Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
$32.00 Read moreThe 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1324005939
- Language: English
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The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
$30.00 Add to cartA penetrating, character-filled history “in the manner of David McCullough” (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics.
Democracy was broken. Or that was what many American- Author: Grinspan, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1635574625
- Language: English
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Ten Days in a Mad-House: A Story of the Intrepid Reporter
$7.95 Read moreAt the age of 23, pioneering reporter Nellie Bly faked dementia in order to expose abuses of patients in Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum in New York City. Such investigative journalism was unusual in… [more below]
- Author: Bly, Nellie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0486835448
- Language: English
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Nimitz
$33.95 Read moreCalled a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, first published in 1976 and now available in paperback for the firs… [more below]
- Author: Potter, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 15 2008
- ISBN10: 1591145805
- Language: English
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Knots Untied
$29.00 Read moreKnots Untied is J. C. Ryle’s leading work in defence of the evangelicalism of the Church of England. When first published in 1874 it proved immensely popular, and by 1885 it was reprinted in a tenth e… [more below]
- Author: Ryle, John Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1848716826
- Language: English
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The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France
$42.00 Add to cartIn fin-de-si cle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a strikin… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Hustvedt, Asti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1096
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1890951072
- Language: English
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Mrs. Lincoln’s Sisters
$16.99 Add to cart“A fascinating glimpse into the women of an influential family on the front lines of some of the most important moments of that indelible time.”–Booklist
The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs.
- Author: Chiaverini, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0062975986
- Language: English
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Sherlock (the Hound of the Baskervilles) – Kid Classics: The Classic Edition Reimagined Just-For-Kids! (Kid Classic #4) 4
$19.95 Add to cartShare the classic novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in an illustrated chapter storybook made for young readers! Perfectly thrilling, beginner readers will find the irresistible mystery of Kid Classics S
- Series: Kid Classics #4
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1951511298
- Language: English
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A Race Around the World: The True Story of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland
$16.99 Read moreBest Picture Books of 2019, The Christian Science Monitor
The true story of two women who raced against time–an
A Mighty Girl’s 2019 Books of the Year
Kirkus Reviews’ Best Indie Picture Books of 2020- Series: She Made History
- Author: Rose, Caroline Starr
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0807500100
- Language: English
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Immigrant Architect: Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream
$9.95 Read moreRafael Guastavino Sr. was 39 when he left a successful career as an architect in Barcelona. American cities–densely packed and built largely of wood–were experiencing horrific fires, and Guastavino
- Author: de Miguel, Berta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0884488136
- Language: English
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Deadly Aim: The Civil War Story of Michigan’s Anishinaabe Sharpshooters
$16.99 Read more“Hits the mark.”–Kirkus
An engaging middle-grade nonfiction narrative of the American Indian soldiers who bravely fought in the Civil War from Sibert Award-winning author Sally M. Walker. More than 2- Author: Walker, Sally M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1250833221
- Language: English
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If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg. Volume 2: June 22-30, 1863
$34.95 Read moreAward-winning authors Scott L. Mingus Sr. and Eric J. Wittenberg are back with the second and final installment of “If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania” The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of t… [more below]
- Author: Mingus, Scott L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216117
- Language: English
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Maddy and the Monstrous Storm: A Schoolhouse Blizzard Survival Story
$27.99 Add to cartThirteen-year-old Maddy Rollag finds it hard to adjust to life on her aunt and uncle’s farm in Dakota Territory. Her schoolmates think she’s spoiled, and Aunt Marta makes it clear that Maddy is not fi… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Gilbert, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1666340685
- Language: English
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Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
$35.00 Read moreAn intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War
Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abol- Author: Egerton, Douglas R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0465096646
- Language: English
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals–and most misunderstood presidents
Winner of the William Henry Seward Award for E- Author: White, Ronald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0812981251
- Language: English
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Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of Randy Shilts Award
In the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berlin became the undisputed gay capital of the world. Activists and medical professionals made it a city of firsts–th- Author: Beachy, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0307473139
- Language: English
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The Discovery of Ramen: The Asian Hall of Fame
$16.95 Read moreEnjoy the first English children’s picture book on how Japan’s ramen noodles were created Amazingly illustrated, this storybook features a glossary of Japanese terms.
This is the first adventure- Series: Asian Hall of Fame
- Author: Amara, Phil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1597021342
- Language: English
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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater
$19.95 Read moreFrom the American Battlefield Trust, the collection of their popular battle maps of the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
“I just love those maps that you guys send to me.” It is a phrase tha- Series: Maps from the American Battlefield Trust #2
- Author: American Battlefield Trust
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1682619931
- Language: English
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The Awakening
$10.00 Read moreShe wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.
Condemned as “sordid” and “immoral” on its publication in 1899, this story of a woman trapped in her marriage effectively ended Chopin’s car- Series: Art of the Novella
- Author: Chopin, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 31 2010
- ISBN10: 1935554123
- Language: English
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The Petersburg Campaign: Volume 2 – The Western Front Battles, September 1864 – April 1865
$22.95 Read moreWinner, 2014, The Douglas Southall Freeman Award
The wide-ranging and largely ignored operations around Petersburg, Virginia, were the longest and most extensive of the entire Civil War. The fighting b… [more below]- Author: Bearss, Edwin C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1611215331
- Language: English
