19th Century
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Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
$29.95 Read moreFrom the New York Times: “The astonishing stories in Shipwrecked … [offer] a fresh perspective on the mess of pitched emotions and politics in a nation at war over slavery.”
Historian Jonathan W. Whi
- Author: White, Jonathan W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1538175010
- Language: English
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Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West
$21.95 Add to cartEven among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Fr駑ont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of explorati
- Author: Enzler, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: 10-Jan-23
- ISBN10: 080619197X
- Language: English
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Mason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation
$35.00 Read more“A magisterial yet highly nuanced account that ventures back and forth across Mason and Dixon’s fabled demarcation line as audaciously as 18th-century raiding parties once did.”–Harold Holzer, Wall S
- Author: Gray, Edward G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0674987616
- Language: English
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The Children’s Blizzard
$19.99 Add to cart“David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. . . . This is a book best read wit
- Author: Laskin, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0060520760
- Language: English
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The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
$30.00 Add to cartAward-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of … [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: 10-Oct-23
- ISBN10: 1469675234
- Language: English
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
$25.00 Add to cart**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**
“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped sl- Author: Blight, David W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1416590323
- Language: English
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Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom
$19.95 Add to cartHow the redefinition of antisemitism has functioned as a tactic to undermine Palestine solidarity
The widespread adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism and the internalisation of its norms h- Author: Gould, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1839769025
- Language: English
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The Johnstown Flood
$18.99 Add to cartThe stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnst- Series: Touchstone Books (Paperback)
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: January 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0671207148
- Language: English
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A Little History of the United States
$16.95 Read moreA fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages
“This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Davidson, James West
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 030022348X
- Language: English
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The Great Bridge
$23.00 Add to cartThe dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 636
- Publish Date: January 12, 1983
- ISBN10: 067145711X
- Language: English
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A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
$28.99 Read moreA Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes.
It is a moment shrou- Author: Dawidziak, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1250792495
- Language: English
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Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women’s Health
$29.99 Read moreA compelling reckoning with the birth of women’s health that illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it–until now
For more than a century, Dr. J. Mar- Author: Hallman, J. C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250868467
- Language: English
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A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
$35.00 Read moreThe story of the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable, young United States for control over the Deep South–from the acclaimed historian and prize-winning author of The Earth i… [more below]
- Author: Cozzens, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0525659455
- Language: English
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Riders of the Pony Express
$16.95 Add to cartPrior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 01, 2004
- ISBN10: 0803283059
- Language: English
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Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
$35.00 Add to cart“The best modern account” (Wall Street Journal) of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I
Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during- Author: Chrastil, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604091
- Language: English
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The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
$22.99 Add to cartIn the New York Times bestseller The Immortal Irishman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan illuminates the dawn of the great Irish American story, with all its twists and triumphs, through the
- Author: Egan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07, 2017
- ISBN10: 0544944836
- Language: English
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American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860
$32.50 Add to cartWith so many of our histories falling into dour critique or blatant celebration, here is a welcome departure: a book that offers hope as well as honesty about the American past. The early decades of t
- Author: Ayers, Edward L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0393881261
- Language: English
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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
$36.99 Add to cartA NPR Best Book of the Year
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavis
- Author: Cooper, Anderson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0063347687
- Language: English
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
$20.99 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – #1 Indie Next Pick – Winner of the PEN New England Award
“Enchanting…A book filled with so much love…Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best w- Author: Buck, Rinker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 07, 2016
- ISBN10: 1451659172
- Language: English
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Follow Me to Hell: McNelly’s Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice
$29.99 Read moreTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Tom Clavin’s Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story of how legendary Ranger Leander McNelly and his men brought justice to a lawless Texan frontier. In tur- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250214556
- Language: English
