19th Century
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Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper
$34.00 Add to cartA sweeping history of America’s first media revolution: the rise of the newspaper, and the transformation of a fledgling republic into the world’s first information superpower.
“Takes us beyond the f- Author: Wright, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1541606795
- Language: English
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Frontier Living: An Illustrated Guide to Pioneer Life in America
$19.95 Add to cartWith more than 200 illustrations by the author.
- Author: Tunis, Edwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 158574137X
- Language: English
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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
$23.00 Add to cartThe “enormously entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) account of a shocking 1897 murder mystery that “artfully re-create[s] the era, the crime, and the newspaper wars it touched off” (The New York T… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0307592219
- Language: English
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San Antonio and Its Missions: Three Centuries of History, Memory, and Heritage
$42.50 Add to cartCharacterizing San Antonio’s five Spanish colonial-era missions as “sites of memory,” author and historian Joel Daniel Kitchens explores how and why Spain built the missions, what happened to the mis
- Series: Vistas, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-San Antonio
- Author: Kitchens, Joel Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1648433405
- Language: English
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
$16.99 Add to cart“Peopled with the kinds of characters most novelists only dream of” (Christian Science Monitor), this classic account of American frontier living captures the rambunctious spirit of a pioneer who set
- Author: Stewart, Elinore Pruitt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0395911516
- Language: English
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Never Again: A Classic Western Series
$25.99 Add to cartHe swore it would never happen again. Not to his mother. Not to him.
Seventeen-year-old Thaddeus Malloy has one dream: to become a doctor and escape the fists of his brutal stepfather. But when one vio
- Series: Brody Connor #1
- Author: Garner, Monty R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798895677988
- Language: English
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Catherine: A Retelling of Wuthering Heights
$29.99 Add to cartThe greatest tragic love story ever told – but this time, Catherine tells it herself. In Catherine, Essie Fox breathes new life into Wuthering Heights, transforming a gothic masterpiece into a hauntin
- Author: Fox, Essie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1917764421
- Language: English
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The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts
$17.00 Add to cartThe gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea
In 1820, the Nantucket- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nickerson, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140437967
- Language: English
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Jefferson on Race: A Reader
$24.95 Add to cartFrom The New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should read
- Author: Jefferson, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0691122067
- Language: English
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Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future
$35.00 Add to cartThe grand spectacle that marked America’s first century–and a moment of reckoning for a nation in flux
“Those who were there felt that the wheel of history itself had turned before their eyes.” Held- Author: Bordewich, Fergus M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0593803361
- Language: English
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Axis of Empire: A History of Iranus Relations
$34.95 Read moreA chronicle of intrigue and influence in the Iran-US entanglement
Ironic plot twists and colorful characters abound in Afshin Matin-Asgari’s accessible history of relations between the United States a- Author: Matin-Asgari, Afshin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1839762268
- Language: English
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Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
$22.95 Add to cartA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was kn- Author: Bergland, Renée
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691235309
- Language: English
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An Artful Dodge
$29.95 Add to cartVictorian London comes to vivid life in this riveting heist novel about an all-female thieving gang and one young woman’s heroic plan to escape a life of crime, from the USA Today bestselling author o… [more below]
- Author: Odden, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 164129762X
- Language: English
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Lafitte Lives: An Old New Orleans Bookshop Mystery
$17.95 Add to cartSecrets can’t stay buried forever-but maybe some should.
In bustling, multicultural 1831 New Orleans, Tobias Whitney, the sexton of St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, uncovers a journal sealed inside the tomb
- Series: An Old New Orleans Bookshop Mystery #PREQ
- Author: Sumich, Christi Keating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798898201654
- Language: English
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Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age
$31.99 Add to cartIn 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Field knew nothing about te
- Author: Tabor, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1324036028
- Language: English
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The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
$19.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley recaptures an almost forgotten part of the American story and once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance in Th… [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0449910830
- Language: English
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Undoing Manifest Destiny: Settler America, Christian Colonists, and the Pursuit of Justice
$28.99 Add to cartReckoning with the Colonial Past to Bring Justice to the Present
As White settlers spread across North America, they crafted and enacted an epic story of their God-given dominion-over the land, over I
- Author: Hawk, L. Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1514008645
- Language: English
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Ten Shades of Red
$19.95 Add to cartBehind Telluride’s postcard beauty lies a past lit by red lanterns, whispered secrets, and women who lived boldly in the shadows. 10 Shades of Red pulls back the curtain on the town’s forgotten red-li
- Author: Albin, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798994739006
- Language: English
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A Perfect Coincidence: The Extraordinary Friendship and Astonishing Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
$31.00 Add to cartA revelatory new look at the long and complex relationship between Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who died on the same historic day–July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the adop… [more below]
- Author: Rasenberger, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1668003422
- Language: English
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In the Great Quiet
$16.99 Add to cartA pioneer unwaveringly endures the Oklahoma frontier in an epic adventure about a woman haunted by secrets and searching for home.
A cannon booms at high noon, and the race begins in the Oklahoma land
- Author: Vogt, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 331
- Publish Date: April 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1662535309
- Language: English
