19th Century
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John Brown in New York: The Man, His Family, and the Adirondack Landscape
$32.95 Add to cartAn intimate narrative of John Brown and his family in the Adirondack Mountains.
With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Weber, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855804645
- Language: English
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Sarafina
$23.95 Add to cartFrom USA Today bestselling author, and Bram Stoker nominee, Philip Fracassi, comes a historical horror novel where three brothers go AWOL during one of the most violent battles of the Civil War, but f
- Author: Fracassi, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1968043047
- Language: English
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Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776
$18.99 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter McDougall reinterprets the traditions that have shaped U.S. foreign policy from 1776 to the present in “an entertaining and iconoclastic fashion” (Philadelphia … [more below]
- Author: McDougall, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0395901324
- Language: English
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This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
$35.00 Add to cart“Original, compelling, and memorable…Fehrman sheds new light on a fabled story, and tells it in a way that puts all of us back in a vanished but resonant world.” –Jon Meacham – “Here, at long last,… [more below]
- Author: Fehrman, Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1982174242
- Language: English
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Morning of a Crescent Moon
$18.95 Add to cartIn Morning of a Crescent Moon, N. J. Schrock renders the tumult of the 1898 Battle of Virden with a storyteller’s grace, fusing historical truth with imagined lives.
Against the backdrop of labor unre
- Author: Schrock, N. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1969935030
- Language: English
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Monroe Doctrine
$21.99 Add to cartA Concise History of the (In)Famous Doctrine that Gave Rise to the American Empire
President James Monroe’s 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisp- Author: Sexton, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0809069997
- Language: English
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Never After
$16.99 Add to cartFrom fan-favorite author Alexis Hall comes a story of faith, redemption, and love–a melancholic tale of queer romance set in nineteenth-century England.
On the grim streets of London, a young man succ
- Author: Hall, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 381
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1662509413
- Language: English
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A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
$31.99 Add to cartFrom a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between Black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template o
- Author: Ely, Melvin Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1250381118
- Language: English
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John Brown
$11.99 Add to cartOne of the preeminent Black scholars of his era traces the life and bold aspirations of a man who devoted his life to opposing slavery at any cost.
W.E.B. Du Bois examines John Brown as a man as well a
- Series: Black Narratives
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1513266446
- Language: English
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Sisters of Influence: A Biography of Zina, Amy, and Rose Fay
$24.95 Add to cartThree sisters who forged intertwined paths to empowerment
A real-life Little Women, Sisters of Influence is the untold story of three extraordinary sisters who defied Victorian-era expectations to le- Author: Ross, Andrea Friederici
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0809339781
- Language: English
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
$19.99 Add to cartRevel in Huck Finn’s adventure on the Mississippi River with this handsome gift edition of the American masterpiece by Mark Twain.
A favorite among young readers and adults alike, Mark Twain’s Adventu- Series: Chartwell Deluxe Editions
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0785845615
- Language: English
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The Partisans: James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, and the Politics of Rivalry and Revenge in the Gilded Age
$29.95 Add to cartThe Partisans tells the story of the feud that dominated American politics in the decades that followed the Civil War. It is the first detailed account of the battle between Republicans James G. Blain
- Author: Mitchell, Robert B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: September 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1889020613
- Language: English
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Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures
$27.00 Add to cartA spellbinding account of the rapacious pursuit of the most exquisite paintings in the world
In the Gilded Age, newly wealthy and culturally ambitious Americans began to compete for Europe’s extraord- Author: Saltzman, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0143115316
- Language: English
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The Fourth Wife
$18.95 Add to cartThe Hacienda by Isabel Ca?as meets “Sister Wives” in a deliciously chilling, darkly romantic, historical gothic horror with a feminist slant, as a young Mormon woman is haunted by a malevolent presenc… [more below]
- Author: Hamilton, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1496756894
- Language: English
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life
$35.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of American suffragist and women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, from a preeminent historian of women’s suffrage
“The life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton still has much t- Author: DuBois, Ellen Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1541647513
- Language: English
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No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
$29.95 Add to cartFrom 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US part… [more below]
- Author: Chambers, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1781689997
- Language: English
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Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Pearl, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0063338076
- Language: English
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Allan Pinkerton: America’s Legendary Detective and the Birth of Private Security
$29.95 Add to cartA deeply researched account of the life and legacy of the man who defined the profession of private eye
Allan Pinkerton, the world’s most famous private detective, has been an enduring source of fascin
- Author: Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1647125847
- Language: English
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Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism
$24.00 Add to cartFor readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism–and the bold, revolutionary, and eccentri… [more below]
- Author: Jennings, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 0812983890
- Language: English
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The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier
$31.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning historian Megan Kate Nelson, an epic account of the creation of the American West in the 19th century, shattering the traditional frontier myth that has dominated popular American c… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Megan Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1668004348
- Language: English
