United States - 19th Century
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Massapequas: Two Thousand Years of History
$40.99 Add to cartWhether as a town, village or hamlet, the communities of East Massapequa, North Massapequa, Massapequa Park and Massapequa proper all share a rich historic legacy. The area’s abundant supply of fish a… [more below]
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Kirchmann, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: May 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1540248011
- Language: English
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The Ute Indians of Southwestern Colorado
$17.95 Add to cartHelen Sloan Daniels, now deceased archeologist, anthropologist, and historian from Durango, Colorado, wrote The Ute Indians of Southwestern Colorado in 1941 as a project for the Durango Public Library… [more below]
- Author: Daniels, Helen Sloan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 163
- Publish Date: May 16 2008
- ISBN10: 1932738606
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
$24.99 Add to cartIn the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Charles R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393570
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Dam: The Aftermath of the Mill River Flood of 1874
$20.95 Add to cartEarly one May morning in 1874, in the hills above Williamsburg, Massachusetts, a reservoir dam suddenly burst, sending an avalanche of water down a narrow river valley lined with factories and farms. … [more below]
- Author: Sharpe, Elizabeth M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 10 2007
- ISBN10: 1416572643
- Language: English
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Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
$24.00 Add to cartBefore the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade … [more below]
- Series: Studies in Legal History
- Author: Jones, Martha S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1316604721
- Language: English
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Mystery of E Troop
$20.00 Add to cartThe men of Company E rode big gray horses that stood out amidst the confusion during the afternoon of June 25, 1876. Twenty-eight of these men were found dead in a ravine after the fighting ceased. Bu… [more below]
- Author: Michno, Gregory F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0878423044
- Language: English
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The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent
$24.95 Add to cartCritics have called David Lavender a “master storyteller” (Library Journal), his prose “virile, disciplined, yet personal” (New York Times), and his book “a balanced, learned, and lively history of an… [more below]
- Author: Lavender, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0803280033
- Language: English
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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
$29.95 Read moreAcclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, The Rise of American Democracy traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening… [more below]
- Author: Wilentz, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: September 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393329216
- Language: English
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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
$29.99 Add to cartThe world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings
- Author: Johnson, Susan Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: December 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320995
- Language: English
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Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill
$24.95 Add to cartFort Sill, located in the heart of the old Kiowa-Comanche Indian country in southwestern Oklahoma, is known to a modern generation as the Field Artillery School of the United States Army. To students … [more below]
- Author: Nye, Wilbur S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0806118563
- Language: English
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The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail
$24.95 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death–but unique in American history for its purpose, discipline, and solidarity. Oth… [more below]
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0803292139
- Language: English
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1831: Year of Eclipse
$20.00 Add to cart1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years meant to American history. But wars and economic disasters are not our only pivotal events, and other years have, in a quieter wa
- Author: Masur, Louis P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0809041197
- Language: English
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The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the g… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 080321880X
- Language: English
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The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
$18.00 Add to cartIlyon Woo’s The Great Divorce is a dramatic, richly textured narrative history of early America’s most infamous divorce case. A young mother singlehandedly challenged her country’s notions of women’s … [more below]
- Author: Woo, Ilyon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 080214537X
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The California Trail
$18.95 Add to cartIn 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year. Diari… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #4
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 080327291X
- Language: English
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Wagons West: The Epic Story of America’s Overland Trails
$20.00 Add to cartFrank McLynn has penned a year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer and settle the American West. Wagons West is a stirring history of the years from 1840 to 1849 — between the era of… [more below]
- Author: McLynn, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0802140637
- Language: English
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Outlaw Tales of Idaho: True Stories Of The Gem State’s Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
$14.95 Add to cartFrom Butch Cassidy to George Levy, Harry Orchard to Caleb Lyon, read about the most notorious desperadoes in the history of the Gem State. Through these astonishing true stories, Outlaw Tales of Idaho… [more below]
- Series: Outlaw Tales
- Author: Stapilus, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0762772360
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$11.95 Add to cart‘It was said to me, “Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; ’tis not best that you seem too learned.”‘
Appearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiograp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198820712
- Language: English
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Seward’s Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase
$28.95 Read moreThe Alaska Purchase–denounced at the time as “Seward’s Folly” but now seen as a masterstroke–is well known in American history. But few know the rest of the story.
This book aims to correct that. L… [more below]- Author: Farrow, Lee A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1602233039
- Language: English
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Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World’s Fastest Clipper Ship
$20.99 Add to cart“A fascinating, fast-paced history…full of remarkable characters and incredible stories” about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathan… [more below]
- Author: Ujifusa, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1476745986
- Language: English
