Chronological Period/1900-1919
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St. Louis: The 1904 World’s Fair
$40.99 Add to cartFor seven months in 1904, St. Louis was the greatest city on earth. Millions flocked to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to behold the inventions of the early 20th century. Many saw electric lights, … [more below]
- Author: Sonderman, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 26 2008
- ISBN10: 153163981X
- Language: English
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Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota
$23.99 Add to cartThis “powerful and chilling” (Publishers Weekly) account of a young girl taken from her native land in South Dakota after the 1890 massacre of Lakota men, women, and children describes the story of Lo… [more below]
- Author: Flood, Renee Sansom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1476790752
- Language: English
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Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mine Disaster of 1917
$30.00 Add to cartThe author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant — basis for the award-winning motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio — tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disast… [more below]
- Author: Punke, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 17 2008
- ISBN10: 140130155X
- Language: English
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World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict
$45.33 Add to cartAlthough not a major player during the course of the First World War, Southeast Asia was in fact altered by the war in multiple and profound ways. Ranging across British Malaya, the Dutch East Indies,… [more below]
- Author: Streets-Salter, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: April 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1316501094
- Language: English
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The General and the Jaguar: Pershing’s Hunt for Pancho Villa: A True Story of Revolution and Revenge
$26.95 Add to cartOn the cold, dark night of March 9, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa–el jaguar–and his band of marauders crossed the border and raided the tiny town of Columbus, New Mexico. It was a vicious… [more below]
- Author: Welsome, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803222246
- Language: English
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A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
$21.00 Add to cartEdith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir.
With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York s- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: July 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0684847558
- Language: English
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
$27.00 Add to cartA “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, The Roman… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0679645616
- Language: English
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Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century
$18.99 Add to cartPart history, part autobiography, WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris
- Author: Eksteins, Modris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 31 2007
- ISBN10: 061808231X
- Language: English
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Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history–from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White Ci… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 24 1999
- ISBN10: 0609602330
- Language: English
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
$17.95 Add to cartOn March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown–but when cor
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358151
- Language: English
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Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
$34.95 Add to cartThe stories of the hard-rock miners’ shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the “Rebel Girl” of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights, Emma Goldman and the … [more below]
- Author: Buhle, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 305
- Publish Date: November 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1844675254
- Language: English
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Great Dissent
$25.99 Add to cartA gripping intellectual history reveals how Oliver Wendell Holmes became a free-speech advocate and established the modern understanding of the First Amendment
No right seems more fundamental to Ameri- Author: Healy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1250058694
- Language: English
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The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service During World War I
$32.95 Add to cartWhen the United States officially entered World War I in 1917, it was woefully underprepared for chemical warfare, in which the British, French, and Germans had been engaged since 1915. In response, t… [more below]
- Author: Leeke, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1640126058
- Language: English
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The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China: A History
$21.99 Add to cartA concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powers.
The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The B- Author: Silbey, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0809030756
- Language: English
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Woodrow Wilson: The American Presidents Series: The 28th President, 1913-1921
$31.99 Add to cartA comprehensive account of the rise and fall of one of the major shapers of American foreign policy
On the eve of his inauguration as President, Woodrow Wilson commented, It would be the irony of fate- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0805069550
- Language: English
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Warrior Spirit: The Story of Native American Patriotism and Heroism
$19.95 Add to cartFor decades, American schoolchildren have learned only a smattering of facts about Native American peoples, especially when it comes to service in the U.S. military. They might know that Navajos serve… [more below]
- Author: Viola, Herman J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0806180315
- Language: English
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Seeking Shelter: Memoir of a Jewish Girlhood in Wartime Britain
$16.95 Add to cartCynthia Ehrenkrantz was six in 1939 when Britain entered World
War II. She was twelve in 1945 when the war ended. Seeking
Shelter is her vivid child’s-eye account of life in wartime England
as she lived
- Author: Ehrenkrantz, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: July 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1456639129
- Language: English
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The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy
$21.00 Add to cartA delicious group biography of the young American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century – the real women who inspired Downton Abbey.
Towards the end o- Author: De Courcy, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1250164605
- Language: English
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Lenin on the Train
$25.99 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s Best Books of the Year
A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin’s fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and fore
- Author: Merridale, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160146
- Language: English
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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
$22.99 Add to cartState structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolu… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Skocpol, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 421
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569842
- Language: English
