Chronological Period/1851-1899
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The River Between Us
$8.99 Read moreThe year is 1861. Civil war is imminent and Tilly Pruitt’s brother, Noah, is eager to go and fight on the side of the North. With her father long gone, Tilly, her sister, and their mother struggle to … [more below]
- Author: Peck, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 21 2005
- ISBN10: 0142403105
- Language: English
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The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War
$18.00 Read moreHow partisan politics lead to the Civil War
What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this bril- Author: Holt, Michael F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0809044390
- Language: English
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Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons
$29.95 Read moreAdvancing the cause of racial equality while saving lives
Of some twelve thousand Union Civil War surgeons, only fourteen were Black men. This book is the first-ever comprehensive exploration of thei- Series: Engaging the Civil War
- Author: Newmark, Jill L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0809339048
- Language: English
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John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal
$39.95 Read moreJohn Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was one of the greatest portrait artists of his time. While he is best known for his powerful paintings, he largely ceased painting portraits in 1907 and turned instead… [more below]
- Author: Ormond, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1911282484
- Language: English
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Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. In his madness, the world was revealed… [more below]
- Author: Schreber, Daniel Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: January 31 2000
- ISBN10: 094032220X
- Language: English
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Dragon’s Gate: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartIn 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California — the Land of the Golden Mountain. There he will join his father and uncle.
In spite of the presence of family, Otter is a str
- Series: Golden Mountain Chronicles
- Author: Yep, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 23 2001
- ISBN10: 0064404897
- Language: English
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Prairie Day
$9.99 Add to cartWith the My First Little House picture book series, the youngest readers can share in the joy of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books in these illustrated adaptations of the beloved series!
Laura
- Series: Little House Picture Book
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0064435040
- Language: English
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography
$9.99 Add to cartDive into the world of the author of the beloved Little House series
From her pioneer days on the prairie to her golden years with her husband, Almanzo, and their daughter, Rose, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Series: Little House Nonfiction
- Author: Anderson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0060885521
- Language: English
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Farnsworth’s Classical English Style
$28.95 Add to cart“An original and absorbing guide to English style. Get it if you can.”–Wall Street Journal
Say it with style–on paper or in person. This book explains why the best writing sounds that way, with hund- Series: Farnsworth’s Classical English #3
- Author: Farnsworth, Ward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1567926657
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$6.95 Add to cartIn 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), replied to th… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0486422453
- Language: English
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Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story
$12.95 Add to cartThe true story of Robert Smalls, a slave steamboat wheelman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War and escaped with his family and crew to freedom.
Growing up a slave in South Carolin
- Author: Halfmann, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1600609864
- Language: English
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My Dearest Lilla: Letters Home from Civil War General Jacob D. Cox
$29.95 Add to cartJacob D. Cox experienced more facets of the Civil War than most officers: by land and sea, in both Western and Eastern Theaters, among the inner political circles of Ohio and Washington, DC, in territ… [more below]
- Series: Voices of the Civil War
- Author: Schmiel, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 162190797X
- Language: English
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The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913
$32.95 Add to cart“In this groundbreaking study, author John L. Hopkins deftly examines the reunion through the lens of the veterans within the context of society, politics, and the national mood at the time.” — Scott… [more below]
- Author: Hopkins, John L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216842
- Language: English
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Matisse. Cut-Outs
$23.33 Add to cartHenri Matisse (1869-1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty, and the confines of a wheelchair, the indomitable Frenchman never stopped in his quest to make
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 09 2016
- ISBN10: 3836534274
- Language: English
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Letters from Yellowstone
$18.00 Add to cartFor readers of Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, Elizabeth Gilbert‘s The Signature of All Things, and Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl, Diane Smith’s warmhearted and award-winning epistolary novel about a spunky … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140291814
- Language: English
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Ten Days in a Mad-House: A Story of the Intrepid Reporter
$7.95 Add to cartAt the age of 23, pioneering reporter Nellie Bly faked dementia in order to expose abuses of patients in Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum in New York City. Such investigative journalism was unusual in… [more below]
- Author: Bly, Nellie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0486835448
- Language: English
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Oswald Chambers, Abandoned to God: The Life Story of the Author of My Utmost for His Highest
$21.99 Add to cartWhat do you know about the man behind the popular devotional My Utmost for His Highest? Trace the life of Oswald Chambers from his boyhood in Scotland through an astounding journey of faith and trust … [more below]
- Author: McCasland, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1572930500
- Language: English
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Red Wolf
$12.99 Add to cartLife is changing for Canada’s Anishnaabe Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory.
In the late 1800s, both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely,
- Author: Dance, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1459708105
- Language: English
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A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded
$16.95 Read more“I highly recommend reading this supplement in conjunction with Ms. Stowe’s novel to gain a better understanding of the history of our nation.” — The Literary South
In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publi- Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0486794822
- Language: English
