Chronological Period/1800-1850
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The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers
$18.99 Add to cartIn The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers from Smithsonian Books, historian Thomas Fleming, author of The Perils of Peace, offers a fresh look at the critical role of women in the lives of Washing… [more below]
- Author: Fleming, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0061139130
- Language: English
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Life and Times of Ann Bailey: The Pioneer Heroine of the Great Kanawha Valley
$9.95 Add to cartBack in print after more than a century, this book is the only major biography in existence on Ann Bailey. Newly indexed and containing supplemented images and a map, it is also important for genealog… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Virgil E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0966724607
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$4.50 Read moreThe basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie
A moving, vital testament to one of slavery’s ‘many thousand gone’ who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation. — Saturday Review Born a f- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 19 2014
- ISBN10: 0486789624
- Language: English
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Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire
$24.99 Add to cartIn this elegantly written and far-reaching narrative, acclaimed author Gerard Koeppel tells the astonishing story of the creation of the Erie Canal and the memorable characters who turned a visionary … [more below]
- Author: Koeppel, Gerard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0306818620
- Language: English
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First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role
$39.58 Add to cartHow the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations, and carved a space for women in America
America’s first First Ladies–Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolley Madison-- Author: Abrams, Jeanne E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1479890502
- Language: English
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Amer Pres: Harrison
$33.00 Add to cartThe president who served the shortest term–just a single month–but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America’s highest office
William Henry Harrison died ju- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Collins, Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0805091181
- Language: English
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Jane Austen’s England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods
$24.00 Add to cartAn authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018)… [more below]
- Author: Adkins, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125729
- Language: English
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Anna and the King of Siam
$17.99 Add to cartThe bestselling book that inspired the musical play and film The King and I
“Enchanting. . . . The author wears her scholarship with grace, and the amazing story she has to tell is recounted with humor
- Author: Landon, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 03 1999
- ISBN10: 0060954884
- Language: English
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The Disasters of War
$16.95 Read moreThe strikingly original characterizations and sharply drawn scenes that came to be known posthumously as Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) are among Francisco Goya’s most powerful work
- Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
- Author: Goya, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 97
- Publish Date: June 01 1967
- ISBN10: 0486218724
- Language: English
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank–not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keen… [more below]
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Lewis, Meriwether
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142437360
- Language: English
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson’s Battle of Trafalgar
$17.99 Add to cart“Strikingly original. . . . Nicolson brings to life superbly the horror, devastation, and gore of Trafalgar.” —The Economist
Adam Nicolson takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0060753625
- Language: English
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Sufferings in Africa: The Astonishing Account Of A New England Sea Captain Enslaved By North African Arabs
$14.95 Add to cartPreviously published: New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1965. First published in 1817 under title: An authentic narrative of the loss of the American brig Commerce.
- Author: Riley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1599212110
- Language: English
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Napoleon
$28.00 Add to cartFrom Alan Forrest, a preeminent British scholar, comes an exceedingly readable account of the man and his legend
On a cold December day in 1840 Parisians turned out in force to watch as the body of Na- Author: Forrest, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1250038359
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels
$20.00 Add to cartThis illuminating discussion of deism in the early American colonies presents an overview of its main tenets, showing how its influence rose swiftly and for a time became a highly controversial subjec… [more below]
- Author: Walters, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1616141905
- Language: English
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The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict
$24.95 Add to cartThis comprehensive and authoritative history of the War of 1812, thoroughly revised for the 200th anniversary of the historic conflict, is a myth-shattering study that will inform and entertain studen… [more below]
- Author: Hickey, Donald R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0252078373
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$18.00 Add to cartBorn a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he w… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106708
- Language: English
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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion
$17.99 Add to cart“A penetrating reconstruction of the most disturbing and crucial slave uprising in America’s history.” —New York Times
The definitive account of the most infamous slave rebellion in history and the af
- Author: Oates, Stephen B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0062656554
- Language: English
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Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
$24.00 Add to cartFounder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and … [more below]
- Author: Bushman, Richard Lyman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400077532
- Language: English
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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
$20.00 Add to cartThis “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South–and their daring attempt to es… [more below]
- Author: Bell, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1501169440
- Language: English
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
$19.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 588
- Publish Date: May 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1432873806
- Language: English
