Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Black Cloud Rising
$27.00 Read moreAlready excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bon… [more below]
- Author: Falade, David Wright
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159192
- Language: English
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Lincoln and the Irish: The Untold Story of How the Irish Helped Abraham Lincoln Save the Union
$19.99 Read moreFrom the founder of IrishCentral, a fascinating piece of Civil War history: Lincoln’s relationship with the immigrants arriving in America to escape the Irish famine. “If you’re a Lincoln fan like me,… [more below]
- Author: O’Dowd, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1510766308
- Language: English
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The Woman in the Trees
$19.95 Add to cartSet within the expanses of the American frontier, this story follows Slainie, an inquisitive pioneer girl, whose life is forever transformed when a mysterious seer shows up at her door. Amidst the bac… [more below]
- Author: Bell, Theoni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 16 2021
- ISBN10: 150512378X
- Language: English
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Marmee
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Caroline, a revealing retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved Little Women, from the perspective of Margaret “Marmee” March, about the larger real-world challenges behind the cozy
- Author: Miller, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0063266075
- Language: English
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Gettysburg in Color: Volume 1: Brandy Station to the Peach Orchard
$37.50 Read moreArtificial Intelligence meets Gettysburg. And it is a marvelous pairing.
Patrick Brennan, a long-time student of the Civil War, published author, and an editorial advisor for The Civil War Monitor maga… [more below]
- Author: Brennan, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216095
- Language: English
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The Great Brain Is Back
$8.99 Read moreThis classic trickster is back again, and he’s up to no good in his eighth and final book of the series. Great mix of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Terrible Two series, and is perfect for fans … [more below]
- Series: Great Brain #8
- Author: Fitzgerald, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0425288749
- Language: English
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
$19.00 Read moreIn June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically
- Author: Summerscale, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 24 2009
- ISBN10: 080271742X
- Language: English
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The House That Jane Built: A Story about Jane Addams
$19.99 Add to cartThis is the story of Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, who transformed a poor neighborhood in Chicago by opening up her house as a community center.
Ever since s- Author: Stone, Tanya Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0805090495
- Language: English
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Old Herbaceous: A Novel of the Garden
$17.00 Read moreBack in print after fifty years
Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse’s immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the- Series: Modern Library Gardening
- Author: Arkell, Reginald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967380
- Language: English
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Wired for Success: The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway, 1892-1985
$31.95 Read moreThis lavishly illustrated story of technology, people, and commerce describes the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway’s hauling of vast amounts of copper ore from Butte Hill, Montana, westward to smelte
- Author: Mutschler, Charles V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 18 2002
- ISBN10: 0874222524
- Language: English
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Ann Fights for Freedom: An Underground Railroad Survival Story
$27.99 Add to cartTwelve-year-old Ann understands there is only one thing to be grateful for as a slave: having her family together. But when the master falls into debt, he plans to sell both Ann and her younger brothe… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Smith, Nikki Shannon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496578538
- Language: English
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Mind Over Muscle: Writings from the Founder of Judo
$19.95 Read moreIn 1882 Jigoro Kano (1860-1938) founded Kodokan Judo at Eishoji Temple in Tokyo. It was the culmination of a lifelong devotion to the jujutsu of the past, which he reorganized while taking great care … [more below]
- Author: Kano, Jigoro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1568364970
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: A Library of America Paperback Classic
$7.95 Add to cartOne of the greatest works of American autobiography, in a definitive Library of America text: Published seven years after his escape from slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an Amer… [more below]
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1598533517
- Language: English
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It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
$11.95 Read moreThe inspiring biography of self-taught (outsider) artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban lif
- Author: Tate, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1643790552
- Language: English
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Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
$33.99 Add to cartThe half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling w
- Author: Masur, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021845
- Language: English
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Abner & Me
$9.99 Add to cartCannons are blasting
Bullets are flying
Wounded soldiers are everywhereStosh has time-traveled to 1863, right into the middle of the Civil War. In possibly his most exciting and definitely his most
- Series: Baseball Card Adventures
- Author: Gutman, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0060534451
- Language: English
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Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution’s Women
$16.99 Read more“The French Revolution comes alive through the eyes of six diverse and complex women, in the skilled hands of these amazing authors.”–Martha Hall Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Gir
- Author: Quinn, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0062916076
- Language: English
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Slave Narratives of the Underground Railroad
$9.00 Read more“Loved this and I’m not a big history buff. This was an eye-opener. This will make you have an even deeper respect for those who went through slavery and all they endured.” — Pollard House
During the- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Rudisel, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 2014
- ISBN10: 0486780619
- Language: English
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Gettysburg’s Peach Orchard: Longstreet, Sickles, and the Bloody Fight for the “Commanding Ground” Along the Emmitsburg Road
$24.95 Read moreWinner, 2019, The Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award, Given by the Robert E. Lee Civil War Round Table of Central New Jersey
More books have been written about the battle of Gettysburg than any other … [more below]
- Author: Hessler, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: February 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216753
- Language: English
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Decisions at Franklin: The Nineteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle
$24.95 Add to cartThe Battle of Franklin pitted beleaguered Confederate general John Bell Hood against Union general John Schofield and his Army of the Ohio. The Army of Tennessee had nearly twenty thousand men when it… [more below]
- Series: Command Decisions in America’s Civil War
- Author: Bledsoe, Andrew S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 08 2023
- ISBN10: 162190766X
- Language: English
