19th Century
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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History
$17.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller now in paperback with a new epilogue.
In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than two hundred Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo.- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0525540547
- Language: English
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The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America’s First Great Disaster
$34.95 Add to cartOn the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. During the second act of
- Author: Baker, Meredith Henne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: April 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177083
- Language: English
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Custer’s Fall: The Native American Side of the Story
$18.00 Add to cartThe true story of the Battle of Little Bighorn–told from the perspective of the native americans who fought in Custer’s Last Stand.
The day began with the killing of a ten-year-old Native American b- Author: Miller, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0452010950
- Language: English
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Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
$19.99 Read more“The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!” — Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness W… [more below]
- Author: Knowlton, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1328470253
- Language: English
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
$30.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1501168681
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$19.99 Add to cartA masterpiece of American literature, Frederick Douglass’ “Narrative” is a powerful story of an enslaved youth coming to social and moral consciousness by disobeying his owners and secretly teaching h
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1607961210
- Language: English
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Brave Companions: Portraits in History
$27.99 Add to cartMaster historian David McCullough’s classic book about some of history’s most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author D- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1668003546
- Language: English
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Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
$30.99 Add to cartIn George Appo’s world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made as m… [more below]
- Author: Gilfoyle, Timothy J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329895
- Language: English
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Murdering McKinley
$20.00 Add to cartWhen President William McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign a
- Author: Rauchway, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 18 2004
- ISBN10: 0809016389
- Language: English
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Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28- month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and sco
- Series: American Grit #0
- Author: Marshall, David Weston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1682684423
- Language: English
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Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
$21.99 Read moreIn this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago Ameri
- Author: Cronon, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0393308731
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Annette Gordon-Reed’s groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson’s sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0813918332
- Language: English
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Seer Stone v. Urim and Thummim: Book of Mormon Translation on Trial
$28.00 Add to cartCredible history vs. revisionist hearsay – Answering faith crisis with real history. A story of magic, murder and betrayal.
Seer Stone v. Urim and Thummim places the Book of Mormon translation on trial
- Author: Stoddard, L. Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: April 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1644670119
- Language: English
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
$37.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War–a simmering crisis … [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0593861833
- Language: English
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Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
$19.99 Add to cartHere is the shocking true saga of the Irish American mob. In Paddy Whacked, bestselling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsteris
- Author: English, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0060590033
- Language: English
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1812: The War That Forged a Nation
$19.99 Add to cartAlthough frequently overlooked between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 tested a rising generation of American leaders; unified the United States with a renewed sense of nati
- Author: Borneman, Walter R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0060531134
- Language: English
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
$18.99 Add to cart“WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!”
In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped wou
- Author: Wallis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494007
- Language: English
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
$26.00 Read moreThis is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, ba
- Author: Powell, Lawrence N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0674725905
- Language: English
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Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea
$21.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
A gripping, definitive account of Sherman’s legendary and destructive march through Georgia.
“Mr. Trudeau’s narrative is peppered with trenchant observations from Sherman, one
- Author: Trudeau, Noah Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0060598689
- Language: English
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The Essential Lewis and Clark
$15.99 Add to cartThis compact volume of the journals of Lewis and Clark, compiled by American Book Award nominee Landon Y. Jones, includes all of the most riveting tales of their adventure–in their own words
The jou
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Jones, Landon Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: March 19, 2002
- ISBN10: 0060011599
- Language: English
