19th Century
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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
$26.99 Add to cart“A stunning five-century study of civilization’s cultural retreat.” — William Safire, New York Times
Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master his
- Author: Barzun, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0060928832
- Language: English
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Sane Asylums: The Success of Homeopathy Before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind
$24.99 Read more– Examines the success of homeopathic psychiatric asylums in the United States from the 1870s until 1920
– Focuses on New York’s Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital for the Insane, which had a treat- Author: Kantor, Jerry M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1644114089
- Language: English
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The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
$23.95 Read moreThis entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs–many never before seen–as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by Afri… [more below]
- Author: Katz, William Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: September 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1682752267
- Language: English
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Hell on Wheels: Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad
$18.99 Add to cartOvernight settlements, better known as “Hell on Wheels,” sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for… [more below]
- Author: Kreck, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1555919480
- Language: English
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The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Texas Institute of Letters’s Carr P. Collins Award
A New York Times Bestseller
One of Book Riot Best Book of the Year
In nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized th- Author: Hollandsworth, Skip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 11, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118492
- Language: English
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Wagons to the Willamette: Captain Levi Scott and the Southern Route to Oregon, 1844 1847
$29.95 Add to cartAfter the death of his beloved wife, a devastated Levi Scott and his youngest surviving son left Iowa for Oregon. Their overland journey–rife with quarrels, stolen horses, arduous river fords, con ar
- Author: Scott, Levi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 0874223334
- Language: English
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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
$26.00 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 Read moreHave 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 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
