19th Century
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It Happened on the Oregon Trail
$12.95 Add to cartIt Happened on the Oregon Trail includes twenty-nine unusual, remarkable, little known events that happened along the trail from Independence, Missouri to Oregon’s Willamette Valley. From Rufus K. Por… [more below]
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Wagner, Tricia Martineau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0762725796
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels
$20.00 Add to cartThis illuminating discussion of deism in the early American colonies presents an overview of its main tenets, showing how its influence rose swiftly and for a time became a highly controversial subjec… [more below]
- Author: Walters, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1616141905
- Language: English
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Maryland Freedom Seekers on the Underground Railroad
$23.99 Read moreJourney with the unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad. Maryland was the starting point of many freedom seekers. They embarked on the perilous journey from slavery to freedom in whatever way they
- Author: Masur, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 1467148717
- Language: English
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1889: The Boomer Movement, the Land Run, and Early Oklahoma City
$24.95 Add to cartAfter immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up “within a fortnight,” the city’s residents adopted the slogan “born grown… [more below]
- Author: Hightower, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160705
- Language: English
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Triggernometry: A Gallery of Gunfighters
$26.95 Add to cartIn this now classic volume, Eugene Cunningham collects–in his “gallery” –biographies of nearly a score of master gunfighters, including such notables as John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, Dallas Sto
- Author: Cunningham, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0806128372
- Language: English
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Osborne Russell’s Journal of a Trapper:: Edited from the Original Manuscript in the William Robertson Coe Collection of Western Americana in the Yale
$21.95 Add to cart“Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this Volume down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish t
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Russell, Osborne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 241
- Publish Date: October 01 1965
- ISBN10: 0803251661
- Language: English
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The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict
$24.95 Read moreThis comprehensive and authoritative history of the War of 1812, thoroughly revised for the 200th anniversary of the historic conflict, is a myth-shattering study that will inform and entertain studen… [more below]
- Author: Hickey, Donald R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0252078373
- Language: English
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The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
$25.99 Add to cartAn “engrossing and exciting” account of legendary New Orleans privateers Pierre and Jean Laffite and their adventures along the Gulf Coast (Booklist, starred review).
At large during the most colorful … [more below]
- Author: Davis, William C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 756
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0156032597
- Language: English
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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion
$17.99 Add to cart“A penetrating reconstruction of the most disturbing and crucial slave uprising in America’s history.” —New York Times
The definitive account of the most infamous slave rebellion in history and the af
- Author: Oates, Stephen B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0062656554
- Language: English
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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
$26.99 Add to cart“A stunning five-century study of civilization’s cultural retreat.” — William Safire, New York Times
Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master his
- Author: Barzun, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0060928832
- Language: English
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Sane Asylums: The Success of Homeopathy Before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind
$24.99 Read more– Examines the success of homeopathic psychiatric asylums in the United States from the 1870s until 1920
– Focuses on New York’s Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital for the Insane, which had a treat- Author: Kantor, Jerry M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1644114089
- Language: English
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The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
$23.95 Read moreThis entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs–many never before seen–as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by Afri… [more below]
- Author: Katz, William Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: September 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1682752267
- Language: English
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Hell on Wheels: Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad
$18.99 Add to cartOvernight settlements, better known as “Hell on Wheels,” sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for… [more below]
- Author: Kreck, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1555919480
- Language: English
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The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Texas Institute of Letters’s Carr P. Collins Award
A New York Times Bestseller
One of Book Riot Best Book of the Year
In nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized th- Author: Hollandsworth, Skip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 11, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118492
- Language: English
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Wagons to the Willamette: Captain Levi Scott and the Southern Route to Oregon, 1844 1847
$29.95 Add to cartAfter the death of his beloved wife, a devastated Levi Scott and his youngest surviving son left Iowa for Oregon. Their overland journey–rife with quarrels, stolen horses, arduous river fords, con ar
- Author: Scott, Levi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 0874223334
- Language: English
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The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
$24.00 Add to cartA classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century
Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in t- Author: Trachtenberg, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0809058286
- Language: English
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The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America
$21.95 Add to cart“From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This ‘placing out, ‘ an a… [more below]
- Author: Holt, Marilyn Irvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0803272650
- Language: English
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Contempt of Court: The Turn-Of-The-Century Lynching That Launched 100 Years of Federalism
$20.00 Add to cartIn this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an overlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justice is carried out in the United States.
In 1906, Ed Johnson was the innoce… [more below]- Author: Curriden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 20 2001
- ISBN10: 0385720823
- Language: English
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Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
$29.99 Read moreThe companion volume to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021
With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric
- Author: Conwill, Kinshasha Holman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0063160641
- Language: English
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“Our Crowd”: The Great Jewish Families of New York
$24.95 Add to cart“Our Crowd” is Stephen Birmingham’s #1 New York Times-bestselling history of the rise of the most powerful and privileged Jewish families in America.
- Author: Birmingham, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493057758
- Language: English
