Chronological Period/19th Century
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The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHere is the perfect introductory guide to the history and ideas of the Quakers, one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic religious groups. Emerging in England in the 1650s as a radical sect c… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dandelion, Pink
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0199206791
- Language: English
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
$19.99 Add to cartAdam Hochschild’s Bury the Chains is the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history–the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.
Winner … [more below]
- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0618619070
- Language: English
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Metternich: Strategist and Visionary
$24.95 Read more“A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysis…Let us hope that it will serve if not as a manual then at least as an inspiration–good statesmanship is needed more than ever.”
–Bren- Author: Siemann, Wolfram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292189
- Language: English
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Yves Saint Laurent: Gold: Fashion, Jewelry, Shoes, and Bags
$50.00 Read moreA bold and fashionable look at the iconic golds of Yves Saint Laurent–in jewelry, couture, and accessories–from the 1960s to the 2000s
“I love gold, it’s a magical color; when reflecting a woman, i- Author: Janssen, Elsa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 141977140X
- Language: English
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Northanger Abbey
$11.99 Read moreLittle treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury … [more below]
- Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1787557014
- Language: English
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My Imaginary Mary
$18.99 Read moreIt’s aliiiiiiiive! New York Times bestselling authors of My Lady Jane are back with the electric, poetic, and (almost) historical tale of the one and only Mary Shelley.
Mary may have inherited the bril
- Series: Lady Janies
- Author: Hand, Cynthia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0062930079
- Language: English
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Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism
$30.00 Read moreThe story of how Daniel Webster popularized the ideals of American nationalism that helped forge our nation’s identity and inspire Abraham Lincoln to preserve the Union
When the United States was fou- Author: Paul, Joel Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0593189043
- Language: English
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Married by Morning
$10.99 Read moreMarried by Morning continues Lisa Kleypas’s Hathaways beloved series set in Victorian London.
For two years, Catherine Marks has been a paid companion to the Hathaway sisters–a pleasant position, wit- Series: Hathaways #4
- Author: Kleypas, Lisa
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 0312605382
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave Written by Himself
$14.95 Add to cartA new edition of the African American masterpiece featuring critical essays by Angela Y. Davis.
A masterpiece of African American literature, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative is the powerful story of an
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Davis, Angela Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0872865274
- Language: English
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Murphy’s Law: A Molly Murphy Mystery
$12.00 Read moreThe novel that started it all, Murphy’s Law, will delight readers old and new of this remarkable, bestselling series.
Molly Murphy always knew she’d end up in trouble, just as her mother predicted. So- Series: Molly Murphy Mysteries #1
- Author: Bowen, Rhys
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 125029777X
- Language: English
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We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
$10.99 Read moreThis young adult adaptation of the New York Times bestselling White Rage is essential antiracist reading for teens.
An NAACP Image Award finalist
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A NYPL Best Book f- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 154760252X
- Language: English
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Tenmile
$20.95 Read moreLife in 1880 Tenmile, Colorado, isn’t easy. But it’s all that 12-year-old Sissy Carlson knows. She’s lived here her whole life, watching her father, the local doctor, tend to the town’s citizens. And … [more below]
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 153411162X
- Language: English
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The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party
$14.99 Read moreIn powerful, vivid verse, the master behind The Watch That Ends the Night recounts one of history’s most harrowing–and chilling–tales of survival.
In 1846, a group of emigrants bound for California- Author: Wolf, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1536228192
- Language: English
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In Order That Justice May Be Done: The Legal Struggle of the Turtle Mountain Band of Pembina Chippewa, 1795-1905
$38.95 Add to cartWhen the cultural identity of the Turtle Mountain Band of Pembina Chippewa was challenged by European Americans–who conceived of progress in terms of cultivated farmland–a tribal-federal conundrum o… [more below]
- Author: Shaw, John M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1946163562
- Language: English
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On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894
$10.99 Read moreA detailed diary from the author of the beloved Little House series, chronicling her journey with her family from South Dakota to Missouri.
In 1894, Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, Almanzo, and the
- Series: Little House Nonfiction
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 20 1976
- ISBN10: 0064400808
- Language: English
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West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the popular “Letters from an American” newsletter: a sweeping story of how Northerners, Southerners, and Westerners together created modern America in the years from Abraham Lincoln… [more below]
- Author: Richardson, Heather Cox
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0300136307
- Language: English
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Inventing Idaho: The Gem State’s Eccentric Shape
$26.95 Read moreAs Idaho’s State Historian, the question Keith Petersen heard most was, “How did Idaho get such a strange shape?” That curiosity is fitting, because those peculiar borders have held enormous influence
- Author: Petersen, Keith C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: September 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0874224187
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s Notebooks: Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, and Doodles
$19.95 Read moreThe original and insightful collection that combines Mark Twain’s journal writings with his rarely seen sketches and doodles. Fascinating and often hilarious, this is a complete record of the thoughts… [more below]
- Series: Notebook
- Author: de Vito, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 1579129978
- Language: English
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I Am a Man: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice
$19.00 Read moreIn 1877, Chief Standing Bear’s Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to what was then known as Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in what became the tribe’s ow
- Author: Starita, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0312606389
- Language: English
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The Little Match Girl
$8.99 Read moreThe luminous art of three-time Caldecott Honor recipient Jerry Pinkney transforms the nineteenth-century Danish girl of Andersen’s tale into a child plucked straight from America’s melting pot, sheddi… [more below]
- Author: Andersen, Hans Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 24 2001
- ISBN10: 0698114175
- Language: English
