Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
$29.99 Read moreThe companion volume to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021
With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric
- Author: Conwill, Kinshasha Holman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0063160641
- Language: English
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America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United States
$36.40 Add to cart“The best one-volume history of the United States ever written” (Joseph J. Ellis), now updated to cover the Obama and Trump presidencies
In America, Empire of Liberty, prizewinning historian David Reyn… [more below]- Author: Reynolds, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 154167569X
- Language: English
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GaudÃ
$23.33 Add to cartFrom the towering Sagrada Fam?lia to the shimmering, textured fa?ade of Casa Batll? and the enchanting landscape of Park G?ell, it’s easy to see why Antoni Gaud? (1852-1926) gained the epithet “God’s
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Crippa, Maria Antonietta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560283
- Language: English
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Man Ray
$23.33 Add to cartMan Ray (1890-1976) was a polymath modernist, working in painting, sculpture, film, printmaking, and poetry. But it was his work in photography, with nude studies, fashion work, and portraiture that s
- Author: Ware, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 22 2023
- ISBN10: 3836593998
- Language: English
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Eyewitness at Wounded Knee
$34.95 Add to cartOn a wintry day in December 1890, near a creek named Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S. Army opened fire on an encampment of Sioux Indians. Thi
- Series: Great Plains Photography
- Author: Jensen, Richard E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803236093
- Language: English
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Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty
$18.00 Add to cartThe Statue of Liberty has become one of the most recognizable monuments in the world: a symbol of freedom and the American Dream. But the story of the creation of the statue has been obscured by myth…. [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0802123791
- Language: English
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War as I Knew It
$19.99 Add to cartA classic of American military history first published in 1947, War as I Knew It is the captivating memoir of George S. Patton, Jr., the legendary general, incendiary warrior, and unparalled tactician
- Author: Patton, George S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 08 1995
- ISBN10: 0395735297
- Language: English
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Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is–Revised Edition
$15.00 Add to cartIn late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of th… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445153
- Language: English
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Coolidge
$21.99 Add to cart“Amity Shlaes’s new biography carries a different and highly relevant message. . . . Read Coolidge, and better understand the forces bearing on the President and Congress almost a century later.” — P
- Author: Shlaes, Amity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0061967599
- Language: English
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To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett
$16.99 Add to cart“So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. “
–Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost SoldiersBilly the Kid–a.k.a. Henry McCarty, Henry An
- Author: Gardner, Mark Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0061368296
- Language: English
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Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom’s Mail
$36.95 Add to cartDuring the Civil War his movements from battlefield to battlefield were followed in the North and in the South nearly as closely as those of generals, though he was not in the military. After the war,… [more below]
- Author: Hooper, Candice Shy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640124489
- Language: English
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The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
$37.00 Add to cartA major literary moment: after being lost to history for more than a century, The Road to Dawn uncovers the incredible story of the real-life slave who inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
-He rescued 118 ens- Author: Brock, Jared A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1541773926
- Language: English
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First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery
$19.95 Read moreA vividly told tale of a forgotten American hero–an impassioned newsman who fought for the right to speak out against slavery.
The history of the fight for free press has never been more vital in ou- Author: Ellingwood, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364617
- Language: English
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Pale Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg
$18.95 Add to cartThis stirring narrative reconstructs in amazing detail the story of a remarkable band of soldiers at this seminal Civil War battle.
- Author: Leehan, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: July 19 2004
- ISBN10: 0873515110
- Language: English
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To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery in the Gilded Age (an Inspiration for Downton Abbey)
$19.99 Add to cart“Marvelous and entertaining.” –Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey
Discover the true stories behind the women who inspired DowntonAbbey and HBO’s The Gilded Age, the heiresses–including a Van- Author: MacColl, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0761171959
- Language: English
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Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War
$42.99 Read moreLoyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new inte… [more below]
- Author: Varon, Elizabeth R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 13 2019
- ISBN10: 019086060X
- Language: English
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The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters
$17.98 Add to cartMore than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had “uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, a
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01, 2017
- ISBN10: 0190658533
- Language: English
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Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism
$18.99 Add to cartThe first commercial, in-depth biography of the American-born Roman Catholic priest who may well be declared a saint. . . . “Delightful. . . . No magisterial biography emanating a suffocating aur
- Author: Brinkley, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0060776854
- Language: English
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Juneteenth: The Story Behind the Celebration
$29.95 Add to cartJuneteenth has been touted as a national day celebrating the end of slavery. Observances from coast to coast have turned this event into part of the national conversation about race, slavery, and how
- Author: Cotham, Edward, Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1649670079
- Language: English
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
$4.99 Add to cartWhat to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) is a speech by Frederick Douglass. Having escaped from slavery in the South at a young age, Frederick Douglass became a prominent orator and autobiograp
- Series: Mint Editions–Black Narratives
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: April 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1513290975
- Language: English
