19th Century
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Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852: As Told by Mary Ann and Willis Boatman and Augmented with Accounts by Other Overland Travelers
$24.95 Add to cartWith numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers as well as hordes of gold-seekers destined for California, the 1852 overland migration was the largest on record in a year taking a terrible toll in lives
- Author: Rau, Weldon Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0874222389
- Language: English
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Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Rights Movement
$14.99 Read moreAn important book of epic scope on America’s first racially integrated, religiously-inspired political movement for change–The Underground Railroad, a movement peopled by daring heroes and heroines,
- Author: Bordewich, Fergus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0060524316
- Language: English
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
$17.99 Add to cartErik Larson, author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts, intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World’s Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their deaths. Co… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 689
- Publish Date: February 26 2013
- ISBN10: 1594136246
- Language: English
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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
$20.00 Add to cartSaidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for
- Author: Hartman, Saidiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021586
- Language: English
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Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
$32.00 Add to cart*WINNER OF THE WOMEN WRITING THE WEST 2023 WILLA LITERARY AWARD*
Brave Hearted is not just history, it is an incredibly intense page-turning experience. To read what these women endured is to be transp
- Author: Hickman, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1954118171
- Language: English
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Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation
$35.99 Add to cartA master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America’s first “crime of the century”–from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebrity trial–and its aftermath.
In December 1832 a fa- Author: Dorsey, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0197633099
- Language: English
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Eleanor
$21.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller from prizewinning author David Michaelis presents a “stunning” (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America’s longest-serving First Lady,… [more below]
- Author: Michaelis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1439192049
- Language: English
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Don’t Know Much About(r) History [30th Anniversary Edition]: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned
$21.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller – More than 1.7 Million Copies Sold
“Reading Davis is like returning to the classroom of the best teacher you ever had ” —People magazine
From the arrival of Columbus throu
- Author: Davis, Kenneth C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0063067196
- Language: English
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer: An Edgar Award Winner
$19.99 Add to cartNow an Apple TV+ Series
“A terrific narrative of the hunt for Lincoln’s killers that will mesmerize the reader from start to finish.”–Doris Kearns Goodwin
The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the grea
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Swanson, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 1, 2007
- ISBN10: 0060518502
- Language: English
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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
$24.99 Add to cart“Fast-paced and highly absorbing.” —Wall Street Journal
A magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the “Indian Wars,” told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential A
- Author: Gardner, Mark Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 0062669907
- Language: English
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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
$24.00 Add to cartBringing together Custer, Sherman, Grant, and other fascinating military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, this “sweeping work of … [more below]
- Author: Cozzens, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0307948188
- Language: English
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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
$19.99 Add to cart“The best account of the Battle of Antietam” from the award-winning, national bestselling author of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville (The New York Times Book Review).
The Civil War battle waged on Septe… [more below]- Author: Sears, Stephen W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 30, 2003
- ISBN10: 0618344195
- Language: English
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Fires, Floods, Explosions, and Bloodshed A History of Texas Whiskey
$16.95 Add to cartWhen Americans settled Texas in the 1830s, they brought their booze with them and found some made by the locals when they got here! Before long, the Lone Star State had a thriving distillery business,
- Author: Braunberg, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1649670168
- Language: English
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Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
$17.95 Read moreOn September 1, 1894 two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire in the first and only book on t… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1493022008
- Language: English
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre
$24.95 Add to cartIn the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed
- Author: Brooks, Juanita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 15, 1991
- ISBN10: 0806123184
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
$19.99 Add to cart“Gripping . . . Chang has accomplished the seemingly impossible . . . He has written a remarkably rich, human, and compelling story of the railroad Chinese.” — Peter Cozzens, Wall Street Journal
WINN- Author: Chang, Gordon H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05, 2020
- ISBN10: 0358331811
- Language: English
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Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City
$24.95 Read moreFrom 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one million acres in upstate New York, including Greene, Delaware, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties. This feat of engin
- Author: Sante, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 09, 2022
- ISBN10: 1615198652
- Language: English
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Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
$18.00 Add to cart*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Po… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 6, 2021
- ISBN10: 1501188534
- Language: English
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Desperate Passage
$20.99 Add to cartIn late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year’s westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gat… [more below]
- Author: Rarick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195383311
- Language: English
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An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President’s Murder
$27.95 Read moreThis true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the reader from a free-love community in upstate New York to the shocking assassination of President Jame… [more below]
- Author: Wels, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363122
- Language: English
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