Chronological Period/1851-1899
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What Is the Panama Canal?
$7.99 Add to cartBefore 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific … [more below]
- Series: What Was…
- Author: Pascal, Janet B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 17 2014
- ISBN10: 0448478994
- Language: English
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The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible
$18.99 Add to cartIn 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira arrived unannounced in London claiming to have discovered the world’s oldest Bible scroll in a desert cave east of the Dead Sea. With his phenomenal find, Shapira swiftl… [more below]
- Author: Tigay, Chanan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0062206427
- Language: English
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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War
$19.99 Add to cartThey were both prewar failures–Grant, forced to resign from the Regular Army because of his drinking, and Sherman, holding four different jobs, including a much-loved position at a southern military
- Author: Flood, Charles Bracelen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0061148717
- Language: English
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The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer. When Abraham Lincoln assumed the presidency in 1861, the United States’ constitu- Author: Feldman, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 125085878X
- Language: English
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Autobiography of an Androgyne
$10.99 Add to cartEarl Lind’s 1918 autobiography has been recognized as a pioneering work in the history of transgender literature. Throughout his life, Lind was forced to justify and defend his existence from puritani
- Series: Mint Editions–Reading with Pride
- Author: Lind, Earl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1513296965
- Language: English
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Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln’s Vital Rival
$36.00 Read moreAn NPR Best Book of 2022
From an acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer, an “eloquently written, impeccably researched, and intensely moving” (The Wall Street Journal) reassessment of Abraham- Author: Stahr, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1501199234
- Language: English
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The Day Dixie Died: The Occupied South, 1865-1866
$21.95 Add to cartAn unflinching look at the grim years of Southern reconstruction.
- Author: Goodrich, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0811770257
- Language: English
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Last Days of Last Island: The Hurricane of 1856, Louisiana’s First Great Storm
$20.00 Read moreLast Days of Last Island is the most comprehensive account of the great 1856 Isle Derniere hurricane, its aftermath, and its legacy. Dixon includes a complete listing of victims and survivors, numerou… [more below]
- Author: Dixon, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1887366881
- Language: English
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The Anti-Christ
$6.95 Read moreThis is Nietzsche’s last book and a fitting capstone to his career. It’s succinct, biting, and encapsulates the criticisms of Christianity found in his other works. This edition contains an 8,000-word… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 91
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1884365205
- Language: English
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Vaqueros in Blue and Gray
$28.95 Add to cartAs many as 9,500 men of Hispanic heritage fought in the United States’ Civil War. In Texas, the bitter conflict deeply divided the Tejanos-Texans of Mexican heritage. An estimated 2,500 fought in the … [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: February 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1880510723
- Language: English
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Quantrill of Missouri: The Making of a Guerilla Warrior
$33.99 Add to cartOne will not find the name of William Clarke Quantrill in the pantheon of noble Civil War personalities but rather listed near the top of the list of its notorious scoundrels. He has been demonized as
- Author: Petersen, Paul R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: September 01, 2003
- ISBN10: 1630269867
- Language: English
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Billy the Kid and Jesse James: Outlaws of the Legendary West
$16.95 Add to cartWho was the biggest, baddest outlaw in the Old West? Billy the Kid or Jesse James? Which outlaw did the most to wreak havoc across the frontier? And which outlaw left behind the biggest legacy? Author… [more below]
- Author: Markley, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1493038389
- Language: English
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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive history of the First Minnesota Volunteers in the Civil War.
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Moe, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 367
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0873514068
- Language: English
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When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession
$46.58 Add to cartUsing primary documents from both foreign and domestic observers, prominent scholar Charles Adams makes a powerful and convincing case that the Southern states were legitimately exercising their polit… [more below]
- Author: Adams, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0847697231
- Language: English
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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography 1868-1963
$45.00 Add to cartThe two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of W. E. B. Du Bois from renowned scholar David Levering Lewis, now in one condensed and updated volume
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois–the premier arch- Author: Lewis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0805088059
- Language: English
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A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
$24.99 Add to cartWith America’s current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle cl… [more below]
- Author: McGerr, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0195183657
- Language: English
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Lost Mill Towns of North Georgia
$24.99 Add to cartThe textile era was born of a perfect storm. When North Georgia’s red clay failed farmers and prices fell during Reconstruction, opportunities arose. Beginning in the 1880s, textile industries moved s… [more below]
- Series: Lost
- Author: Russell, Lisa M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1467143510
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Original Classic Edition): An American Slave
$12.95 Add to cartThis edition of the original classic work, includes an index that will enable you to easily search for the names, places and topics as you discover the brilliance and determination of this incredible … [more below]
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: May 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1722502266
- Language: English
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The Western Confederacy’s Final Gamble: From Atlanta to Franklin to Nashville
$29.95 Add to cartAfter Major General William Tecumseh Sherman’s forces ravaged Atlanta in 1864, Ulysses S. Grant urged him to complete the primary mission Grant had given him: to destroy the Confederate Army in Georgi… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, James Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 162190010X
- Language: English
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Michigan and the Civil War: A Great and Bloody Sacrifice
$21.99 Add to cartMichigan undertook a rapid and robust response to Lincoln’s call to arms during the Civil War and in many of its great battles. Read the much overlooked history in this volume.
With lively narration, t
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Dempsey, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 02 2011
- ISBN10: 1609491734
- Language: English
