United States - 19th Century
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Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln
$29.99 Add to cartMurder, mob rule, and the making of Abraham Lincoln–the story of three racially motivated murders in Mississippi River towns from 1835 to 1838 that inspired the speech that put Lincoln on the nationa… [more below]
- Author: Ambar, Saladin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798895150214
- Language: English
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Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History
$20.00 Add to cart“Stellar . . . Spectacular . . . [A] heartfelt, painstaking account.” –Nell Irvin Painter, The Washington Post
“An extraordinary collaboration . . . A profound achievement . . . Downs is a superb, ev- Author: Kaye, Anthony E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390567
- Language: English
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Confronting Bad History — How a Lost Cause and Fraudulent Book Caused the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation Trial
$26.50 Add to cartHow a Lost Cause and Fraudulent
Book Caused the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation Trial
Confronting Bad History is about our history’s most infamous villain and debunks the conspiracy story that Lincoln’ ass… [more below]
- Author: Gorman, Francis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 23 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218516420
- Language: English
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American Grammar: Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation
$32.00 Add to cartA new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as “the great equali
- Author: Givens, Jarvis R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 006325915X
- Language: English
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The Last Adieu: Lafayette’s Triumphant Return, the Echoes of Revolution, and the Gratitude of the Republic
$31.99 Add to cart“Memories of the Revolution have come back to life…”
In the summer of 1824, the aging Marquis de Lafayette, defeated politically and distraught over the fate of liberty in Europe, set sail one last t
- Author: Cole, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1400251311
- Language: English
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Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Circus
$20.95 Add to cartThe fascinating story of how nineteenth-century circus women performed impossible feats and changed American culture.
Jumping Through Hoops reveals the hidden history of early female circus performers:
- Author: Kellem, Betsy Golden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1558613447
- Language: English
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The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Rich and Forget the Alamo comes an epic reconsideration of the time and place that spawned America’s most legendary gunfighters, from Jesse James … [more below]
- Author: Burrough, Bryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1984878905
- Language: English
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Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack
$29.95 Add to cartLumberjacks: the men, the myth, and the making of an American legend
The folk hero Paul Bunyan, burly, bearded, wielding his big ax, stands astride the story of the upper Midwest–a manly symbol of t- Author: Brown, Willa Hammitt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1517912458
- Language: English
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Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland
$20.00 Read moreA Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year
A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and na- Author: Shane, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1250843235
- Language: English
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The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship That Changed American History
$19.95 Add to cartEvoking the political intrigue of the Gilded Age, The Rough Rider and the Professor chronicles the extraordinary thirty-five-year friendship between President Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Henry Cabo… [more below]
- Author: Jurdem, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367888
- Language: English
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American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
$21.00 Add to cartIn September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an … [more below]
- Author: Denton, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0375726365
- Language: English
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Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800
$24.99 Add to cartIt was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United Stat… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History (Oxford)
- Author: Ferling, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 20 2005
- ISBN10: 019518906X
- Language: English
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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
$32.00 Read moreA New York Times bestseller!
“Lively and absorbing. . .” — The New York Times Book Review “Engrossing.” –Wall Street Journal “Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston Chronicle
Three noted- Author: Burrough, Bryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1984880098
- Language: English
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Montana Battlefields 1806-1877: Native Americans and the U.S. Army at War
$18.95 Read moreMontana’s era of Indian Wars consisted of nearly a century of skirmishes, battles, and large-scale wars between the U.S. military and native nations, including Blackfeet, Sioux, Northern Cheyennes, Ar… [more below]
- Author: Fifer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1560373091
- Language: English
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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
$16.95 Add to cartIn May 1830, the United States launched an unprecedented campaign to expel 80,000 Native Americans from their eastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River. In a firestorm of fraud an
- Author: Saunt, Claudio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541568
- Language: English
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Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West
$35.00 Add to cartThe true story of the Black Hills gold rush settlement once described as “the most diabolical town on earth” and of its most colorful cast of characters, from Wild Bill Hickok to Calamity Jane to Al S… [more below]
- Author: Cozzens, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0593537858
- Language: English
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Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
$27.00 Add to cart“The story of the Cherokee removal has been told many times, but never before has a single book given us such a sense of how it happened and what it meant, not only for Indians, but also for the futur… [more below]
- Author: Inskeep, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 014310831X
- Language: English
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Smithson’s Gamble: The Smithsonian Institution in American Life, 1836-1906
$39.95 Add to cartDiscover the incredible history of the Smithsonian as it grew to meet the needs of a nation
Follow the fascinating growth and development of the world’s largest museum and research complex during its- Author: Crouch, Tom D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1588347915
- Language: English
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The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Apache Wars, the true story of the American West, revealing how American ambition clashed with the realities of violence and exploitation
The epic of the American West became a- Author: Hutton, Paul Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1524746134
- Language: English
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John Quincy Adams: Speeches & Writings (Loa #390)
$45.00 Read more21 essential works trace a great statesman’s lifelong engagement with the promise of America and the legacy of the Founding Fathers
“Few presidents ever thought about words as carefully as John Quincy- Author: Adams, John Quincy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 159853808X
- Language: English
