Chronological Period/19th Century
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Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation
$21.95 Add to cartThomas Jefferson once called his plantation Poplar Forest, “the most valuable of my possessions.” For Jefferson, Poplar Forest was a private retreat for him to escape the hordes of visitors and everyd
- Author: Heath, Barbara J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0813062993
- Language: English
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The Irish General: Thomas Francis Meagher
$24.95 Add to cartIrish patriot, Civil War general, frontier governor–Thomas Francis Meagher played key roles in three major historical arenas. Today he is hailed as a hero by some, condemned as a drunkard by others.
- Author: Wylie, Paul R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: March 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141859
- Language: English
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Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley
$21.95 Add to cartWith a widowed mother and six siblings, Annie Oakley first became a trapper, hunter, and sharpshooter simply to put food on the table. Yet her genius with the gun eventually led to her stardom in Buff
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #7
- Author: Riley, Glenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0806135069
- Language: English
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The Germans from Russia in Oklahoma
$9.95 Add to cartIn 1980, the University of Oklahoma Press published a ten-book series titled Newcomers to a New Land that described and analyzed the role of the major ethnic groups that have contributed to the histor… [more below]
- Series: Newcomers to a New Land
- Author: Hale, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 080611620X
- Language: English
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Amer Pres: Fillmore
$33.00 Add to cartThe oddly named president whose shortsightedness and stubbornness fractured the nation and sowed the seeds of civil war
In the summer of 1850, America was at a terrible crossroads. Congress was in an- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Finkelman, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 080508715X
- Language: English
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Calvin Coolidge: The American Presidents Series: The 30th President, 1923-1929
$33.99 Add to cartThe austere president who presided over the Roaring Twenties and whose conservatism masked an innovative approach to national leadership
He was known as Silent Cal. Buttoned up and tight-lipped, Calvi- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Greenberg, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0805069577
- Language: English
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The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent
$24.95 Add to cartCritics have called David Lavender a “master storyteller” (Library Journal), his prose “virile, disciplined, yet personal” (New York Times), and his book “a balanced, learned, and lively history of an… [more below]
- Author: Lavender, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0803280033
- Language: English
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Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914
$34.95 Add to cart“A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty.” –Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Harvard Univ… [more below]
- Author: Fuller, William C., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 19 1992
- ISBN10: 0684863820
- Language: English
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Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad
$18.99 Add to cartBeyond the River brings to brilliant life the dramatic story of the forgotten heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad.
From the highest hill above the town of Ripley, Ohio, you ca- Author: Hagedorn, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0684870665
- Language: English
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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
$19.99 Add to cartIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted’s role as a major cultural figure at the epi… [more below]
- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0684865750
- Language: English
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Wagon Wheels A’Rollin’
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Ackley, Daisy Belle Catherine Brown Pier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0595744230
- Language: English
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Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
$35.00 Add to cartHow do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern political democracy… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
- Author: Ziblatt, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0521172993
- Language: English
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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
$29.95 Read moreAcclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, The Rise of American Democracy traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening… [more below]
- Author: Wilentz, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: September 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393329216
- Language: English
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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
$29.99 Add to cartThe world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings
- Author: Johnson, Susan Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: December 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320995
- Language: English
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered Teh Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to th
$27.99 Add to cartA New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice’s biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff of legend. Rice … [more below]
- Author: Rice, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 702
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 030681028X
- Language: English
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Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBeneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamen… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0195367804
- Language: English
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Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
$18.99 Add to cart“Reads like a nail-biting thriller.” — Library Journal, starred review
A gripping new history celebrating the remarkable heroes of the Johnstown Flood–the deadliest flood in U.S. history–from NBC h
- Author: Roker, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062445537
- Language: English
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The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony
$50.95 Add to cartDuring the Gilded Age, Jekyll Island, Georgia, was one of the most exclusive resort destinations in the United States. Owned by the most elite and inaccessible social club in America, a group whose me
- Author: McCash, June Hall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0820319287
- Language: English
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John Wesley Hardin: Dark Angel of Texas
$21.95 Add to cartThus spoke one lawman about John Wesley Hardin, easily the most feared and fearless of all the gunfighters in the West. Nobody knows the exact number of his victims-perhaps as few as twenty or as many
- Author: Metz, Leon C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0806129956
- Language: English
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Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill
$24.95 Add to cartFort Sill, located in the heart of the old Kiowa-Comanche Indian country in southwestern Oklahoma, is known to a modern generation as the Field Artillery School of the United States Army. To students … [more below]
- Author: Nye, Wilbur S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0806118563
- Language: English
