Chronological Period/1851-1899
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
$18.99 Add to cartIn this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and
- Author: Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346105
- Language: English
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. – “A splendid book in … [more below]
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0307946916
- Language: English
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The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story
$19.00 Add to cartOur idea of the Founders’ America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders, but we can be the heirs of Reconstruction and its vision for equality.
There’s a common story we te- Author: Roosevelt III, Kermit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829510
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
$19.99 Read moreBestselling author-illustrator Marissa Moss tells the gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission
As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century,
- Author: Moss, Marissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1419758535
- Language: English
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Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis
$35.00 Add to cartThis book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question that animated the Civil War: the constitutiona… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Legal History (Paperback)
- Author: Nicoletti, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: October 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1108401538
- Language: English
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Civil War Stories: 40 of the Greatest Tales about the War Between the States
$19.95 Add to cartBetween the first shots fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, the nation was irrevocably changed, as were the lives of the soldiers and … [more below]
- Series: Jumbo Story Collections
- Author: Underwood, Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493060848
- Language: English
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
$17.95 Add to cartOn May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that c… [more below]
- Author: Green, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400033225
- Language: English
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The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910
$38.00 Add to cartAn expansive exploration of The Gilded Age in New York City, from of the extravagant lifestyles and magnificent mansions of the ultra-rich to the daily doings of the wretchedly poor who lived in the s
- Author: Crain, Esther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0316353663
- Language: English
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – An “extraordinary … profoundly moving” history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on suc… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Faust, Drew Gilpin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0375703837
- Language: English
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, … [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1501116231
- Language: English
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The Pig War: Standoff at Griffin Bay
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1859 Great Britain and the United States almost went to war over the Northwest boundary when an American farmer shot a British pig. That July, U.S. Army Captain George E. Pickett looked down the gu
- Author: Vouri, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1638640025
- Language: English
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Gettysburg
$21.99 Add to cartA comprehensive history of the Battle of Gettysburg by one of today’s leading historians.
The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s … [more below]
- Author: Sears, Stephen W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 623
- Publish Date: November 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0618485384
- Language: English
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Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War
$49.95 Add to cartFinalist for the American Battlefield Trust Book Prize
The fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so that many scholars rarely question the standard n- Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- Author: Rable, George C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179779
- Language: English
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
$15.99 Read moreIn a riveting biography that reads like a crime novel, Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti uncovers the true story of Mary Mallon, a.k.a. Typhoid Mary, one of the most m
- Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0063295962
- Language: English
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The Long Winter: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartThe sixth book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s treasured Little House series, and the recipient of a Newbery Honor. This edition features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams.
The fledgli
- Series: Little House #6
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0064400069
- Language: English
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Altogether Different: A Memoir About Identity, Inheritance, and the Raid That Started the Civil War
$17.00 Add to cartIf you could choose between being Black and being white, what would you do?
As a child, Brianna Wheeler, the mixed-race descendant of Dangerfield Newby-first of John Brown’s raiders to die at Harpers F
- Author: Wheeler, Brianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1957024054
- Language: English
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The Phantom of the Opera
$14.99 Read moreThe Phantom of the Opera is perhaps best known for its many stage and screen adaptations, but nothing beats the Gothic tension and haunting horror of Gaston Leroux’s original text.
Part of the Macmill- Author: LeRoux, Gaston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 150982667X
- Language: English
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Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America
$19.00 Add to cartFrom historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the captivating story of how Yellowstone became the world’s first national park in the years after the Civil War, offerin… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Megan Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1982141352
- Language: English
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The Age of Innocence
$25.00 Add to cartChiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World’s finest literature.
Your favorite classics in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful
- Series: Chiltern Classic
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1914602056
- Language: English
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang & to Build a Fire
$10.00 Add to cartThe Call of the Wild–Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world,” E. L. Doctorow wrote in Th- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 1998
- ISBN10: 037575251X
- Language: English
