19th Century
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No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
$29.95 Add to cartFrom 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US part… [more below]
- Author: Chambers, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1781689997
- Language: English
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Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Pearl, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0063338076
- Language: English
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Allan Pinkerton: America’s Legendary Detective and the Birth of Private Security
$29.95 Add to cartA deeply researched account of the life and legacy of the man who defined the profession of private eye
Allan Pinkerton, the world’s most famous private detective, has been an enduring source of fascin
- Author: Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1647125847
- Language: English
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The Donnellys: Powder Keg, 1840-1880
$19.95 Read moreA violent family living in violent times.
In the 1840s, the Donnelly family immigrates from Ireland to the British province of Canada. Almost immediately problems develop as the patriarch of the famil- Series: Comprehensive Donnellys #1
- Author: Little, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1770416293
- Language: English
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Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism
$24.00 Add to cartFor readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism–and the bold, revolutionary, and eccentri… [more below]
- Author: Jennings, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 0812983890
- Language: English
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The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier
$31.00 Read moreFrom award-winning historian Megan Kate Nelson, an epic account of the creation of the American West in the 19th century, shattering the traditional frontier myth that has dominated popular American c… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Megan Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1668004348
- Language: English
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To Love a Lady
$16.99 Add to cartShe was never meant to be a lady. But love has a way of rewriting the rules. For fans of My Fair Lady.
New York City, 1883. Keira O’Day has spent her life scraping by in the tenements, haunted by the m
- Author: Meyer, Gabrielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798999232328
- Language: English
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A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War
$38.99 Add to cartIt is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. But less well-known than the war’s death toll are the roughly 400,000 Union and Confederate troops who were captured and imp
- Author: Brundage, W. Fitzhugh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0393541096
- Language: English
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Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries
$35.00 Read moreNicholas Lemann grew up thinking he wanted to be Jack Burden, the ever-curious reporter-historian in Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men who gets drawn into a web of southern intrigue. Like his fi
- Author: Lemann, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 163149841X
- Language: English
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Guns, Furs, and Gold: An American West History of Indigenous Peoples and Explorers
$34.95 Add to cartGuns, Furs, and Gold offers a riveting narrative of the American West by exploring the interactions of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos with each other and with Euro-American traders, expl… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Larry E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496237617
- Language: English
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Butterfly Games
$18.99 Add to cartFor fans of Philippa Gregory and Allison Pataki, a debut biographical historical novel about a young Swedish countess whose youthful love affair with the heir to her country’s throne has profound pers… [more below]
- Author: Scarborough, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 9798896360506
- Language: English
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To Hell on a Fast Horse Updated Edition: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett
$19.99 Add to cart“So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles.”–Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author
From Spur Award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner, his classic dual
- Author: Gardner, Mark Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0063011921
- Language: English
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Red Dead’s History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America’s Violent Past
$19.00 Add to cartA pathbreaking new way to examine US history, through the lens of a bestselling video game
Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history vi- Author: Olsson, Tore C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1250895685
- Language: English
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Traitor: The Life and Assassination of John Dunn Hunter, American Radical
$34.95 Add to cartThe story of John Dunn Hunter’s remarkable life, tragic betrayal, and disgraceful murder.
John Dunn Hunter was many things: a frontier hero, a writer, a celebrity at home and abroad, and, ultimately, t
- Author: Doolen, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1421453282
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America
$35.99 Add to cartOver the last few decades, and especially in the last ten years, our understanding of slavery has been transformed by the work of many talented scholars. We have learned a great deal about the actions
- Author: Rood, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1631498371
- Language: English
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Mrs. Walford
$18.99 Add to cartA dark secret. A second chance.
Sadie Walford, the wife of a prominent Brooklyn ship broker and mother of two, registers at the Queen Hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia, using a false name. Two weeks later
- Author: Tyedmers, Brenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: October 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1069545708
- Language: English
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Tomorrow, the War
$32.99 Add to cartTomorrow, The War is a sweeping historical epic that follows the intertwined lives of Jed Stokes, a restless wanderer shaped by violence, and Raleigh, a once-enslaved man seeking justice. After fleein… [more below]
- Author: Watman, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1949846768
- Language: English
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Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico
$34.95 Add to cartLieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army’s use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Robert E. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0826368417
- Language: English
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Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew
$20.00 Add to cartOn December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo–and not a tr… [more below]
- Author: Hicks, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0345466659
- Language: English
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The Wondrous Life and Loves of Nella Carter
$16.99 Add to cartA young woman at the crossroads of life and death embarks on an extraordinary journey across time in an epic novel about beauty, hope, endurance, and endless loves.
Most humans cower in the face of Dea
- Author: Nwosu, Brionni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 383
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1662530897
- Language: English
