19th Century
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Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
$30.00 Read moreThe remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia–the free state directly … [more below]
- Author: Diemer, Andrew K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593534387
- Language: English
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Andrew Johnson: A Biography
$29.99 Add to cartPolitically shrewd but fatally unable to adapt to new political realities, Andrew Johnson presided, disastrously, over the tumultuous first years of Reconstruction. In this provocative account, Hans T… [more below]
- Author: Trefousse, Hans Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0393317420
- Language: English
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
$17.99 Add to cartMore than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America’s history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again reco
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18, 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352196
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker’s Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
$32.95 Read moreBetween 1801 and 1812, North West Company fur trader, explorer, and cartographer David Thompson established two viable trade routes across the Rocky Mountains in Canada and systematically surveyed the
- Author: Nisbet, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0874222850
- Language: English
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Black Homesteaders of the South
$23.99 Read moreMeet the black men and women who toiled from sunup to sundown to live the American dream.
- Author: Bennett, Bernice Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1467152307
- Language: English
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The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspape
$18.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched exposé. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht and was not hea… [more below]
- Author: Algeo, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1613744560
- Language: English
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This Bloody Deed: The Magruder Incident
$19.95 Add to cartThe story of the infamous murder and robbery of Lewiston merchant Lloyd Magruder and his companions during the 1860s gold rush is legendary in Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Ladd Hamilton constructs
- Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science;846
- Author: Hamilton, Ladd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0874221072
- Language: English
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The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History
$22.00 Add to cartIn the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon, a stunningly vivid historical account of the manhunt for Geronimo and the 25-year Apache struggle for their homeland.
They called him Mickey Free. His ki- Author: Hutton, Paul Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0770435831
- Language: English
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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
$18.00 Read moreFrom one of our most distinguished historians comes a groundbreaking new examination of the myths and realities of the period after the Civil War.
Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents,- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 375702741
- Language: English
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Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder’s Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity
$21.99 Add to cartThe incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia–a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our cur
- Author: Meyer, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268566
- Language: English
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Tales of Yesterday’s Florida Keys, First Edition
$12.95 Add to cartA collection of stories of people and events in the Florida Keys extending from the time the Keys were first occupied by humans, through the Second Seminole War, the coming of the Overseas Railway, an
- Author: Viele, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1561649937
- Language: English
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We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy
$32.99 Add to cartChristianity Today Book Award
The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Honorable Mention
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award FinalistThe success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed
- Author: McKenzie, Robert Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0830852964
- Language: English
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The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty
$21.99 Read more“Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating.”–Jon Meacham
Based on genealogical breakthroughs and previously unreleased records, this is the first b
- Author: Thompson, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268590
- Language: English
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The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story
$22.99 Add to cartFor more than a century, the enduring feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has been American shorthand for passionate, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet despite numerous articles, b… [more below]
- Author: King, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 031616707X
- Language: English
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The Voyageur’s Highway: Minnesota’s Border Lake Land
$17.95 Add to cartThis popular guide to Minnesota’s canoe country from Rainy Lake east to Lake Superior tells of famous explorers, the great fur traders, voyageurs, Indians, and loggers who passed that way.
- Series: Mysteries & Horror
- Author: Nute, Grace Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 129
- Publish Date: June 01 1941
- ISBN10: 0873510062
- Language: English
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Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America’s railroad titans
In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the transcontinental railroad, few- Author: Hiltzik, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0358567122
- Language: English
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Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History: Volume 174
$49.95 Add to cartThe Indian history of the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and particularly of the Ohio Valley, is so complex that it can be properly clarified only with the visual aid of maps. Th
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)
- Author: Tanner, Helen Hornbeck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0806120568
- Language: English
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Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness
$17.95 Add to cart“This historical work is a must read for those interested in Minnesota and the nation’s history!”
– Leo Soukup, co-author of Ojibwe Imprints on Northern Minnesota
Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness i
- Author: Babcock, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987319154
- Language: English
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier’s First Gunfighter
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.
In July 1865, “Wild Bill” Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Spr- Series: Frontier Lawmen
- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1250178169
- Language: English
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The Atlas of the Civil War
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the first shots fired at Fort Sumter in 1861 to the final clashes on the Road to Appomattox in 1864, The Atlas of the Civil War reconstructs the battles of America’s bloodiest war with unparallel… [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 151075640X
- Language: English
