Chronological Period/19th Century
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Before the Gilded Age: W. W. Corcoran and the Rise of American Capital and Culture
$29.95 Read moreThe first modern biography of financial pioneer and philanthropist W. W. Corcoran
Before the Gilded Age reveals the extraordinary ways in which W. W. Corcoran shaped the emerging cultural elite and cha
- Author: Goldstein, Mark L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1647123615
- Language: English
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Chicago Marching: A History of Protest, Authority & Violence
$23.99 Read moreExamine the inflection points in Chicago’s history of protest. A word packed with meaning and emotion, “protest” can be synonymous with both free speech and rioting. Chicago’s citizens and city offici… [more below]
- Author: Rulli, Joseph Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151432
- Language: English
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The Tragic Trip of the Donner Party
$8.99 Read moreIn the spring of 1846, the Donner and Reed families joined a wagon train bound for California in hopes of a better life. But when the party took an untested shortcut, it set them down a tragic path. A… [more below]
- Series: Deadly Expeditions
- Author: Micklos Jr, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1666390658
- Language: English
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Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
$5.95 Read moreThomas B. Allen’s follow-up to the multi-award-winning George Washington, Spymaster is now available in paperback. This compelling biography tells the amazing tale of Harriet Tubman using details unco… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Thomas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1426304013
- Language: English
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Que Fue El Tren Clandestino?
$14.95 Add to cartNo one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from; there were no trains or tracks, only ‘conductors’ who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about ‘passengers’ on the ‘R… [more below]
- Series: Quien Fue? / Who Was?
- Author: McDonough, Yona Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1631134175
- Language: Spanish
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The Story of My Heart
$21.95 Add to cart“A first-rate tribute to an author who now has been rescued from obscurity.”
—THE UTAH REVIEWOriginally published in 1883, The Story of My Heart explores the existence of a “soul-life” as British natu
- Author: Jefferies, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1937226417
- Language: English
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Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth . . . the Remedy
$34.95 Read moreProgress and Poverty offers a fundamental inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and the persistence of poverty and advancing wealth. Upon its 1879 debut, it quickly became the bestselling b… [more below]
- Author: George, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: July 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0486842088
- Language: English
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Napoleon: A Biography
$19.99 Read moreThis acclaimed biography of one history’s great figures–called “monumental” (Library Journal), “brilliant” (Times, London) and “a rounded and persuasive portrait” (New York Times)—is now available i… [more below]
- Author: McLynn, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1951627547
- Language: English
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Goldtown Beginnings
$32.50 Add to cartRush into adventure with Jem Coulter
Readers ages 6-8 have gold fever Goldtown, California, in the 1800s is at the heart of the gold rush . . . and young Jem Coulter and his family are right in the- Series: Goldtown Beginnings
- Author: Marlow, Susan K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0825447003
- Language: English
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Highland Wolf: Highland Brides
$9.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestselling Author Lynsay Sands delivers another sexy historical romance set in the wilds of the Highlands
In all her daydreams about her wedding day, Lady Claray MacFarlane never once i
- Series: Highland Brides #10
- Author: Sands, Lynsay
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0062855433
- Language: English
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The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Fathers Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
$26.00 Read moreAn Alexander Hamilton heir, a beautiful female con artist, an abandoned baby, and the shocking courtroom drama that was splashed across front pages from coast to coast–this is the fascinating true st… [more below]
- Author: Shaffer, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 080654225X
- Language: English
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The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics
$22.00 Read moreIn roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations. But friction b
- Author: Ngai, Mae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036109
- Language: English
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Studies in Classic American Literature
$17.00 Read more“Nobody ever read [the great old books] like Lawrence did–as madly, as wildly or as insightfully. . . . You will be jolted awake.” –A. O. Scott, The New York Times
A Penguin Classic Lawrence asserte- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140183779
- Language: English
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Lewis and Clark Trail Maps: A Cartographic Reconstruction, Volume I: Missouri River Between Camp River DuBois (Illinois) and Fort Mandan (North Da
$30.00 Read moreThe Lewis and Clark Expedition bicentennial is producing an unprecedented flurry of interest in the United States, and an array of commemorative activities are being planned in the regions visited by
- Series: Cartographic Reconstruction #1
- Author: Plamondon II, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: September 13 2000
- ISBN10: 087422232X
- Language: English
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Black Communities of Fairfax: A History
$24.99 Add to cartThe story of Black Fairfax has long been untold. The free Black population of Fairfax Court House dates to at least the 1820s. After the Civil War, newly freed Black citizens expanded the hamlet of Je… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Willson, Etta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155497
- Language: English
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Monumental Lies: Early Nevada Folklore of the Wild West
$29.95 Read moreA playful embrace of tall tales and exaggeration, Monumental Lies explores the evolution of folklore in the Wild West.
Monumental Lies: Early Nevada Folklore of the Wild West invites readers to explor- Series: Shepperson Nevada History
- Author: James, Ronald M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1647791162
- Language: English
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House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
$14.95 Read moreOn September 11, 1857, some 120 men, women, and children from the Arkansas hills were murdered in the remote desert valley of Mountain Meadows, Utah. This notorious massacre was, in fact, a mass execu
- Author: Novak, Shannon A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 27 2008
- ISBN10: 1607811693
- Language: English
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The War of 1812 in the Old Northwest
$24.95 Read moreThis engaging narrative history deftly illustrates the War of 1812 as it played out in the Old Northwest — Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and bordering parts of Canada. From the stirrings of conf
- Author: Gilpin, Alec R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1611860385
- Language: English
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The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom
$17.95 Read moreFrom the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln–two men moved to radically different acts t… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0525563458
- Language: English
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Desolation Island
$16.95 Read moreCommissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautif
- Series: Aubrey-Maturin (Paperback) #5
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 17 1991
- ISBN10: 039330812X
- Language: English
