19th Century
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History
$21.00 Add to cartWhen Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America was deeply in debt, with its economy and dignity under attack. Pirates from North Africa’s Barbary Coast routinely captured American merchant sh
- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 18, 2016
- ISBN10: 0143129430
- Language: English
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Stay and Fight It Out: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp’s Hill and the North End of the Battlefield
$16.95 Read moreRecounts the often-overlooked fight that secured the Union position and set the stage for the Gettysburg battle’s fateful final day.
July 1, 1863, was a disaster for the Union army’s XI Corps. Shattere… [more below]
- Series: Emerging Civil War
- Author: White, Kristopher D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1611213312
- Language: English
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Democracy in America
$8.95 Add to cartFrench nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic treatise on the American way of life.
Over 175 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, an astute political scientist, came to the United States to evaluate th- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531604
- Language: English
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Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes: Nine Indian Writers on the Legacy of the Expedition
$18.00 Add to cartAt the heart of this landmark collection of essays rests a single question: What impact, good or bad, immediate or long-range, did Lewis and Clark’s journey have on the Indians whose homelands they tr
- Author: Josephy, Alvin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 12, 2007
- ISBN10: 1400077494
- Language: English
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The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story
$21.99 Add to cartThis newest volume in Oxford’s acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott We… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: West, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0199769184
- Language: English
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning-author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who pro
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01, 1992
- ISBN10: 0140159940
- Language: English
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True Tales: The Forgotten History of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$18.95 Add to cartWhat Were Pioneer Days Really Like in the U.P.?
The combination of mining, maritime and lumbering history created a culture in the U.P. that is unique to the Midwest. Discover true stories of the rough
- Author: Classen, Mikel B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 19, 2022
- ISBN10: 1615996354
- Language: English
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The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
$20.00 Add to cart“William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo were keen strategists and bold soldiers, ruthless with their enemies. Over the course of the 1870s and 1880s these two war chiefs would confront each other in th… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0593314522
- Language: English
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Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
$30.00 Add to cartDiscover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history–Madame Restsell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women’s rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New Yor… [more below]
- Author: Wright, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0306826798
- Language: English
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A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American Nation
$32.00 Add to cartThe Founding Fathers are often revered as American saints; here are the stories of those Founders who were schemers and scoundrels, vying for their own interests ahead of the nation’s.
We now have a c- Author: Head, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364072
- Language: English
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
$22.00 Add to cartThe #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America thr… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 15, 2012
- ISBN10: 1416571779
- Language: English
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The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
$29.95 Add to cartBefore the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony–before even Lizzie Borden–there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation’s debut media c
- Author: Hortis, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05, 2024
- ISBN10: 1639363912
- Language: English
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Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier
$26.95 Add to cart“If only one book about women in the West were available, this certainly would be an appropriate choice.“–Westerners Bookshelf
Pioneer Women provides a rare look at frontier life through the eyes of- Series: Oklahoma Paperbacks Edition
- Author: Peavy, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0806130547
- Language: English
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Unfamiliar Fishes
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States comes an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn.
Of all the countries the United States invaded or colonized
- Author: Vowell, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 6, 2012
- ISBN10: 159448564X
- Language: English
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 30 2009
- ISBN10: 0812973461
- Language: English
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The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship That Changed American History
$32.00 Read moreEvoking the political intrigue of the Gilded Age, The Rough Rider and the Professor chronicles the extraordinary thirty-five-year friendship between President Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Henry Cabo… [more below]
- Author: Jurdem, Laurence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364412
- Language: English
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Son of the Old West
$28.00 Add to cartAn epic narrative of
the Old West told through the vivid, outsized life of cowboy, detective,
and chronicler Charlie SiringoNo figure in the Old West lived or
shaped its history more fully than Charlie- Author: Ward, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0802162088
- Language: English
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
$19.99 Add to cartMostly probably a hoax, this letter to slave owners in the ante-bellum American South purports to advise on how to manage a slave population. The writer, himself a slaveowner from the Caribbean, advis
- Author: Lynch, Willie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: 7-Apr-09
- ISBN10: 1638230870
- Language: English
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An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
$22.00 Add to cartThe first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule
Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History and a New York Times Book Review- Series: The Lamar Western History
- Author: Madley, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 27, 2017
- ISBN10: 0300230699
- Language: English
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Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii
$22.99 Read moreThe most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its “discovery” by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European po
- Author: Haley, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 08 2015
- ISBN10: 1250070392
- Language: English
