Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Gone with the Wind: The Great American Movie 75 Years Later
$27.95 Read moreSeventy-five years after America fell in love with the cinematic classic Gone with the Wind, LIFE revisits the making of the award-winning movie and gives readers a rare look into the film’s captivati… [more below]
- Author: The Editors of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1618930702
- Language: English
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Madam C. J. Walker Builds a Business
$6.99 Read moreFollow Sarah Breedlove’s journey from the first child in her family born free to a woman with a thriving hair care business, posed to become America’s first self-made millionaire.
- Series: A Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Chapter Book
- Author: Rebel Girls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1953424007
- Language: English
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City of Gold
$7.99 Add to cartRich in adventure, history, and humor, an odyssey set in the twilight of the Wild West spun by Will Hobbs
Weeks after arriving in Colorado to start a new farm, the Hollowell family is looking at disast
- Author: Hobbs, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0061708836
- Language: English
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Decisions at Shiloh: The Twenty-Two Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle
$24.95 Add to cartThe Battle of Shiloh took place April 6-7, 1862, between the Union Army of the Tennessee under General Ulysses S. Grant and the Confederate Army of Mississippi under General Albert Sidney Johnston. Jo
- Series: Command Decisions in America’s Civil War
- Author: Powell, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 162190752X
- Language: English
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Makoons
$16.99 Read moreIn this award-winning sequel to Chickadee, acclaimed author Louise Erdrich continues her celebrated Birchbark House series with the story of an Ojibwe family in nineteenth-century America.
Named for th
- Series: Birchbark House #5
- Author: Erdrich, Louise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0060577932
- Language: English
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Who Was Robert E. Lee?
$6.99 Read moreRobert E. Lee seemed destined for greatness. His father was a Revolutionary War hero and at West Point he graduated second in his class In 1861, when the Southern states seceded from the Union, Lee w… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Bader, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0448479095
- Language: English
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The Broken Lands
$15.99 Add to cartA crossroads can be a place of great power. So begins this deliciously spine-tingling prequel to Kate Milford’s The Boneshaker, set in the colorful world of nineteenth-century Coney Island and New Yo
- Author: Milford, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0544439422
- Language: English
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Trotsky: A Biography
$30.00 Add to cartRobert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky.
Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing an- Author: Service, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: October 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0674062256
- Language: English
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War Party
$6.99 Read moreBud Miles was a boy when he crossed the Mississippi. But Bud buried his father after an Indian attack, and as the wagon train pushed on through Sioux country, the boy stood as tall as any man. . . .
T- Series: Sacketts #10
- Author: L’Amour, Louis
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 01 1982
- ISBN10: 055325393X
- Language: English
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Matagorda
$8.99 Read moreTap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States and then put his skills to the test as a soldier in the frontier army. Now, leaving behind a devoted fianc e, he is trying to make his for… [more below]
- Author: L’Amour, Louis
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0553281089
- Language: English
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Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
$23.99 Read moreStep into the future of the past in Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
What came to be known as the World’s Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s 149
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Di Cola, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0738594415
- Language: English
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Maine Roads to Gettysburg: How Joshua Chamberlain, Oliver Howard, and 4,000 Men from the Pine Tree State Helped Win the Civil War’s Bloodiest Bat
$39.95 Read moreEveryone knows about Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and his 20th Maine Regiment, but there’s much more to the story of Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg. Soldiers from Maine made their presence felt all … [more below]
- Author: Huntington, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0811718409
- Language: English
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Don’t Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life (1860-1975)
$32.00 Read moreWhen the Apache wars ended in the late nineteenth century, a harsh and harrowing time began for the Western Apache people. Living under the authority of nervous Indian agents, pitiless government-sch… [more below]
- Author: Watt, Eva Tulene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0816523916
- Language: English
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All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud
$14.95 Read moreAn exciting, fact-based, old-fashioned tale of adventure at sea, winner of a Newbery Honor for young readers in 1936.
When his father loses his fortune at sea, a boy, Enoch Thacher, signs up with a f- Series: Godine Storyteller
- Author: Sperry, Armstrong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: February 23 1995
- ISBN10: 0879235233
- Language: English
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Work for Giants: The Campaign and Battle of Tupelo/Harrisburg, Mississippi, June-July 1864
$29.95 Add to cart- Series: Civil War Soldiers and Strategies
- Author: Parson, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1606354760
- Language: English
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The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (2): The Second Day
$25.00 Read moreThis work provides an authoritative illustrated examination of the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, analyzing both grand strategy, and the tactical decisions of Day Two and the ensuing combat.
- Series: Campaign #391
- Author: Orr, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1472854640
- Language: English
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. – With a new Afterword – “Desert Queen…plucks Gertrude … [more below]
- Author: Wallach, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400096197
- Language: English
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George Washington Carver
$4.99 Add to cartTake a bite into the fascinating history of peanut butter and the man who invented it. Through leveled text and engaging photos, kids meet George Washington Carver and learn about his important work w… [more below]
- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Jazynka, Kitson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1426322852
- Language: English
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Anne of the Island
$7.99 Add to cartAnne Shirley is off to college in this artfully packaged edition of the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series.
Anne is finally off to Redmond College! While she’s sad to be leaving Marilla and- Series: Anne of Green Gables Novel
- Author: Montgomery, L. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 1442490047
- Language: English
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The Louisiana Purchase: From Independence to Lewis and Clark
$9.99 Read moreWhen the United States won its independence from Great Britain, it also won new lands. Soon, the Louisiana Purchase doubled the country’s size. These new lands had to be explored and settled. Brave ex… [more below]
- Series: Making a New Nation
- Author: Burgan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1484635965
- Language: English
