19th Century
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Amer Pres: Fillmore
$33.00 Add to cartThe oddly named president whose shortsightedness and stubbornness fractured the nation and sowed the seeds of civil war
In the summer of 1850, America was at a terrible crossroads. Congress was in an- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Finkelman, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 080508715X
- Language: English
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The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent
$24.95 Add to cartCritics have called David Lavender a “master storyteller” (Library Journal), his prose “virile, disciplined, yet personal” (New York Times), and his book “a balanced, learned, and lively history of an… [more below]
- Author: Lavender, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0803280033
- Language: English
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Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad
$18.99 Add to cartBeyond the River brings to brilliant life the dramatic story of the forgotten heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad.
From the highest hill above the town of Ripley, Ohio, you ca- Author: Hagedorn, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0684870665
- Language: English
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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
$19.99 Add to cartIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted’s role as a major cultural figure at the epi… [more below]
- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0684865750
- Language: English
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Wagon Wheels A’Rollin’
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Ackley, Daisy Belle Catherine Brown Pier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0595744230
- Language: English
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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
$29.95 Read moreAcclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, The Rise of American Democracy traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening… [more below]
- Author: Wilentz, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: September 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393329216
- Language: English
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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
$29.99 Add to cartThe world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings
- Author: Johnson, Susan Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: December 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320995
- Language: English
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Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
$18.99 Add to cart“Reads like a nail-biting thriller.” — Library Journal, starred review
A gripping new history celebrating the remarkable heroes of the Johnstown Flood–the deadliest flood in U.S. history–from NBC h
- Author: Roker, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062445537
- Language: English
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The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony
$50.95 Add to cartDuring the Gilded Age, Jekyll Island, Georgia, was one of the most exclusive resort destinations in the United States. Owned by the most elite and inaccessible social club in America, a group whose me
- Author: McCash, June Hall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0820319287
- Language: English
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Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill
$24.95 Add to cartFort Sill, located in the heart of the old Kiowa-Comanche Indian country in southwestern Oklahoma, is known to a modern generation as the Field Artillery School of the United States Army. To students … [more below]
- Author: Nye, Wilbur S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0806118563
- Language: English
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The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail
$24.95 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death–but unique in American history for its purpose, discipline, and solidarity. Oth… [more below]
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0803292139
- Language: English
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Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920
$19.99 Add to cart“Fascinating…. A major work by a leading historian at the top of his game–at once engaging and tightly argued.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Dazzling cultural history: smart, provocative, and
- Series: American History
- Author: Lears, Jackson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 08, 2010
- ISBN10: 0060747501
- Language: English
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Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
$26.95 Add to cartThe first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion
“An elegant, organized narrative of the United States’ dispossession of Native la- Author: Ostler, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0300255365
- Language: English
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The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America’s Game
$19.99 Add to cartChris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life’s savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor wou… [more below]
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393775
- Language: English
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Ballast
$18.00 Read moreA poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black lives and the afterlife of slavery.
In 1841, the only successful, large-scale … [more below]- Author: Baker, Quenton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599026
- Language: English
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Murder, Mayhem and Whitecapping: The Fall of the Northwest Georgia Whitecappers
$17.95 Add to cartMurder, Mayhem and Whitecapping is set in northwest Georgia 1894. It is the story of two men who were attacked by a group of whitecappers, men sworn by a blood oath to protect moonshiners, remove immo… [more below]
- Author: Lowery, Jodi McDaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: April 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1977262619
- Language: English
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1831: Year of Eclipse
$20.00 Add to cart1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years meant to American history. But wars and economic disasters are not our only pivotal events, and other years have, in a quieter wa
- Author: Masur, Louis P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0809041197
- Language: English
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Martin Van Buren: The American Presidents Series: The 8th President, 1837-1841
$34.00 Add to cartThe first president born after America’s independence ushers in a new era of democracy
Dive deep into the political life of the first president born after America’s independence. Martin Van Buren, ski- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Widmer, Ted
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0805069224
- Language: English
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The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the g… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 080321880X
- Language: English
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The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
$18.00 Add to cartIlyon Woo’s The Great Divorce is a dramatic, richly textured narrative history of early America’s most infamous divorce case. A young mother singlehandedly challenged her country’s notions of women’s … [more below]
- Author: Woo, Ilyon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 080214537X
- Language: English
