Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Where Custer Fell: Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now
$29.95 Add to cartThe Battle of the Little Bighorn has long held an eminent position among the chronicles of the mythic West. None of the men who rode with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer to his “Last Stand”
- Author: Brust, James S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0806138343
- Language: English
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Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861 1886
$29.95 Add to cartThe third volume in Alan Walker’s magisterial biography of Franz Liszt.
“You can’t help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker’s accumulated readings of Liszt’s musi
- Author: Walker, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0801484537
- Language: English
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South
$28.32 Add to cartA timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts
Praised as “viscerally powerful” (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work
- Author: Chafe, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 162097682X
- Language: English
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
$42.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD – One of Modern Library‘s 100 best nonfiction books of all time – One of Esquire‘s 50 best biographies of all time
“A towering biography . . . a… [more below]- Author: Morris, Edmund
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: November 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1400069653
- Language: English
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Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
$18.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking and “affecting and powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Abraham Lincoln’s plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War–a vision that inspired future p… [more below]
- Author: Avlon, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1982108134
- Language: English
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A Soldiers Cookbook 1863 – The Battle of Gettysburg 150th Anniversity Edition
$10.00 Add to cartAn army marches on its stomach – Napoleon Bonaparte As far back in history as Napoleon, officers knew that to be effective an army needs good and plentiful food. Without good food a soldier loses thei… [more below]
- Author: Drawbaugh, Dean C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0989268012
- Language: English
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Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush
$21.95 Add to cartHistory has long ignored many of the earliest female pioneers of the Klondike Gold Rush of North America-the prostitutes and other “disreputable” women who joined the mass pilgrimage to the booming go
- Author: Morgan, Lael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: August 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0945397763
- Language: English
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The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant: (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant)
$29.95 Read moreWritten in the early twentieth century for her children and grandchildren and first published in 1975, these eloquent memoirs detail the life of General Ulysses S. Grant’s wife. First Lady Julia Dent
- Series: World of Ulysses S. Grant
- Author: Simon, John Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 11 1988
- ISBN10: 0809314436
- Language: English
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The Man in the Arena: Selected Writings of Theodore Roosevelt: A Reader
$26.99 Add to cartThe first compilation of selections from the major works of Teddy Roosevelt since the resurgence in his popularity due to the major award-winning/bestselling biographies by Edmond Morris and H. W. Bra
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore, IV
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0765306719
- Language: English
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Until the Last Trumpet Sounds: The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing
$21.95 Add to cartCritical Praise for Gene Smith On Until the Last Trumpet Sounds
“”The best recent compact study of the commander of the American Expeditionary Force of World War I.”” Booklist “”A six-star effort . .- Author: Smith, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0471350648
- Language: English
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Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
$23.00 Read moreBefore his spectacular career as General of the Union forces, William Tecumseh Sherman experienced decades of failure and depression. Drifting between the Old South and new West, Sherman witnessed fir… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Sherman, William Tecumseh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140437983
- Language: English
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An Environmental History of the Civil War
$32.50 Add to cartThis sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans’ relationship to the natural world. To be sure, envir… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Browning, Judkin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1469655381
- Language: English
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The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
$32.00 Add to cartThe groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero.
In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart-when- Author: Puleo, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1250276276
- Language: English
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Sins of My Brothers: Suffering an Uncivil War
$38.95 Add to cartSins of My Brothers is the historic account of a harrowing and gritty tale of survival, a true story fueled by greed, corruption, and incompetence. The confluence of disastrous decisions result in hea
- Author: Perry, Phillip Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988975908
- Language: English
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FDR
$26.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “A model presidential biography… Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man” – Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
One of today’s premier biograph- Author: Smith, Jean Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0812970497
- Language: English
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A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
$20.00 Add to cartFirst-rate military history, A War of Frontier and Empire retells an often forgotten chapter in America’s past, infusing it with commanding contemporary relevance.
It has been termed an insurgency, a r- Author: Silbey, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0809096617
- Language: English
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche
$30.00 Add to cartThis captivating collection brings together five of Friedrich Nietzche’s most important philosophical works, exploring themes such as nihilism, metaphysics, and the nature of morality–featuring an in… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: September 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679600000
- Language: English
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
$18.95 Add to cartSelected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln’s lifelong engagement with the nation’s critical issue: American s… [more below]
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 26 2011
- ISBN10: 039334066X
- Language: English
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The Surrender Tree / El Árbol de la Rendición: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom/ Poemas de la Lucha de Cuba Por Su Libertad (Bilingual)
$12.99 Add to cartThe Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle For Freedom / El ?rbol de la rendici?n: poemas de la lucha de cuba por su libertad is a lyrical, Newbery Honor-winning history in poems, and this bilingual
- Author: Engle, Margarita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0312608713
- Language: English
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Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
$19.00 Add to cartNow a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, Self Made (formerly titled On Her Own Ground) is the first full-scale biography of “one of the great success stories of American history” (The Philadelph… [more below]
- Series: Lisa Drew Books (Paperback)
- Author: Bundles, A’Lelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1982126671
- Language: English
