19th Century
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The Spirit of Controversy: And Other Essays
$12.95 Add to cartWilliam Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets…. [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hazlitt, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0199591954
- Language: English
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Rip Van Winkle’s Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory
$34.95 Add to cartTwo centuries ago, native New Yorker Washington Irving exploded onto the literary scene of Europe with the publication of his breakout collection of stories, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
- Author: Burstein, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177598
- Language: English
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Civil Disobedience, Solitude and Life Without Principle
$13.99 Add to cartHenry David Thoreau (1817-1862) championed the belief that people of conscience were at liberty to follow their own opinion. In these selections from his writings, we see Thoreau the individualist and… [more below]
- Series: Literary Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1573922021
- Language: English
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Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
$29.95 Add to cartAn engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers
More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in Ameri- Author: Marcus, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0691254338
- Language: English
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Why Read Moby-Dick?
$16.00 Add to cartA “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece–from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane’s Eye
One of the gr- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0143123971
- Language: English
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The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece
$18.99 Add to cartThe Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein.
Montillo recounts ho
- Author: Montillo, Roseanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 006202583X
- Language: English
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Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West
$30.00 Add to cartThe explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drur
- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1250285836
- Language: English
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Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone
$28.00 Add to cart“George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planet’s most magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows, and you’ll never think of our first–in many ways our greatest–national park
- Author: Black, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 1250023203
- Language: English
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Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth
$19.00 Add to cartWILLA Literary Award Winner and Colorado Book Award Winner! When Margaret Tobin Brown arrived in New York City shortly after her perilous night in Titanic’s Lifeboat Six, a legend was born. Through ma… [more below]
- Author: Iversen, Kristen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: April 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1555664687
- Language: English
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Montana Mining Ghost Towns
$19.95 Add to cartNow in softcover Montana is home to many storied ghost towns, and few people get to see these remote places in person the way photographers Larry and Vivian Roland have. Here they share rich color ph… [more below]
- Author: Fifer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1560377798
- Language: English
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The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World
$20.00 Add to cartA “well-researched and very readable new biography” (The Wall Street Journal) of “the Thomas Edison of guns,” a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of fire… [more below]
- Author: Gorenstein, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1982129220
- Language: English
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Standing Bear’s Quest for Freedom: The First Civil Rights Victory for Native Americans
$19.95 Add to cart2023 Nebraska Book Award
Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Nation faced arrest for leaving the U.S. government’s reservation, without its permission, for the love of his son and his people. Standing B- Author: Dwyer, Lawrence A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496232461
- Language: English
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From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
$28.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States (Paperback)
- Author: Herring, George C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: April 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0199765537
- Language: English
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
$21.00 Add to cart“One of the best history books I’ve read in the last few years.” –Chris Hayes
The Field of Blood recounts the previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War.
A NEW- Author: Freeman, Joanne B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234581
- Language: English
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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
$32.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dyna
- Author: Cooper, Anderson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0063118327
- Language: English
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From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West
$19.99 Add to cart“Riveting…A great read, full of colorful characters and outrageous confrontations back when the west was still wild.” –George R.R. Martin
A propulsive and panoramic history of one of the most drama- Author: Sedgwick, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1982104295
- Language: English
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Sea Captains of Cape Cod: Each Town’s Contribution to Maritime History
$19.95 Add to cartWhether you call Cape Cod a man-made island or describe it as a geographic peninsula connected to the mainland by bridges, there is one non-debatable fact. Cape Cod is surrounded by water on all four
- Author: Pregot, Michael V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 162006877X
- Language: English
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The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
The inspiration for PBS’s AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad. From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true stor- Author: Blum, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0143111124
- Language: English
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
$28.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel W… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States
- Author: Howe, Daniel Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: September 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0195392434
- Language: English
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
$28.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and ins… [more below]
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1984854992
- Language: English
