19th Century
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Black, White, Colored: The Hidden Story of an Insurrection, a Family, a Southern Town, and Identity in America
$29.99 Add to cartAn absorbing investigation into a little-known historical tragedy–an insurrection which upended a resilient and wealthy Black community who found themselves in the clutches of an insurrection at the
- Author: Noble, Lauretta Malloy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063352222
- Language: English
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Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
$27.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsiz… [more below]
- Author: O’Connell, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0812982126
- Language: English
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Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln
$29.99 Add to cartMurder, mob rule, and the making of Abraham Lincoln–the story of three racially motivated murders in Mississippi River towns from 1835 to 1838 that inspired the speech that put Lincoln on the nationa… [more below]
- Author: Ambar, Saladin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798895150214
- Language: English
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Photographic Memory: William Henry Jackson and the American West
$35.00 Add to cartLegendary cartoonist Bill Griffith brings a personal touch to this illustrated history of his great-grandfather, William Henry Jackson–a pioneering photographer of the American West whose work led to… [more below]
- Author: Griffith, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1419784145
- Language: English
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Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History
$20.00 Add to cart“Stellar . . . Spectacular . . . [A] heartfelt, painstaking account.” –Nell Irvin Painter, The Washington Post
“An extraordinary collaboration . . . A profound achievement . . . Downs is a superb, ev- Author: Kaye, Anthony E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390567
- Language: English
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Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation
$39.00 Add to cartAn epic, revelatory account of the Battle of Gettysburg, where George Meade, Lincoln’s unexpected choice to lead the Union army, defeated Robert E. Lee and changed the course of the Civil War, from th… [more below]
- Author: McGrath, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593184394
- Language: English
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Confronting Bad History — How a Lost Cause and Fraudulent Book Caused the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation Trial
$26.50 Add to cartHow a Lost Cause and Fraudulent
Book Caused the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation Trial
Confronting Bad History is about our history’s most infamous villain and debunks the conspiracy story that Lincoln’ ass… [more below]
- Author: Gorman, Francis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 23 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218516420
- Language: English
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Frontier Comrades: From the Fur Trade to the Ford Car
$27.95 Add to cartFrontier Comrades examines six accounts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives on the frontier of the American West. Each account interprets this history through experiences that take place
- Author: Wilke, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 149624222X
- Language: English
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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
$21.95 Add to cartAn Air Mail Editor’s Pick
“[A] masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas.”–Wall Street Journal “Wise and authoritative…As the best R
A Spectator Book of the Year- Author: Morson, Gary Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299183
- Language: English
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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
$17.99 Add to cartToday, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe — the center of
- Author: Gordon, John Steele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0060524464
- Language: English
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New York’s Scoundrels, Scalawags, and Scrappers: The City in the Last Decade of the Gilded Age
$24.95 Add to cartThe 1890s was the tail end of the Gilded Age. It was not a “Golden Age,” it was a veneer, and although the decade is specifically called “The Gay Nineties,” the gaiety was generally reserved for the
- Author: Tauranac, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1493090100
- Language: English
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The Day Lincoln Was Shot
$18.99 Add to cartThe Day Lincoln Was Shot is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of April 14, 1865: the day President Abraham Lincoln was tragically assassinated.
It chronicles the movements of Lincoln and his assassi
- Author: Bishop, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0062290606
- Language: English
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Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Word Freak, a vibrant, lively, and illuminating journey through the exotic world of Merriam-Webster, dictionaries, and language, at a time of rapid-fir
- Author: Fatsis, Stefan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0802165826
- Language: English
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Piracy on the Great Lakes: True Tales of Freshwater Pirates
$15.95 Add to cartWaiting in the night, hidden behind a remote island, no lights showing, pirates would lure unsuspecting ships into unknown waters. Then they would silently slide up to them and board the ship. The cre
- Author: Classen, Mikel B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9798896560036
- Language: English
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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
$29.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History
Winner of the 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History
Winner of the 2024 Caughey Western History Prize
Winner of the 2024 Spur Award
Named a Best Civil
- Series: History of the American West
- Author: West, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 708
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496243013
- Language: English
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Dark London: A Journey Through the City’s Mysterious and Macabre Underworld
$22.99 Add to cartFrom dark crimes of passion to shocking tales of grave robbing, gruesome murders, dens of iniquity, Victorian s?ances and haunted houses – not far beneath London’s everyday bustle and glitter there ha
- Author: Gray, Drew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1836004249
- Language: English
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
$21.99 Add to cartIn a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 132411049X
- Language: English
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American Grammar: Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation
$32.00 Add to cartA new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as “the great equali
- Author: Givens, Jarvis R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 006325915X
- Language: English
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The West: The History of an Idea
$39.95 Add to cartA comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West
How did “the West” come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did “Westerners” beg- Author: Varouxakis, Georgios
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 069117718X
- Language: English
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Brigham Young: American Moses
$25.00 Add to cartBrigham Young comes to life in this superlative biography that presents him as a Mormon leader, a business genius, a family man, a political organizer, and a pioneer of the West. Drawing on a vast ran… [more below]
- Author: Arrington, Leonard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 0345803213
- Language: English
