Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Circle of Fire: The Indian War of 1865
$24.95 Add to cartThe year 1865 was bloody on the Plains as various Indian tribes, including the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Sioux, joined with their northern relatives to wage war on the white man. They sought … [more below]
- Author: McDermott, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0811738965
- Language: English
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Trotsky
$27.99 Add to cartTrotsky was a hero to some, a ruthless demon to others. To Stalin, he was such a threat that he warranted murder by pickax. This polarizing figure set up a world conflict that lasted through the twent
- Author: Geary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: September 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0809095084
- Language: English
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Gettysburg–The Second Day
$38.00 Add to cartThe second day’s fighting at Gettysburg–the assault of the Army of Northern Virginia against the Army of the Potomac on 2 July 1863–was probably the critical engagement of that decisive battle and, … [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Pfanz, Harry W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 02 1998
- ISBN10: 0807847305
- Language: English
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Indian War in the Pacific Northwest: The Journal of Lieutenant Lawrence Kip
$13.95 Add to cartThroughout the 1850s, Native peoples of the inland Northwest actively resisted white encroachments into their traditional territories. Tensions exploded in 1858 when nearly one thousand Palouses, Spok… [more below]
- Author: Kip, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 151
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803277911
- Language: English
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Hardtack and Coffee Or, the Unwritten Story of Army Life
$24.95 Add to cartIncludes six color plates of corps badges and more than 200 black and white illustrations
Most histories of the Civil War focus on battles and top brass. Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give- Author: Billings, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 413
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 080326111X
- Language: English
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The Wild Bunch at Robber’s Roost
$16.95 Add to cartRobbers Roost was a hideout for outlaws and hunted men long before Butch Cassidy found it in 1884. The impenetrable wastes and wilds of this high desert country in southeastern Utah, cut through by ca… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Pearl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1989
- ISBN10: 080326089X
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero
$21.99 Add to cartHandcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar.
Since his death eighty-eight years ago, Harry Houdini’s life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreakin- Author: Kalush, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0743272080
- Language: English
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Bound & Determined: A Visual History of Corsets, 1850-1960
$14.95 Add to cartThis revealing history of corsetry ranges from the 19th through the mid-20th centuries to show how simple laced bodices developed into corsets of cane, whalebone, and steel. Lavish illustrations inclu… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Fashion
- Author: Seleshanko, Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: March 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0486478920
- Language: English
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American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
$23.00 Add to cartIt is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he met his fie… [more below]
- Author: Kauffman, Michael W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0375759743
- Language: English
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Civil War Firearms: Their Historical Background and Tactical Use
$19.99 Add to cartCombines technical data on each American Civil War firearm and details of its actual use on the battlefield–with a guide to collecting and firing surviving relics and modern reproductions
The popular … [more below]- Author: Bilby, Joseph G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: April 19 2005
- ISBN10: 0306814595
- Language: English
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Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
$17.99 Add to cartA galaxy of legendary figures from the annals of Western history
In this enlightening and entertaining work, Paul Johnson, the bestselling author of Intellectuals and Creators, approaches the subject o
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0061143170
- Language: English
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Border War Tour: A Traveler’s Guide to Civil War Sites on the Missouri/Kansas Border
$14.99 Add to cartThe Missouri/Kansas Border is full of sites where Civil War events occurred. Some of these locations are well-known, while others are just spots on the road where key events in the Civil War took plac… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Jonathan a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1736463330
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Unfinished Work: The New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation
$49.95 Add to cartIn his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation’s sacrifices during the Civil War would lead to a “new birth of freedom.” Lincoln’s Unfinished Work analyzes how the United States h
- Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- Author: Burton, Orville Vernon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0807176761
- Language: English
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Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
$18.99 Add to cartAlice + Freda Forever is a gut-wrenching story of love, death, and the dangers of intolerance.“–Bustle
In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn’t her crime that shocked th
- Author: Coe, Alexis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1936976609
- Language: English
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The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War
$34.95 Add to cartIn this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European e… [more below]
- Series: Verso World History (Paperback)
- Author: Mayer, Arno J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1844676358
- Language: English
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Visual Antietam Vol. 2: Ezra Carman’s Antietam Through Maps and Pictures: The West Woods to Bloody Lane
$19.95 Add to cartEzra A. Carman is regarded as the father of Antietam historiography. Colonel of the 13th New Jersey Infantry during the battle, he spent the better part of his later life writing a comprehensive manus
- Series: Visual Antietam #2
- Author: Carman, Ezra a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1732597618
- Language: English
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War
$24.99 Add to cartThink you know the Civil War?
Bestselling author and former Conservative Book Club editor H. W. Crocker I
You don’t know the full story until you read The Politically Incorrect GuideTM to the Civil War- Series: Politically Incorrect Guides (Paperback)
- Author: Crocker, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1596985496
- Language: English
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The Worst President–The Story of James Buchanan
$16.95 Add to cartJust 24 hours after former President James Buchanan died on June 1, 1868, the Chicago Tribune rejoiced: “This desolate old man has gone to his grave. No son or daughter is doomed to acknowledge an anc
- Author: Boulard, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 23 2015
- ISBN10: 1491759615
- Language: English
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Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota
$23.99 Add to cartThis “powerful and chilling” (Publishers Weekly) account of a young girl taken from her native land in South Dakota after the 1890 massacre of Lakota men, women, and children describes the story of Lo… [more below]
- Author: Flood, Renee Sansom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1476790752
- Language: English
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President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
$23.00 Add to cartAcclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a “measured, insightful biography that seeks to set the record straight…a deft character study of a pre
- Author: Merry, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 06, 2018
- ISBN10: 1451625456
- Language: English
