Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
$32.00 Add to cartA crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico’s 122 years as a colony of the US.
Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and explo- Author: Morales, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1568588992
- Language: English
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The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy
$18.99 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Washington’s Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War–and the Union agent resolved to stop
- Author: Rose, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0063277891
- Language: English
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Remington Army and Navy Revolvers 1861-1888
$65.00 Add to cartImmediately following the Civil War, the United States Ordnance Department reported it had purchased 128,575 Remington revolvers during the conflict. During the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71, Samuel
- Author: Ware, Donald L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0826342809
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
$17.95 Add to cartIn 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan.
Rais
- Author: Nimura, Janice P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352781
- Language: English
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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
$22.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao’s ascent. … [more below]
- Author: Bradley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0316196681
- Language: English
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A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn – The Last Great Battle of the American West
$22.99 Add to cartA rousing and meticulously researched account of the notorious Battle of Little Big Horn and its unforgettable cast of characters from Sitting Bull to Custer himself.
In June of 1876, on a desolate h- Author: Donovan, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0316067474
- Language: English
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How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! the True Story Revealed
$28.95 Add to cartHow baseball evolved with shocking speed from a casual folk game into a serious adult activity, an instrument of national unification and then a national entertainment industry.
- Author: Gilbert, Thomas W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1567926770
- Language: English
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Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
$22.99 Add to cartWinner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award
Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize
Winner of an Army Historical Founda… [more below]- Author: Miller, Donald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1451641397
- Language: English
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Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla
$24.99 Add to cartNowhere was the Civil War as savage as it was in Missouri–and nowhere did it produce a killer more savage than William Anderson. For a brief but dramatic period, “Bloody Bill” played the leading role… [more below]
- Author: Castel, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0700614346
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
$27.95 Add to cartHow America’s high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previ- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #70
- Author: Gordon, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175802
- Language: English
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The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna
$26.95 Read moreThey believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin’s haunting account of the women of Camp Etna–an otherworldly community in the woods of Maine that has, since 1876, played host to generat
- Author: Ptacin, Mira
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1631493817
- Language: English
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The Robber Barons
$22.99 Add to cartPrize-winning historian and biographer Matthew Josephson’s The Robber Barons is the story of the Gilded Age’s giant American capitalists who seized economic power after the Civil War and altered the s… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Josephson, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 24 1962
- ISBN10: 156767902
- Language: English
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Owning the Sun: A People’s History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to Covid-19 Vaccines
$17.95 Read moreFor readers of Bad Blood and Empire of Pain, an authoritative look at monopoly medicine from the dawn of patents through the race for COVID-19 vaccines and how the privatization of public science has … [more below]
- Author: Zaitchik, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 164009590X
- Language: English
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Lincoln on Leadership for Today: Abraham Lincoln’s Approach to Twenty-First-Century Issues
$18.99 Add to cartThe author of the bestselling Lincoln on Leadership offers a fresh perspective on President Lincoln’s distinctive management philosophy and applies it to the pressing issues of the present day. Politi
- Author: Phillips, Donald T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1328745694
- Language: English
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Ghost Stories of the Civil War
$14.95 Add to cartMore than 600,000 men died during the Civil War, but the conflict also displaced countless civilians. In this collection, noted authors Dan Asfar and Edrick Thay recount fascinating stories of soldier… [more below]
- Series: Ghost Stories #32
- Author: Asfar, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1990539041
- Language: English
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Heart of Darkness
$5.99 Add to cartThe Heart of Darkness is a powerful examination of the savage nature of western imperialism in the late 1890s. With stunning relevance to the politics and tribulations of today’s society, Joseph Conra
- Series: Mint Editions (Nautical Narratives)
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1513263196
- Language: English
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The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft
$32.99 Add to cart“Beautifully written, compulsively readable… ” So says Indie Reader of The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft – the riveting novel about a legendary woman in antebellum Missouri who allowed neither men nor
- Author: Dempsey, Diana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 514
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0990696480
- Language: English
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Fall Back and Find Me
$15.99 Add to cartTwo resilient women separated by over 150 years are linked forever by their challenges, values, and determination.
Amber Prichard is thriving in her role as pastor’s wife, mom, and indispensable church
- Author: Hanks, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985478945
- Language: English
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Mountain Ranch
$18.99 Add to cartSet in the Wyoming and Colorado territories of the 1880s, Mountain Ranch is the epic story of three families who carved a place on the American frontier. Changes have come to Twin Peaks Ranch and to t
- Author: Weber, Johny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1956906908
- Language: English
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The Last Crossing
$18.00 Add to cartThe Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of breathtaking quests, adventurous detours, and hard-won redemption. Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt are ordered by their tyrannical industrialist father t… [more below]
- Author: Vanderhaeghe, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 393
- Publish Date: November 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0802141757
- Language: English
