19th Century
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What Would Mrs. Astor Do?: The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age
$30.00 Read moreA richly illustrated romp with America’s Gilded Age leisure class–and those angling to join it
Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States’ population doubled, acco- Series: Washington Mews Books
- Author: Tichi, Cecelia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1479826855
- Language: English
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True Tales of Tennessee: Earthquake to Railroad
$23.99 Read moreThe Beginnings of the Volunteer State Tennessee was a remote place in 1810. By 1850, some of the most influential people in America had come from Tennessee, such as Sequoyah, David Crockett, the filib… [more below]
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Carey, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153893
- Language: English
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When Washington Burned: The British Invasion of the Capital and a Nation’s Rise from the Ashes
$29.95 Read moreAn insightful re-examination of one of the most dangerous moments in US history, the British assault on Washington, DC
Perhaps no other single day in US history was as threatening to the survival of th
- Author: Watson, Robert P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 164712350X
- Language: English
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Abraham Lincoln and the Bible: A Complete Compendium
$27.95 Read moreLincoln’s life and leadership through the lens of the Bible
How did Abraham Lincoln’s lifelong study of scripture influence him as a man and, ultimately, as president? Historian Gordon Leidner believ- Author: Leidner, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0809339005
- Language: English
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Abraham Lincoln, 2nd Edition: Redeemer President
$29.99 Read moreThe story of Abraham Lincoln’s faith and intellectual life–updated and revised with a new preface–from the three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize and best-selling Civil War-era historian Allen Guelz
- Series: Library of Religious Biography (Lrb)
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 539
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 080287858X
- Language: English
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The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War
$18.00 Read moreHow partisan politics lead to the Civil War
What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this bril- Author: Holt, Michael F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0809044390
- Language: English
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Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and betrayal.
On December 10, 1
- Author: Pearl, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0063338068
- Language: English
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Great American World War II Stories
$22.95 Add to cartPainstakingly selected from the most moving battle accounts written about American heroism and breathtaking courage during the largest war in the world history, this breathtaking anthology brings read
- Series: Lyons Press Classics
- Author: McCarthy, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1493081462
- Language: English
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‘Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North
$34.95 Add to cartJames McPherson’s classic book For Cause & Comrades explained “why men fought in the Civil War”–and spurred countless other historians to ask and attempt to answer the same question. But few have exp
- Author: Taylor, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0811775380
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s Hawaii: A Humorous Romp Through History
$26.95 Add to cartMark Twain’s Hawaii: A Humorous Romp through History, combines Twain’s own writings on Hawaii with personal reminiscences by others who met him at that time, and traces Twain’s journey through the reg
- Author: Stephens, John Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493053124
- Language: English
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A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War
$32.00 Add to cartFrom popular historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law–the Kansas-Nebraska Act–unexp… [more below]
- Author: Brown, David S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1668022818
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
$25.00 Read moreNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled … [more below]
- Author: Clark, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0525575219
- Language: English
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President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
$22.99 Add to cartAn “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” (The Washington Post) biography of the extraordinary, tragic life of America’s twentieth president–James Garfield.
In “the most comprehensive Garfield b- Author: Goodyear, Cw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1982146923
- Language: English
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What Lies Beneath Colorado: Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards
$22.95 Add to cartWhat Lies Beneath Colorado Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards explores the hidden personal trials and triumphs discovered in Colorado’s oldest cemeteries, bringing the history of the state to life. Cov
- Series: What Lies Beneath
- Author: Lyon, Eilene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1493076183
- Language: English
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Balzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy
$24.95 Read moreExploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France’s most famous novelist and observer
In Balzac’s vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured t- Author: Hazan, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1839767251
- Language: English
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Tesla’s Walk
$22.99 Add to cartAccompany the genius inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla on a poetic journey through one autumn day in 1899 Colorado Springs.
Nikola Tesla’s eight-month visit to Colorado Springs in 1899 is integral to
- Author: Sena, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891323360
- Language: English
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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
$19.99 Add to cartA NPR Best Book of the Year
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavis
- Author: Cooper, Anderson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0062964666
- Language: English
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Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent: A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Gilded Age Frontier
$29.95 Add to cartIn Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent Maura Jane Farrelly explores the history of the Gilded Age United States, using the lives of three people from prominent East Coast families who moved to Wyoming… [more below]
- Author: Farrelly, Maura Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 482
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496237056
- Language: English
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
$20.00 Read moreThe 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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Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal
$18.00 Add to cartA wry, instructive, and hugely entertaining account of “one of the most sensational trials in American history” (New York Times Book Review).
On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed t- Series: McNally Editions
- Author: Shaplen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1946022918
- Language: English
