Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin
$11.99 Add to cartA 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
$7.95 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 Add to cartA 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
$20.99 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 Read more“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
$16.95 Read moreThrough 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
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Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862
$22.95 Add to cartThis collection of thirty-six narratives presents the Dakota Indians’ experiences during a conflict previously known chiefly from the viewpoints of non-Indians.
- Author: Anderson, Gary Clayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0873512162
- Language: English
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Blood on the Marias: The Baker Massacre
$21.95 Add to cartOn the morning of January 23, 1870, troops of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry attacked a Piegan Indian village on the Marias River in Montana Territory, killing many more than the army’s count of 173, most of t… [more below]
- Author: Wylie, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 080615974X
- Language: English
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On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
$20.99 Add to cartSoon to be a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale biography of “one of the great success stories of American history” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Madam C… [more below]
- Series: Lisa Drew Books (Paperback)
- Author: Bundles, A’Lelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0743431723
- Language: English
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The Doré Gallery: His 120 Greatest Illustrations
$21.95 Add to cartThis superb compilation showcases the art of Gustave Dor?, one of the nineteenth century’s most prolific and successful book illustrators. Brimming with stunning images created to accompany the world’… [more below]
- Series: Dover Pictorial Archives
- Author: Doré, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 24 1997
- ISBN10: 048640160X
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography
$27.00 Add to cartMeryle Secrest’s Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright’s family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hu… [more below]
- Author: Secrest, Meryle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: May 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0226744140
- Language: English
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The Wreck of the Portland: A Doomed Ship, a Violent Storm, and New England’s Worst Maritime Disaster
$19.95 Add to cartThe SS Portland was a solid and luxurious ship, and its loss in 1898 in a violent storm with some 200 people aboard was later remembered as “New England’s Titanic.” The Portland was one of New England… [more below]
- Author: Conway, J. North
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493059467
- Language: English
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USS Olympia: Herald of Empire
$26.95 Add to cartThe USS Olympia is the oldest extant steel-hulled warship in the world. Constructed as part of a congressionally mandated program to build a modern fleet prior to the turn of the 19th century, she bec… [more below]
- Author: Cooling, B. Franklin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1591141265
- Language: English
