United States - 19th Century
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Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the author of American Eden–finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and more–comes a sweeping, richly researched biography of Frederic Church, the great 19th-century American … [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1982196297
- Language: English
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Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and a Reckoning in Tombstone
$35.00 Add to cartA True West Magazine Best Book and Best Author of the Year
A colorful and groundbreaking account of the most storied friendship of the American West: the bond between Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday
Wyatt- Author: Gardner, Mark Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 059347189X
- Language: English
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The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City
$32.00 Add to cartIn the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in the streets, saloons, churches, and workp… [more below]
- Series: Penguin History of American Life
- Author: Barrett, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0143122800
- Language: English
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Vengeance: The Last Stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull
$32.00 Add to cartA dramatic new look at Custer’s Last Stand in time for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, by the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Heart of Everything That Is.
On J- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1250374502
- Language: English
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The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World
$32.00 Add to cartA lively and captivating journey through the world of the Transcendentalists, America’s first group of public intellectuals, whose visionary ideas reinvented our culture and politics and remain an ins… [more below]
- Author: Nichols, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1668094878
- Language: English
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John Brown in New York: The Man, His Family, and the Adirondack Landscape
$32.95 Add to cartAn intimate narrative of John Brown and his family in the Adirondack Mountains.
With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Weber, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855804645
- Language: English
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This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
$35.00 Read more“Original, compelling, and memorable…Fehrman sheds new light on a fabled story, and tells it in a way that puts all of us back in a vanished but resonant world.” –Jon Meacham – “Here, at long last,… [more below]
- Author: Fehrman, Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1982174242
- Language: English
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Monroe Doctrine
$21.99 Add to cartA Concise History of the (In)Famous Doctrine that Gave Rise to the American Empire
President James Monroe’s 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisp- Author: Sexton, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0809069997
- Language: English
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The Partisans: James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, and the Politics of Rivalry and Revenge in the Gilded Age
$29.95 Add to cartThe Partisans tells the story of the feud that dominated American politics in the decades that followed the Civil War. It is the first detailed account of the battle between Republicans James G. Blain
- Author: Mitchell, Robert B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: September 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1889020613
- Language: English
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No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
$29.95 Add to cartFrom 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US part… [more below]
- Author: Chambers, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1781689997
- Language: English
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Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism
$24.00 Add to cartFor readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism–and the bold, revolutionary, and eccentri… [more below]
- Author: Jennings, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 0812983890
- Language: English
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The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier
$31.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning historian Megan Kate Nelson, an epic account of the creation of the American West in the 19th century, shattering the traditional frontier myth that has dominated popular American c… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Megan Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1668004348
- Language: English
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Guns, Furs, and Gold: An American West History of Indigenous Peoples and Explorers
$34.95 Add to cartGuns, Furs, and Gold offers a riveting narrative of the American West by exploring the interactions of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos with each other and with Euro-American traders, expl… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Larry E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496237617
- Language: English
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Red Dead’s History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America’s Violent Past
$19.00 Add to cartA pathbreaking new way to examine US history, through the lens of a bestselling video game
Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history vi- Author: Olsson, Tore C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1250895685
- Language: English
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Traitor: The Life and Assassination of John Dunn Hunter, American Radical
$34.95 Add to cartThe story of John Dunn Hunter’s remarkable life, tragic betrayal, and disgraceful murder.
John Dunn Hunter was many things: a frontier hero, a writer, a celebrity at home and abroad, and, ultimately, t
- Author: Doolen, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1421453282
- Language: English
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Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico
$34.95 Add to cartLieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army’s use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Robert E. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0826368417
- Language: English
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Flying Cloud: The True Story of America’s Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her
$17.99 Add to cartIn 1851, Elanor Creesy, in a position almost unheard of for a woman in the mid-nineteenth century, served as the navigator on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud — traveling from New Y… [more below]
- Author: Shaw, David W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 03 2001
- ISBN10: 0060934786
- Language: English
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Bandit Heaven: The Hole-In-The-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West
$19.00 Read moreFrom multiple New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin comes the thrilling true story of the most infamous hangout for bandits, thieves and murderers of all time–and the lawmen tasked with rootin
- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1250852552
- Language: English
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When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation Proclamation
$36.99 Add to cartDuring the three decades before the American Civil War, Southern slaveholders tried to end the anti-slavery movement. They exerted their influence by censoring the press and the mail, attacking and ki
- Author: Rogers, Lisa Waller
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 682
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999409621
- Language: English
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Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy
$41.93 Add to cart- Author: DeWolfe, Elizabeth A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1985902249
- Language: English
