19th Century
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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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The Red Sacrament
$19.99 Read more- Author: Hinkley, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1835410820
- Language: English
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Elihu Washburne: The Diary and Letters of America’s Minister to France During the Siege and Commune of Paris
$19.99 Read moreThe inspiring, little-known diary and letters of American diplomat Elihu Washburne, who gallantly provided vital support to his countrymen and other nationals during the brutal Siege of Paris and Pari… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 145166530X
- Language: English
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Gardens of the Gilded Age: Lavish Landscapes from America’s Golden Era
$39.95 Add to cartStep into the era when American wealth created landscapes that rivaled European royalty and discover the magnificent gardens that still captivate visitors today.
During the Gilded Age in America (1870- Author: Milbocker, Jana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1493092006
- Language: English
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My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre: With an Account of the Celebration of “Wyoming Opened”
$21.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1910, Frances C. Carrington’s My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre recounted the author’s adventures as an army wife on the Great Plains, but also sought to set the recor… [more below]
- Series: Bison Book
- Author: Carrington, Frances C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803264437
- Language: English
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First Daughter
$18.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1895, President Grover Cleveland and his pregnant wife, Frances, retreat to their secluded Cape Cod home, eager to avoid Washington’s heat and hassles. The very day that Frances gives
- Author: Wasserman, Marlie Parker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798898201531
- Language: English
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Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
$20.00 Add to cart*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Po… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1501188534
- Language: English
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A Search For Justice: A Classic Western Series
$25.99 Add to cartHe became a doctor to heal, but when justice calls, Brody Connor answers.
Fresh out of the Kansas City School of Medicine and top of his class, Brody Connor turns down a promising career to find her. J
- Series: Brody Connor #2
- Author: Garner, Monty R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798895672631
- Language: English
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A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons
$22.00 Add to cartPaul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once finally emancipated by Senato
- Author: Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0230341985
- Language: English
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We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America
$29.99 Read moreAmerica has always been sustained by rebellion and activism. It is up to us to continue the fight.
America’s founding was a contradictory one. When the Declaration of Independence was signed 250 years
- Author: Days, Michael I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889837374
- Language: English
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No Duppy in Our House
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1895, in the Dry Harbour Mountains of Jamaica, Emma Whorms lives a comfortable life with her carpenter husband and two young sons. Quite unconventional for her time, she is a contented mother and w… [more below]
- Author: Fairbanks, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1038351995
- Language: English
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The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
$22.00 Add to cartThomas Edison’s greatest invention? His own fame.
At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as “the Napoleon of invention” and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Start
- Author: Stross, Randall E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 1400047633
- Language: English
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The Fateful Lightning: A Novel of the Civil War
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thunder and The Smoke at Dawn.
N- Author: Shaara, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 034554921X
- Language: English
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Art for All. Art History
$46.67 Add to cartA comprehensive volume covering five seminal genres that shaped art, from the late 19th century and well into the 20th: Impressionism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Ea
- Author: Hess, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 3754401459
- Language: English
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Railroads and Regulation, 1877-1916
$23.99 Add to cartGovernment regulation of the railroads is probably the most important example of federal intervention in the economy from the Civil War to World War I. It is also a key to an assessment of the impulse
- Author: Kolko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0393005313
- Language: English
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The Stargazer of Nantucket
$28.99 Add to cart“Filled with tension, excitement, and brilliant plot twists, the story moves at a breakneck pace against the backdrop of Gerstenblatt’s meticulous research. Luminous.”
–Fiona Davis, New York Times bes… [more below]- Author: Gerstenblatt, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0778306755
- Language: English
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They Stole a City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy
$32.00 Add to cartIn this ambitious and groundbreaking history, Lauren Collins weaves together stories of four Wilmington, North Carolina, families over 125 years to create a full accounting of the long-term effects of… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1984878816
- Language: English
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The Underground Railroad: An Enthralling Overview of the Secret Path to Freedom for African Americans during the 19th Century
$26.99 Add to cartEmbark on a profound journey through the veiled pathways of hope and resilience with The Underground Railroad.
This book pierces the shroud of myths surrounding one of history’s most clandestine escape
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: May 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9798887653594
- Language: English
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Days of Sun and Shadow
$18.95 Read moreBorn into tragedy but gifted with a powerful connection to the natural world, a resilient young woman comes of age amid the wild beauty of early-1800s Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas in this incandescent… [more below]
- Author: Hayford, India
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 1496753143
- Language: English
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Fury Over Texas
$15.95 Read moreThe bestselling masters of the Great American Western pit heroes and villains, men and women, survivors and the unlucky, against the shocking power of Mother Nature in this epic standalone adventure s… [more below]
- Author: Johnstone, William W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 0786052333
- Language: English
