Chronological Period/19th Century
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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 Read moreAlice + 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
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The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
$26.00 Add to cartFrom acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world.
“There is nothing s- Author: Fraser, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1250108578
- Language: English
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Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
$18.95 Add to cartLondon, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says “Fugitive Slaves” ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end
- Author: Jensen, Oskar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1891011421
- Language: English
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The Louisiana Purchase: A Captivating Guide to a Major Turning Point in the History of the United States of America
$23.99 Add to cartThe history of the Louisiana Purchase: The greatest land deal in history!
Do you know the WHOLE story about the Louisiana Purchase? From the first Europeans and Native Americans to its purchase from Fr
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168403
- Language: English
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William A. Richards Diaries of a Frontier Surveyor: in Nebraska and Wyoming
$26.95 Add to cartThese unique diaries give a vivid, you-are-there view of what surveyors went through during the westward expansion. Richards, who eventually becomes governor of Wyoming and commissioner of the U.S. Ge
- Author: McCreery, Lucia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988101604
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy
$20.00 Add to cartAmong the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men during the Civil War, only Sarah Edmonds is known to have written a memoir recounting her experiences. As “Franklin Thompson,” sh
- Author: Edmonds, Sarah Emma Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: September 22 1999
- ISBN10: 0875805841
- Language: English
