19th Century
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Trammel’s Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North
$30.00 Add to cartTrammel’s Trace tells the story of a borderlands smuggler and an important passageway into early Texas.
Trammel’s Trace, named for Nicholas Trammell, was the first route from the United States into the
- Series: Red River Valley Books, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Te #5
- Author: Pinkerton, Gary L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1623497906
- Language: English
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President Without a Party: The Life of John Tyler
$44.95 Add to cartHistorians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation’s least effective heads of state. In President without a Party–the first full–scale biography of Tyler in more than fifty years
- Author: Leahy, Christopher J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0807172545
- Language: English
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
$15.99 Add to cartSometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, and always fascinating: the New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters offers an “entertaining discussion of the various ways our … [more below]
- Author: Miodownik, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0358108454
- Language: English
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Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom
$40.00 Read moreA monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy.
When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age, Goethe directed
- Author: Vieweg, Klaus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1503630579
- Language: English
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Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, “a superb revisionist history” of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, using their “ri… [more below]
- Author: Anbinder, Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 031656480X
- Language: English
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American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street’s Biggest Fortune
$20.00 Add to cartA gripping, “rollicking” (John Carreyrou, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood) biography of Jay Gould, the greatest of the 19th-century robber barons, whose brilliance, greed, and bare-knuc… [more below]
- Author: Steinmetz, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1982107413
- Language: English
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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
$19.99 Add to cartAn astonishing untold story from the nineteenth century–a “riveting…engrossing…’American Epic'” (The Wall Street Journal) and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the … [more below]
- Author: Sedgwick, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1501128698
- Language: English
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
$29.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Rich… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States
- Author: White, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0190053763
- Language: English
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Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait
$21.95 Add to cartJohn H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner reveals the real
- Author: Tanner, Karen Holliday
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0806133201
- Language: English
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Tom Horn in Life and Legend
$24.95 Add to cartSome of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860-1903) was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, a
- Author: Ball, Larry D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0806151757
- Language: English
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Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years’ War Over the American Dollar
$21.99 Add to cartMost Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history–the story of the money men. Acclaimed histo
- Series: Enterprise #0
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393330508
- Language: English
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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
$19.95 Add to cartA landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West
The Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did su- Series: Princeton Classics #117
- Author: Pomeranz, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0691217181
- Language: English
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Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Heroic Struggle for America’s Heartland
$25.00 Read more“An insightful, unflinching portrayal of the remarkable siblings who came closer to altering the course of American history than any other Indian leaders.” –H.W. Brands, author of The Zealot a… [more below]
- Author: Cozzens, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0525434887
- Language: English
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All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind
$27.00 Read moreAcclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff–a serial murderer who was called “too intelligent to be killed”–… [more below]
- Author: Dawson, Kate Winkler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0593420063
- Language: English
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
$19.00 Read moreOne of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of the most dangerous rapids known to man remains… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Powell, John Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437522
- Language: English
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When the Mississippi Ran Backwards
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America united the Indians in one last desperate rebellion, reversed the Mississippi River, reveal… [more below]
- Author: Feldman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0743242793
- Language: English
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Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
$18.99 Add to cartThe dramatic history of the extermination and resurrection of the American buffalo, by #1 bestselling author of The Revenant
Michael Punke’s The Last Stand tells the epic story of the American West th
- Author: Punke, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 62970097
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
$9.94 Add to cart“I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539073
- Language: English
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Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
$19.95 Read moreA riveting and illuminating exploration of the transatlantic slave trade by an intrepid team of divers seeking to reclaim the stories of their ancestors.
“For me, Enslaved is an attempt to give a voic- Author: Kingsley, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364587
- Language: English
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The Eight: The Lemmon Slave Case and the Fight for Freedom
$32.95 Add to cartThe personal and legal struggle of eight enslaved people for freedom in New York in the period just before the Civil War.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Rosenblatt, Albert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1438492642
- Language: English
