Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Thomas Edison
$5.99 Read moreLearn all about Thomas Edison, one of the most important figures in American history, in this colorful, inviting, and entertaining biography. This carefully leveled reader is written in an easy-to-gra… [more below]
- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Kramer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1426314760
- Language: English
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Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
$18.99 Add to cartThe rise and fall of William Mulholland, and the story of L.A.’s disastrous dam collapse: “A dramatic saga of ambition, politics, money and betrayal” (Los Angeles Daily News).
Rivers in the Desert fol- Author: Davis, Margaret Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 149763878X
- Language: English
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Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby
$11.95 Read moreThe story of Jimmy Winkfield, one of horse racing’s all-time great jockeys and the last African American to win the Kentucky Derby, in 1902.
Born into an African American sharecropping family in 1880s
- Author: Hubbard, Crystal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 30 2005
- ISBN10: 1600608914
- Language: English
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Comstock Lode (Louis l’Amour’s Lost Treasures)
$8.99 Read moreThe classic Western, now newly repackaged as part of Bantam’s Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures program–with never-before-seen material from Louis and his son, Beau L’Amour.
It was just a godforsaken mo- Series: Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures
- Author: L’Amour, Louis
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0593158660
- Language: English
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Civil War Sampler 10-Pack
$14.95 Read moreTen selected facsimile issues of Harper’s Weekly from the Civil War. Each sampler may have different issues. Each issue is packed with: – News and Illustrations from the Battlefield – Editorials on Ev… [more below]
- Series: Harper’s Weekly
- Author: Harper, Fletcher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 142909558X
- Language: English
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Man of Fire: William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War
$16.95 Read moreHe has been accused of “studied and ingenious cruelty.” By turns, he has been called a savior and a barbarian, a hero and a villain, a genius and a madman. But whatever you call William Tecumseh Sherm… [more below]
- Series: Emerging Civil War
- Author: Maxfield, Derek D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1611215994
- Language: English
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End of the Drive
$8.99 Add to cartA veteran trail driver, who has survived thundering stampedes and Comanche raids, discovers there’s nothing so dangerous as courting a beautiful woman. A brutally beaten homesteader crawls off to die-… [more below]
- Series: Sacketts #7
- Author: L’Amour, Louis
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 02 1998
- ISBN10: 0553578987
- Language: English
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My First Summer in the Sierra
$9.95 Read moreIn the summer of 1869, John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, joined a crew of shepherds in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. The diary he kept while tending sheep formed the hear… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0486437353
- Language: English
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Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families
$22.99 Read moreA sociological approach to appreciating the heroism and legacy of the Gullah statesman
On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls (1839-1915) commandeered a Confederate warship, the Planter, from Charleston harbor
- Author: Billingsley, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1643364618
- Language: English
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Lillian Trasher: The Greatest Wonder in Egypt
$11.99 Add to cartWhen Lillian Trasher founded Egypt’s first orphanage, others thought that a lone American woman with no means of support would surely be killed or starve to death. But Lillian – certain of God’s guida… [more below]
- Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
- Author: Benge, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1576583058
- Language: English
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Gettysburg in Color: Volume 2: The Wheatfield to Falling Waters
$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: June 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216583
- Language: English
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography
$9.99 Add to cartDive into the world of the author of the beloved Little House series
From her pioneer days on the prairie to her golden years with her husband, Almanzo, and their daughter, Rose, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Series: Little House Nonfiction
- Author: Anderson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0060885521
- Language: English
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Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918
$16.95 Add to cartEmpire Writing is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Boehmer, Elleke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555591
- Language: English
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Crow
$9.99 Read moreThe summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He’s growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, … [more below]
- Author: Wright, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0375873678
- Language: English
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Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass
$7.00 Read moreAuthor, abolitionist, political activist, and philosopher, Frederick Douglass was a pivotal figure in the decades of struggle leading up to the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. This inexpensive c… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0486498824
- Language: English
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A Family Apart
$6.99 Read moreThe middle-grade answer to Christina Baker Kline’s New York Times bestselling Orphan Train, this is a shockingly timely historical adventure.
Imagine being taken from your home. Imagine your mother i- Series: Orphan Train Adventures (Paperback)
- Author: Nixon, Joan Lowery
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 18 1995
- ISBN10: 0440226767
- Language: English
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
$18.99 Read moreIn a riveting biography that reads like a crime novel, Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti uncovers the true story of Mary Mallon, a.k.a. Typhoid Mary, one of the most m
- Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0544313674
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$18.00 Add to cartRilke’s Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before hi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0679642323
- Language: English
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The Dragon Lantern
$16.99 Read moreThe Dragon Lantern is the second book in the award-winning, action-packed, steampunk League of Seven series by acclaimed author Alan Gratz.
Archie Dent is convinced that he and his friends Hachi and F- Series: League of Seven #2
- Author: Gratz, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0765338262
- Language: English
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Mahatma Gandhi
$15.99 Read moreNew in the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the life of Mohandas Gandhi, the father of India, in this true story of his life. As a young teenager in India, Gandhi led a rebellious life and w… [more below]
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #25
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1786037874
- Language: English
