Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Colonel Roosevelt
$25.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. . . . A … [more below]
- Series: Theodore Roosevelt #3
- Author: Morris, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0375757074
- Language: English
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The Dante Club
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Before The Dante Chamber, there was The Dante Club “an ingenious thriller that . . . brings Dante Alighieri’s Inferno to vivid, even unsettling life.”–The Boston Globe
“W- Author: Pearl, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: February 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0812971043
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
$8.99 Read more- Series: Illustrated Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 12 2021
- ISBN10: 935440331X
- Language: English
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The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
$29.99 Add to cartIn the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. At the time the population of
- Series: Voyageur Classics #11
- Author: Drew, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1550028014
- Language: English
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The Gettysburg Address
$12.95 Add to cartThe Gettysburg Address was delivered on the afternoon of November 19, 1863 by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the battlefield of the Civil War’s bloodiest battle. Included in this edition is the … [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Lincoln, Abraham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1557090734
- Language: English
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Sakhalin Island
$15.00 Read moreIn 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhal
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1847497861
- Language: English
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Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: Mata Hari
$7.99 Read moreChoose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Mata Hari by Katherine Factor takes YOU around the world and back in time. 9-12 year old readers will enact the early life of an actual historic spy, Margaretha Zelle,… [more below]
- Series: Choose Your Own Adventure
- Author: Factor, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 193713332X
- Language: English
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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
$17.95 Read moreThe long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s b
- Author: Oakes, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020199
- Language: English
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Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History
$39.95 Add to cartThe Sultana was a sidewheel Mississippi steamboat carrying almost two thousand recently-released Union prisoners-of-war back north at the end of the Civil War. At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, when the… [more below]
- Author: Salecker, Gene E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1682477436
- Language: English
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The Private Journals of Edvard Munch: We Are Flames Which Pour Out of the Earth
$29.95 Read moreScandinavia’s most famous painter, the Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863-1944), is probably best known for his painting The Scream, a universally recognized icon of terror and despair. (A version was stole… [more below]
- Author: Munch, Edvard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: July 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0299198146
- Language: English
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Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life
$17.95 Add to cartA vibrant, deeply human portrait of a woman dedicated to fierce protest against the tyranny of institutions over individuals, by the celebrated author
Emma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Gornick, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 030019823X
- Language: English
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Virginia Woolf
$26.00 Read more“A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
While Virginia Woolf–one of our century’s most brilliant and- Author: Lee, Hermione
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: October 05 1999
- ISBN10: 0375701362
- Language: English
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The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner
$14.00 Read moreTwo representative and important works in one volume by one of the greatest German philosophers.
The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche’s first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche i- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 12 1967
- ISBN10: 0394703693
- Language: English
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The First Fast Draw
$8.99 Read moreEast Texas wasn’t much of a home for Cullen Baker. Few liked him, and some even tried to kill him. Yet after three hard years of wandering, he’s come back to farm the land that’s rightfully his. Only
- Author: L’Amour, Louis
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: February 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0553252240
- Language: English
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Mahatma Gandhi
$8.99 Read moreIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Mohandas Gandhi, the father of India.
As a young teenager in India,- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #25
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0711284288
- Language: English
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1861: The Civil War Awakening
$22.00 Add to cartA gripping and original account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to freedom.
A- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Goodheart, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1400032199
- Language: English
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Girl in Disguise
$15.99 Read more“Electrifying…a rollicking nineteenth-century thrill ride.” –Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Waits with Gun
Inspired by the real story of investigator Kate Warne, this spirite
- Author: Macallister, Greer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1492652733
- Language: English
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Little Women
$7.99 Add to cartNow a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timoth e Chalamet, and Meryl Streep
Discover Louisa May Alcott’s enchanting tale of the March sisters for yourself with this beautiful- Series: The Little Women Collection #1
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1534462201
- Language: English
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When the Wolf Came: The Civil War and the Indian Territory
$29.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2014 Oklahoma Book Award for nonfiction
Winner of the 2014 Pate Award from the Fort Worth Civil War Round Table.
When the peoples of the Indian Territory found themselves in the midst o- Series: Civil War in the West
- Author: Warde, Mary Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1682261212
- Language: English
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Silent Star: The Story of Deaf Major Leaguer William Hoy
$12.95 Read moreThe biography of William Ellsworth Hoy, the first deaf player to have a successful career in professional and Major League baseball.
Now in paperback!
William Hoy loved baseball. Growing up in the 1860s
- Author: Wise, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1620148080
- Language: English
