Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Vaqueros in Blue and Gray
$28.95 Add to cartAs many as 9,500 men of Hispanic heritage fought in the United States’ Civil War. In Texas, the bitter conflict deeply divided the Tejanos-Texans of Mexican heritage. An estimated 2,500 fought in the … [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: February 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1880510723
- Language: English
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Quantrill of Missouri: The Making of a Guerilla Warrior
$33.99 Add to cartOne will not find the name of William Clarke Quantrill in the pantheon of noble Civil War personalities but rather listed near the top of the list of its notorious scoundrels. He has been demonized as
- Author: Petersen, Paul R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: September 01, 2003
- ISBN10: 1630269867
- Language: English
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Billy the Kid and Jesse James: Outlaws of the Legendary West
$16.95 Add to cartWho was the biggest, baddest outlaw in the Old West? Billy the Kid or Jesse James? Which outlaw did the most to wreak havoc across the frontier? And which outlaw left behind the biggest legacy? Author… [more below]
- Author: Markley, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1493038389
- Language: English
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Treasure Diaries: The Secret of Sarah’s Creek
$34.95 Add to cartA treasure hunt through the centuries…
Before you is a real life odyssey depicting lost riches and forgotten American history in Gloucester, Virginia, and the communities across the dividing river,
- Author: Owens, M. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954163754
- Language: English
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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive history of the First Minnesota Volunteers in the Civil War.
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Moe, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 367
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0873514068
- Language: English
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When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession
$46.58 Add to cartUsing primary documents from both foreign and domestic observers, prominent scholar Charles Adams makes a powerful and convincing case that the Southern states were legitimately exercising their polit… [more below]
- Author: Adams, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0847697231
- Language: English
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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography 1868-1963
$45.00 Add to cartThe two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of W. E. B. Du Bois from renowned scholar David Levering Lewis, now in one condensed and updated volume
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois–the premier arch- Author: Lewis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0805088059
- Language: English
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A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
$23.99 Add to cartWith America’s current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle cl… [more below]
- Author: McGerr, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0195183657
- Language: English
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Lost Mill Towns of North Georgia
$24.99 Add to cartThe textile era was born of a perfect storm. When North Georgia’s red clay failed farmers and prices fell during Reconstruction, opportunities arose. Beginning in the 1880s, textile industries moved s… [more below]
- Series: Lost
- Author: Russell, Lisa M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1467143510
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Original Classic Edition): An American Slave
$12.95 Add to cartThis edition of the original classic work, includes an index that will enable you to easily search for the names, places and topics as you discover the brilliance and determination of this incredible … [more below]
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: May 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1722502266
- Language: English
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The Western Confederacy’s Final Gamble: From Atlanta to Franklin to Nashville
$29.95 Add to cartAfter Major General William Tecumseh Sherman’s forces ravaged Atlanta in 1864, Ulysses S. Grant urged him to complete the primary mission Grant had given him: to destroy the Confederate Army in Georgi… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, James Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 162190010X
- Language: English
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Michigan and the Civil War: A Great and Bloody Sacrifice
$21.99 Add to cartMichigan undertook a rapid and robust response to Lincoln’s call to arms during the Civil War and in many of its great battles. Read the much overlooked history in this volume.
With lively narration, t
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Dempsey, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 02 2011
- ISBN10: 1609491734
- Language: English
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A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told
$45.00 Add to cartWinner of the Best Book Award from the Wild West History Association
True West Magazine Editors’ and Readers’ Choice award for Best Author and Historical Non-Fiction Book of the Year Wyatt Earp is on- Author: Young, Roy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 936
- Publish Date: July 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1574417738
- Language: English
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The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln’s General, Master Builder of the Union Army
$18.99 Add to cart“The lively story of the Civil War’s most unlikely–and most uncelebrated–genius” (The Wall Street Journal)–General Montgomery C. Meigs, who built the Union Army and was judged by Abraham Lincoln, W… [more below]
- Author: O’Harrow, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1451671938
- Language: English
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Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
$17.00 Add to cartThe revelatory story, now in paperback, of the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations–and how Brigham Young made it a parable of the indomitable Mormon spirit. – Dramatic re-telling … [more below]
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1416539891
- Language: English
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The Antietam Battlefield Atlas
$49.95 Add to cartThe Battle of Antietam was fought on September 17th, 1862. It was the worst day of the war, with almost 23,000 killed, wounded and missing. Of those, almost 4,000 were killed, making it the bloodiest
- Author: Butkovich, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1732597650
- Language: English
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Our Suffering Brave: Waitsfield Boys and Men in the Civil War
$29.99 Add to cart163 boys and men from Waitsfield, Vermont joined the Union Army and fought in the Civil War. Their individual stories of bravery as well as suffering-from wounds, sickness, and/or deprivation during i
- Author: Evans, Alice May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1937667332
- Language: English
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Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed: The Struggle for the Powder River Country in 1866 and the Making of the Fetterman Myth
$29.95 Add to cartThe Powder River country of what is now north central Wyoming was one of the most resource-rich regions of the northern plains in the nineteenth century. As U.S. mining interests and white settlement
- Author: Monnett, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: July 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0826345042
- Language: English
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Twain: Letters from Hawaii
$19.99 Add to cart“I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever.” –Mark Twain
So Samuel Langhorne Clemens- Series: Pacific Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0824802888
- Language: English
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The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union
$39.95 Add to cartIn this companion to The Life of Johnny Reb, Bell Irvin Wiley explores the daily lives of the men in blue who fought to save the Union. With the help of many soldiers’ letters and diaries, Wiley expla
- Series: Political Traditions in Foreign Policy
- Author: Wiley, Bell Irvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0807133752
- Language: English
