19th Century
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Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin
$11.99 Read moreA wide-eyed teenager during most of the Revolutionary War, Joseph Plumb Martin left his grandfather’s farm in Connecticut in 1775 and spent much of the next eight years with the Continental Army, cris… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Martin, Joseph Plumb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0486451461
- Language: English
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Captured by the Indians: 15 Firsthand Accounts, 1750-1870
$19.99 Read moreAstounding eyewitness accounts of Indian captivity by people who lived to tell the tale. Fifteen true adventures recount suffering and torture, bloody massacres, relentless pursuits, miraculous escape… [more below]
- Series: Native American
- Author: Drimmer, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0486249018
- Language: English
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97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
$18.99 Add to cart“Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and through it she has crafted a unique and aromatic narrativ
- Author: Ziegelman, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0061288519
- Language: English
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Joseph Smith’s Plural Wives, Volume 1: Helen Mar Kimball
$28.00 Add to cartOne of the most controversial facets of Latter-day Saint history is Joseph Smith’s practice of Celestial plural marriage. However, behind the controversy lies the oft-untold inspiring history of real
- Series: Joseph Smith’s Plural Wives #1
- Author: Stoddard, L. Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: February 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1637523416
- Language: English
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Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
$19.00 Add to cartA modern take on a classical icon: this “luminous book” (Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of The Library Book) tells the story of when, where, and how Chopin composed his most famous wo… [more below]
- Author: LaFarge, Annik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1501188720
- Language: English
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Lust for Glory: An Epic Story of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation
$39.95 Add to cartLust for Glory: An Epic Story of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation is a concise, reader friendly depiction of the “Heroic Age” of Texas history. Employing short, episodic chapters, i
- Author: Hardin, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: November 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1933337753
- Language: English
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
$21.99 Read moreAn award-winning historian’s “searing” (Wall Street Journal) account of America’s internal slave trade–and its role in the making of America
Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of- Author: Rothman, Joshua D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 154161660X
- Language: English
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Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer’s Defeat
$18.00 Add to cart“With careful attention to his book’s subtitle, Michno presents the most important surviving testimony of Cheyenne and Lakota Sioux participants in the 1876 Little Bighorn battle. He follows the virtu… [more below]
- Author: Michno, Gregory F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0878423494
- Language: English
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Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869
$31.99 Add to cartA Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from office
Andrew Johnson never expected to be pre- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0805069488
- Language: English
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The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Revised Edition
$34.95 Add to cartOn September 4, 1805, in the upper Bitterroot Valley of what is now western Montana, more than four hundred Salish people were encamped, pasturing horses, preparing for the fall bison hunt, and harves… [more below]
- Author: Salish-Pend d’Oreille Culture Committee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0803243111
- Language: English
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Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
$17.99 Read moreA New York Times bestselling author writes the untold story of three Golden Age titans and the confrontations, cutthroat business strategies, and eccentric personalities that built the Ringling Bros.,… [more below]
- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1541762274
- Language: English
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The Origins of Southern College Football: How an Ivy League Game Became a Dixie Tradition
$39.95 Add to cartCollege football is a massive enterprise in the United States, and southern teams dominate poll rankings and sports headlines while generating billions in revenue for public schools and private compan
- Author: Bell, Andrew McIlwaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0807171204
- Language: English
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Hell Paso: Life and Death in the Old West’s Most Dangerous Town
$29.95 Add to cartSpanning a thirty-year period, from the late 1800s until the 1920s, Hell Paso is the true story of the desperate men and notorious women that made El Paso, Texas the Old West’s most dangerous town. Su… [more below]
- Author: Dolan, Samuel K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: December 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1493041509
- Language: English
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Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862
$22.95 Add to cartThis collection of thirty-six narratives presents the Dakota Indians’ experiences during a conflict previously known chiefly from the viewpoints of non-Indians.
- Author: Anderson, Gary Clayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0873512162
- Language: English
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Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
$32.00 Add to cartThis book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful be… [more below]
- Author: Glymph, Thavolia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0521703980
- Language: English
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River of Promise: Lewis and Clark on the Columbia
$18.95 Add to cartIn the many published accounts of the Lewis and Clark expedition, historians have tended to undervalue the explorers’ encounter with Columbia River country. Most narratives emphasize Lewis and Clark’s
- Author: Nicandri, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0874224152
- Language: English
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Thomson’s Pulp Mill: Building the Champion Fibre Company at Canton, North Carolina: 1905 to 1908
$29.95 Add to cartThis is a story of Peter Gibson Thomson’s pulp mill. Through extensive research, the author has gathered information from a wide variety of sources, including scattered mill documents, drawings and le
- Author: Jones, Carroll C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1945619678
- Language: English
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Standing at the Grave: A Family’s journey from the Grand Duchy of Posen to the Prairies of North Dakota
$18.99 Add to cartWeeks before the birth of Queen Victoria, Anna Christina Schmidt was born to a German settler on the estate of a Polish noble. Unlike the Queen, the only remaining visible proof of her life is a depre
- Author: Heyn, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 19 2023
- ISBN10: 196025085X
- Language: English
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Oneida
$23.99 Add to cartA fascinating and unusual chapter in American history about a religious community that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion–only to transform itself, at the beginning of the twentieth
- Author: Wayland-Smith, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1250131863
- Language: English
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Question of Sanity: The True Story of Female Serial Killers in 19th Century New York
$19.95 Add to cartThe women who serve as the subjects for this book, all share compelling stories. Most of the women in Keene’s book are from North Central New York living along the Erie Canal in small, isolated rural
- Author: Keene, Michael T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0998850837
- Language: English
