Chronological Period/1800-1850
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Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches
$21.95 Add to cartThe legendary mountain men–the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half on the nineteenth century–formed the vanguard of the American e… [more below]
- Author: Hafen, Leroy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 401
- Publish Date: June 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0803272103
- Language: English
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A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845
$13.95 Add to cartSeventeen-year-old Lovisa King leaves Missouri for the Oregon Territory in 1845. A Heart for Any Fate, based on the history of a company of real pioneers, tells the story of the King family, whose car
- Author: Crew, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1932010262
- Language: English
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Abigail Adams: A Life
$22.99 Add to cartIn this new, vivid, nuanced portrait, now in paperback, prize-winning historian Woody Holton uses original sources and letters for the first time in a sweeping reinterpretation of Adams’s life story a
- Author: Holton, Woody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 1416546812
- Language: English
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Beethoven: The Music and the Life
$24.95 Read moreThis brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven’s musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cul… [more below]
- Author: Lockwood, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393326381
- Language: English
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition
$46.67 Add to cartCrisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry
- Author: Jaffa, Harry V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226391183
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
$24.99 Add to cartIn the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Charles R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393570
- Language: English
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Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation
$21.95 Add to cartThomas Jefferson once called his plantation Poplar Forest, “the most valuable of my possessions.” For Jefferson, Poplar Forest was a private retreat for him to escape the hordes of visitors and everyd
- Author: Heath, Barbara J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0813062993
- Language: English
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Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon’s Grande Armée
$32.99 Add to cartThis authoritative, comprehensive, and enthralling book describes and analyzes Napoleon’s most powerful weapon–the Grande Armée which at its peak numbered over a million soldiers. Elting examines ev
- Author: Elting, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0306807572
- Language: English
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Alexander I
$44.95 Add to cartAlexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his f
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Rey, Marie-Pierre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: November 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0875804667
- Language: English
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The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions That Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815
$25.00 Add to cart“History writing at its glorious best.”–The New York Times
“A triumphant success. [Blanning] brings knowledge, expertise, sound judgment and a colorful narrative style.”–The Economist The New York T- Series: Penguin History of Europe (Viking)
- Author: Blanning, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113895
- Language: English
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The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War
$26.00 Add to cartWinner of the Bolton-Johnson Prize
“The Dead March incorporates the work of Mexican historians…in a story
Winner of the Utley Prize
Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History- Author: Guardino, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0674244745
- Language: English
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Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
$37.00 Add to cartDuring the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state. Yet on… [more below]
- Author: Ferrer, Ada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1107697786
- Language: English
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1831: Year of Eclipse
$20.00 Add to cart1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years meant to American history. But wars and economic disasters are not our only pivotal events, and other years have, in a quieter wa
- Author: Masur, Louis P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0809041197
- Language: English
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Martin Van Buren: The American Presidents Series: The 8th President, 1837-1841
$34.00 Add to cartThe first president born after America’s independence ushers in a new era of democracy
Dive deep into the political life of the first president born after America’s independence. Martin Van Buren, ski- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Widmer, Ted
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0805069224
- Language: English
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The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
$18.00 Add to cartIlyon Woo’s The Great Divorce is a dramatic, richly textured narrative history of early America’s most infamous divorce case. A young mother singlehandedly challenged her country’s notions of women’s … [more below]
- Author: Woo, Ilyon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 080214537X
- Language: English
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Dust to Dust: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartTim O’Brien meets Annie Dillard in this remarkable memoir by debut author Benjamin Busch. Much more than a war memoir, Dust to Dust brilliantly explores the passage through a lifetime–a moving medita
- Author: Busch, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0062014854
- Language: English
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A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California’s Indians by the Spanish Missions
$16.95 Add to cartThe Spanish missions of California have long been misrepresented as places of benign and peaceful coexistence between Franciscan friars and California Indians. In fact, the mission friars enslaved the… [more below]
- Author: Castillo, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1610353048
- Language: English
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Voices from the Trail of Tears
$19.95 Read moreDuring the first half of the 19th century, as many as 100,000 Native Americans were relocated west of the Mississippi River from their homelands in the East. The best known of these forced emigrations
- Series: Real Voices, Real History Series
- Author: Rozema, Vicki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0895872714
- Language: English
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Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
$21.95 Add to cartA global history of the climate catastrophe caused by the Tambora eruption
When Indonesia’s Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witne- Author: Wood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168628
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Lewis and Clark
$10.95 Read moreIn 1803, when the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France (for a scant $15 million), it doubled the size of the young country. Stretching north from New Orleans to the Canadian bor… [more below]
- Series: Dover Children’s Classics
- Author: Bakeless, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0486421597
- Language: English
