Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist
$9.99 Add to cart“I remember the day I lost my spirit.” So begins the story of Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Sa, which means Red Bird. Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota, Zitkala-S
- Author: Capaldi, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1541578368
- Language: English
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The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspape
$18.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched exposé. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht and was not hea… [more below]
- Author: Algeo, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1613744560
- Language: English
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Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke Kahanamoku
$13.95 Add to cartAsian/Pacific American Award for Literature – Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA)
The true story of Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku, six-time Olympic swimming champion and legendary surfer w
- Author: Crowe, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1600604617
- Language: English
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Sugar Snow
$9.99 Add to cartWith this illustrated adaptation from the beloved Little House series, the youngest readers can share in the joy of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved classics.
In Sugar Snow, Laura is delighted when a sof
- Series: Little House Picture Book
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 22 1999
- ISBN10: 0064435717
- Language: English
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This Bloody Deed: The Magruder Incident
$19.95 Add to cartThe story of the infamous murder and robbery of Lewiston merchant Lloyd Magruder and his companions during the 1860s gold rush is legendary in Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Ladd Hamilton constructs
- Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science;846
- Author: Hamilton, Ladd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0874221072
- Language: English
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Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle
$19.95 Read moreSkid Road tells the story of Seattle “from the bottom up,” offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City’s first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most colorful citiz
- Author: Morgan, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0295743492
- Language: English
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A History of Us: War, Terrible War: 1855-1865a History of Us Book Six
$19.98 Add to cartRecommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.
Riveting, moving, and impossible to put down, War, Terrible War takes us into- Series: History of Us
- Author: Hakim, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0195327209
- Language: English
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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
$18.00 Read moreFrom one of our most distinguished historians comes a groundbreaking new examination of the myths and realities of the period after the Civil War.
Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents,- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 375702741
- Language: English
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The Oregon Trail: The Wagon Train Trek
$7.99 Add to cartKeep your wagon train alive in this trailblazing choose-your-own-trail experience on the Oregon Trail! With more than twenty possible endings, there are wild animals, rapid rivers, bandits, treacherou… [more below]
- Series: Oregon Trail
- Author: Wiley, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1328627152
- Language: English
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1897 Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalogue
$29.99 Add to cartThey were Amazon and Walmart combined–the one place to shop for Americans who needed everything–clothes, furniture, tools, jewelry, musical instruments, books, and more
Imagine it’s the end of the- Author: Sears Roebuck & Co
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: August 07, 2018
- ISBN10: 1510735054
- Language: English
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Sharpe’s Fortress: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803
$18.99 Add to cart“The greatest writer of historical adventures today.”
—Washington PostCritically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt, The Fort, the Saxon Tales) makes r
- Series: Sharpe #3
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0061098639
- Language: English
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The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story
$22.99 Add to cartFor more than a century, the enduring feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has been American shorthand for passionate, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet despite numerous articles, b… [more below]
- Author: King, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 031616707X
- Language: English
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On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein Book for Kids, Books about Scientists for Kids, Biographies for Kids, Kids
$9.99 Add to cartTravel along with Einstein on a journey full of curiosity, laughter, and scientific discovery. Parents and children alike will appreciate this moving story of the powerful difference imagination can m… [more below]
- Series: Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books
- Author: Berne, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 145215211X
- Language: English
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Nikola Tesla
$15.99 Read moreFrom the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Nikola Tesla, the scientist and inventor whose groundbreaking inventions we continu… [more below]
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #83
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 071127083X
- Language: English
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Carolina Built
$17.99 Add to cartThis “exuberant celebration of Black women’s joy as well as their achievements” (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author) novelizes the life of real estate magnate Josephine N. Leary in a previo… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Kianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1982163690
- Language: English
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A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond
$31.95 Add to cartJoin author John Banks on a captivating journey through America’s rich history as he explores famous battlefields, historic homes, and forts across the country.
Over more than a year, John Banks crissc… [more below]
- Author: Banks, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1734627670
- Language: English
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The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War
$28.00 Add to cartAfter more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print, Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels, remains as vivid and powerful as the day it was … [more below]
- Series: Civil War Trilogy #2
- Author: Shaara, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 29 2001
- ISBN10: 0345444124
- Language: English
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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press
$22.00 Add to cartStories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the
- Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
- Author: Portnoy, Eddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 150360411X
- Language: English
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The Atlas of the Civil War
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the first shots fired at Fort Sumter in 1861 to the final clashes on the Road to Appomattox in 1864, The Atlas of the Civil War reconstructs the battles of America’s bloodiest war with unparallel… [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 151075640X
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$12.00 Add to cartThe ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him,… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0394741048
- Language: English
