United States - 19th Century
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Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism
$24.00 Add to cartFor readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism–and the bold, revolutionary, and eccentri… [more below]
- Author: Jennings, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 0812983890
- Language: English
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The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier
$31.00 Read moreFrom award-winning historian Megan Kate Nelson, an epic account of the creation of the American West in the 19th century, shattering the traditional frontier myth that has dominated popular American c… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Megan Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1668004348
- Language: English
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Guns, Furs, and Gold: An American West History of Indigenous Peoples and Explorers
$34.95 Add to cartGuns, Furs, and Gold offers a riveting narrative of the American West by exploring the interactions of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos with each other and with Euro-American traders, expl… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Larry E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496237617
- Language: English
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Red Dead’s History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America’s Violent Past
$19.00 Add to cartA pathbreaking new way to examine US history, through the lens of a bestselling video game
Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history vi- Author: Olsson, Tore C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1250895685
- Language: English
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Traitor: The Life and Assassination of John Dunn Hunter, American Radical
$34.95 Add to cartThe story of John Dunn Hunter’s remarkable life, tragic betrayal, and disgraceful murder.
John Dunn Hunter was many things: a frontier hero, a writer, a celebrity at home and abroad, and, ultimately, t
- Author: Doolen, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1421453282
- Language: English
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Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico
$34.95 Add to cartLieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army’s use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Robert E. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0826368417
- Language: English
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Flying Cloud: The True Story of America’s Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her
$17.99 Add to cartIn 1851, Elanor Creesy, in a position almost unheard of for a woman in the mid-nineteenth century, served as the navigator on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud — traveling from New Y… [more below]
- Author: Shaw, David W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 03 2001
- ISBN10: 0060934786
- Language: English
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Bandit Heaven: The Hole-In-The-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West
$19.00 Add to cartFrom multiple New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin comes the thrilling true story of the most infamous hangout for bandits, thieves and murderers of all time–and the lawmen tasked with rootin
- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1250852552
- Language: English
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When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation Proclamation
$36.99 Add to cartDuring the three decades before the American Civil War, Southern slaveholders tried to end the anti-slavery movement. They exerted their influence by censoring the press and the mail, attacking and ki
- Author: Rogers, Lisa Waller
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 682
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999409621
- Language: English
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Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy
$41.93 Add to cart- Author: DeWolfe, Elizabeth A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1985902249
- Language: English
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Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln
$29.99 Add to cartMurder, mob rule, and the making of Abraham Lincoln–the story of three racially motivated murders in Mississippi River towns from 1835 to 1838 that inspired the speech that put Lincoln on the nationa… [more below]
- Author: Ambar, Saladin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798895150214
- Language: English
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Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History
$20.00 Add to cart“Stellar . . . Spectacular . . . [A] heartfelt, painstaking account.” –Nell Irvin Painter, The Washington Post
“An extraordinary collaboration . . . A profound achievement . . . Downs is a superb, ev- Author: Kaye, Anthony E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390567
- Language: English
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Confronting Bad History — How a Lost Cause and Fraudulent Book Caused the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation Trial
$26.50 Add to cartHow a Lost Cause and Fraudulent
Book Caused the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation Trial
Confronting Bad History is about our history’s most infamous villain and debunks the conspiracy story that Lincoln’ ass… [more below]
- Author: Gorman, Francis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 23 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218516420
- Language: English
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American Grammar: Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation
$32.00 Add to cartA new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as “the great equali
- Author: Givens, Jarvis R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 006325915X
- Language: English
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The Last Adieu: Lafayette’s Triumphant Return, the Echoes of Revolution, and the Gratitude of the Republic
$31.99 Add to cart“Memories of the Revolution have come back to life…”
In the summer of 1824, the aging Marquis de Lafayette, defeated politically and distraught over the fate of liberty in Europe, set sail one last t
- Author: Cole, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1400251311
- Language: English
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Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Circus
$20.95 Add to cartThe fascinating story of how nineteenth-century circus women performed impossible feats and changed American culture.
Jumping Through Hoops reveals the hidden history of early female circus performers:
- Author: Kellem, Betsy Golden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1558613447
- Language: English
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The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Rich and Forget the Alamo comes an epic reconsideration of the time and place that spawned America’s most legendary gunfighters, from Jesse James … [more below]
- Author: Burrough, Bryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1984878905
- Language: English
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Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack
$29.95 Add to cartLumberjacks: the men, the myth, and the making of an American legend
The folk hero Paul Bunyan, burly, bearded, wielding his big ax, stands astride the story of the upper Midwest–a manly symbol of t- Author: Brown, Willa Hammitt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1517912458
- Language: English
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Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland
$20.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1250843235
- Language: English
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The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship That Changed American History
$19.95 Add to cartEvoking the political intrigue of the Gilded Age, The Rough Rider and the Professor chronicles the extraordinary thirty-five-year friendship between President Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Henry Cabo… [more below]
- Author: Jurdem, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367888
- Language: English
