19th Century
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The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
$24.00 Add to cartA classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century
Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in t- Author: Trachtenberg, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0809058286
- Language: English
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The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America
$21.95 Add to cart“From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This ‘placing out, ‘ an a… [more below]
- Author: Holt, Marilyn Irvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0803272650
- Language: English
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Contempt of Court: The Turn-Of-The-Century Lynching That Launched 100 Years of Federalism
$20.00 Add to cartIn this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an overlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justice is carried out in the United States.
In 1906, Ed Johnson was the innoce… [more below]- Author: Curriden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 20 2001
- ISBN10: 0385720823
- Language: English
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Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
$29.99 Read moreThe companion volume to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021
With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric
- Author: Conwill, Kinshasha Holman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0063160641
- Language: English
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“Our Crowd”: The Great Jewish Families of New York
$24.95 Add to cart“Our Crowd” is Stephen Birmingham’s #1 New York Times-bestselling history of the rise of the most powerful and privileged Jewish families in America.
- Author: Birmingham, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493057758
- Language: English
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Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
$24.00 Add to cartFounder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and … [more below]
- Author: Bushman, Richard Lyman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400077532
- Language: English
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Yosemite Stage Driver: The Life and Times of George Monroe and His Family
$19.99 Add to cartOne glorious week in Yosemite, stage driver George Monroe shared his bench with Ulysses S. Grant. The backstory, told here for the first time, reveals a family’s epic journey from the Antebellum South
- Author: Bopp, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988162001
- Language: English
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Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty
$18.00 Add to cartThe Statue of Liberty has become one of the most recognizable monuments in the world: a symbol of freedom and the American Dream. But the story of the creation of the statue has been obscured by myth…. [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0802123791
- Language: English
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Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900
$17.95 Add to cartAcclaimed author of biographical and historical fiction Irving Stone turns his magnificent talent to telling America’s most colorful and exciting story–the opening of the Far West.
Men to Match My M- Author: Stone, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: March 15 1987
- ISBN10: 042510544X
- Language: English
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
$19.99 Add to cartHave you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there’s arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of y… [more below]
- Author: Oneill, Therese
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0316357901
- Language: English
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To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett
$16.99 Add to cart“So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. “
–Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost SoldiersBilly the Kid–a.k.a. Henry McCarty, Henry An
- Author: Gardner, Mark Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0061368296
- Language: English
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Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory
$27.95 Add to cartHow did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed,
- Author: May, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0813945100
- Language: English
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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
$20.00 Add to cartThis “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South–and their daring attempt to es… [more below]
- Author: Bell, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1501169440
- Language: English
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
$19.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 588
- Publish Date: May 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1432873806
- Language: English
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The Cowboy President: The American West and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
$16.95 Add to cartThe Cowboy President: The American West and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt reveals how Roosevelt’s time spent in the Western Dakota Territory helped him recover from an overwhelming personal loss, b… [more below]
- Author: Blake, Michael F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 149303071X
- Language: English
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Liberty and Power
$23.99 Add to cartAs an engaging and persuasive survey of American public life from 1816 to 1848, Harry L. Watson’s Liberty and Power remains a landmark achievement. Now updated to address twenty-five years of new scho
- Author: Watson, Harry L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0809065479
- Language: English
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The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author, the larger than life story of America’s fifth president, who transformed a small, fragile nation into a powerful empire
In this compelling biography, award- Author: Unger, Harlow Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 030681918X
- Language: English
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Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune, Revised and Updated Edition
$27.95 Add to cartCaptive of the Labyrinth is reissued here to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of rifle heiress Sarah L. Winchester in 1922. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death of her husband … [more below]
- Author: Ignoffo, Mary Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: September 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0826222706
- Language: English
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Native American History: Accurate & Comprehensive History, Origins, Culture, Tribes, Legends, Mythology, Wars, Stories & More of The Native Ind
$20.99 Add to cartDiscover The Soul, Spirit & History of The Great Native American Heritage
The mysterious beginnings of Indigenous communities began in North America over 15,000 years ago. Tragically, and for far too l
- Author: Alive, History Brought
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1914312252
- Language: English
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True Tales: The Forgotten History of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$29.95 Add to cartWhat Were Pioneer Days Really Like in the U.P.?
The combination of mining, maritime and lumbering history created a culture in the U.P. that is unique to the Midwest. Discover true stories of the rough
- Author: Classen, Mikel B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1615996362
- Language: English
