19th Century
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The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts
$17.00 Add to cartThe gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea
In 1820, the Nantucket- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nickerson, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140437967
- Language: English
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Jefferson on Race: A Reader
$24.95 Add to cartFrom The New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should read
- Author: Jefferson, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0691122067
- Language: English
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Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future
$35.00 Read moreThe grand spectacle that marked America’s first century–and a moment of reckoning for a nation in flux
“Those who were there felt that the wheel of history itself had turned before their eyes.” Held- Author: Bordewich, Fergus M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0593803361
- Language: English
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Axis of Empire: A History of Iranus Relations
$34.95 Add to cartA chronicle of intrigue and influence in the Iran-US entanglement
Ironic plot twists and colorful characters abound in Afshin Matin-Asgari’s accessible history of relations between the United States a- Author: Matin-Asgari, Afshin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1839762268
- Language: English
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Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
$22.95 Add to cartA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was kn- Author: Bergland, Renée
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691235309
- Language: English
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An Artful Dodge
$29.95 Read moreVictorian London comes to vivid life in this riveting heist novel about an all-female thieving gang and one young woman’s heroic plan to escape a life of crime, from the USA Today bestselling author o… [more below]
- Author: Odden, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 164129762X
- Language: English
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Lafitte Lives: An Old New Orleans Bookshop Mystery
$17.95 Add to cartSecrets can’t stay buried forever-but maybe some should.
In bustling, multicultural 1831 New Orleans, Tobias Whitney, the sexton of St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, uncovers a journal sealed inside the tomb
- Series: An Old New Orleans Bookshop Mystery #PREQ
- Author: Sumich, Christi Keating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798898201654
- Language: English
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Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age
$31.99 Read moreIn 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Field knew nothing about te
- Author: Tabor, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1324036028
- Language: English
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The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
$19.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley recaptures an almost forgotten part of the American story and once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance in Th… [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0449910830
- Language: English
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Undoing Manifest Destiny: Settler America, Christian Colonists, and the Pursuit of Justice
$28.99 Add to cartReckoning with the Colonial Past to Bring Justice to the Present
As White settlers spread across North America, they crafted and enacted an epic story of their God-given dominion-over the land, over I
- Author: Hawk, L. Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1514008645
- Language: English
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Ten Shades of Red
$19.95 Add to cartBehind Telluride’s postcard beauty lies a past lit by red lanterns, whispered secrets, and women who lived boldly in the shadows. 10 Shades of Red pulls back the curtain on the town’s forgotten red-li
- Author: Albin, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798994739006
- Language: English
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A Perfect Coincidence: The Extraordinary Friendship and Astonishing Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
$31.00 Read moreA revelatory new look at the long and complex relationship between Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who died on the same historic day–July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the adop… [more below]
- Author: Rasenberger, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1668003422
- Language: English
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In the Great Quiet
$16.99 Read moreA pioneer unwaveringly endures the Oklahoma frontier in an epic adventure about a woman haunted by secrets and searching for home.
A cannon booms at high noon, and the race begins in the Oklahoma land
- Author: Vogt, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 331
- Publish Date: April 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1662535309
- Language: English
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The Capitol: The Surprising Biography of an American Building
$35.00 Read moreAn in-depth exploration of history of the US Capitol building and the incredible personalities who built it, full of dramatic stories, surprising facts, and offering a powerful testament to what the C… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Brian Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0593185005
- Language: English
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The Long Revolution: Creating a United States After 1776
$30.00 Read moreFor America’s 250th birthday, a provocative argument that a “Long Revolution” formed the violently beating heart of American politics for decades after 1776.
In the century after Independence, many- Author: Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1541606639
- Language: English
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Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World
$35.00 Read moreFrom the author of American Eden–finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and more–comes a sweeping, richly researched biography of Frederic Church, the great 19th-century American … [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1982196297
- Language: English
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The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
$27.99 Read moreFrom the best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters comes the story of the American whaleship Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. With supplies dwindling, the eleven
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1324096322
- Language: English
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Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and a Reckoning in Tombstone
$35.00 Add to cartA True West Magazine Best Book and Best Author of the Year
A colorful and groundbreaking account of the most storied friendship of the American West: the bond between Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday
Wyatt- Author: Gardner, Mark Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 059347189X
- Language: English
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The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
$26.00 Add to cartA SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY
In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial e- Author: Miller, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 18 2013
- ISBN10: 0812979281
- Language: English
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Sung in the Shadows
$17.99 Add to cartWhen past darkness prowls, will stepping into the light lead to a brighter future?
In nineteenth-century Cincinnati, fear keeps Nora Davis caged with secrets and lies. Her true identity as the daughte
- Author: Caudill, Crystal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0825449103
- Language: English
