19th Century
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition
$46.67 Add to cartCrisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry
- Author: Jaffa, Harry V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226391183
- Language: English
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Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
$20.99 Add to cartIn the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would la… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: McMillen, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195393333
- Language: English
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880
$22.99 Add to cartThe two volumes of Kelley and Lewis’s To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, f… [more below]
- Author: Kelley, Robin D. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181344
- Language: English
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Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
$18.99 Add to cartA sweeping and original work of economic history by Michael Lind, one of America’s leading intellectuals, Land of Promise recounts the epic story of America’s rise to become the world’s dominant econo
- Author: Lind, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0061834815
- Language: English
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Lost Texas Treasure: Sunken Ships, Rawhide Maps and Buried Plunder
$34.99 Add to cartTrack pirate gold and misplaced riches across 168 counties in this comprehensive guide to the lost treasures of Texas.
Countless fortunes have disappeared into the vast expanse of the Lone Star State.
- Author: Gaines, W. Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: July 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1540252817
- Language: English
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Massapequas: Two Thousand Years of History
$40.99 Add to cartWhether as a town, village or hamlet, the communities of East Massapequa, North Massapequa, Massapequa Park and Massapequa proper all share a rich historic legacy. The area’s abundant supply of fish a… [more below]
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Kirchmann, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: May 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1540248011
- Language: English
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The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
$28.00 Add to cartFor the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise analysis of the near-extinction of the North American b… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Environment and History
- Author: Isenberg, Andrew C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 26 2020
- ISBN10: 110881672X
- Language: English
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One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement
$29.00 Add to cartIncludes definitive writings by leading scholars that cover the full scope of the woman suffrage movement in the U.S., up to and including the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. This revised a… [more below]
- Author: Spruill, Marjorie J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0939165767
- Language: English
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Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy Times
$24.95 Add to cartAs well as being the center of ranching activity in the Panhandle, Tascosa also became the last best hiding place in Texas for killers on the run, horse thieves, tinhorn gamblers, hair-trigger shootis… [more below]
- Author: Nolan, Frederick W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 361
- Publish Date: September 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1682830284
- Language: English
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The Ute Indians of Southwestern Colorado
$17.95 Add to cartHelen Sloan Daniels, now deceased archeologist, anthropologist, and historian from Durango, Colorado, wrote The Ute Indians of Southwestern Colorado in 1941 as a project for the Durango Public Library… [more below]
- Author: Daniels, Helen Sloan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 163
- Publish Date: May 16 2008
- ISBN10: 1932738606
- Language: English
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The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852
$22.00 Read moreThe Shirley Letters, written from the mining camps in 1851 and 1852, are something valuable and rare–a portrait by a woman of an era dominated by men. They offer a vivid picture of gold rush life, fr… [more below]
- Author: Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: January 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1890771007
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
$24.99 Add to cartIn the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Charles R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393570
- Language: English
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The Wreckers: The Florida Keys, Volume 3
$14.95 Add to cartIn this third book in a series on the history of the Florida Keys, John Viele tells the true story of the Florida Keys wreckers, the daring seamen who sailed out in fair weather or foul to save lives
- Series: Florida Keys (Paperback) #3
- Author: Viele, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: May 01 2011
- ISBN10: 156164496X
- Language: English
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
$32.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1501116223
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Dam: The Aftermath of the Mill River Flood of 1874
$20.95 Add to cartEarly one May morning in 1874, in the hills above Williamsburg, Massachusetts, a reservoir dam suddenly burst, sending an avalanche of water down a narrow river valley lined with factories and farms. … [more below]
- Author: Sharpe, Elizabeth M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 10 2007
- ISBN10: 1416572643
- Language: English
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Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
$24.00 Add to cartBefore the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade … [more below]
- Series: Studies in Legal History
- Author: Jones, Martha S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1316604721
- Language: English
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Pity for Evil: Suffrage, Abortion, and Women’s Empowerment in Reconstruction America
$34.99 Add to cartIn the years following the Civil War, pioneers in the women’s rights movement, women’s medical education, and public-private charitable partnerships joined forces to reduce the incidence of abortion i… [more below]
- Author: Klem, Monica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1641773391
- Language: English
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We Have Taken A City: The Wilmington Racial Massacre and Coup of 1898
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1898, Wilmington, North Carolina was the scene of what many describe as the only successful coup d’ etat in the history of the United States, when angry whites overthrew the duly elected government… [more below]
- Author: Prather, Sr. H., Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: February 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0972324089
- Language: English
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Encyclopedia of Indian Wars
$30.00 Add to cartAfter years of research, independent history scholar Gregory Michno has created a chronological listing of every significant fight between Indians and the United States Army, as well as better-known I… [more below]
- Author: Michno, Gregory F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 476
- Publish Date: June 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0878424687
- Language: English
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Mystery of E Troop
$20.00 Add to cartThe men of Company E rode big gray horses that stood out amidst the confusion during the afternoon of June 25, 1876. Twenty-eight of these men were found dead in a ravine after the fighting ceased. Bu… [more below]
- Author: Michno, Gregory F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0878423044
- Language: English
