Chronological Period/1851-1899
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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren
$20.99 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, THE LAST VERMEER, STARRING GUY PEARCE: A revelatory biography of the world’s most famous forger–a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush–and a deliciously detailed s
- Author: Lopez, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547247842
- Language: English
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The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America’s First Black Sports Hero
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend” (Publishers Weekly)–the remarkable Major Taylor who became the world’s fastest bicyclist at the height of the Jim Cro… [more below]
- Author: Kranish, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1501192604
- Language: English
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A Legacy in Brick and Stone: American Coast Defense Forts of the Third System, 1816-1867
$64.95 Add to cartA Legacy in Brick and Stone by John Weaver II
The definitive history of the American Third System of Fortifications that defended our coastline for more than half of century, these architectural wonder
- Author: Weaver, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: July 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1732391610
- Language: English
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Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees
$14.95 Add to cartSix Weeks in the Sioux Tepees is a reprint of the classic narrative of Sarah Wakefield’s survival. Told in her own words, this compelling tale was a best seller when it was originally published more t… [more below]
- Author: Wakefield, Sarah F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1493023160
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Bread
$15.95 Read moreIn The Conquest of Bread, Peter Kropotkin describes how the revolution can achieve a free, egalitarian, and self-sufficient anarcho-communist society. In issuing his argument for this society, Kropotk
- Author: Kropotkin, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: August 26, 2012
- ISBN10: 0983061580
- Language: English
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Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1887, more than 30 Chinese gold miners were massacred on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America. Massacred for Gold, the first authoritative account of the unsolved c
- Author: Nokes, R. Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0870715704
- Language: English
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Shiloh: Conquer or Perish
$32.99 Add to cartRichard B. Harwell Award
Tennessee History Book Award Doughlas Southall Freeman Award A critical moment in the Civil War, the Battle of Shiloh has been the subject of many books. However, none has tol- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 606
- Publish Date: October 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0700623477
- Language: English
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Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin
$11.99 Read moreA wide-eyed teenager during most of the Revolutionary War, Joseph Plumb Martin left his grandfather’s farm in Connecticut in 1775 and spent much of the next eight years with the Continental Army, cris… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Martin, Joseph Plumb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0486451461
- Language: English
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The Innocents Abroad
$8.95 Add to cartOne of the most famous travel books ever written by an American, The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain’s irreverent and incisive commentary on nineteenth century Americans encountering the Old World.
Co- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0451530497
- Language: English
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
$25.00 Read moreA marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import
She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one t- Author: Howell, Georgina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531358
- Language: English
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Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign
$21.99 Add to cartFought amid rocks and trees, in thick blinding smoke, and under exceedingly stressful conditions, the battle for the southern slope of Little Round Top on July 2, 1863 stands among the most famous and… [more below]
- Author: Desjardin, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0195382315
- Language: English
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Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in S… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #37
- Author: Parekh, Bhikhu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854577
- Language: English
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Rebel Richmond: Life and Death in the Confederate Capital
$37.50 Add to cartIn the spring of 1861, Richmond, Virginia, suddenly became the capital city, military headquarters, and industrial engine of a new nation fighting for its existence. A remarkable drama unfolded in the… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Ash, Stephen V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1469650983
- Language: English
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Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer’s Defeat
$18.00 Add to cart“With careful attention to his book’s subtitle, Michno presents the most important surviving testimony of Cheyenne and Lakota Sioux participants in the 1876 Little Bighorn battle. He follows the virtu… [more below]
- Author: Michno, Gregory F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0878423494
- Language: English
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General Stand Watie’s Confederate Indians
$21.95 Add to cartThis is the story of Stand Watie, the only Indian to attain the rank of general in the Confederate Army. An aristocratic, prosperous slaveholding planter and leader of the Cherokee mixed bloods, Watie… [more below]
- Author: Cunningham, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0806130350
- Language: English
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The Legacy of the Civil War
$14.95 Add to cartIn this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousan… [more below]
- Author: Warren, Robert Penn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 109
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803298013
- Language: English
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
$19.99 Add to cartIn a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence to write the greatest speech in the nation’s history.
The power of words has rarely been given a more- Series: Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library
- Author: Wills, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0743299639
- Language: English
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Tesla: Man Out of Time
$18.99 Add to cartIn this “informative and delightful” (American Scientist) biography, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of Nikola Tesla, one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientists and i… [more below]
- Author: Cheney, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0743215362
- Language: English
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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
$24.99 Add to cartThrough family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth–an all-too-human woman struggling to ba
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Goldsmith, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327485
- Language: English
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant: Volume One
$36.95 Add to cartThis digital reproduction of the C.L. Webster Shoulder Board Set is Volume 1 of 2. Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point reluctantly and graduated in the middle of h
- Author: Grant, Ulysses S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 594
- Publish Date: December 19 1998
- ISBN10: 1582181896
- Language: English
