19th Century
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Out Where the West Begins, Volume 2, Volume 2: Creating and Civilizing the American West
$34.95 Add to cartIn 1790, it was not a given that the young United States, bruised and healing from its struggle for independence and populated by fewer than 4 million inhabitants, would even survive, much less flouri… [more below]
- Author: Anschutz, Philip F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: September 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0990550214
- Language: English
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Murder Maps USA: Crime Scenes Revisited; Bloodstains to Ballistics, 1865 -1939
$35.00 Add to cartThe most sensational and intriguing murders from across the United States are reexamined in this disquieting volume, which introduces readers to the most lethal killers from every state. Uncovering ho
- Author: Selzer, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0500252599
- Language: English
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Democracy in America: A New Abridgment for Students
$50.00 Read moreA New Abridgement of a Classic on the American Experiment.
?As debates rage over the future of America and the country’s relationship to its past, there is no better time to examine the American cultu- Author: de Tocqueville, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1577997654
- Language: English
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Judge Roy Bean Country
$18.95 Add to cartWelcome to Judge Roy Bean Country! The landscape is big enough and wild enough to contain any legend–even one the size of Judge Roy Bean. Jack Skiles started with a determination to learn the truth b… [more below]
- Author: Skiles, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: December 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0896723690
- Language: English
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The Arizona Rangers
$19.95 Add to cart“The Arizona Rangers” is the first documented history of the Rangers ever published, and fills a sizeable void in the annals of Arizona Territory. Bill O’Neal’s enthusiasm for his subject and his resp… [more below]
- Author: O’Neal, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: March 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0890156107
- Language: English
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Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West–One Meal at a Time
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Featured in the PBS documentary The Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound
The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history fo… [more below]- Author: Fried, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0553383485
- Language: English
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Across the Wide Missouri: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a history
- Author: Devoto, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0395924979
- Language: English
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A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn – The Last Great Battle of the American West
$22.99 Add to cartA rousing and meticulously researched account of the notorious Battle of Little Big Horn and its unforgettable cast of characters from Sitting Bull to Custer himself.
In June of 1876, on a desolate h- Author: Donovan, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0316067474
- Language: English
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The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
$21.00 Read moreWinner of the Duff Cooper Prize – One of The Economist‘s top history books of the year
From one of our leading historians, the definitive history of the Greek War of Independence The Greek War of Ind- Author: Mazower, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0143110934
- Language: English
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The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland
$29.95 Add to cartFollowing the Civil War, large corporations emerged in the United States and became intent on maximizing their power and profits at all costs. Political corruption permeated American society as those … [more below]
- Author: Kruger, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496228138
- Language: English
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Israel: A History
$35.00 Add to cartWritten by one of Israel’s most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late nineteenth century to the present day. Orga… [more below]
- Series: Schusterman Series in Israel Studies
- Author: Shapira, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 1611686180
- Language: English
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The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America
$19.99 Add to cartAmerica was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line — the first American railroad — in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the spee… [more below]
- Author: Wolmar, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1610393473
- Language: English
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Suicide & Spirits
$16.00 Add to cartJourney back in time to the opulent days of St. Louis in the Gilded Age and discover the true story of the Lemp family and its rise to power, wealth and extravagance. It’s a story that has become lege… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 02 2011
- ISBN10: 1892523736
- Language: English
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Occult America: White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation
$18.00 Add to cartFrom its earliest days, America served as an arena for the revolutions in alternative spirituality that eventually swept the globe. Esoteric philosophies and personas–from Freemasonry to Spiritualis
- Author: Horowitz, Mitch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0553385151
- Language: English
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Nevermore
$16.00 Add to cartNEVERMORE
THE HAUNTED LIFE AND MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
There are very few among those with a love for the supernatural who don’t also have a passion for Edgar Allan Poe. Poe wasn’t simply a
- Author: Taylor, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: April 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1735270652
- Language: English
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Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior
$19.00 Add to cart“In the hands of Mike Leach and Buddy Levy, the story of this brilliant Apache leader comes into sharp focus, both in their narrative of his life and in spirited commentaries on its meaning” (S.C. Gwy… [more below]
- Author: Leach, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1476734976
- Language: English
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The Robber Barons
$22.99 Add to cartPrize-winning historian and biographer Matthew Josephson’s The Robber Barons is the story of the Gilded Age’s giant American capitalists who seized economic power after the Civil War and altered the s… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Josephson, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 24 1962
- ISBN10: 156767902
- Language: English
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Ghostlahoma
$13.00 Add to cartOklahoma, Where the Wind Comes Sweeping Down the Plain – and Ghosts of the Past Still Linger With over 100 years under its belt, Oklahoma has not only a very colorful, but also a very haunted history… [more below]
- Author: Hacker, Tonya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: February 20 2009
- ISBN10: 1892523647
- Language: English
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Novel of the Century
$23.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Les Mis rables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert’s
Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017- Author: Bellos, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537402
- Language: English
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The Year of Decision 1846
$38.00 Add to cartYear of Decision 1846 tells many fascinating stories of the U.S. explorers who began the western march from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from Canada to the annexation of Texas, California, and the
- Author: Devoto, Bernard Augustine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0312267940
- Language: English
