Chronological Period/19th Century
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The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
$24.95 Add to cartDugard’s spirited narrative animates a group of men whose force of character, professional skill and ability to think outside conventional limits revitalized the sclerotic arm.—Publishers Weekly
For f
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803228120
- Language: English
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Toward the Setting Sun: John Ross, the Cherokees, and the Trail of Tears
$18.00 Add to cart“Richly detailed and well-researched, this heartbreaking history unfolds like a political thriller with a deeply human side.”–Publishers Weekly
Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most signi- Author: Hicks, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0802145698
- Language: English
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Badasses of the Old West: True Stories Of Outlaws On The Edge
$16.95 Add to cartTrue stories of outlaws on the edge. The worst (and best) of the robbers, rustlers, and bandits who shaped the history of the Wild West.
- Author: Turner, Erin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0762754664
- Language: English
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Hearts West: True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier
$12.95 Add to cartHearts West includes more than a dozen stories of courageous mail order brides and their exploits. Accompanying the text are actual advertisements placed by both women seeking husbands and men seeking… [more below]
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 076272756X
- Language: English
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Thus Fell Tecumseh
$24.95 Add to cart“Rumpsey-dumpsey, Rumpsey-dumpsey, Colonel Johnson killed Tecumseh ” Did he really? Such was the slogan craftily used by Richard M. Johnson’s campaign strategists to win him the vice-presidency of the… [more below]
- Author: Kuron, Frank E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0615415229
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
$8.00 Read more“The most impressive satirist of his day.” — Time Magazine
With devastating satiric wit, this book examines the hollowness and falsity suggested by the term “conspicuous consumption” (coined by Veblen
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Veblen, Thorstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 20 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280624
- Language: English
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Pugin’s Gothic Ornament
$14.95 Add to cartOne hundred plates of royalty-free Gothic designs, meticulously reproduced from rare 19th-century engravings. Many are floral and foliate designs rendered from panels, capitals, borders, brackets, fri… [more below]
- Series: Dover Pictorial Archives
- Author: Pugin, Augustus Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: December 01 1987
- ISBN10: 048625500X
- Language: English
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In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
$29.99 Add to cartA landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the explo
- Author: Taylor, Quintard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318893
- Language: English
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American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow
$22.99 Add to cartFor a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial etiquet
- Author: Packard, Jerrold M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031230241X
- Language: English
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Andrew Jackson
$19.00 Add to cartA gripping account of Andrew Jackson’s triumphant military career by acclaimed military historian Robert Remini, winner of the National Book Award.
Andrew Jackson is best known as the president who cr- Series: Great Generals (Paperback)
- Author: Remini, Robert Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0230617557
- Language: English
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Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs
$15.95 Add to cart“The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love.” So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard’s Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous narrator, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kierkegaard, Soren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199214190
- Language: English
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Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
$19.99 Add to cart“A fine, invaluable book. . . . Certain to become essential to our understanding of the 16th president. . . . Kaplan meticulously analyzes how Lincoln’s steadily maturing prose style enabled him to co
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0060773367
- Language: English
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In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits
$27.95 Read moreIn the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet–and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed
- Author: Alford, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1631495607
- Language: English
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Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen
$22.99 Add to cartHawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen (1898) is an autobiography by Lili’uokalani. Published in 1898, the book was written in the aftermath of Lili’uokalani’s attempt to appeal on behalf of her people to P
- Series: Mint Editions – Hawaiian Library
- Author: Lili’uokalani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1513209027
- Language: English
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African American History: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events that Shaped the History of the United States
$29.99 Add to cartExplore Captivating Stories and Facts about African American History
The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events. The people who dared to stand up and speak out against t
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1647485258
- Language: English
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Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
$18.99 Add to cartAlice + Freda Forever is a gut-wrenching story of love, death, and the dangers of intolerance.“–Bustle
In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn’t her crime that shocked th
- Author: Coe, Alexis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1936976609
- Language: English
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A History of Native American Land Rights in Upstate New York
$24.99 Add to cartA complex and troubled history defines the borders of upstate New York beyond the physical boundaries of its rivers and lakes. The United States and the state were often deceptive in their territory n… [more below]
- Author: Amrhein, Cindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 14 2016
- ISBN10: 1626199310
- Language: English
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Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot
$14.99 Add to cart“Lively . . . Defiant . . . Pulling back the curtain on 100 years of struggle . . . The women who shaped the American narrative come to life with refreshing attention to detail.”–The New York Times B… [more below]
- Author: Conkling, Winifred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1616209887
- Language: English
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President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
$23.00 Add to cartAcclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a “measured, insightful biography that seeks to set the record straight…a deft character study of a pre
- Author: Merry, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 06, 2018
- ISBN10: 1451625456
- Language: English
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William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia
$32.00 Add to cartThe first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad.
William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first major
- Author: Kashatus, William C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0268200394
- Language: English
