“Lively and absorbing. . .” — The New York Times Book Review “Engrossing.” –Wall Street Journal “Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston Chronicle
Three noted- Author: Burrough, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 198488011X
- Language: English
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Brave Companions: Portraits in History
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian … [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 1992
- ISBN10: 671792768
- Language: English
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
$45.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners o… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States (Hardcover)
- Author: Wood, Gordon S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0195039149
- Language: English
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Black Elk Speaks
$24.95 Add to cartMore than one million copies sold
2017 One Book One Nebraska selection“An American classic.”–Western Historical Quarterly
Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas
- Author: Neihardt, John G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0803283911
- Language: English
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The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age
$27.00 Add to cartSmithsonian Magazine, 10 Best History Books of 2021 – “Fascinating . . . Purity is in the mind of the beholder, but beware the man who vows to protect yours.” –Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker
Anthony- Author: Sohn, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 125017483X
- Language: English
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Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
$19.00 Add to cartA sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous r… [more below]
- Author: Ehle, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0385239548
- Language: English
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
$28.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners o
- Series: Oxford History of the United States (Paperback)
- Author: Wood, Gordon S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 01, 2011
- ISBN10: 0199832463
- Language: English
