19th Century
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
$17.95 Add to cartOn May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that c… [more below]
- Author: Green, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400033225
- Language: English
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
$40.00 Add to cart**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**
“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped sl- Author: Blight, David W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1416590315
- Language: English
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American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
$18.99 Add to cartWith this “suspenseful narrative history” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air), award-winning science writer David Baron tells the story of the enterprising scientists–among them, planet hunter James
- Author: Baron, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1324094699
- Language: English
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The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910
$38.00 Add to cartAn expansive exploration of The Gilded Age in New York City, from of the extravagant lifestyles and magnificent mansions of the ultra-rich to the daily doings of the wretchedly poor who lived in the s
- Author: Crain, Esther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0316353663
- Language: English
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Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch
$24.95 Add to cartThe Wild Bunch, the confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, an… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803277784
- Language: English
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An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President’s Murder
$18.95 Add to cartThis true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the reader from a free-love community in upstate New York to the shocking assassination of President Jame… [more below]
- Author: Wels, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366105
- Language: English
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, … [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1501116231
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City
$19.00 Add to cartFrom an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it
Between October 8-10,
- Author: Smith, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0802159125
- Language: English
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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
$22.99 Add to cart“Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope” (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the Califor… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1541672542
- Language: English
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Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America
$19.00 Add to cartFrom historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the captivating story of how Yellowstone became the world’s first national park in the years after the Civil War, offerin… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Megan Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1982141352
- Language: English
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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
$31.99 Add to cartNamed one of The Washington Post‘s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a “new birth of freedom,” Heather Cox Richardson arg- Author: Richardson, Heather Cox
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0190900903
- Language: English
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The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters
$20.99 Add to cartA fresh look at President William McKinley from New York Times bestselling author and political mastermind Karl Rove–“a rousing tale told by a master storyteller whose love of politics, campaigning, … [more below]
- Author: Rove, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1476752966
- Language: English
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The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition
$26.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. Decades later, … [more below]
- Author: Leckie, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0806138408
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
$39.99 Add to cartWe are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant
- Author: Sinha, Manisha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1631498444
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$24.95 Add to cartAt its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties – to her marriage and to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0198800533
- Language: English
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Boston Harbor Islands Adventure: The Great Brewster Journal of 1891
$36.99 Add to cartIn 1891, four intrepid women from Lowell sailed to a remote island in Boston Harbor for a 17-day escape from New England’s prim and proper society. Calling themselves the Scribe, the Aristocrat, the A… [more below]
- Author: Schorow, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257002
- Language: English
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Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy
$39.99 Add to cartDuring his seven-decade career in public life, George Sewall Boutwell sought to “redeem America’s promise” of racial equality, economic equity, and the principled use of American power abroad. From 18
- Author: Boutwell, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324074264
- Language: English
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Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
$17.95 Add to cartAngel in the Forest is Marguerite Young’s fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America.
In it, she recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indi… [more below]- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Young, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 438
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1628975512
- Language: English
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Seven Social Movements That Changed America
$39.99 Add to cartHow do social movements arise, wield power, and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a groundbreaking work, narrating the stories of many of America’s most influentia
- Author: Gordon, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 163149371X
- Language: English
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Joseph’s Temples: The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism
$24.95 Add to cartThe apparent parallels between Mormon ritual and doctrine and those of Freemasonry have long been recognized. That Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and other early church leaders were, at least for a time… [more below]
- Author: Homer, Michael W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1647692121
- Language: English
