19th Century
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The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers
$18.99 Add to cartIn The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers from Smithsonian Books, historian Thomas Fleming, author of The Perils of Peace, offers a fresh look at the critical role of women in the lives of Washing… [more below]
- Author: Fleming, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0061139130
- Language: English
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The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis
$29.95 Add to cartIn the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary W. Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as t
- Author: Gallagher, Gary W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: February 02, 2022
- ISBN10: 080717727X
- Language: English
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The Lost Southern Chefs: A History of Commercial Dining in the Nineteenth-Century South
$29.95 Add to cartIn recent years, food writers and historians have begun to retell the story of southern food. Heirloom ingredients and traditional recipes have been rediscovered, the foundational role that African Am
- Author: Moss, Robert F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0820360856
- Language: English
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Seward’s Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase
$28.95 Read moreThe Alaska Purchase–denounced at the time as “Seward’s Folly” but now seen as a masterstroke–is well known in American history. But few know the rest of the story.
This book aims to correct that. L… [more below]- Author: Farrow, Lee A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1602233039
- Language: English
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Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World’s Fastest Clipper Ship
$20.99 Add to cart“A fascinating, fast-paced history…full of remarkable characters and incredible stories” about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathan… [more below]
- Author: Ujifusa, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1476745986
- Language: English
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Lincoln and the Power of the Press
$42.99 Add to cart“Lincoln believed that ‘with public sentiment nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.’ Harold Holzer makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Lincoln’s leadership by showing
- Author: Holzer, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: September 29, 2015
- ISBN10: 1439192723
- Language: English
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Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery
$27.00 Add to cartWritten as a narrative history of slavery within the United States, Unrequited Toil details how an institution that seemed to be disappearing at the end of the American Revolution rose to become the m… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Essential Histories
- Author: Schermerhorn, Calvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: August 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1107608589
- Language: English
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The Witchery of Archery
$14.99 Add to cartThe Witchery of Archery, by Maurice Thompson, was originally published in 1878 and is considered America’s classic treatise on the subject of archery. It can be compared to Izaak Walton’s legendary fi
- Author: Thompson, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 16 2016
- ISBN10: 0996799117
- Language: English
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Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
$29.95 Add to cartProspectors lured to the West in hopes of striking rich settled a thousand towns in the Colorado mountains. The cry of “Gold!” or “Silver!” or a few flecks of color in a tin cup sent them to remote, o
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806120843
- Language: English
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
$25.99 Add to cartAbsorbing . . . Riveting . . . A legal thriller.–Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book Review
Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town like many where African Americans and whites mingle- Author: Lane, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0805089225
- Language: English
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Wells Fargo
$13.95 Add to cartHenry Wells (1805-78) and William Fargo (1818-81) first worked together when they broke the Post Office monopoly on mail service along the Erie Canal in the 1840s. In 1852 they incorporated Wells, Far… [more below]
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803283032
- Language: English
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No Life for a Lady
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Agnes Morley Cleaveland was born on a New Mexico cattle ranch in 1874, the term “Wild West” was a reality, not a clich?. In those days cowboys didn’t know they were picturesque, horse rustlers we… [more below]
- Series: Women of the West
- Author: Cleaveland, Agnes Morley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: August 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0803258682
- Language: English
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Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire
$24.99 Add to cartIn this elegantly written and far-reaching narrative, acclaimed author Gerard Koeppel tells the astonishing story of the creation of the Erie Canal and the memorable characters who turned a visionary … [more below]
- Author: Koeppel, Gerard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0306818620
- Language: English
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Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
$21.99 Add to cartNew in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey’s life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of con… [more below]
- Author: Grant, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0195393090
- Language: English
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On the Pony Express Trail: One Man’s Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle
$24.95 Add to cartOn The Pony Express Trail: One Man’s Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle recounts Scott Alumbaugh’s experience bikepacking the Pony Express Trail during the summer
- Author: Alumbaugh, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493068695
- Language: English
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Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America
$21.00 Add to cartA “gripping,” (Booklist) “clear-eyed, and honest” (The New York Times Book Review) biography of Samuel Colt–the inventor of the legendary Colt revolver (a.k.a. six-shooter)–which changed the US fore… [more below]
- Author: Rasenberger, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1501166395
- Language: English
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Wanted! Wanted Posters of the Old West: Stories Behind the Crimes
$19.95 Add to cartThis rare collection of wanted posters from the American West is an historical treasure. In addition to the more than 150 reward notices and wanted posters collected by Sheriff Moe during his tenure a… [more below]
- Author: Fifer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 156037263X
- Language: English
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Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai’i
$29.95 Add to cartIn 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai’i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South. In Nation Wi… [more below]
- Author: Coffman, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0822361973
- Language: English
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First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York
$21.95 Add to cartA concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24
The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world’s most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sal
- Author: Grumet, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141638
- Language: English
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The Sundance Kid: The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh
$21.95 Add to cartUncovers new facts on the outlaw’s life and death
He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kid–whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh–led a fuller life than history o
- Author: Ernst, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0806141158
- Language: English
