19th Century
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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
$20.00 Add to cartFrom one of our most distinguished historians comes a groundbreaking new examination of the myths and realities of the period after the Civil War.
Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents,- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 375702741
- Language: English
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Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder’s Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity
$21.99 Add to cartThe incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia–a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our cur
- Author: Meyer, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268566
- Language: English
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Tales of Yesterday’s Florida Keys, First Edition
$12.95 Add to cartA collection of stories of people and events in the Florida Keys extending from the time the Keys were first occupied by humans, through the Second Seminole War, the coming of the Overseas Railway, an
- Author: Viele, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1561649937
- Language: English
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We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy
$32.99 Add to cartChristianity Today Book Award
The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Honorable Mention
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award FinalistThe success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed
- Author: McKenzie, Robert Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0830852964
- Language: English
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The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty
$21.99 Read more“Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating.”–Jon Meacham
Based on genealogical breakthroughs and previously unreleased records, this is the first b
- Author: Thompson, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268590
- Language: English
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The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story
$22.99 Add to cartFor more than a century, the enduring feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has been American shorthand for passionate, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet despite numerous articles, b… [more below]
- Author: King, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 031616707X
- Language: English
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The Voyageur’s Highway: Minnesota’s Border Lake Land
$17.95 Add to cartThis popular guide to Minnesota’s canoe country from Rainy Lake east to Lake Superior tells of famous explorers, the great fur traders, voyageurs, Indians, and loggers who passed that way.
- Series: Mysteries & Horror
- Author: Nute, Grace Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 129
- Publish Date: June 01 1941
- ISBN10: 0873510062
- Language: English
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Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America’s railroad titans
In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the transcontinental railroad, few- Author: Hiltzik, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0358567122
- Language: English
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Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History: Volume 174
$49.95 Add to cartThe Indian history of the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and particularly of the Ohio Valley, is so complex that it can be properly clarified only with the visual aid of maps. Th
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)
- Author: Tanner, Helen Hornbeck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0806120568
- Language: English
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Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness
$17.95 Add to cart“This historical work is a must read for those interested in Minnesota and the nation’s history!”
– Leo Soukup, co-author of Ojibwe Imprints on Northern Minnesota
Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness i
- Author: Babcock, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987319154
- Language: English
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier’s First Gunfighter
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.
In July 1865, “Wild Bill” Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Spr- Series: Frontier Lawmen
- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1250178169
- Language: English
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The Atlas of the Civil War
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the first shots fired at Fort Sumter in 1861 to the final clashes on the Road to Appomattox in 1864, The Atlas of the Civil War reconstructs the battles of America’s bloodiest war with unparallel… [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 151075640X
- Language: English
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The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero
$23.99 Add to cartThe “superb” (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. … [more below]
- Author: Canellos, Peter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1501188216
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
$22.00 Add to cartThe full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose.
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army so- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0385479662
- Language: English
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Black Cowboys of the Old West: True, Sensational, And Little-Known Stories From History
$14.95 Add to cartWhen the Civil War ended black men left in large numbers to find a way to make a living in the Old West. They were hard working, industrious men who were determined to carve out a life for themselves … [more below]
- Author: Wagner, Tricia Martineau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0762760710
- Language: English
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Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice
$19.99 Add to cartA “powerful” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century’s greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice t… [more below]
- Author: Levine, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1476793387
- Language: English
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Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell’s 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
$19.99 Add to cartDrawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition.
On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John
- Author: Dolnick, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0060955864
- Language: English
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
$23.00 Add to cartIn 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class. Dana’s account of his passage around Cape Horn to
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dana, Richard Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 17, 1981
- ISBN10: 0140390081
- Language: English
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Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond
$28.95 Read moreScholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this region and determined who would control it. The Ohio… [more below]
- Series: New Approaches to Midwestern History
- Author: Anderson, Timothy G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0821425277
- Language: English
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Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F
$20.00 Add to cartThe explosive and bloody true history of Texas Rangers Company F, made up of hard men who risked their lives to bring justice to a lawless frontier.
Between 1886 and 1888, Sergeant James Brooks, of Tex- Author: Pappalardo, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1250887372
- Language: English
