United States - 19th Century
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The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
$32.00 Add to cartThe completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the co
- Series: Asian America
- Author: Chang, Gordon H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1503609243
- Language: English
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Valley of the Guns: The Pleasant Valley War and the Trauma of Violence
$29.95 Read moreIn the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was over, eighteen men were dead, four were wounded, and o… [more below]
- Author: Pagán, Eduardo Obregón
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 15 2018
- ISBN10: 080616154X
- Language: English
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank–not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keen… [more below]
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Lewis, Meriwether
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142437360
- Language: English
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A Day of Blood: The 1898 Wilmington Race Riot
$26.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 2009, the revised edition includes a foreword by Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, Chair of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission and Dean of the School of Arts, Scien… [more below]
- Author: Umfleet, Lerae Sikes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0865265011
- Language: English
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Lynching at Port Jervis
$18.00 Add to cartAn account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism.
On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black ma- Author: Dray, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1250867134
- Language: English
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In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits
$18.95 Add to cartIn 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1324093587
- Language: English
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It Happened on the Oregon Trail
$12.95 Add to cartIt Happened on the Oregon Trail includes twenty-nine unusual, remarkable, little known events that happened along the trail from Independence, Missouri to Oregon’s Willamette Valley. From Rufus K. Por… [more below]
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Wagner, Tricia Martineau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0762725796
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels
$20.00 Add to cartThis illuminating discussion of deism in the early American colonies presents an overview of its main tenets, showing how its influence rose swiftly and for a time became a highly controversial subjec… [more below]
- Author: Walters, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1616141905
- Language: English
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1889: The Boomer Movement, the Land Run, and Early Oklahoma City
$24.95 Add to cartAfter immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up “within a fortnight,” the city’s residents adopted the slogan “born grown… [more below]
- Author: Hightower, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160705
- Language: English
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Triggernometry: A Gallery of Gunfighters
$26.95 Add to cartIn this now classic volume, Eugene Cunningham collects–in his “gallery” –biographies of nearly a score of master gunfighters, including such notables as John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, Dallas Sto
- Author: Cunningham, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0806128372
- Language: English
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Osborne Russell’s Journal of a Trapper:: Edited from the Original Manuscript in the William Robertson Coe Collection of Western Americana in the Yale
$21.95 Add to cart“Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this Volume down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish t
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Russell, Osborne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 241
- Publish Date: October 01 1965
- ISBN10: 0803251661
- Language: English
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The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
$24.00 Add to cartA classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century
Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in t- Author: Trachtenberg, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0809058286
- Language: English
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Yosemite Stage Driver: The Life and Times of George Monroe and His Family
$19.99 Add to cartOne glorious week in Yosemite, stage driver George Monroe shared his bench with Ulysses S. Grant. The backstory, told here for the first time, reveals a family’s epic journey from the Antebellum South
- Author: Bopp, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988162001
- Language: English
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Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty
$18.00 Add to cartThe Statue of Liberty has become one of the most recognizable monuments in the world: a symbol of freedom and the American Dream. But the story of the creation of the statue has been obscured by myth…. [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0802123791
- Language: English
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Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900
$17.95 Add to cartAcclaimed author of biographical and historical fiction Irving Stone turns his magnificent talent to telling America’s most colorful and exciting story–the opening of the Far West.
Men to Match My M- Author: Stone, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: March 15 1987
- ISBN10: 042510544X
- Language: English
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Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory
$27.95 Add to cartHow did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed,
- Author: May, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0813945100
- Language: English
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Stories of the Old West
$24.95 Add to cartSaddle up for a wild ride through those thrilling days of yesteryear. In Stories of the Old West, Steven Price serves up a heapin’ helpin’ of tales of America’s frontier days: ranches and rodeos, lawm
- Author: Price, Steven D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493066412
- Language: English
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Joseph Smith’s Plural Wives, Volume 1: Helen Mar Kimball
$28.00 Add to cartOne of the most controversial facets of Latter-day Saint history is Joseph Smith’s practice of Celestial plural marriage. However, behind the controversy lies the oft-untold inspiring history of real
- Series: Joseph Smith’s Plural Wives #1
- Author: Stoddard, L. Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: February 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1637523416
- Language: English
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
$21.99 Read moreAn award-winning historian’s “searing” (Wall Street Journal) account of America’s internal slave trade–and its role in the making of America
Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of- Author: Rothman, Joshua D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 154161660X
- Language: English
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Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
$32.00 Add to cartThis book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful be… [more below]
- Author: Glymph, Thavolia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0521703980
- Language: English
