19th Century
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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
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Stories of the Old West
$24.95 Add to cartSaddle up for a wild ride through those thrilling days of yesteryear. In Stories of the Old West, Steven Price serves up a heapin’ helpin’ of tales of America’s frontier days: ranches and rodeos, lawm
- Author: Price, Steven D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493066412
- Language: English
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Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
$32.50 Read moreA dazzling new look into the short but intense, tragic life and remarkable work of John Keats, one of the greatest lyric poets of the English language, seen in a whole new light, not as the mythologiz… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Lucasta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0525655832
- Language: English
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Blood of Noble Men: The Alamo Siege & Battle
$24.95 Add to cartThe Alamo and its defenders, according to historian Stephen L. Hardin, “transcended mere history; both entered the realm of myth.” Indeed, the siege and battle of the Alamo serves today as a definitio
- Author: Huffines, Alan C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: August 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1681790750
- Language: English
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Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees
$14.95 Add to cartSix Weeks in the Sioux Tepees is a reprint of the classic narrative of Sarah Wakefield’s survival. Told in her own words, this compelling tale was a best seller when it was originally published more t… [more below]
- Author: Wakefield, Sarah F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1493023160
- Language: English
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Follow Me to Hell: McNelly’s Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice
$20.00 Add to cartTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Tom Clavin’s Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story of how legendary Ranger Leander McNelly and his men brought justice to a lawless Texan frontier. In tur- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1250214572
- Language: English
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Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1887, more than 30 Chinese gold miners were massacred on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America. Massacred for Gold, the first authoritative account of the unsolved c
- Author: Nokes, R. Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0870715704
- Language: English
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Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend
$44.93 Add to cartForget Doris Day singing on the stagecoach. Forget Robin Weigert’s gritty portrayal on HBO’s Deadwood. The real Calamity Jane was someone the likes of whom you’ve never encountered. That is, until now… [more below]
- Author: McLaird, James D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: February 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0806142510
- Language: English
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Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin
$11.99 Read moreA wide-eyed teenager during most of the Revolutionary War, Joseph Plumb Martin left his grandfather’s farm in Connecticut in 1775 and spent much of the next eight years with the Continental Army, cris… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Martin, Joseph Plumb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0486451461
- Language: English
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Captured by the Indians: 15 Firsthand Accounts, 1750-1870
$19.99 Read moreAstounding eyewitness accounts of Indian captivity by people who lived to tell the tale. Fifteen true adventures recount suffering and torture, bloody massacres, relentless pursuits, miraculous escape… [more below]
- Series: Native American
- Author: Drimmer, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0486249018
- Language: English
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97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
$18.99 Add to cart“Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and through it she has crafted a unique and aromatic narrativ
- Author: Ziegelman, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0061288519
- Language: English
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Joseph Smith’s Plural Wives, Volume 1: Helen Mar Kimball
$28.00 Add to cartOne of the most controversial facets of Latter-day Saint history is Joseph Smith’s practice of Celestial plural marriage. However, behind the controversy lies the oft-untold inspiring history of real
- Series: Joseph Smith’s Plural Wives #1
- Author: Stoddard, L. Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: February 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1637523416
- Language: English
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Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
$19.00 Add to cartA modern take on a classical icon: this “luminous book” (Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of The Library Book) tells the story of when, where, and how Chopin composed his most famous wo… [more below]
- Author: LaFarge, Annik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1501188720
- Language: English
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Lust for Glory: An Epic Story of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation
$39.95 Add to cartLust for Glory: An Epic Story of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation is a concise, reader friendly depiction of the “Heroic Age” of Texas history. Employing short, episodic chapters, i
- Author: Hardin, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: November 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1933337753
- Language: English
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
$21.99 Read moreAn award-winning historian’s “searing” (Wall Street Journal) account of America’s internal slave trade–and its role in the making of America
Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of- Author: Rothman, Joshua D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 154161660X
- Language: English
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Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer’s Defeat
$18.00 Add to cart“With careful attention to his book’s subtitle, Michno presents the most important surviving testimony of Cheyenne and Lakota Sioux participants in the 1876 Little Bighorn battle. He follows the virtu… [more below]
- Author: Michno, Gregory F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0878423494
- Language: English
