19th Century
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When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation Proclamation
$36.99 Add to cartDuring the three decades before the American Civil War, Southern slaveholders tried to end the anti-slavery movement. They exerted their influence by censoring the press and the mail, attacking and ki
- Author: Rogers, Lisa Waller
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 682
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999409621
- Language: English
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Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave
$25.00 Add to cartFor 130 years historians and military strategists have been obsessed by the battle of Chancellorsville. It began with an audaciously planned stroke by Union general Joe Hooker as he sent his army acro… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library #0000
- Author: Furgurson, Ernest B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 28 1993
- ISBN10: 0679728317
- Language: English
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Chasing Lewis’s Monkeyflower: The Amazing Afterlife of the Lewis and Clark Expedition’s Wild Plants
$32.00 Add to cartA look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the plant specimens the great explorers gathered on their way–and of their amazing afterlife.
Elizabeth Adelman’s Chasing the Missing Monkeyflower is the- Author: Adelman, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0374615020
- Language: English
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Summer of Meteors
$19.95 Add to cartAs the nation teeters on the edge of civil war, three women converge at the elegant Bedford Springs Hotel in Pennsylvania. Harriet Lane, strong-minded and vivacious niece to President James Buchanan a
- Author: Schaale, Kris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888193426
- Language: English
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The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief
$35.00 Add to cartIn this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author of The Age of Wonder, discovers in Young Tennyson an astonishingly magnetic and mercurial personality, a secretly expressive… [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0307379671
- Language: English
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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
$18.95 Add to cartAn authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exp… [more below]
- Author: Reynolds, David S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0375726152
- Language: English
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Secrets in the Woods
$17.99 Add to cartOn October 8, 1871, fire turned night into a living hell.
While Chicago’s blaze claimed the headlines, a fiercer and more devastating inferno swept across Wisconsin’s Green Bay peninsula-obliterating
- Author: Levitte, Susan D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: October 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1964700477
- Language: English
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The Wondrous Life and Loves of Nella Carter
$28.99 Add to cartA young woman at the crossroads of life and death embarks on an extraordinary journey across time in an epic novel about beauty, hope, endurance, and endless loves.
Most humans cower in the face of Dea
- Author: Nwosu, Brionni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 383
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1662530889
- Language: English
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Up the Shenandoah
$31.99 Add to cartA family divided by war. A valley scarred by blood. A fight for survival and honor.
In 1864, the Shenandoah Valley becomes the crucible for the Eshenbaugh family. Andrew marches with Sheridan’s Union c
- Author: Eshenbaugh, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1964251818
- Language: English
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Up the Shenandoah
$17.99 Add to cartA family divided by war. A valley scarred by blood. A fight for survival and honor.
In 1864, the Shenandoah Valley becomes the crucible for the Eshenbaugh family. Andrew marches with Sheridan’s Union c
- Author: Eshenbaugh, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 196425180X
- Language: English
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Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy
$41.93 Add to cart- Author: DeWolfe, Elizabeth A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1985902249
- Language: English
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The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824
$22.00 Add to cartThe premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year–and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compo
- Author: Sachs, Harvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0812969073
- Language: English
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Burn Down Master’s House
$28.00 Add to cartInspired by true, long-buried stories of enslaved people who dared to fight back, a searing portrayal of resistance for readers of Colson Whitehead, Jesmyn Ward, and Percival Everett, from Clay Cane, … [more below]
- Author: Cane, Clay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1496759141
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens: A Life
$32.00 Add to cartAward-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. … [more below]
- Author: Tomalin, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122053
- Language: English
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Beyond the Veil: The Victorian Obsession with Death and Mourning
$29.00 Add to cartThe visual history of how we deal with death – the grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols and ceremonies – is fascinatingly rich. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and trave
- Author: Gambino, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1836004222
- Language: English
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Henry David Thoreau’s Kalendar: Charts and Observations of Natural Phenomena
$35.00 Add to cartAn immersive, beautifully illustrated revelation of Henry David Thoreau’s final project–a monthly almanac of natural phenomena.
In the last years of his life, Henry David Thoreau created something new
- Author: Case, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1571311599
- Language: English
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America: 250 Years of Freedom
$49.99 Read moreFrom noted American historian, Editor-in-Chief of The American Crisis, and author of FREEDOM, AMERICA’S FIRST VETERANS, and THE PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, Jack D. Warren, Jr’s AMERICA: 250 YEARS
- Author: Warren, Jack D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1630063290
- Language: English
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Call Me Ishmaelle
$18.00 Add to cart“A propulsive powerhouse of a read.”–Marie Claire (UK)
“Ambitious, brave, and strange.”–Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan
From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author, a feminist reimagi
- Author: Guo, Xiaolu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0802166490
- Language: English
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Western Tales
$39.99 Add to cartThe Ultimate Edition of Western Tales, a comprehensive and meticulously curated collection of Robert E. Howard’s traditional and weird western stories. This new edition, spanning 646 pages, is availab
- Author: Howard, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 646
- Publish Date: January 31 2025
- ISBN10: 1955446431
- Language: English
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George Eliot: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she wa- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Atkinson, Juliette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0198864329
- Language: English
