United States - 19th Century
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America’s First Interstate: The National Road, 1806-1853
$29.95 Add to cartThe story of America’s first government-sponsored highway
The National Road was the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government. Built between 1811 and 1837, thi
- Author: Pickenpaugh, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1606353977
- Language: English
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The Saga of the Pony Express
$17.00 Add to cartAmerica in the mid-1800s was a land of burgeoning cities, westward expansion, economic optimism, and political turmoil. Threatened by civil war and Indian uprisings, the government needed better commu… [more below]
- Author: DiCerto, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: June 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0878424520
- Language: English
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Letters from an American Farmer
$14.95 Add to cartWritten by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: “What, then, is the American, this new man?”, as a new nation took shape b… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crèvecoeur, J Hector St John de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554749
- Language: English
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Snowbound
$19.95 Add to cartRiding five horses and leading five more, three young New York men, their guide, and a camp cook entered the untamed vastness of the Bitteroot Mountains. They expected the trip to be the adventure of
- Author: Hamilton, Ladd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0874221544
- Language: English
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Beyond the Wonder: An Ecologist’s View of Wild Alaska
$40.00 Add to cartThe grizzly paused in knee-deep water, staring straight at the man behind the camera. Abruptly he bolted, racing full tilt toward Thomas Bancroft, his eyes glued to the photographer’s face. The bear k
- Author: Bancroft, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 31 2024
- ISBN10: 0874224357
- Language: English
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Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda
$39.95 Read moreFrom the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of The Man on Devil’s Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped the intellectual and spiritual history of both East and
- Author: Harris, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0674247477
- Language: English
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
$42.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel W… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States (Hardcover)
- Author: Howe, Daniel Walker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: October 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0195078942
- Language: English
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Heirs of the Founders: Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
$22.00 Read moreFrom the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War comes “a historical spellbinder” (The Christian Science Monitor) about a trio of political giants in… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0525433902
- Language: English
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
$27.00 Read moreWinner of the SHEAR Book Prize
“Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.”
Honorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award
–Ari Kelman, Times Literary Supplement “[One] of the mos- Author: Johnson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0674975383
- Language: English
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Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America’s First Humanitarian Mission
$20.00 Add to cart” A] well-researched and splendidly written chronicle of the Jamestown, its captain, and an Irish priest who ministered to the starving in Cork city…Puleo’s tale, despite the hardship to come, surel
- Author: Puleo, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 125079711X
- Language: English
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Frontier Fake News: Nevada’s Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters
$21.95 Read moreWhen readers see the names Mark Twain and Dan De Quille, fake news may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But these legendary journalists were some of the original, and most prolific, fake ne
- Author: Moreno, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1647790867
- Language: English
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When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
$31.99 Add to cartBrilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nin… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0871406896
- Language: English
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Frontier Terror: Murder, Lynching, and Vigilantes in the Old West
$36.33 Add to cartAuthor Michael Rutter examines the growing pains of the American West through the lens of vigilantes, outlaws, mob violence, and lynchings that occurred between 1840 and 1920, proving that oftentimes
- Author: Rutter, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493067729
- Language: English
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American Traitor: General James Wilkinson’s Betrayal of the Republic and Escape from Justice
$34.95 Read moreA fresh examination of the life and crimes of the highest-ranking federal official ever tried for treason and espionage
American Traitor examines the career of the notorious Gen. James Wilkinson, whose
- Author: Cox, Howard W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1647123429
- Language: English
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Pirates, Raiders & Invaders of the Gulf Coast
$24.99 Read moreAuthors Ryan Starrett and Josh Foreman chart a Gulf Coast odyssey with French adventurers, English colonists, Spanish Dons, American filibusters, Indian warriors, African Maroons, and pirate outlaws .
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Starrett, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153230
- Language: English
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The War of 1812
$20.00 Read moreIn this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Carl Benn examines the War of 1812 and its significance in US history.
The war of 1812-1815 was a bloody confrontation that tore through th- Series: Essential Histories (Osprey Publishing)
- Author: Benn, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1472858565
- Language: English
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Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives
$30.00 Read moreThe never-before-told story of the extraordinary women behind a trailblazing British magazine.
During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accom- Author: Adams, Jad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147891
- Language: English
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The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
$30.00 Add to cartA penetrating, character-filled history “in the manner of David McCullough” (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics.
Democracy was broken. Or that was what many American- Author: Grinspan, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1635574625
- Language: English
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Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
$21.99 Add to cartThe history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be “little short of madness,” and that others compared with going to the moon,
- Author: Bernstein, Peter L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393327957
- Language: English
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Lewis and Clark Trail Maps: A Cartographic Reconstruction, Volume II: Beyond Fort Mandan (North Dakota/Montana) to Continental Divide and Snake Ri
$30.00 Read moreIn Volume II, Martin Plamondon presents a cartographic reconstruction of the Corps of Discovery’s trek across the northwestern United States in 1805-06. Beginning a short distance above Fort Mandan, 1
- Series: Cartographic Reconstruction #2
- Author: Plamondon II, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0874222427
- Language: English
