19th Century
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Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth
$19.00 Add to cartWILLA Literary Award Winner and Colorado Book Award Winner! When Margaret Tobin Brown arrived in New York City shortly after her perilous night in Titanic’s Lifeboat Six, a legend was born. Through ma… [more below]
- Author: Iversen, Kristen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: April 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1555664687
- Language: English
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Montana Mining Ghost Towns
$19.95 Add to cartNow in softcover Montana is home to many storied ghost towns, and few people get to see these remote places in person the way photographers Larry and Vivian Roland have. Here they share rich color ph… [more below]
- Author: Fifer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1560377798
- Language: English
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The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World
$20.00 Add to cartA “well-researched and very readable new biography” (The Wall Street Journal) of “the Thomas Edison of guns,” a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of fire… [more below]
- Author: Gorenstein, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1982129220
- Language: English
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Standing Bear’s Quest for Freedom: The First Civil Rights Victory for Native Americans
$19.95 Add to cart2023 Nebraska Book Award
Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Nation faced arrest for leaving the U.S. government’s reservation, without its permission, for the love of his son and his people. Standing B- Author: Dwyer, Lawrence A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496232461
- Language: English
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From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
$28.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States (Paperback)
- Author: Herring, George C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: April 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0199765537
- Language: English
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
$21.00 Add to cart“One of the best history books I’ve read in the last few years.” –Chris Hayes
The Field of Blood recounts the previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War.
A NEW- Author: Freeman, Joanne B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234581
- Language: English
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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
$32.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dyna
- Author: Cooper, Anderson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0063118327
- Language: English
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From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West
$19.99 Add to cart“Riveting…A great read, full of colorful characters and outrageous confrontations back when the west was still wild.” –George R.R. Martin
A propulsive and panoramic history of one of the most drama- Author: Sedgwick, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1982104295
- Language: English
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Sea Captains of Cape Cod: Each Town’s Contribution to Maritime History
$19.95 Add to cartWhether you call Cape Cod a man-made island or describe it as a geographic peninsula connected to the mainland by bridges, there is one non-debatable fact. Cape Cod is surrounded by water on all four
- Author: Pregot, Michael V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 162006877X
- Language: English
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The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
The inspiration for PBS’s AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad. From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true stor- Author: Blum, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0143111124
- Language: English
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
$28.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel W… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States
- Author: Howe, Daniel Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: September 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0195392434
- Language: English
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
$28.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and ins… [more below]
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1984854992
- Language: English
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Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
$30.00 Read moreThe remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia–the free state directly … [more below]
- Author: Diemer, Andrew K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593534387
- Language: English
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Andrew Johnson: A Biography
$29.99 Add to cartPolitically shrewd but fatally unable to adapt to new political realities, Andrew Johnson presided, disastrously, over the tumultuous first years of Reconstruction. In this provocative account, Hans T… [more below]
- Author: Trefousse, Hans Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0393317420
- Language: English
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
$17.99 Add to cartMore than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America’s history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again reco
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18, 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352196
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker’s Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
$32.95 Add to cartBetween 1801 and 1812, North West Company fur trader, explorer, and cartographer David Thompson established two viable trade routes across the Rocky Mountains in Canada and systematically surveyed the
- Author: Nisbet, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0874222850
- Language: English
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Black Homesteaders of the South
$23.99 Read moreMeet the black men and women who toiled from sunup to sundown to live the American dream.
- Author: Bennett, Bernice Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1467152307
- Language: English
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The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspape
$18.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched exposé. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht and was not hea… [more below]
- Author: Algeo, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1613744560
- Language: English
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This Bloody Deed: The Magruder Incident
$19.95 Add to cartThe story of the infamous murder and robbery of Lewiston merchant Lloyd Magruder and his companions during the 1860s gold rush is legendary in Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Ladd Hamilton constructs
- Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science;846
- Author: Hamilton, Ladd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0874221072
- Language: English
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The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History
$22.00 Add to cartIn the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon, a stunningly vivid historical account of the manhunt for Geronimo and the 25-year Apache struggle for their homeland.
They called him Mickey Free. His ki- Author: Hutton, Paul Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0770435831
- Language: English
