19th Century
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Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey
$18.00 Add to cartMore than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The frontiersmen have become an in… [more below]
- Author: Schlissel, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0805211764
- Language: English
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The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Bloody Crime, a Beautiful Grifter, a Gilded Age Sensation
$18.95 Read moreOne of the country’s most powerful families embroiled in sex, lies, bigamy, and blackmail…and every new, deliciously humiliating morsel splashed across every newspaper in America
Now in paperback, t- Author: Shaffer, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0806542268
- Language: English
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Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
$20.00 Add to cartAn instant New York Times bestseller
A nuanced exploration of Abraham Lincoln’s political acumen, illuminating a great politician’s strategy in a country divided–and lessons for our own disorderly pr- Author: Inskeep, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593297881
- Language: English
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Mark Twain
$45.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain
Before he was Mark Twai- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 525561722
- Language: English
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The Deadliest Indian War in the West: The Snake Conflict, 1864-1868
$18.95 Add to cartThe Snake War is one of the least known of the many clashes of culture that occurred in the American West during the 19th century. People have long relished tales of the underdog and celebrated lost c… [more below]
- Author: Michno, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0870044605
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Montgomery County, Maryland
$24.99 Read moreDig into the untold stories and lesser-known tales of MoCo.
Washington, D.C.’s next-door neighbor has seen many a politician, militant and Red Line passenger travel within its bounds, but the county’s
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Myers, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467156604
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
$19.99 Add to cartWe are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant
- Author: Sinha, Manisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096284
- Language: English
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A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
$22.00 Read moreThe story of the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable, young United States for control over the Deep South–from the acclaimed historian and prize-winning author of The Earth i… [more below]
- Author: Cozzens, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0593082702
- Language: English
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Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing
$39.95 Read moreFrom the award-winning author of Dressing Up, a riveting and diverse history of women’s hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America.
In the nineteenth cent
- Author: Block, Elizabeth L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049058
- Language: English
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
$21.99 Add to cartThere have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic “white working class,” a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very exis
- Author: Kelley, Blair LM
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095571
- Language: English
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The Greatest Stories of the Old West Ever Told: True Tales and Legends of Famous Gunfighters, Outlaws and Sheriffs from the Wild West
$11.94 Add to cartStep back in time and immerse yourself in the rugged landscapes, daring outlaws, fearless lawmen, and untamed frontier spirit that defined an era.
Introducing The Greatest Stories of The Old West Ever
- Author: Hunt, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890950109
- Language: English
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Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis
$49.58 Add to cartThis book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question that animated the Civil War: the constitutiona… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Legal History (Paperback)
- Author: Nicoletti, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: October 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1108401538
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
$40.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham, “a big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humani… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1400067669
- Language: English
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Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn
$19.95 Add to cartThe resistance of great Native American warriors to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great r… [more below]
- Author: Burnham, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 149620767X
- Language: English
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The Bonanza King: John MacKay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West
$21.00 Add to cart“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of… [more below]
- Author: Crouch, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1501108204
- Language: English
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
$17.95 Add to cartOn May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that c… [more below]
- Author: Green, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400033225
- Language: English
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
$40.00 Add to cart**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**
“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped sl- Author: Blight, David W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1416590315
- Language: English
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American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
$18.99 Add to cartWith this “suspenseful narrative history” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air), award-winning science writer David Baron tells the story of the enterprising scientists–among them, planet hunter James
- Author: Baron, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1324094699
- Language: English
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The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910
$38.00 Add to cartAn expansive exploration of The Gilded Age in New York City, from of the extravagant lifestyles and magnificent mansions of the ultra-rich to the daily doings of the wretchedly poor who lived in the s
- Author: Crain, Esther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0316353663
- Language: English
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Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch
$24.95 Add to cartThe Wild Bunch, the confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, an… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803277784
- Language: English
