19th Century
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The Living
$16.99 Add to cart“Remarkable. . . . A deftly woven narrative saturated with violence, hardship, and triumph. Readers will be richly rewarded, for by the end of this deeply felt novel it is hard to let the frontier tow
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 006092411X
- Language: English
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The Sewards of New York: A Biography of a Leading American Political Family
$37.95 Add to cartThe Sewards of New York shines a light on one of the most important and fascinating political families of the nineteenth century. Through recently discovered family correspondence, Thomas P. Slaughter
- Author: Slaughter, Thomas P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501782657
- Language: English
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The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
$22.00 Add to cartA spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and tra… [more below]
- Author: Sassoon, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0593467116
- Language: English
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Jermain Wesley Loguen: Defiant Fugitive
$30.00 Add to cartA gripping biography of a man who escaped slavery to become an influential abolitionist, famously known as the “King of the Underground Railroad”
Jermain Wesley Loguen (1813-1872) was a fugitive from- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Murphy, Angela F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0300279574
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Road to War: A Day-By-Day Account of the First 60 Days of Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency
$29.95 Add to cartFollow Lincoln’s day-by-day path from peacemaker to war leader as the Union edges toward Civil War. The months after the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, between March 4 and May 3, 1861, mark one of t… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, David Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1493092022
- Language: English
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The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
$23.00 Add to cartAmerica’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady–a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.
“A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworl- Author: Fox, Margalit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0593243870
- Language: English
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The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
$24.00 Add to cartAward-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved mixed-race wife of Richard Mentor Johnson… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1469692090
- Language: English
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Chain of Fire: The Siege of Khartoum and the Campaign of Egypt and the Sudan
$35.00 Add to cartThe dramatic story of the siege of Khartoum and Britain’s extraordinarily violent 1882 campaign in Egypt and Sudan.
In the 1880s, British control over northeastern Africa was a political minefield tha- Author: Hart, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1639369775
- Language: English
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Wakara’s America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West
$35.00 Add to cartThe forgotten life and complex legacies of Wakara, the mighty, once-notorious Native leader whose battles and conquests shaped the American West
The Native American leader Wakara (ca. 1815-1855) was- Author: Mueller, Max Perry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541602595
- Language: English
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Defending Dixie’s Land: What Every American Should Know About The South and The Civil War
$39.95 Add to cartARE YOU INTERESTED IN KNOWING the actual history of your country, or are you content with the propagandized version the winners of wars conjure up to feed school children? When it comes to the story a
- Author: Bishop, Isaac C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: August 15 2025
- ISBN10: 196350643X
- Language: English
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The Reshaping of Everyday Life: 1790-1840
$19.99 Add to cart“Compact and insightful. “–New York Times Book Review “Jack Larkin has retrieved the irretrievable; the intimate facts of everyday life that defined what people were really like.”–American Heritage
A… [more below]
- Author: Larkin, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0060916060
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of Jim Bridger
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Markley, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1560378409
- Language: English
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Ghosts of the Wild West: Stories from Deadwood, Tombstone, and the Old Frontier
$9.95 Add to cartRead 21 chilling ghost stories with ties to the Wild West, based on actual accounts, as told by two paranormal investigators.
Too many lawmen and bandits met their ends on the streets of Deadwood, and
- Series: Hauntings, Horrors & Scary Ghost Stories
- Author: Freeburg, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1647555450
- Language: English
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Andrew Jackson
$19.99 Add to cartBy “the foremost Jacksonian scholar of our time” (New York Times), the critically acclaimed and most concise biography of Andrew Jackson that takes a comprehensive look at the political, personal, an… [more below]
- Author: Remini, Robert V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0060801328
- Language: English
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Black, White, Colored: The Hidden Story of an Insurrection, a Family, a Southern Town, and Identity in America
$29.99 Add to cartAn absorbing investigation into a little-known historical tragedy–an insurrection which upended a resilient and wealthy Black community who found themselves in the clutches of an insurrection at the
- Author: Noble, Lauretta Malloy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063352222
- Language: English
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Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
$27.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsiz… [more below]
- Author: O’Connell, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0812982126
- Language: English
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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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Photographic Memory: William Henry Jackson and the American West
$35.00 Add to cartLegendary cartoonist Bill Griffith brings a personal touch to this illustrated history of his great-grandfather, William Henry Jackson–a pioneering photographer of the American West whose work led to… [more below]
- Author: Griffith, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1419784145
- 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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Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation
$39.00 Add to cartAn epic, revelatory account of the Battle of Gettysburg, where George Meade, Lincoln’s unexpected choice to lead the Union army, defeated Robert E. Lee and changed the course of the Civil War, from th… [more below]
- Author: McGrath, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593184394
- Language: English
