19th Century
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Hawthorne’s Prophets: The Bible and the Creation of American Literature
$26.00 Read more- Author: Ellwood, Fay Elanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0881469505
- Language: English
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Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America
$38.93 Add to cartThis controversial, convincing, and highly original book is important reading for everyone concerned about the origins, present, and future of the American experiment in self-government.
- Author: West, Thomas G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0847685179
- Language: English
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The Beechers: America’s Most Influential Family
$39.95 Add to cartThe Reverend Lyman Beecher was once called “the father of more brains than any other man in America.” Among his eleven living children were a celebrity novelist, a college president, the most well-kno
- Author: Todd, Obbie Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182753
- 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
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Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War
$35.00 Add to cartOne historian’s journey to find the end of the Civil War–and, along the way, to expand our understanding of the nature of war itself and how societies struggle to draw the line between war and peace … [more below]
- Author: Vorenberg, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1524733172
- Language: English
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The Galveston Dispatches: A Swiss Missionary’s Account of Nineteenth-Century Texas
$24.99 Add to cartPersonal stories of life in Galveston in the mid-nineteenth century.
In 1855, Friedrich Gloor was just nineteen when he was sent from Basel, Switzerland, halfway around the world to teach at the First
- Author: Rogers, Clay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158712
- Language: English
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The Balkans: A Short History
$17.00 Add to cartThroughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodox… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Mazower, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 081296621X
- Language: English
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The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy
$21.00 Add to cartDuring a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland’s citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Gre… [more below]
- Author: Coogan, Tim Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1137278838
- Language: English
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Montana Battlefields 1806-1877: Native Americans and the U.S. Army at War
$18.95 Read moreMontana’s era of Indian Wars consisted of nearly a century of skirmishes, battles, and large-scale wars between the U.S. military and native nations, including Blackfeet, Sioux, Northern Cheyennes, Ar… [more below]
- Author: Fifer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1560373091
- Language: English
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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
$16.95 Add to cartIn May 1830, the United States launched an unprecedented campaign to expel 80,000 Native Americans from their eastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River. In a firestorm of fraud an
- Author: Saunt, Claudio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541568
- Language: English
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Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West
$35.00 Add to cartThe true story of the Black Hills gold rush settlement once described as “the most diabolical town on earth” and of its most colorful cast of characters, from Wild Bill Hickok to Calamity Jane to Al S… [more below]
- Author: Cozzens, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0593537858
- Language: English
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Wagner and the Creation of the Ring
$29.95 Add to cartPart cultural history, part biography, this is the fascinating story of Richard Wagner’s life, influences, gift for storytelling, and artistic revolution, culminating in his dramatic journey to write … [more below]
- Author: Downes, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1639369155
- Language: English
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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
$20.00 Add to cartA stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil–when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to dismantle the KKK
The Ku Klux Klan, which- Author: Bordewich, Fergus M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593310829
- Language: English
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Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
$27.00 Add to cart“The story of the Cherokee removal has been told many times, but never before has a single book given us such a sense of how it happened and what it meant, not only for Indians, but also for the futur… [more below]
- Author: Inskeep, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 014310831X
- Language: English
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Smithson’s Gamble: The Smithsonian Institution in American Life, 1836-1906
$39.95 Add to cartDiscover the incredible history of the Smithsonian as it grew to meet the needs of a nation
Follow the fascinating growth and development of the world’s largest museum and research complex during its- Author: Crouch, Tom D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1588347915
- Language: English
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Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to Power
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Madame Restell and Get Well Soon, a biography of Mamie Fish that explores how women used parties and social gatherings to gain power and prestige.
Marion Graves Anthon Fish, known- Author: Wright, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 030683460X
- Language: English
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The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Apache Wars, the true story of the American West, revealing how American ambition clashed with the realities of violence and exploitation
The epic of the American West became a- Author: Hutton, Paul Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1524746134
- Language: English
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Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains 1865-1879
$21.95 Add to cartSome of the most savage war in world history was waged on the American Plains from 1865 to 1879. As settlers moved west following the Civil War, they found powerful Indian tribes barring the way. When… [more below]
- Author: Goodrich, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0811729079
- Language: English
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Willard Gibbs: The Whole Is Simpler Than Its Parts
$32.00 Add to cartMarginalian Editions presents a groundbreaking poet’s biography of the forgotten scientist who founded physical chemistry, shaping much of the 20th century–and an ingenious, expansive treatise on Ame
- Author: Rukeyser, Muriel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1961341158
- Language: English
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John Quincy Adams: Speeches & Writings (Loa #390)
$45.00 Read more21 essential works trace a great statesman’s lifelong engagement with the promise of America and the legacy of the Founding Fathers
“Few presidents ever thought about words as carefully as John Quincy- Author: Adams, John Quincy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 159853808X
- Language: English
