19th Century
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
$21.99 Add to cartThere have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic “white working class,” a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very exis
- Author: Kelley, Blair LM
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095571
- Language: English
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The Greatest Stories of the Old West Ever Told: True Tales and Legends of Famous Gunfighters, Outlaws and Sheriffs from the Wild West
$11.94 Add to cartStep back in time and immerse yourself in the rugged landscapes, daring outlaws, fearless lawmen, and untamed frontier spirit that defined an era.
Introducing The Greatest Stories of The Old West Ever
- Author: Hunt, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890950109
- Language: English
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Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis
$49.58 Add to cartThis book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question that animated the Civil War: the constitutiona… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Legal History (Paperback)
- Author: Nicoletti, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: October 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1108401538
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
$40.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham, “a big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humani… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1400067669
- Language: English
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Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn
$19.95 Add to cartThe resistance of great Native American warriors to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great r… [more below]
- Author: Burnham, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 149620767X
- Language: English
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The Bonanza King: John MacKay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West
$21.00 Add to cart“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of… [more below]
- Author: Crouch, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1501108204
- Language: English
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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 Read moreFrom 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
$32.99 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
