19th Century
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Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
$24.99 Read moreThe transcontinental railroads were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating economic panics. Their dependence on public largesse d
- Author: White, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: April 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0393342379
- Language: English
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The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur
$19.99 Add to cartWhen President James Garfield was shot in 1881, nobody expected Vice President Chester A. Arthur to become a strong and effective president, a courageous anti-corruption reformer, and an early civil r… [more below]
- Author: Greenberger, Scott S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0306922703
- Language: English
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I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation
$14.99 Add to cart“A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation’s most influential state.” -Publishers Weekly
George Wythe clung to the mahogany banist
- Author: Chadwick, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1681621053
- Language: English
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The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West
$20.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, Jeff Guinn’s definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous gunfight in American history reveals who Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons and McLaurys really we
- Author: Guinn, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 15, 2012
- ISBN10: 1439154252
- Language: English
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The Abraham Lincoln Book of Quotes: A Collection of Speeches, Quotations, Essays and Advice from the Sixteenth President of the United States
$15.00 Read moreThe Abraham Lincoln Book of Quotes is a collection of the best quotes, speeches, and advice from one of the most influential and greatest president of all time.
Abraham Lincoln’s words have been a sou- Author: Hellstrom, Travis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1578269709
- Language: English
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
$32.00 Read moreAn “incredibly timely” global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world’s largest empires (Financial Times).
To understand the r- Author: Nelson, Scott Reynolds
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541646460
- Language: English
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Dr. Mutter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
$17.00 Add to cartA mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum of medical oddities
Imagine undergoing an ope- Author: O’Keefe Aptowicz, Cristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 1592409253
- Language: English
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H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil
$19.99 Add to cartThe full, untold story of serial killer made famous in Erik Larson’s international bestseller The Devil in the White City.
Here is the horrific true tale of America’s first and most notorious serial k- Author: Selzer, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1510740848
- Language: English
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Paris Reborn
$26.00 Add to cartIn the mid-nineteenth century, the Paris we know today was born, the vision of two extraordinary men: the endlessly ambitious Emperor Napol駮n III and his unstoppable accomplice, Baron Haussmann. Thi
- Author: Kirkland, Stephane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1250042682
- Language: English
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Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do about Animals
$35.00 Add to cartA compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of Rabid
Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the Unit- Author: Wasik, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0525659064
- Language: English
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The Streckfus Riverboat Dynasty: Jazz and the Big Smoke Canoe
$54.99 Add to cartIn 1880 John Streckfus began a commercial packet business serving the Rock Island community that evolved to become the largest excursion riverboat operation serving the Mississippi from St. Paul to Ne
- Author: Smith, Arthur L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218109103
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Red Cloud: War Leader of the Oglalas
$15.95 Add to cartA brilliant military strategist, Red Cloud honed his skills against his tribe’s traditional enemies — the Pawnees, Shoshones, Arikaras, and Crows — long before he fought to close the Bozeman Trail. … [more below]
- Author: Paul, R. Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0917298500
- Language: English
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Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay: The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars
$24.95 Add to cartThe enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers.
As member of the regular army,
- Author: Rickey, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 15 1973
- ISBN10: 0806111135
- Language: English
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The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery
$24.95 Add to cartFollowing orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from their wintering camp in Illinois in 1804 to search for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. … [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Meriwether
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 497
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803280394
- Language: English
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The South Was Right
$14.99 Add to cartNapoleon defined history as “fiction agreed upon”. It’s written by victors and often one-sided. This book tells a story from the other side. It shakes the foundation of everything you’ve been taught a
- Author: Steel, Samuel Augustus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1396321853
- Language: English
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Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation Against America
$19.99 Add to cartHoward Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has sold more than 2.5 million copies. It is pushed by Hollywood celebrities, defended by university professors who know better, and assigned in h… [more below]
- Author: Grabar, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1684511526
- Language: English
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The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians
$32.00 Add to cartCo-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our… [more below]
- Author: Rubenstein, David M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1982120258
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81
$21.95 Read moreThe Long Winter is one of the most memorable novels in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series. It beautifully details the dramatic events of The Hard Winter of 1880-81, a harrowing time with month
- Author: Wilson, Cindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: February 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1643439057
- Language: English
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History of German Settlements in Texas Prior to the Civil War
$28.95 Add to cartUnsatisfactory social, economic, and political conditions in Germany from the close of the Napoleonic period through the revolutionary periods of 1830 and 1848 stimulated immigration to Texas. This bo… [more below]
- Author: Biesele, Rudolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: June 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1571682368
- Language: English
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Native American History: Accurate & Comprehensive History, Origins, Culture, Tribes, Legends, Mythology, Wars, Stories & More of The Native Ind
$27.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1914312856
- Language: English
