19th Century
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, … [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1501116231
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City
$19.00 Read moreFrom an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it
Between October 8-10,
- Author: Smith, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0802159125
- Language: English
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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
$22.99 Add to cart“Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope” (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the Califor… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1541672542
- Language: English
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Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America
$19.00 Add to cartFrom historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the captivating story of how Yellowstone became the world’s first national park in the years after the Civil War, offerin… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Megan Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1982141352
- Language: English
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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
$31.99 Add to cartNamed one of The Washington Post‘s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a “new birth of freedom,” Heather Cox Richardson arg- Author: Richardson, Heather Cox
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0190900903
- Language: English
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The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters
$20.99 Add to cartA fresh look at President William McKinley from New York Times bestselling author and political mastermind Karl Rove–“a rousing tale told by a master storyteller whose love of politics, campaigning, … [more below]
- Author: Rove, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1476752966
- Language: English
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The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition
$26.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. Decades later, … [more below]
- Author: Leckie, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0806138408
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
$39.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1631498444
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$24.95 Add to cartAt its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties – to her marriage and to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0198800533
- Language: English
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Boston Harbor Islands Adventure: The Great Brewster Journal of 1891
$36.99 Add to cartIn 1891, four intrepid women from Lowell sailed to a remote island in Boston Harbor for a 17-day escape from New England’s prim and proper society. Calling themselves the Scribe, the Aristocrat, the A… [more below]
- Author: Schorow, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257002
- Language: English
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Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy
$39.99 Add to cartDuring his seven-decade career in public life, George Sewall Boutwell sought to “redeem America’s promise” of racial equality, economic equity, and the principled use of American power abroad. From 18
- Author: Boutwell, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324074264
- Language: English
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Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
$17.95 Add to cartAngel in the Forest is Marguerite Young’s fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America.
In it, she recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indi… [more below]- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Young, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 438
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1628975512
- Language: English
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Seven Social Movements That Changed America
$39.99 Add to cartHow do social movements arise, wield power, and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a groundbreaking work, narrating the stories of many of America’s most influentia
- Author: Gordon, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 163149371X
- Language: English
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Joseph’s Temples: The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism
$24.95 Add to cartThe apparent parallels between Mormon ritual and doctrine and those of Freemasonry have long been recognized. That Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and other early church leaders were, at least for a time… [more below]
- Author: Homer, Michael W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1647692121
- Language: English
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The Last True Clipper: Western Shore – the Oregon Clipper
$15.00 Add to cartThe last United States-built clipper ship was constructed in 1874 in the small shipbuilding town of North Bend Oregon. Hailed for its record-breaking speed from Astoria to Liverpool, its journeys ende
- Author: Wagner, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 58
- Publish Date: September 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79833E+12
- Language: English
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Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
$35.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history that reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor.
The industrializing North and the agricu- Author: Rockman, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0226723453
- Language: English
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Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy’s Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation
$19.00 Add to cartA “compelling” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy–a little-known but once notorious event that cost three young men their lives–part murder… [more below]
- Author: Snow, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1982185457
- Language: English
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The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
$32.00 Add to cartAcclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true–crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The… [more below]
- Author: Dawson, Kate Winkler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593949110
- Language: English
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Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank
$29.99 Add to cartIn the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman’s Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad f
- Author: Edwards, Justene Hill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1324073853
- Language: English
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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
$23.00 Add to cart“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society.”-… [more below]
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0399590870
- Language: English
