19th Century
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The Last True Clipper: Western Shore – the Oregon Clipper
$15.00 Add to cartThe last United States-built clipper ship was constructed in 1874 in the small shipbuilding town of North Bend Oregon. Hailed for its record-breaking speed from Astoria to Liverpool, its journeys ende
- Author: Wagner, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 58
- Publish Date: September 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79833E+12
- Language: English
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Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
$35.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history that reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor.
The industrializing North and the agricu- Author: Rockman, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0226723453
- Language: English
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Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy’s Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation
$19.00 Add to cartA “compelling” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy–a little-known but once notorious event that cost three young men their lives–part murder… [more below]
- Author: Snow, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1982185457
- Language: English
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The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
$32.00 Add to cartAcclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true–crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The… [more below]
- Author: Dawson, Kate Winkler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593949110
- Language: English
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Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank
$29.99 Add to cartIn the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman’s Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad f
- Author: Edwards, Justene Hill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1324073853
- Language: English
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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
$23.00 Add to cart“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society.”-… [more below]
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0399590870
- Language: English
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Bandit Heaven: The Hole-In-The-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West
$30.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1250282403
- Language: English
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The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War
$29.99 Add to cartA prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America–ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves
“A spectacular achieveme
- Author: Forret, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978865
- Language: English
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Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families
$29.99 Add to cartDrawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during sla… [more below]
- Author: Giesberg, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1982174323
- Language: English
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Columbia Tusculum: A History of Cincinnati’s Oldest Neighborhood
$24.99 Read moreWith a history dating back 2000 years, Columbia Tusculum stands as a vital contributor to the region’s development.
The lush, strategically located land provided essential resources for native hunting
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Young, Dinese
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1467158550
- Language: English
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The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
$18.00 Add to cartIt is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, … [more below]
- Author: Bailey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 29 2005
- ISBN10: 080214229X
- Language: English
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The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
$46.67 Read moreA panoramic global history of the nineteenth century
A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti- Series: America in the World #20
- Author: Osterhammel, J?rgen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1192
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169802
- Language: English
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A Most Glorious Ride: The Diaries of Theodore Roosevelt, 1877 1886
$35.95 Read moreEdward P. Kohn is Assistant Professor of History and Chair of the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University in Turkey. Kohn has written extensively on Theodore Roosevelt, and… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Kohn, Edward P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1438455135
- Language: English
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
$23.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book for 2011
Bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring
A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011
A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0312429266
- Language: English
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Marcus Daly’s Road to Montana
$23.99 Add to cartThe Making of a Copper King! Born in 1841 to tenant farmers, Marcus Daly came from rural Ireland to New York as a boy. Having learned the big city’s harsh lessons, he traveled west to the gold… [more below]
- Author: Wahler, Brenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153591
- Language: English
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America’s First Interstate: The National Road, 1806-1853
$29.95 Add to cartThe story of America’s first government-sponsored highway
The National Road was the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government. Built between 1811 and 1837, thi
- Author: Pickenpaugh, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1606353977
- Language: English
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The Saga of the Pony Express
$17.00 Add to cartAmerica in the mid-1800s was a land of burgeoning cities, westward expansion, economic optimism, and political turmoil. Threatened by civil war and Indian uprisings, the government needed better commu… [more below]
- Author: DiCerto, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: June 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0878424520
- Language: English
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Marquis de Lafayette Returns: A Tour of America’s National Capital Region
$24.99 Read moreWalk in the footsteps of the Marquis de Lafayette as he makes a final trip through the young United States. Against the backdrop of a tumultuous election, a beloved hero of the American Revolution ret… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Reese, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 29 2024
- ISBN10: 146715587X
- Language: English
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Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction
$23.99 Add to cartThe Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destr… [more below]
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0199843287
- Language: English
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Destiny of the Republic
$16.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary “New York Times”-bestselling account of James Garfield’s rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from bestselling auth
- Author: Millard, Candice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 597
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 1594136149
- Language: English
