19th Century
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Andrew Jackson
$19.00 Add to cartA gripping account of Andrew Jackson’s triumphant military career by acclaimed military historian Robert Remini, winner of the National Book Award.
Andrew Jackson is best known as the president who cr- Series: Great Generals (Paperback)
- Author: Remini, Robert Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0230617557
- Language: English
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In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits
$27.95 Read moreIn the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet–and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed
- Author: Alford, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1631495607
- Language: English
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American Memory Hole: How the Court Historians Promote Disinformation
$35.00 Add to cartDonald Jeffries takes another deep dive down the historical rabbit holes with American Memory Hole: How the Court Historians Promote Disinformation. You will discover how cancel culture was born durin… [more below]
- Author: Jeffries, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1510781943
- Language: English
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America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I): From the Age of Discovery to a World at War
$16.99 Add to cartAmerica, how well do you know your history?
- Who quelled a coup d’etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses?
- Which U.S. senator was nearly caned to death on the Senate floor?
- Which first lady refused t
- Author: Bennett, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1595551115
- Language: English
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African American History: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events that Shaped the History of the United States
$29.99 Add to cartExplore Captivating Stories and Facts about African American History
The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events. The people who dared to stand up and speak out against t
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1647485258
- Language: English
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Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
$18.99 Read moreAlice + Freda Forever is a gut-wrenching story of love, death, and the dangers of intolerance.“–Bustle
In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn’t her crime that shocked th
- Author: Coe, Alexis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1936976609
- Language: English
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A History of Native American Land Rights in Upstate New York
$24.99 Add to cartA complex and troubled history defines the borders of upstate New York beyond the physical boundaries of its rivers and lakes. The United States and the state were often deceptive in their territory n… [more below]
- Author: Amrhein, Cindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 14 2016
- ISBN10: 1626199310
- Language: English
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President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
$23.00 Add to cartAcclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a “measured, insightful biography that seeks to set the record straight…a deft character study of a pre
- Author: Merry, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 06, 2018
- ISBN10: 1451625456
- Language: English
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William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia
$32.00 Add to cartThe first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad.
William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first major
- Author: Kashatus, William C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0268200394
- Language: English
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The Louisiana Purchase: A Captivating Guide to a Major Turning Point in the History of the United States of America
$23.99 Add to cartThe history of the Louisiana Purchase: The greatest land deal in history!
Do you know the WHOLE story about the Louisiana Purchase? From the first Europeans and Native Americans to its purchase from Fr
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168403
- Language: English
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William A. Richards Diaries of a Frontier Surveyor: in Nebraska and Wyoming
$26.95 Add to cartThese unique diaries give a vivid, you-are-there view of what surveyors went through during the westward expansion. Richards, who eventually becomes governor of Wyoming and commissioner of the U.S. Ge
- Author: McCreery, Lucia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988101604
- Language: English
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Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World
$29.95 Add to cartMost fans of women’s basketball would be startled to learn that girls’ teams were making their mark more than a century ago–and that none was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boardi
- Author: Peavy, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: April 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0806144696
- Language: English
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Best of Covered Wagon Women
$21.95 Add to cartThe diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand … [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0806139145
- Language: English
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Bravo of the Brazos: John Larn of Fort Griffin, Texas
$21.95 Add to cartMore than a century after his death in 1878, the mere mention of John Larn’s name can trigger strong reactions along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in northern Texas. In Bravo of the Brazos, Rober
- Author: Dearment, Robert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: February 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0806137142
- Language: English
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Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877
$21.95 Add to cartThe Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 is memorable to most Americans because of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer’s last stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. But to the Lakotas (Western Sioux) and… [more below]
- Author: Greene, Jerome a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0806132450
- Language: English
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Cheyenne Autumn
$21.95 Add to cartNot only in American history but in all history it is hard to find stories as moving, noble and dramatic as this one. The highest praise one could give any book about it would be to say that it was wo
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293410
- Language: English
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Mormon Country
$26.95 Add to cartWhere others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their “lovely Deseret,” a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, … [more below]
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803293054
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850
$21.95 Add to cartThe women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner pa… [more below]
- Series: Coverd Wagon Women #2
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 080327274X
- Language: English
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Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches
$21.95 Add to cartThe legendary mountain men–the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half on the nineteenth century–formed the vanguard of the American e… [more below]
- Author: Hafen, Leroy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 401
- Publish Date: June 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0803272103
- Language: English
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
$20.00 Add to cart“An arresting piece of popular history.” –Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book Review
Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in C
- Author: Lemann, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530696
- Language: English
