19th Century
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Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
$24.00 Add to cartA searing history of life under Jim Crow that recalls the bloodiest and most repressive period in the history of race relations in the United States–and the painful record of discrimination that haun… [more below]
- Author: Litwack, Leon F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: July 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0375702636
- Language: English
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True Tales of the Olympic Peninsula
$24.99 Add to cartA magnificent landscape of rugged peaks, impenetrable rainforest and wild coastlines, Washington’s Olympic Peninsula makes a perfect setting for the unexpected.Dive into the stories of pioneers who cr
- Author: Turner, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1467154628
- Language: English
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Detroit’s Lost Stove Industry: From Open Hearth to Cast Iron
$24.99 Read moreCasting a legacy
Long before automobiles made Detroit the Motor City, the city boasted a flourishing and diverse industrial economy, albeit on a more modest scale. Among the myriad industries that defi
- Series: Lost
- Author: Van Dusen, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 146715699X
- Language: English
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Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
$34.00 Add to cartINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and bet
- Author: Pearl, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0063433524
- Language: English
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More Than Love: The Enduring Fascination with Edgar Allan Poe
$28.00 Read more- Author: Armiento, Amy Branam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0881469467
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman’s Narrative
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and
- Author: Hecimovich, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0062334743
- Language: English
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Slavery and Abolitionism on Cape Cod: A Massachusetts Incongruity
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the start of the Puritan era through the end of the Revolutionary War, Boston was the central hub of the slave trade. Slaves were brought onboard ships from the African coast with regularity, oft
- Author: Pregot, Michael V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888192290
- Language: English
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City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle ?poque
$35.00 Add to cartA top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle ?poque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacr?-Coeur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be … [more below]
- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1541647491
- Language: English
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Buffalo Bill and the Mormons
$29.95 Add to cartIn this never-before-told history of Buffalo Bill and the Mormons, Brent M. Rogers presents the intersections in the epic histories of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody and the Latter-day Saints from 184… [more below]
- Author: Rogers, Brent M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496213181
- Language: English
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Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
$32.00 Add to cartA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was kn- Author: Bergland, Renée
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0691235287
- Language: English
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John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People
$45.00 Add to cartA magisterial journey through the epic life and transformative times of John Quincy Adams
In this masterful biography, historian Randall B. Woods peels back the many layers of John Quincy’s long life,- Author: Woods, Randall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0593187245
- Language: English
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
$39.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035285
- Language: English
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Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
$16.00 Read moreA “masterful” (Houston Post) collection of stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro
“A spellbinding tour through a world of love, menace, and surprise . . . [Munro] is a writer of enormous … [more below]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Munro, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0375707484
- Language: English
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Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
$32.00 Add to cartWinner of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians * Winner of the Lincoln Forum Book Prize * Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
A propulsive account of our history- Author: Grinspan, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1639730648
- Language: English
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The Race to the Future: 8,000 Miles to Paris – The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
$29.99 Add to cartThe racers–an Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a con man, and several rival journalists–battle over steep inclines, through narrow mountain passages, and across the arid Gob
- Author: St Clair, Kassia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1324094915
- 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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Tales of Ohio’s Underground Railroad
$24.99 Read moreAuthors David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker separate fact from fiction in the story of Ohio’s Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a macabre sort of dance between good and evil in which
- Author: Meyers, David W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159166
- 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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Trouble! at Coal Creek
$22.95 Add to cartThis gripping graphic novel tells the story of the 1891 Coal Creek War–one of the most significant yet overlooked labor and abolitionist uprisings in the history of the United States.
Told through t- Author: Sauerbrei, Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888903766
- Language: English
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The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of What the Ermine Saw and Behaving Badly, a portrait of Victoria Woodhull, a celebrated and maligned 19th-century businesswoman and activist, and a leader in the fight for w… [more below]
- Author: Collinsworth, Eden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0385549571
- Language: English
