19th Century
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Veil of Doubt
$18.95 Add to cartWhen a mother is charged with murder in a town already convinced of her guilt, can defense attorney Powell Harrison find truth and justice in a legal system where innocence is not presumed?
Emily Lloy… [more below]
- Author: Virts, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 195941125X
- Language: English
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day
$29.95 Add to cart“The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day has several key strengths making it an admirable contribution to both historical geography and Lewis and Clark scholarship.”–Robert M. Briwa, Historical Geo
- Author: Moulton, Gary E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 774
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1496203836
- Language: English
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The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
$40.00 Add to cartA history of the American Constitution’s formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar
When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate ar… [more below]- Author: Amar, Akhil Reed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0465096352
- Language: English
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Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans
$44.95 Add to cartMarlene Trestman’s Most Fortunate Unfortunates is the first comprehensive history of the Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans. Founded in 1855 in the aftermath of a yellow fever epidemic, the Home was
- Author: Trestman, Marlene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807172901
- Language: English
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
$19.00 Add to cartThe New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1101980303
- Language: English
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Under Cover for Wells Fargo: The Unvarnished Recollections of Fred Dodge
$21.95 Add to cartThese are the remarkable memoirs of Fred Dodge (1854-1938), Wells Fargo secret agent for fifty years, friend of Wyatt Earp, and fast man with a gun. Here are dozens of his cases–stage robberies, trai
- Series: Western Frontier Library (Paperback) #63
- Author: Dodge, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: September 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0806131063
- Language: English
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
$18.99 Add to cartThe term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The fi
- Author: Dreilinger, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021861
- Language: English
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Bad Boys of the Black Hills: …and Some Wild Women, Too
$16.95 Add to cartThe lively romp details some of the Wild West’s most engaging stories, specifically in the Black Hills and Deadwood, home to prostitutes and poets, desperados and dancehall girls, fortune tellers and … [more below]
- Series: Bedside Reader
- Author: Fifer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 189
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1560374357
- Language: English
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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History
$17.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller now in paperback with a new epilogue.
In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than two hundred Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo.- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0525540547
- Language: English
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The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America’s First Great Disaster
$34.95 Add to cartOn the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. During the second act of
- Author: Baker, Meredith Henne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: April 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177083
- Language: English
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Custer’s Fall: The Native American Side of the Story
$18.00 Add to cartThe true story of the Battle of Little Bighorn–told from the perspective of the native americans who fought in Custer’s Last Stand.
The day began with the killing of a ten-year-old Native American b- Author: Miller, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0452010950
- Language: English
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Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
$19.99 Add to cart“The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!” — Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness W… [more below]
- Author: Knowlton, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1328470253
- Language: English
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
$30.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1501168681
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$19.99 Add to cartA masterpiece of American literature, Frederick Douglass’ “Narrative” is a powerful story of an enslaved youth coming to social and moral consciousness by disobeying his owners and secretly teaching h
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1607961210
- Language: English
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Brave Companions: Portraits in History
$27.99 Add to cartMaster historian David McCullough’s classic book about some of history’s most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author D- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1668003546
- Language: English
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Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
$30.99 Add to cartIn George Appo’s world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made as m… [more below]
- Author: Gilfoyle, Timothy J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329895
- Language: English
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Murdering McKinley
$20.00 Add to cartWhen President William McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign a
- Author: Rauchway, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 18 2004
- ISBN10: 0809016389
- Language: English
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Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28- month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and sco
- Series: American Grit #0
- Author: Marshall, David Weston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1682684423
- Language: English
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Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
$19.95 Read moreIn this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago Ameri
- Author: Cronon, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0393308731
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Annette Gordon-Reed’s groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson’s sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0813918332
- Language: English
