19th Century
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Flying Cloud: The True Story of America’s Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her
$17.99 Add to cartIn 1851, Elanor Creesy, in a position almost unheard of for a woman in the mid-nineteenth century, served as the navigator on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud — traveling from New Y… [more below]
- Author: Shaw, David W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 03 2001
- ISBN10: 0060934786
- Language: English
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James Monroe: A Life
$24.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary life of James Monroe: soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to hold the presidency, a man who helped transform thirteen colonies into a vibrant and mighty republic… [more below]
- Author: McGrath, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0451477278
- Language: English
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The Archaeology of Kingston, New York
$29.95 Add to cartA comprehensive analysis of eighty-eight archaeological sites in and around the City of Kingston, New York.
The Archaeology of Kingston, New York covers Kingston (and New York State and the Hudson Vall
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Diamond, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 482
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855803983
- Language: English
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William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$26.00 Add to cartWilliam Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning b… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0679773002
- Language: English
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Bandit Heaven: The Hole-In-The-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West
$19.00 Add to cartFrom multiple New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin comes the thrilling true story of the most infamous hangout for bandits, thieves and murderers of all time–and the lawmen tasked with rootin
- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1250852552
- Language: English
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Becoming the Twin Cities: Swindles, Schemes, and Enduring Rivalries
$27.95 Read moreWhether motivated by visionary ideals or commercial gain or political ambition, many have tried to unite Minneapolis and St. Paul into one city, and all have failed. This book explains why.
Why haven’- Author: Ross, Drew M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1681343231
- Language: English
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When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation Proclamation
$36.99 Add to cartDuring the three decades before the American Civil War, Southern slaveholders tried to end the anti-slavery movement. They exerted their influence by censoring the press and the mail, attacking and ki
- Author: Rogers, Lisa Waller
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 682
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999409621
- Language: English
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Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave
$25.00 Add to cartFor 130 years historians and military strategists have been obsessed by the battle of Chancellorsville. It began with an audaciously planned stroke by Union general Joe Hooker as he sent his army acro… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library #0000
- Author: Furgurson, Ernest B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 28 1993
- ISBN10: 0679728317
- Language: English
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Chasing Lewis’s Monkeyflower: The Amazing Afterlife of the Lewis and Clark Expedition’s Wild Plants
$32.00 Add to cartA look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the plant specimens the great explorers gathered on their way–and of their amazing afterlife.
Elizabeth Adelman’s Chasing the Missing Monkeyflower is the- Author: Adelman, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0374615020
- Language: English
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Summer of Meteors
$19.95 Add to cartAs the nation teeters on the edge of civil war, three women converge at the elegant Bedford Springs Hotel in Pennsylvania. Harriet Lane, strong-minded and vivacious niece to President James Buchanan a
- Author: Schaale, Kris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888193426
- Language: English
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The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief
$35.00 Add to cartIn this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author of The Age of Wonder, discovers in Young Tennyson an astonishingly magnetic and mercurial personality, a secretly expressive… [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0307379671
- Language: English
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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
$18.95 Add to cartAn authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exp… [more below]
- Author: Reynolds, David S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0375726152
- Language: English
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Secrets in the Woods
$17.99 Add to cartOn October 8, 1871, fire turned night into a living hell.
While Chicago’s blaze claimed the headlines, a fiercer and more devastating inferno swept across Wisconsin’s Green Bay peninsula-obliterating
- Author: Levitte, Susan D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: October 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1964700477
- Language: English
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The Wondrous Life and Loves of Nella Carter
$28.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 383
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1662530889
- Language: English
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Up the Shenandoah
$31.99 Add to cartA family divided by war. A valley scarred by blood. A fight for survival and honor.
In 1864, the Shenandoah Valley becomes the crucible for the Eshenbaugh family. Andrew marches with Sheridan’s Union c
- Author: Eshenbaugh, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1964251818
- Language: English
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Up the Shenandoah
$17.99 Add to cartA family divided by war. A valley scarred by blood. A fight for survival and honor.
In 1864, the Shenandoah Valley becomes the crucible for the Eshenbaugh family. Andrew marches with Sheridan’s Union c
- Author: Eshenbaugh, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 196425180X
- Language: English
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Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy
$41.93 Add to cart- Author: DeWolfe, Elizabeth A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1985902249
- Language: English
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The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824
$22.00 Add to cartThe premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year–and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compo
- Author: Sachs, Harvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0812969073
- Language: English
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Burn Down Master’s House
$28.00 Add to cartInspired by true, long-buried stories of enslaved people who dared to fight back, a searing portrayal of resistance for readers of Colson Whitehead, Jesmyn Ward, and Percival Everett, from Clay Cane, … [more below]
- Author: Cane, Clay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1496759141
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens: A Life
$30.00 Add to cartAward-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. … [more below]
- Author: Tomalin, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122053
- Language: English
