19th Century
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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
$24.99 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
$33.00 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
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
$20.00 Add to cartThe basis of Martin Scorcese’s acclaimed 2003 film, The Gangs of New York is a dramatic and entertaining glimpse at a city’s dark past.
Focusing on the saloon halls, gambling dens, and winding alleys o
- Author: Asbury, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0307388980
- Language: English
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Letters from an American Farmer
$14.95 Add to cartWritten by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: “What, then, is the American, this new man?”, as a new nation took shape b… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crèvecoeur, J Hector St John de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554749
- Language: English
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire
$18.95 Add to cartIn this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918–which inspired events that forever changed the European continent–here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and ris… [more below]
- Author: Hoyer, Katja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362975
- Language: English
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The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
$30.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593713613
- Language: English
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Beyond the Wonder: An Ecologist’s View of Wild Alaska
$40.00 Add to cartThe grizzly paused in knee-deep water, staring straight at the man behind the camera. Abruptly he bolted, racing full tilt toward Thomas Bancroft, his eyes glued to the photographer’s face. The bear k
- Author: Bancroft, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 31 2024
- ISBN10: 0874224357
- Language: English
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Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda
$39.95 Read moreFrom the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of The Man on Devil’s Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped the intellectual and spiritual history of both East and
- Author: Harris, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0674247477
- Language: English
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Grant at 200: Reconsidering the Life and Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant
$32.95 Read moreProceeds from this volume will go to support the Ulysses S. Grant Association and the Grant Monument Association.
Ulysses S. Grant stood at the center of the American Civil War maelstrom. The Ohio nati… [more below]
- Author: Mackowski, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216141
- Language: English
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The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac: Volume 2 – From the Gettysburg Retreat Through the Shenan
$34.95 Read more“Al Ovies combines an impressive array of source material and intricate analysis to craft a historical gem. This is a must-read for anyone interested in Civil War cavalry and later war actions in the … [more below]
- Author: Ovies, Adolfo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216176
- Language: English
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Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London
$28.00 Read moreThe intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years
“Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the ci- Author: Jackson, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266200
- Language: English
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
$42.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel W… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States (Hardcover)
- Author: Howe, Daniel Walker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: October 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0195078942
- Language: English
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Heirs of the Founders: Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
$22.00 Read moreFrom the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War comes “a historical spellbinder” (The Christian Science Monitor) about a trio of political giants in… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0525433902
- Language: English
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
$27.00 Read moreWinner of the SHEAR Book Prize
“Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.”
Honorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award
–Ari Kelman, Times Literary Supplement “[One] of the mos- Author: Johnson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0674975383
- Language: English
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The US Marine Corps 1775-1859: Continental and United States Marines
$21.00 Read moreFeaturing specially commissioned artwork and archive illustrations, this engrossing study describes the US Marine Corps’ early operations and illustrates its evolving uniforms and personal equipment.
- Series: Elite #251
- Author: Field, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1472851544
- Language: English
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
$40.00 Add to cartThe dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1451683235
- Language: English
