19th Century
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I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom
$35.00 Add to cartA moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule
“My name has become a horror to all those who- Author: Gaffield, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0300255470
- Language: English
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Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
$21.99 Add to cart“The best modern account” (Wall Street Journal) of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I
Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during- Author: Chrastil, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606353
- Language: English
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Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet
$35.00 Add to cartFrom an award-winning biographer, a riveting and deeply researched portrait of Mormonism’s charismatic founder
Joseph Smith Jr. (1805-1844) was one of the most successful and controversial religious- Author: Turner, John G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0300255160
- 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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Belle Starr: The Truth Behind the Wild West Legend
$32.99 Add to cartIn the annals of legendary Wild West desperadoes, Belle Starr is remembered to this day as the Bandit Queen. Shortly after her murder in 1889, a highly romanticized, sensational book titled Bella Star… [more below]
- Author: Wallis, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1631494775
- 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 Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece
In 1821, a diverse territory in the southern Balkans on the fringe of the Ottoman Empire was thrust into a decade of astounding mass violence. T- Author: Kotsonis, Yanni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 069121526X
- Language: English
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Hawthorne’s Prophets: The Bible and the Creation of American Literature
$26.00 Read more- Author: Ellwood, Fay Elanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0881469505
- Language: English
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Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America
$38.93 Add to cartThis controversial, convincing, and highly original book is important reading for everyone concerned about the origins, present, and future of the American experiment in self-government.
- Author: West, Thomas G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0847685179
- Language: English
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The Beechers: America’s Most Influential Family
$39.95 Add to cartThe Reverend Lyman Beecher was once called “the father of more brains than any other man in America.” Among his eleven living children were a celebrity novelist, a college president, the most well-kno
- Author: Todd, Obbie Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182753
- 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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Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War
$35.00 Add to cartOne historian’s journey to find the end of the Civil War–and, along the way, to expand our understanding of the nature of war itself and how societies struggle to draw the line between war and peace … [more below]
- Author: Vorenberg, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1524733172
- Language: English
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The Galveston Dispatches: A Swiss Missionary’s Account of Nineteenth-Century Texas
$24.99 Add to cartPersonal stories of life in Galveston in the mid-nineteenth century.
In 1855, Friedrich Gloor was just nineteen when he was sent from Basel, Switzerland, halfway around the world to teach at the First
- Author: Rogers, Clay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158712
- Language: English
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The Balkans: A Short History
$17.00 Add to cartThroughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodox… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Mazower, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 081296621X
- Language: English
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The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy
$21.00 Add to cartDuring a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland’s citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Gre… [more below]
- Author: Coogan, Tim Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1137278838
- 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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Wagner and the Creation of the Ring
$29.95 Add to cartPart cultural history, part biography, this is the fascinating story of Richard Wagner’s life, influences, gift for storytelling, and artistic revolution, culminating in his dramatic journey to write … [more below]
- Author: Downes, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1639369155
- Language: English
