Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Farmer Boy
$12.99 Add to cartRevisit one of the most beloved books in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic Little House series with this gorgeous hardcover, unjacketed edition of Farmer Boy, featuring a special foreword from Ree Drummo
- Series: Little House #2
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0062470736
- Language: English
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My Dearest Lilla: Letters Home from Civil War General Jacob D. Cox
$29.95 Add to cartJacob D. Cox experienced more facets of the Civil War than most officers: by land and sea, in both Western and Eastern Theaters, among the inner political circles of Ohio and Washington, DC, in territ… [more below]
- Series: Voices of the Civil War
- Author: Schmiel, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 162190797X
- Language: English
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The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913
$32.95 Read more“In this groundbreaking study, author John L. Hopkins deftly examines the reunion through the lens of the veterans within the context of society, politics, and the national mood at the time.” — Scott… [more below]
- Author: Hopkins, John L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216842
- Language: English
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Matisse. Cut-Outs
$20.00 Read moreHenri Matisse (1869-1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty, and the confines of a wheelchair, the indomitable Frenchman never stopped in his quest to make
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 09 2016
- ISBN10: 3836534274
- Language: English
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Letters from Yellowstone
$18.00 Read moreFor readers of Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, Elizabeth Gilbert‘s The Signature of All Things, and Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl, Diane Smith’s warmhearted and award-winning epistolary novel about a spunky … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140291814
- Language: English
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Ten Days in a Mad-House: A Story of the Intrepid Reporter
$7.95 Add to cartAt 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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Oswald Chambers, Abandoned to God: The Life Story of the Author of My Utmost for His Highest
$21.99 Add to cartWhat do you know about the man behind the popular devotional My Utmost for His Highest? Trace the life of Oswald Chambers from his boyhood in Scotland through an astounding journey of faith and trust … [more below]
- Author: McCasland, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1572930500
- Language: English
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Red Wolf
$12.99 Add to cartLife is changing for Canada’s Anishnaabe Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory.
In the late 1800s, both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely,
- Author: Dance, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1459708105
- Language: English
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A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded
$16.95 Add to cart“I highly recommend reading this supplement in conjunction with Ms. Stowe’s novel to gain a better understanding of the history of our nation.” — The Literary South
In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publi- Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0486794822
- Language: English
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A Nietzsche Reader
$16.00 Read moreThe literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26 1978
- ISBN10: 0140443290
- Language: English
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Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
$17.99 Add to cartBetween Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a strip with a unique soul that reshaped American culture. Preston Lauterbach recounts the rise and fall of Beale Street thro
- Author: Lauterbach, Preston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352137
- Language: English
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Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)
$19.99 Read moreHenry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America’s past and our nation’s attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War’s conclusion, Reconstruction, and the rise of Jim Crow segregation.
T… [more below]
- Author: Gates Jr, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1338262041
- Language: English
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Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts
$11.99 Add to cartIda Scudder was sure she would never follow in the footsteps of her medical missionary father. But when she witnessed Indian women dying because their religious beliefs didn’t allow male doctors to tr… [more below]
- Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
- Author: Benge, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: February 23 2005
- ISBN10: 157658285X
- Language: English
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How Emily Saved the Bridge: The Story of Emily Warren Roebling and the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
$19.99 Read moreThe amazing story of Emily Warren Roebling, the woman who stepped in to oversee the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was completed in 1883.
Emily was not an engineer, but she was educated in
- Author: Wishinsky, Frieda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1773061046
- Language: English
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The Balloon Boy of San Francisco
$9.95 Add to cartIn 1853, San Francisco newsboy Ready Gates lives up to his nickname. He’s ready for anything–whether it’s shouting the latest headlines from a street corner, sneaking onto a river boat to avoid payin… [more below]
- Author: Leland, Dorothy Kupcha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0961735791
- Language: English
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The Final Descent
$14.99 Add to cartIn their final horrific adventure, can Will Henry endure a monstrumological terror without his mentor? “Beyond a simple finale, this is a brave statement about the duplexity of good and evil, and the … [more below]
- Series: Monstrumologist #4
- Author: Yancey, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1442451548
- Language: English
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Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War
$19.99 Read moreSoldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War is the incredible story of one man’s fight for Mexican American civil rights, from award-winning picture book creator Duncan Tonatiuh.
A 20- Author: Tonatiuh, Duncan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 03, 2019
- ISBN10: 1419736825
- Language: English
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Annette Feels Free: The True Story of Annette Kellerman, World-Class Swimmer, Fashion Pioneer, and Real-Life Mermaid
$18.99 Read moreDiscover the incredible true story of “The Original Mermaid,” Annette Kellerman, a girl who wanted to dance, swim, and feel free–and who grew into a woman who fought for the right to do just that!
An- Author: Mazeika, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1665903430
- Language: English
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Vision of Beauty: Candlewick Biographies: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker
$5.99 Add to cart“This impressive picture book will delight young readers as it gives a sense of this remarkable woman and the times in which she lived.” — School Library Journal (starred review)
An inspiring biograp- Series: Candlewick Biographies
- Author: Lasky, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0763660922
- Language: English
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The Journey of Little Charlie (Scholastic Gold)
$8.99 Read moreThe National Book Award finalist by Christopher Paul Curtis
Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His sharecropper father just died and Cap’n Buck — the most fearsome man in Possum Moan, South
- Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 054515667X
- Language: English
