19th Century
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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
$29.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History
Winner of the 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History
Winner of the 2024 Caughey Western History Prize
Winner of the 2024 Spur Award
Named a Best Civil
- Series: History of the American West
- Author: West, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 708
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496243013
- Language: English
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Dark London: A Journey Through the City’s Mysterious and Macabre Underworld
$22.99 Add to cartFrom dark crimes of passion to shocking tales of grave robbing, gruesome murders, dens of iniquity, Victorian s?ances and haunted houses – not far beneath London’s everyday bustle and glitter there ha
- Author: Gray, Drew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1836004249
- Language: English
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
$21.99 Add to cartIn a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 132411049X
- 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 West: The History of an Idea
$39.95 Add to cartA comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West
How did “the West” come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did “Westerners” beg- Author: Varouxakis, Georgios
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 069117718X
- Language: English
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Brigham Young: American Moses
$25.00 Add to cartBrigham Young comes to life in this superlative biography that presents him as a Mormon leader, a business genius, a family man, a political organizer, and a pioneer of the West. Drawing on a vast ran… [more below]
- Author: Arrington, Leonard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 0345803213
- Language: English
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Trail of Tears: A Captivating Guide to the Forced Removals of Cherokee, Muscogee Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations
$29.99 Add to cartExplore the Cruel History of the Trail of Tears
One of the darkest and cruelest chapters in the history of the United States occurred when the nation’s young government decided to remove the native peo
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: February 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1647484693
- Language: English
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Confronting Bad History — How a Lost Cause and Fraudulent Book Caused the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation Trial
$35.50 Add to cartJohn Wilkes Booth’s assassination of President Abraham Lincoln is the most infamous political assassination in United States history. The assassination of Lincoln suddenly ended the prospect of a peac
- Author: Gorman, Francis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 548
- Publish Date: January 23 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218516628
- Language: English
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Adam Lemp and the Western Brewery
$20.00 Add to cartJohann Adam Lemp ranks among the most influential figures in St. Louis history, the founder of a brewery that left an indelible mark on the city. But the story of the German-American founder of the fa
- Author: Naffziger, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991296700
- Language: English
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Quotations of Frederick Douglass
$12.95 Add to cartNotable Quotations from Frederick Douglass
This pocket-sized hardcover book contains dozens of quotations from abolitionist, orator, social reformer and statesman Frederick Douglass.
“No man can put a c
- Series: Quotations of Great Americans
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1429095717
- Language: English
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The Street Children of Dickens’s London
$24.95 Read moreMany poor and vulnerable people lived on the streets of Victorian cities. They were the victims of rapid industrialisation, a government policy of non-intervention regarding social issues and the hars… [more below]
- Author: Amy, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1848688466
- Language: English
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A Little History of the United States
$15.00 Add to cartA character-filled history that brings the American saga to life
The United States is one of the most powerful countries in the world. This is the remarkable story of how it came to be. Beginning wit- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Davidson, James West
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283431
- Language: English
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Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
$24.00 Add to cartA searing history of life under Jim Crow that recalls the bloodiest and most repressive period in the history of race relations in the United States–and the painful record of discrimination that haun… [more below]
- Author: Litwack, Leon F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: July 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0375702636
- Language: English
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True Tales of the Olympic Peninsula
$24.99 Read moreA magnificent landscape of rugged peaks, impenetrable rainforest and wild coastlines, Washington’s Olympic Peninsula makes a perfect setting for the unexpected.Dive into the stories of pioneers who cr
- Author: Turner, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1467154628
- Language: English
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Detroit’s Lost Stove Industry: From Open Hearth to Cast Iron
$24.99 Read moreCasting a legacy
Long before automobiles made Detroit the Motor City, the city boasted a flourishing and diverse industrial economy, albeit on a more modest scale. Among the myriad industries that defi
- Series: Lost
- Author: Van Dusen, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 146715699X
- Language: English
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Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
$34.00 Add to cartINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and bet
- Author: Pearl, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0063433524
- Language: English
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More Than Love: The Enduring Fascination with Edgar Allan Poe
$28.00 Read more- Author: Armiento, Amy Branam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0881469467
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman’s Narrative
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and
- Author: Hecimovich, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0062334743
- Language: English
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Slavery and Abolitionism on Cape Cod: A Massachusetts Incongruity
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the start of the Puritan era through the end of the Revolutionary War, Boston was the central hub of the slave trade. Slaves were brought onboard ships from the African coast with regularity, oft
- Author: Pregot, Michael V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888192290
- Language: English
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City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle ?poque
$35.00 Add to cartA top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle ?poque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacr?-Coeur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be … [more below]
- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1541647491
- Language: English
