19th Century
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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
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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign
$21.99 Read moreCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
“They could write like angels and scheme like demons.” So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson’s masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidenti- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0743293177
- Language: English
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Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 1 (Loa #376): 1876 – 1919: Reconstruction to the Red Summer
$37.50 Read moreThis collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War I
A vital resource for- Author: Steptoe, Tyina L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 700
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1598537660
- Language: English
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Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City
$19.95 Add to cartFrom 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one million acres in upstate New York, including Greene, Delaware, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties. This feat of engin
- Author: Sante, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1891011723
- Language: English
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Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history–Madame Restell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women’s rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New York… [more below]
- Author: Wright, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 030682681X
- Language: English
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The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the creator of the “Legends of the Old West” podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narratives of the biggest legends in frontier mythology.
The summer of 1876 was a key time period in the dev- Author: Wimmer, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1250843472
- Language: English
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What Jane Austen’s Characters Read (and Why)
$29.12 Read moreThe first detailed account of Austen’s characters’ reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen’s own readers
- Author: Ford, Susan Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1350416711
- Language: English
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Red Dead’s History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America’s Violent Past
$30.00 Add to cartA pathbreaking new way to examine US history, through the lens of a bestselling video game
Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history vi- Author: Olsson, Tore C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1250287707
- Language: English
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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
$18.00 Read more“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society.”-… [more below]
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0399590870
- Language: English
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The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America
$35.00 Add to cartThe award-winning art historian and founder of Vision & Justice uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the false foundations of
- Author: Lewis, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0674238346
- Language: English
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Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History
$30.00 Add to cartA bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat Turner’s rebellion–and the new definitive account.
In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight- Author: Kaye, Anthony E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0809024373
- Language: English
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The Fever: The Most Fatal Plague in American History
$20.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1855, the nation cast its eyes on the working-class port of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia. A ship named the Benjamin Franklin had steamed in from the West Indies harbor of St. Thom
- Author: Wagner, Lon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888244210
- Language: English
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The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author.
The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1250852544
- Language: English
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The Plot Against Native America: The Fateful Story of Native American Boarding Schools and the Theft of Tribal Lands
$29.95 Add to cartThe first narrative history revealing the entire story of the development, operation, and harmful legacy of the Native American boarding schools–and how our nation still has much to resolve before we… [more below]
- Author: Vaughn, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367462
- Language: English
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The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age
$18.99 Add to cartParoled felon. Rich doctor’s wife. Famous clairvoyant. Cassie Chadwick, one of history’s most successful con artists, was a master of reinvention. In the dusk of the Gilded Age, she swept from town to… [more below]
- Author: Reed, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1635769825
- Language: English
