Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story
$12.95 Add to cartThe true story of Robert Smalls, a slave steamboat wheelman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War and escaped with his family and crew to freedom.
Growing up a slave in South Carolin
- Author: Halfmann, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1600609864
- Language: English
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Never Sleep
$27.99 Read moreA Civil War-era historical novel featuring the first female agents in the Pinkerton National Police Agency, who work to foil an assassination attempt on President Lincoln’s life.
The year is 1861, the
- Author: Van Lente, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9.7982E+12
- Language: English
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Abraham Lincoln: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #19: Abe Lincoln at Last
$7.99 Add to cartThe #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better.
Track the- Series: Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #25
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0375870245
- Language: English
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The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise
$26.95 Read moreFrederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibu’s transformation from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars, are at the heart
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0393240991
- Language: English
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Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862
$16.95 Read more“Attack at daylight and whip them” –that was the Confederate plan on the morning of April 6, 1862. The unsuspecting Union Army of the Tennessee, commanded by Major General Ulysses S. Grant, had gathe… [more below]
- Series: Emerging Civil War
- Author: Mertz, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1611213134
- Language: English
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Airman
$8.99 Read moreZorro meets The Count of Monte Cristo in this dazzling, action-packed classic from the author of the Artemis Fowl series, now with a snazzy new look for this paperback reissue.
Conor Broekhart was born… [more below]- Author: Colfer, Eoin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1368068669
- Language: English
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The Deer in the Wood
$9.99 Read moreWith the My First Little House picture book series, the youngest readers can share in the joy of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books in these illustrated adaptations of the beloved series!
Laura
- Series: Little House Picture Book
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 16 1999
- ISBN10: 0064434982
- Language: English
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Spirit in the Rock: The Fierce Battle for Modoc Homelands
$27.95 Read moreThe Modoc fought the U.S. Army in what would be the most expensive Indian conflict in American history. The hostilities were fierce, bloody, and unjust. In this riveting narrative, Modoc warriors, arm
- Author: Compton, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: August 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0874223504
- Language: English
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Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner
$19.99 Read moreThe story of Charles Henry Turner, the first Black entomologist — a scientist who studies bugs — is told in this fascinating book for young readers.
Can spiders learn? How do ants find their way hom- Author: Harrington, Janice N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1629795585
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$24.99 Add to cart‘One of the greatest love stories in world literature’ Vladimir Nabokov
Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story i- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1784871958
- Language: English
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
$19.99 Read moreThe bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America’s interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.
How shou- Author: Kinzer, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1250159687
- Language: English
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman’s Great War Series
$25.00 Add to cartThe classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (The New York Times)–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns… [more below]
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0345405013
- Language: English
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Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women: A Paper Doll Collectible
$12.99 Read moreGenerations of young readers have taken the characters of Little Women to their hearts, and this collection of paper dolls offers a delightful continuation of the tradition. Six dolls depict the March… [more below]
- Series: Dover Paper Dolls
- Author: Miller, Eileen Rudisill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 16 2019
- ISBN10: 0486837971
- Language: English
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Wilderness of Destruction
$39.00 Read moreModern historians have consistently treated Florida as a military backwater. Despite that assessment, Rebel guerrillas blocked repeated Union attempts to establish a stronghold in the Florida’s interi… [more below]
- Author: Waters, Zack C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0881468819
- Language: English
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National Geographic: The Civil War: A Traveler’s Guide
$25.95 Read morePerfect for tour planning and on-the-ground use, this guide will prove indispensable on any expedition to explore Civil War history in America. Packed with color photographs, more than 600 historic ba… [more below]
- Author: National Geographic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1426214898
- Language: English
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The Last of What I Am
$17.99 Read moreA haunting and beautifully written novel about a Confederate soldier whose own personal war follows him into the afterlife–until one fateful day when his encounters with a modern-day couple change ev… [more below]
- Author: Cutter, Abigail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1454951788
- Language: English
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The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMore than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout Americ… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Masur, Louis P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0197513662
- Language: English
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Rebel Bayou
$19.95 Read moreBy the mid-1800s, the residents of the Florida Parishes in Louisiana, including Ready Wright’s family, had endured decades of instability. Outlasting multiple national overlords, popular uprisings, th… [more below]
- Author: Hyde, Samuel C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1946160946
- Language: English
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The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay 1897-1899
$29.95 Read more“It is interesting to watch how the expressions change as you progress through the book, from optimistic in the beginning, to almost hopeless by the end… The pictures alone will offer hours of view
- Author: Berton, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1550464531
- Language: English
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What Would Mrs. Astor Do?: The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age
$30.00 Read moreA richly illustrated romp with America’s Gilded Age leisure class–and those angling to join it
Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States’ population doubled, acco- Series: Washington Mews Books
- Author: Tichi, Cecelia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1479826855
- Language: English
