Chronological Period/19th Century
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The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition
$26.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. Decades later, … [more below]
- Author: Leckie, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0806138408
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
$39.99 Add to cartWe are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant
- Author: Sinha, Manisha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1631498444
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
$3.95 Add to cartPackaged in handsome and affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. From the musings of literary geniuses like Mark Twain in The Adventures of Hucklebe… [more below]
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1945186178
- Language: English
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
$16.95 Add to cartElizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of “ordinary” womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medici
- Author: Nimura, Janice P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020202
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$24.95 Add to cartAt its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties – to her marriage and to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0198800533
- Language: English
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Middle Passage
$18.00 Add to cartA twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece–“a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick…heroic in proportion…fiction that hooks the m… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0684855887
- Language: English
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Josephine and Her Dishwashing Machine: Josephine Cochrane’s Bright Invention Makes a Splash
$18.99 Add to cartCelebrate the inventor of the dishwasher in this inspiring STEM/STEAM picture book biography about Josephine Garis Cochrane, the brains behind one of the world’s most-used kitchen appliances.
Many Ame- Author: Hannigan, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1635926211
- Language: English
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An Unexpected Peril
$17.00 Add to cartA princess is missing and a peace treaty is on the verge of collapse in this new Veronica Speedwell adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn.
Janu- Series: Veronica Speedwell Mystery
- Author: Raybourn, Deanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0593197283
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$10.99 Add to cartFirst appearing in 1845 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, with its painfully vivid depiction of life in bondage, was both a bestseller in its day and one of the most powerful, authorita
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 151313356X
- Language: English
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A Love by Design
$17.00 Add to cartYou couldn’t design a better hero than the very eligible and extremely charming Earl Grantham. Unless, of course, you are Margaret Gault, who wants nothing to do with the man who broke her youthful he… [more below]
- Series: The Secret Scientists of London
- Author: Everett, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593200667
- Language: English
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Little Town on the Prairie: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$19.99 Add to cartBased on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie is the seventh book in the award-winning Little House series, which has captivated generations of readers. This ed
- Series: Little House #7
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 03 1953
- ISBN10: 0060264500
- Language: English
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The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money’s Prophets: 1798-1848
$28.00 Add to cartIn his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family’s phenomenal economic success… [more below]
- Series: House of Rothschild #1
- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140240845
- Language: English
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An Impossible Impostor
$19.00 Add to cartWhile investigating a man claiming to be the long-lost heir to a noble family, Veronica Speedwell gets the surprise of her life in this paperback reprint from New York Times bestselling and Edgar(R) A… [more below]
- Series: Veronica Speedwell Mystery
- Author: Raybourn, Deanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0593197313
- Language: English
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A Notorious Vow: The Four Hundred Series
$9.99 Read moreJoanna Shupe returns to New York City’s Gilded Age, where fortunes and reputations are gained and lost with ease–and love can blossom from the most unlikely charade
With the fate of her disgraced fami
- Series: Four Hundred #3
- Author: Shupe, Joanna
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0062678949
- Language: English
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A Wicked Bargain for the Duke: A Hazards of Dukes Novel
$9.99 Add to cartThe author of the “sparkling” and “steamy” (Entertainment Weekly) Never Kiss a Duke returns with the delightful third book in the Hazards of Dukes series as a rigid duke enters into marriage with a re
- Author: Frampton, Megan
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0063023083
- Language: English
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Frederick Douglass
$5.99 Add to cartDiscover the world of one of America’s most celebrated abolitionists, writers, and orators in this inspirational biography of Frederick Douglass. Kids will learn about his life, achievements, and the … [more below]
- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Kramer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1426327560
- Language: English
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Who Was H. J. Heinz?
$6.99 Read moreWho HQ has way more than 57 reasons why you’ll want to read the amazing story of H. J. Heinz–the American entrepreneur who brought tomato ketchup to the masses.
Learn how this son of German immigrant- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Burgan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0448488655
- Language: English
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The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
$18.00 Add to cartIt is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, … [more below]
- Author: Bailey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 29 2005
- ISBN10: 080214229X
- Language: English
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The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
$46.67 Read moreA panoramic global history of the nineteenth century
A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti- Series: America in the World #20
- Author: Osterhammel, J?rgen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1192
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169802
- Language: English
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The Old Leather Man: Historical Accounts of a Connecticut and New York Legend
$35.00 Read moreFascinating documentation of a mysterious figure
In 1883, wearing a sixty-pound suit sewn from leather boot-tops, a wanderer known only as the Leather Man began to walk a 365 mile loop between the Conn
- Series: Garnet Books
- Author: DeLuca, Dan W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0819568627
- Language: English
