19th Century
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All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind
$27.00 Read moreAcclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff–a serial murderer who was called “too intelligent to be killed”–… [more below]
- Author: Dawson, Kate Winkler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0593420063
- Language: English
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
$19.00 Read moreOne of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of the most dangerous rapids known to man remains… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Powell, John Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437522
- Language: English
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When the Mississippi Ran Backwards
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America united the Indians in one last desperate rebellion, reversed the Mississippi River, reveal… [more below]
- Author: Feldman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0743242793
- Language: English
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Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
$18.99 Add to cartThe dramatic history of the extermination and resurrection of the American buffalo, by #1 bestselling author of The Revenant
Michael Punke’s The Last Stand tells the epic story of the American West th
- Author: Punke, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 62970097
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
$9.94 Add to cart“I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539073
- Language: English
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Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
$19.95 Read moreA riveting and illuminating exploration of the transatlantic slave trade by an intrepid team of divers seeking to reclaim the stories of their ancestors.
“For me, Enslaved is an attempt to give a voic- Author: Kingsley, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364587
- Language: English
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The Eight: The Lemmon Slave Case and the Fight for Freedom
$32.95 Add to cartThe personal and legal struggle of eight enslaved people for freedom in New York in the period just before the Civil War.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Rosenblatt, Albert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1438492642
- Language: English
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Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
$20.00 Add to cartNational Outdoor Book Awards Winner
Winner of the BANFF Adventure Travel Award
“A thrilling and harrowing story. If it’s a cliche to say I couldn’t put this book down, well, too bad: I couldn’t put thi- Author: Levy, Buddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1250782066
- Language: English
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Tecumseh’s War: The Epic Conflict for the Heart of America
$34.95 Read moreA Comprehensive History of the Most Important Native American Resistance Movement
The Shawnee leader Tecumseh came to prominence in a war against the United States waged from 1811 to 1815. In 1805, T… [more below]- Author: Hickey, Donald R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1594164053
- Language: English
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The Captain, The Missionary, and the Bell: The Wreck of the Steamship Atlantic
$31.95 Add to cartThe Captain: Isaac “Kip” Dustan, a well-respected mariner whose adventures were frequently recounted in the mid-1800s New York newspapers…
The Missionary: Rev. Benjamin C.C. Parker of the Young Men’s
- Author: Larsson, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1646703774
- Language: English
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Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award
“Terrific.” -Timothy Egan, The New York Times
“A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath.” –Claudio- Author: Harden, Blaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0525561684
- Language: English
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The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
$19.99 Add to cart“David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History
David M. Potter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis
- Author: Potter, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0061319295
- Language: English
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Veil of Doubt
$18.95 Add to cartWhen a mother is charged with murder in a town already convinced of her guilt, can defense attorney Powell Harrison find truth and justice in a legal system where innocence is not presumed?
Emily Lloy… [more below]
- Author: Virts, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 195941125X
- Language: English
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day
$29.95 Add to cart“The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day has several key strengths making it an admirable contribution to both historical geography and Lewis and Clark scholarship.”–Robert M. Briwa, Historical Geo
- Author: Moulton, Gary E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 774
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1496203836
- Language: English
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The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
$40.00 Add to cartA history of the American Constitution’s formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar
When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate ar… [more below]- Author: Amar, Akhil Reed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0465096352
- Language: English
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Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans
$44.95 Add to cartMarlene Trestman’s Most Fortunate Unfortunates is the first comprehensive history of the Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans. Founded in 1855 in the aftermath of a yellow fever epidemic, the Home was
- Author: Trestman, Marlene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807172901
- Language: English
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
$19.00 Add to cartThe New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1101980303
- Language: English
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Under Cover for Wells Fargo: The Unvarnished Recollections of Fred Dodge
$21.95 Add to cartThese are the remarkable memoirs of Fred Dodge (1854-1938), Wells Fargo secret agent for fifty years, friend of Wyatt Earp, and fast man with a gun. Here are dozens of his cases–stage robberies, trai
- Series: Western Frontier Library (Paperback) #63
- Author: Dodge, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: September 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0806131063
- Language: English
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
$18.99 Add to cartThe term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The fi
- Author: Dreilinger, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021861
- Language: English
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Bad Boys of the Black Hills: …and Some Wild Women, Too
$16.95 Add to cartThe lively romp details some of the Wild West’s most engaging stories, specifically in the Black Hills and Deadwood, home to prostitutes and poets, desperados and dancehall girls, fortune tellers and … [more below]
- Series: Bedside Reader
- Author: Fifer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 189
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1560374357
- Language: English
