19th Century
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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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Frontier Comrades: From the Fur Trade to the Ford Car
$27.95 Add to cartFrontier Comrades examines six accounts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives on the frontier of the American West. Each account interprets this history through experiences that take place
- Author: Wilke, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 149624222X
- Language: English
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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
$21.95 Add to cartAn Air Mail Editor’s Pick
“[A] masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas.”–Wall Street Journal “Wise and authoritative…As the best R
A Spectator Book of the Year- Author: Morson, Gary Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299183
- Language: English
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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
$17.99 Add to cartToday, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe — the center of
- Author: Gordon, John Steele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0060524464
- Language: English
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New York’s Scoundrels, Scalawags, and Scrappers: The City in the Last Decade of the Gilded Age
$24.95 Add to cartThe 1890s was the tail end of the Gilded Age. It was not a “Golden Age,” it was a veneer, and although the decade is specifically called “The Gay Nineties,” the gaiety was generally reserved for the
- Author: Tauranac, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1493090100
- Language: English
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The Day Lincoln Was Shot
$18.99 Add to cartThe Day Lincoln Was Shot is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of April 14, 1865: the day President Abraham Lincoln was tragically assassinated.
It chronicles the movements of Lincoln and his assassi
- Author: Bishop, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0062290606
- Language: English
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Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Word Freak, a vibrant, lively, and illuminating journey through the exotic world of Merriam-Webster, dictionaries, and language, at a time of rapid-fir
- Author: Fatsis, Stefan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0802165826
- Language: English
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Piracy on the Great Lakes: True Tales of Freshwater Pirates
$15.95 Add to cartWaiting in the night, hidden behind a remote island, no lights showing, pirates would lure unsuspecting ships into unknown waters. Then they would silently slide up to them and board the ship. The cre
- Author: Classen, Mikel B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9798896560036
- Language: English
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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
$29.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History
Winner of the 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History
Winner of the 2024 Caughey Western History Prize
Winner of the 2024 Spur Award
Named a Best Civil
- Series: History of the American West
- Author: West, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 708
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496243013
- Language: English
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Dark London: A Journey Through the City’s Mysterious and Macabre Underworld
$22.99 Add to cartFrom dark crimes of passion to shocking tales of grave robbing, gruesome murders, dens of iniquity, Victorian s?ances and haunted houses – not far beneath London’s everyday bustle and glitter there ha
- Author: Gray, Drew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1836004249
- Language: English
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
$21.99 Add to cartIn a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 132411049X
- 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 West: The History of an Idea
$39.95 Add to cartA comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West
How did “the West” come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did “Westerners” beg- Author: Varouxakis, Georgios
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 069117718X
- Language: English
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Brigham Young: American Moses
$25.00 Add to cartBrigham Young comes to life in this superlative biography that presents him as a Mormon leader, a business genius, a family man, a political organizer, and a pioneer of the West. Drawing on a vast ran… [more below]
- Author: Arrington, Leonard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 0345803213
- Language: English
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Trail of Tears: A Captivating Guide to the Forced Removals of Cherokee, Muscogee Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations
$29.99 Add to cartExplore the Cruel History of the Trail of Tears
One of the darkest and cruelest chapters in the history of the United States occurred when the nation’s young government decided to remove the native peo
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: February 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1647484693
- Language: English
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Confronting Bad History — How a Lost Cause and Fraudulent Book Caused the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation Trial
$35.50 Add to cartJohn Wilkes Booth’s assassination of President Abraham Lincoln is the most infamous political assassination in United States history. The assassination of Lincoln suddenly ended the prospect of a peac
- Author: Gorman, Francis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 548
- Publish Date: January 23 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218516628
- Language: English
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Adam Lemp and the Western Brewery
$20.00 Add to cartJohann Adam Lemp ranks among the most influential figures in St. Louis history, the founder of a brewery that left an indelible mark on the city. But the story of the German-American founder of the fa
- Author: Naffziger, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991296700
- Language: English
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Quotations of Frederick Douglass
$12.95 Add to cartNotable Quotations from Frederick Douglass
This pocket-sized hardcover book contains dozens of quotations from abolitionist, orator, social reformer and statesman Frederick Douglass.
“No man can put a c
- Series: Quotations of Great Americans
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1429095717
- Language: English
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The Street Children of Dickens’s London
$24.95 Read moreMany poor and vulnerable people lived on the streets of Victorian cities. They were the victims of rapid industrialisation, a government policy of non-intervention regarding social issues and the hars… [more below]
- Author: Amy, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1848688466
- Language: English
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A Little History of the United States
$15.00 Add to cartA character-filled history that brings the American saga to life
The United States is one of the most powerful countries in the world. This is the remarkable story of how it came to be. Beginning wit- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Davidson, James West
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283431
- Language: English
