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Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color (Revised)
$29.95 Add to cartOut of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acr
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Mills, Gary B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 13, 2013
- ISBN10: 0807137138
- Language: English
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Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes
$24.95 Add to cartThe deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers. Hailed as great heroes at the t
- Author: Allen, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: March 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0806140380
- Language: English
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The Five Civilized Tribes: Volume 8
$26.95 Add to cartSide by side with the westward drift of white Americans in the 1830’s was the forced migration of the Five Civilized Tribes from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Both groups were deployed a
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #8
- Author: Foreman, Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: March 15 1971
- ISBN10: 0806109238
- Language: English
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The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America
$25.99 Add to cartThe Dalzells . . . do an astonishing job of placing Kykuit in historical context while weaving the larger-than-life Rockefeller personalities into its very walls and hallways.–Los Angeles Times
One h- Series: John MacRae Books
- Author: Dalzell, Robert F., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0805088571
- Language: English
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Texas Rangers: Volume I: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900
$34.99 Add to cartTexas writer/historian Mike Cox explores the inception and rise of the famed Texas Rangers.
Starting in 1821 with just a handful of men, the Rangers’ first purpose was to keep settlers safe from the- Author: Cox, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 076531892X
- Language: English
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Lewis & Clark for Dummies
$19.99 Add to cartThe Lewis and Clark expedition was the greatest camping trip in history. It was one of those irresistible American adventures that many people dream of living. This book shares the delightful details … [more below]
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: Meadows, Sammye J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 26 2003
- ISBN10: 076452545X
- Language: English
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Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC
$18.95 Add to cartNow in Paperback!
Empire of Mud unearths and untangles the roots of our capital’s beginnings and explores how the city was tainted from the start, its turbulent history setting a precedent for the dis- Author: Dickey, J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0762787910
- Language: English
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Boon Island: A True Story Of Mutiny, Shipwreck, And Cannibalism
$16.95 Add to cartA harrowing true tale of fraud, mutiny, shipwreck, and cannibalism on the desolate rock known as Boon Island.
- Author: Erickson, Stephen A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0762777524
- Language: English
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Blood Feud: The Hatfields And The Mccoys: The Epic Story Of Murder And Vengeance
$26.83 Add to cartAmerica’s most notorious family feud began in 1865 with the murder of a Union McCoy soldier by a Confederate Hatfield relative of “Devil Anse” Hatfield. More than a decade later, Ranel McCoy accused a… [more below]
- Author: Alther, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0762782250
- Language: English
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The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate’s Deep Throat
$17.99 Add to cartThe mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 remained hidden for thirty-three years. In The Secret Man, Woodward tells the story of his lon… [more below]
- Author: Woodward, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0743287169
- Language: English
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San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury
$24.99 Add to cartAt the turn of the 20th century, the Haight-Ashbury first gained prominence as the gateway to Golden Gate Park; six decades later, it would anchor the worldwide cultural revolution that blossomed in t… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Powell Cohen, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0738559946
- Language: English
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Gay and Lesbian San Francisco
$24.99 Add to cartIn recent years, San Francisco has been synonymous with gay and lesbian pride, and the various achievements of the gay and lesbian community are personified in the city by the bay. The tumultuous and … [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Lipsky, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 20 2006
- ISBN10: 0738531383
- Language: English
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Ellis Island
$23.99 Add to cartThe United States is considered the world’s foremost refuge for foreigners, and no place in the nation symbolizes this better than Ellis Island.
Through Ellis Island’s halls and corridors more than twe
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Moreno, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0738513040
- Language: English
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University of Connecticut
$24.99 Read moreIn a 50-room building that housed Connecticut’s Civil War orphans, the University of Connecticut began in the fall of 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School. From this beginning comes a rich history o… [more below]
- Series: Campus History
- Author: Roy, Mark J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 10 2001
- ISBN10: 073850856X
- Language: English
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Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed Their Military Experience
$27.99 Add to cart“It is impossible to reproduce the state of mind of the men who waged war in 1917 and 1918,” Edward Coffman wrote in The War to End All Wars. In Doughboys on the Great War the voices of thousands of s… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Guti?rrez, Edward A
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 20 2017
- ISBN10: 0700624449
- Language: English
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From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation
$32.00 Add to cartThis book explores the centrality of contract to debates over freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century America. It focuses on the contracts of wage labor and marriage, investigating the connections b… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Amy Dru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: November 13 1998
- ISBN10: 0521635268
- Language: English
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The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace
$39.00 Add to cartA revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisions
The first hundred days of FDR’s presidency a- Author: Woolner, David B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0465048714
- Language: English
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The Town That Started the Civil War
$19.00 Add to cartBefore the War Between the States, there was the war between the U.S. government and Oberlin, Ohio. . . .
“A fascinating, gripping narrative.”–James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
On a- Author: Brandt, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: July 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0440503965
- Language: English
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The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
$27.99 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the largest family in America, the Hairston clan. With several thousand black and white members, the Hairst- Author: Wiencek, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 19 2000
- ISBN10: 0312253931
- Language: English
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
$20.00 Add to cartNow a major motion picture “The Front Runner” starring Hugh Jackman
An NPR Best Book of the Year In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart–a dashing, reform-minded Democrat–seemed a lock for the party- Author: Bai, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0307474682
- Language: English
