19th Century
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Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Ground Breaking, longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a riveting saga of the last year of the Civil War–and a revealing new account of the assassination of Abraham Li… [more below]
- Author: Ellsworth, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0593475615
- Language: English
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The Adriatic Affair: A Maritime Hit-And-Run Off the Coast of Nantucket
$34.99 Read moreThe American sailing vessel Adriatic collided with the French steamship Le Lyonnais on November 2, 1856, off the coast of Nantucket in what can best be described as a maritime hit-and-run. Adriatic‘s … [more below]
- Author: Sellitti, Jennifer N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0764367951
- Language: English
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The Pathfinder and the President: John C. Fr?mont, Abraham Lincoln, and the Battle for Emancipation
$32.95 Add to cartTwo towering figures of American history collide in this riveting account of how the struggle between Lincoln and his defiant general John C. Fr?mont shaped the Civil War and emancipation.
“… a mas- Author: Bicknell, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0811776654
- Language: English
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The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West
$32.00 Add to cartA haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American West
In 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner traveled to Fort Laramie to document the federal gov- Author: Sandweiss, Martha A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0691238413
- Language: English
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The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America’s First Military Victory
$27.00 Add to cartThe Battle of New Orleans was the climactic battle of America’s “forgotten war” of 1812. Andrew Jackson led his ragtag corps of soldiers against 8,000 disciplined invading British regulars in a battle… [more below]
- Author: Remini, Robert V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0141001798
- Language: English
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Dread Danger
$29.99 Add to cart- Author: Gordon, Lesley J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1108729193
- Language: English
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Robert Wedderburn: British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist
$28.00 Add to cartThe first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian
Robert Wedderburn (1762-1834/5) was one of the most- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Hanley, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272359
- Language: English
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The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City’s Soul
$22.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY – LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE – A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – The “illuminating” (New Yorker) story of the Great Chic… [more below]
- Author: Berg, Scott W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0804171513
- Language: English
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Noteworthy Women of Oswego County, New York
$61.67 Add to cartUncovers the significant social, literary, and political contributions of thirty-one notable women of Oswego County, New York.
When called upon to name a noteworthy woman who lived in Oswego County, Ne
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Woodall, Natalie Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: January 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855800395
- Language: English
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Becoming Walla Walla: The Transformation of Cayuse Country, 1805-1879
$27.95 Add to cartThe first Euro-Americans to trek through the verdant Walla Walla Valley were uniformly impressed with its prospects for colonization. The Cayuse remained the valley’s primary inhabitants until diverse
- Author: Crockett, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0874224330
- Language: English
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The Voyageur
$22.95 Add to cartNute’s best-selling book portrays the indefatigable French-Canadian canoemen, whose labors were vital to the fur trade and whose influence reaches us through the colorful songs, place names, customs, … [more below]
- Author: Nute, Grace Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 301
- Publish Date: March 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0873512138
- Language: English
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Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey
$18.00 Add to cartMore than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The frontiersmen have become an in… [more below]
- Author: Schlissel, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0805211764
- Language: English
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The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Bloody Crime, a Beautiful Grifter, a Gilded Age Sensation
$18.95 Read moreOne of the country’s most powerful families embroiled in sex, lies, bigamy, and blackmail…and every new, deliciously humiliating morsel splashed across every newspaper in America
Now in paperback, t- Author: Shaffer, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0806542268
- Language: English
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Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
$20.00 Add to cartAn instant New York Times bestseller
A nuanced exploration of Abraham Lincoln’s political acumen, illuminating a great politician’s strategy in a country divided–and lessons for our own disorderly pr- Author: Inskeep, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593297881
- Language: English
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Mark Twain
$45.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain
Before he was Mark Twai- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 525561722
- Language: English
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The Deadliest Indian War in the West: The Snake Conflict, 1864-1868
$18.95 Add to cartThe Snake War is one of the least known of the many clashes of culture that occurred in the American West during the 19th century. People have long relished tales of the underdog and celebrated lost c… [more below]
- Author: Michno, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0870044605
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Montgomery County, Maryland
$24.99 Read moreDig into the untold stories and lesser-known tales of MoCo.
Washington, D.C.’s next-door neighbor has seen many a politician, militant and Red Line passenger travel within its bounds, but the county’s
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Myers, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467156604
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
$19.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096284
- Language: English
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A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
$22.00 Read moreThe story of the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable, young United States for control over the Deep South–from the acclaimed historian and prize-winning author of The Earth i… [more below]
- Author: Cozzens, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0593082702
- Language: English
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Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing
$39.95 Read moreFrom the award-winning author of Dressing Up, a riveting and diverse history of women’s hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America.
In the nineteenth cent
- Author: Block, Elizabeth L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049058
- Language: English
