Chronological Period/19th Century
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Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story
$16.99 Read moreFrederick Douglass knew where he was born but not when. He knew his grandmother but not his father. And as a young child, there were other questions, such as Why am I a slave? Answers to those questio… [more below]
- Author: Keller, Shana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1534110011
- Language: English
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The Greatest Stories of the Old West Ever Told: True Tales and Legends of Famous Gunfighters, Outlaws and Sheriffs from the Wild West
$11.94 Add to cartStep back in time and immerse yourself in the rugged landscapes, daring outlaws, fearless lawmen, and untamed frontier spirit that defined an era.
Introducing The Greatest Stories of The Old West Ever
- Author: Hunt, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890950109
- Language: English
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Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis
$35.00 Add to cartThis book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question that animated the Civil War: the constitutiona… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Legal History (Paperback)
- Author: Nicoletti, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: October 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1108401538
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
$40.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham, “a big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humani… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1400067669
- Language: English
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Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn
$19.95 Add to cartThe resistance of great Native American warriors to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great r… [more below]
- Author: Burnham, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 149620767X
- Language: English
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The Bonanza King: John MacKay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West
$18.99 Add to cart“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of… [more below]
- Author: Crouch, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1501108204
- Language: English
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Lost Plantations of the South
$40.00 Add to cartThe great majority of the South’s plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diar… [more below]
- Author: Matrana, Marc R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1578069424
- Language: English
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The Irish Famine: A Documentary
$17.95 Read moreA superbly pithy account of the controversies surrounding the failure of Ireland’s potato crop from 1845-1848.
- Author: Ferriter, Diarmaid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1861974604
- Language: English
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
$17.95 Add to cartOn May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that c… [more below]
- Author: Green, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400033225
- Language: English
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
$40.00 Add to cart**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**
“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped sl- Author: Blight, David W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1416590315
- Language: English
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The Siren of Sussex
$19.00 Add to cartA PopSugar, Oprah Daily, and BookBub Most Anticipated Romance of 2022!
Victorian high society’s most daring equestrienne finds love and an unexpected ally in her fight for independence in the strong a- Series: Belles of London
- Author: Matthews, Mimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0593337131
- Language: English
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American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
$18.99 Add to cartWith this “suspenseful narrative history” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air), award-winning science writer David Baron tells the story of the enterprising scientists–among them, planet hunter James
- Author: Baron, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1324094699
- Language: English
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Marrying Winterborne
$9.99 Add to cartA ruthless tycoon
Savage ambition has brought common-born Rhys Winterborne vast wealth and success. In business and beyond, Rhys gets exactly what he wants. And from the moment he meets the shy, aristo
- Author: Kleypas, Lisa
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 0062371851
- Language: English
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Aphrodite and the Duke
$9.99 Add to cart“Bridgerton lovers have found their next read. J. J. McAvoy is a welcome new voice in historical romance.”–New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean
“McAvoy has crafted a lushly romantic tale w- Series: The Dubells
- Author: McAvoy, J. J.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0593594533
- Language: English
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Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch
$24.95 Add to cartThe Wild Bunch, the confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, an… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803277784
- Language: English
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An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President’s Murder
$18.95 Add to cartThis true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the reader from a free-love community in upstate New York to the shocking assassination of President Jame… [more below]
- Author: Wels, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366105
- Language: English
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, … [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1501116231
- Language: English
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Harriet Tubman
$15.99 Add to cartPart of the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad conductor who “never lost a single passenger.”
Little Harr- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #13
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1786032279
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City
$19.00 Add to cartFrom an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it
Between October 8-10,
- Author: Smith, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0802159125
- Language: English
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The Pig War: Standoff at Griffin Bay
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1859 Great Britain and the United States almost went to war over the Northwest boundary when an American farmer shot a British pig. That July, U.S. Army Captain George E. Pickett looked down the gu
- Author: Vouri, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1638640025
- Language: English
