Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Dakota Prisoner of War Letters: Dakota Kaskapi Okicize Wowapi
$27.95 Add to cartIn April 1863–after the Dakota War of 1862, after the hanging of thirty-eight Dakota men in the largest mass execution in U.S. history– some 270 Dakota men were moved from Mankato, Minnesota, to a p… [more below]
- Author: Canku, Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 087351873X
- Language: English
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Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877
$21.95 Add to cartThe Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 is memorable to most Americans because of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer’s last stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. But to the Lakotas (Western Sioux) and… [more below]
- Author: Greene, Jerome a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0806132450
- Language: English
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Cheyenne Autumn
$21.95 Add to cartNot only in American history but in all history it is hard to find stories as moving, noble and dramatic as this one. The highest praise one could give any book about it would be to say that it was wo
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293410
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Generals
$17.95 Add to cartIn Lincoln’s Generals, Gabor S. Boritt and a team of distinguished historians examine the interaction between Abraham Lincoln and his five key Civil War generals: McClellan, Hooker, Meade, Sherman, an… [more below]
- Author: Boritt, Gabor S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803234546
- Language: English
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
$22.00 Add to cartFrom before the dawn of the twentieth century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were … [more below]
- Author: Green, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0802124658
- Language: English
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The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth
$24.99 Add to cartThe Civil War’s single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we’ve been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully challenges that claim, offering a new, clear-eyed, an… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Hess, Earl J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0700623833
- Language: English
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A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
$21.00 Add to cartEdith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir.
With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York s- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: July 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0684847558
- Language: English
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
$27.00 Add to cartA “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, The Roman… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0679645616
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$15.95 Read moreThe basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie!
“A moving, vital testament to one of slavery’s ‘many thousand gone’ who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation.” — Saturday ReviewBorn a … [more below]- Series: African American
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 06 2000
- ISBN10: 0486411435
- Language: English
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The Hemingway Women
$33.99 Add to cartMany books have been written about Ernest Hemingway, but no book has focused on the women he knew and loved and sometimes hated — his mother, who was the lifelong recipient of his invective; his wive… [more below]
- Author: Kert, Bernice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: May 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0393318354
- Language: English
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Joseph E, Johnston: A Civil War Biography
$29.99 Add to cartGeneral Joseph E. Johnston was in command of Confederate forces at the South’s first victory–Manassas in July 1861–and at its last–Bentonville in April 1965. Many of his contemporaries considered h… [more below]
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: June 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0393311309
- Language: English
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
$20.00 Add to cart“An arresting piece of popular history.” –Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book Review
Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in C
- Author: Lemann, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530696
- Language: English
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The New York Times Disunion: A History of the Civil War
$40.99 Add to cartBetween 2011 and 2015, the Opinion section of The New York Times published Disunion, a series marking the long string of anniversaries around the Civil War, the most destructive, and most defining, co… [more below]
- Author: Widmer, Edward L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0190621834
- Language: English
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Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Newman, Richard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0190213221
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt (Re-Issue) P
$27.99 Add to cartPringle’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography not only chronicles the incidents that shaped Roosevelt’s career but also offers insight into the character and mind of this colorful american president. Ind… [more below]
- Author: Pringle, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: January 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0156028026
- Language: English
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The Music of the Primes
$17.99 Add to cartInthe tradition of Fermat’s Enigma and Pi, Marcus du Sautoy tells the illuminating, authoritative, and engagingstory of Bernhard Reimann and the ongoing quest tocapture the holy grail of mathematics–… [more below]
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Du Sautoy, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0062064010
- Language: English
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Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson
$56.98 Add to cartWinner: Albert Castel Book Award
Winner: Tennessee History Book Award Winner: Emerging Civil War Book Award Winner: Douglas Southall Freeman History Award When General Ulysses S. Grant targeted Forts- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: October 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0700633162
- Language: English
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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
$22.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for History
The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman’s fight for justice–and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed i- Author: McDaniel, W. Caleb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0197564283
- Language: English
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Greetings from Los Angeles
$30.00 Read moreA fascinating tour of Los Angeles told through vintage images.
The City of Angels’ story is told through a fun and colorful collection of old photos, picture postcards, brochures, ads, and other vintag
- Author: Moruzzi, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1423647254
- Language: English
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Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy
$19.99 Add to cartHistorian and Constitution expert David O. Stewart recaps the landmark impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. “The fullest recounting we have of the high politics of that immediate post-Civil … [more below]
- Author: Stewart, David O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1416547509
- Language: English
