Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes
$16.95 Add to cartTell Them We Are Going Home details the courageous journey of the Northern Cheyennes, under the leadership of Little Wolf and Dull Knife, from Indian Territory northward to their homelands in the Powd… [more below]
- Author: Monnett, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0806136456
- Language: English
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The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader: 1865-1877
$19.95 Add to cartThe Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877 provides the first comprehensive look at the Indian Wars in Nebraska, focusing on the years immediately following the Civil War, when hostilities between Pla… [more below]
- Author: Paul, R. Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 289
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803287496
- Language: English
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Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman
$22.00 Add to cartBorn into one of the best families of Baton Rouge, Sarah Morgan was not yet twenty when she began her diary in January 1862, nine months after the start of the Civil War. She was soon to experience a … [more below]
- Author: East, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0671785036
- Language: English
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60 Civil War-Era Fashion Patterns
$14.95 Add to cartAssembled from issues of a popular 19th-century periodical, these patterns include dresses, pants, jackets, and other apparel for women and children, plus suggestions for employing modern tools and te… [more below]
- Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes
- Author: Seleshanko, Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: November 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0486461769
- Language: English
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The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
$16.95 Read moreChurchill’s first major historical work is still considered one of his most riveting. — Library Journal
It’s a great read. — The Washington Examiner
A story of heroism and glory that rivals any work o… [more below]- Author: Churchill, Winston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0486447855
- Language: English
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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
$53.00 Add to cartIn this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers’ Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repre… [more below]
- Series: History of NYC
- Author: Wallace, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1196
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0195116356
- Language: English
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Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures wa… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0190454792
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse: A Life
$17.00 Add to cartLegends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than 120 years at the life… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0143034804
- Language: English
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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
$24.99 Add to cart“A dual life story that reads as pleasurably as the best fiction but with all the intelligence of a first-rate biography. . . . completely absorbing.”–Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of
- Series: P.S.
- Author: MacKenzie Stuart, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0060938250
- Language: English
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Moonlit Mayhem: Quantrill’s Raid of Olathe, Kansas
$23.99 Add to cartWould you turn your back on your family and friends if the local authorities asked you to do so? Residents were asked to do just that during the Missouri/Kansas Border War prior to and during the Civi
- Author: Jones, Jonathan a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1736463306
- Language: English
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Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie’s Dinosaur, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
$20.00 Add to cartWith a New Foreword by Matthew C. Lamanna and a New Afterword by Tom Rea
Less than one hundred years ago, Diplodocus carnegii–named after industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie–was the most
- Author: Rea, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0822966700
- Language: English
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Rise to Greatness
$32.99 Add to cartAuthor of Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death’s door. The government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke,
New York Times Bestseller- Author: Von Drehle, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037808
- Language: English
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To Die Game: The Story of the Lowry Band, Indian Guerillas of Reconstruction
$19.95 Add to cartDuring the Civil War many young Lumbee Indians of North Carolina hid in the swamps to avoid conscription into Confederate labor battalions and carried on a running guerilla war. To Die Game is the sto… [more below]
- Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors
- Author: Evans, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0815603592
- Language: English
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In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz
$26.95 Add to cartThe beginnings of jazz and the story of Charles “Buddy” Bolden (1877-1931) are inextricably intertwined. Just after the turn of the century, New Orleanians could often hear Bolden’s powerful horn from
- Author: Marquis, Donald M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0807130931
- Language: English
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Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877: The Military View
$21.95 Add to cartThis volume offers accounts of the many battles and skirmishes in the Great Sioux War as they were observed by participating officers, enlisted men, scouts, surgeons, and newspaper correspondents. The… [more below]
- Series: Military View
- Author: Greene, Jerome a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0806126698
- Language: English
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Herbert Hoover
$35.99 Add to cartThe Republican efficiency expert whose economic boosterism met its match in the Great Depression
Catapulted into national politics by his heroic campaigns to feed Europe during and after World War I,- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Leuchtenburg, William E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0805069585
- Language: English
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Grover Cleveland
$34.00 Add to cartA fresh look at the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms.
Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history. Having run for President three ti- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Graff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 20 2002
- ISBN10: 0805069232
- Language: English
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Blood Feud: The Hatfields And The Mccoys: The Epic Story Of Murder And Vengeance
$26.83 Add to cartAmerica’s most notorious family feud began in 1865 with the murder of a Union McCoy soldier by a Confederate Hatfield relative of “Devil Anse” Hatfield. More than a decade later, Ranel McCoy accused a… [more below]
- Author: Alther, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0762782250
- Language: English
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The Confederacy’s Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
$32.99 Add to cartFollowing the fall of Atlanta, rebel commander John Bell Hood rallied his demoralized troops and marched them off the Tennessee, desperately hoping to draw Sherman after him and forestall the Confeder… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Sword, Wiley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 18 1993
- ISBN10: 0700606505
- Language: English
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From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation
$32.00 Add to cartThis book explores the centrality of contract to debates over freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century America. It focuses on the contracts of wage labor and marriage, investigating the connections b… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Amy Dru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: November 13 1998
- ISBN10: 0521635268
- Language: English
