Chronological Period/1851-1899
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To Die Game: The Story of the Lowry Band, Indian Guerillas of Reconstruction
$19.95 Add to cartDuring the Civil War many young Lumbee Indians of North Carolina hid in the swamps to avoid conscription into Confederate labor battalions and carried on a running guerilla war. To Die Game is the sto… [more below]
- Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors
- Author: Evans, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0815603592
- Language: English
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In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz
$26.95 Add to cartThe beginnings of jazz and the story of Charles “Buddy” Bolden (1877-1931) are inextricably intertwined. Just after the turn of the century, New Orleanians could often hear Bolden’s powerful horn from
- Author: Marquis, Donald M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0807130931
- Language: English
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Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877: The Military View
$21.95 Add to cartThis volume offers accounts of the many battles and skirmishes in the Great Sioux War as they were observed by participating officers, enlisted men, scouts, surgeons, and newspaper correspondents. The… [more below]
- Series: Military View
- Author: Greene, Jerome a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0806126698
- Language: English
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Herbert Hoover
$35.99 Add to cartThe Republican efficiency expert whose economic boosterism met its match in the Great Depression
Catapulted into national politics by his heroic campaigns to feed Europe during and after World War I,- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Leuchtenburg, William E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0805069585
- Language: English
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Grover Cleveland
$34.00 Add to cartA fresh look at the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms.
Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history. Having run for President three ti- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Graff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 20 2002
- ISBN10: 0805069232
- Language: English
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Blood Feud: The Hatfields And The Mccoys: The Epic Story Of Murder And Vengeance
$26.83 Add to cartAmerica’s most notorious family feud began in 1865 with the murder of a Union McCoy soldier by a Confederate Hatfield relative of “Devil Anse” Hatfield. More than a decade later, Ranel McCoy accused a… [more below]
- Author: Alther, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0762782250
- Language: English
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The Confederacy’s Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
$32.99 Add to cartFollowing the fall of Atlanta, rebel commander John Bell Hood rallied his demoralized troops and marched them off the Tennessee, desperately hoping to draw Sherman after him and forestall the Confeder… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Sword, Wiley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 18 1993
- ISBN10: 0700606505
- Language: English
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From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation
$45.33 Add to cartThis book explores the centrality of contract to debates over freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century America. It focuses on the contracts of wage labor and marriage, investigating the connections b… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Amy Dru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: November 13 1998
- ISBN10: 0521635268
- Language: English
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The Town That Started the Civil War
$19.00 Add to cartBefore the War Between the States, there was the war between the U.S. government and Oberlin, Ohio. . . .
“A fascinating, gripping narrative.”–James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
On a- Author: Brandt, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: July 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0440503965
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life
$19.00 Add to cartA Washington Post Notable Book
In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hi
With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race- Author: Ryback, Timothy W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0307455262
- Language: English
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
$41.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Rich… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States
- Author: White, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0199735816
- Language: English
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Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word “eugenics” to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting Darwin’s theory of … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Levine, Philippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0199385904
- Language: English
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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam
$19.98 Add to cartThe Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed–four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number … [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0195173309
- Language: English
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The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History
$18.00 Read moreThe author of The Journey of Crazy Horse presents a legendary battle through the eyes of the Lakota
The saga of Custer’s Last Stand, has become ingrained in the lore of the American West, and the key- Author: Marshall, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113690
- Language: English
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No Place for a Woman: The Struggle for Suffrage in the Wild West
$31.58 Add to cartNo Place for a Woman explores the history of the fight for women’s rights in the West, examining the conditions that prevailed during the vast migration of pioneers looking for free land and opportuni… [more below]
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072412
- Language: English
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From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge: Canada and the Civil War
$19.95 Read moreFilled with engaging stories and astonishing facts, From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge examines the role of Canadians in the American Civil War
Despite all we know about the Civil War, its cau
- Author: Martin, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1770416382
- Language: English
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Lions of the Dan: The Untold Story of Armistead’s Brigade
$18.95 Add to cartA presentation of never-before-published information and overlooked details of Pickett’s Charge drawn from primary sources.
- Author: Brandau, J. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1642793086
- Language: English
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The Dreaded 13th Tennessee Union Cavalry: Marauding Mountain Men
$21.99 Add to cartTennessee’s Thirteenth Union Cavalry was a unit composed mostly of amateur soldiers that eventually turned undisciplined boys into seasoned fighters. At the outbreak of the Civil War, East Tennessee w… [more below]
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Storie, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 159
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 1626191123
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s American Dream: Clashing Political Perspectives
$39.95 Add to cartDespite the voluminous literature on the central figure in American history, no other book in the field of political science compares to Lincoln’s American Dream. It addresses comprehensively the over… [more below]
- Author: Deutsch, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574885898
- Language: English
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The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West
$17.99 Add to cartThe award-winning history of the women who went West to work in Fred Harvey’s restaurants along the Santa Fe railway — and went on to shape the American Southwest
From the 1880s to the 1950s, the Ha- Author: Poling-Kempes, Lesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 04 1994
- ISBN10: 1569249261
- Language: English
