Chronological Period/1851-1899
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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 Read moreThis 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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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
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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 Add to cartThe 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
