Chronological Period/1851-1899
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First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
$38.99 Add to cart“We were sure that we would win, that we should score the first great triumph in a mighty world-movement.”–Theodore Roosevelt, 1904
Americans like to think they have no imperial past. In fact, the Uni
- Author: Zimmermann, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: January 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0374528934
- Language: English
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Revolver
$11.99 Read moreA loaded gun. Stolen Gold. And a menacing stranger. A taut frontier survivor story, set at the time of the Alaska gold rush. A Printz Honor Book.
“A memorable tale, one that will appeal to fans of Gary- Author: Sedgwick, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0312547978
- Language: English
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition
$46.67 Add to cartCrisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry
- Author: Jaffa, Harry V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226391183
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Dictionary
$22.99 Add to cartHistory, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consis… [more below]
- Author: Bierce, Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0195126270
- Language: English
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History Lover’s Guide to Charleston
$43.99 Add to cartFounded in 1670, Charleston is among the oldest cities in the nation and site of some of the most pivotal events in American history. Explore the city and discover the Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Downey, Christopher Byrd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: May 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1540252027
- Language: English
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On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
$34.95 Add to cartWith On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeaste
- Author: Rhea, Gordon C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: February 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177288
- Language: English
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Ten Days in a Mad House
$6.99 Add to cartTen Days in a Mad-House (1887) is a book by American investigative journalist Nellie Bly. For her first assignment for Joseph Pulitzer’s famed New York World newspaper, Bly went undercover as a patien
- Series: Mint Editions (Visibility for Disability, Health and Wellness)
- Author: Bly, Nellie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1513280074
- Language: English
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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
$24.00 Add to cartWhen it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove … [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Cox, Karen L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1469662671
- Language: English
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Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union
$30.00 Read moreFrom journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a “powerful revisionist account”of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner).
The n- Author: Kreitner, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 18, 2020
- ISBN10: 0316510602
- Language: English
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Contraception: A Concise History
$15.95 Read moreThe development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the late nineteenth century to the present, viewed from the perspective of reproductive justice.
The beginning of the modern contra
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Drucker, Donna J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538423
- Language: English
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The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852
$22.00 Add to cartThe Shirley Letters, written from the mining camps in 1851 and 1852, are something valuable and rare–a portrait by a woman of an era dominated by men. They offer a vivid picture of gold rush life, fr… [more below]
- Author: Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: January 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1890771007
- Language: English
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Visual Antietam Vol. 1: Ezra Carman’s Antietam Through Maps and Pictures: Dawn to Dunker Church
$19.95 Add to cartModern students of the Battle of Antietam owe a large debt to Ezra A. Carman. Colonel of the 13th New Jersey Infantry and then brigade commander, he devoted much of his later life to preserving the hi
- Author: Carman, Ezra a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: December 01 2018
- ISBN10: 173259760X
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of the Chicago World’s Fair
$42.99 Add to cartChicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition, popularly called the Chicago World’s Fair, or the White City, was the largest and most spectacular world’s fair ever built. The Columbian Exposition opened on M
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Lewis, Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1684421101
- Language: English
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Freemasons at Gettysburg
$14.95 Add to cartAlthough it has been traced to the 10th Century, BC, history indicates that the fraternity of Freemasons was introduced into England in 926 AD. As an association that continues to thrive today, the br
- Author: Munn, Sheldon a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: April 21 2014
- ISBN10: 1620064022
- Language: English
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Wittgenstein’s Vienna
$29.85 Add to cartThe life and culture of Hapsburg Vienna before World War I-the city of Freud, Schoenberg, Klimt, and Wittgenstein, whose philosophy announced the birth of the modern era. “An independent work…challe… [more below]
- Author: Janik, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 315
- Publish Date: September 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1566631327
- Language: English
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Discovering the Civil War in Florida: A Reader and Guide, Second Edition
$30.00 Add to cartA chronicle of Civil War activity in Florida, both land and sea maneuvers. For each engagement the author includes excerpts from official government reports by officers on both sides of the battle lin
- Author: Taylor, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 156164529X
- Language: English
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Ever True: 150 Years of Giant Leaps at Purdue University
$44.95 Add to cartIn 1869 the State of Indiana founded Purdue University as Indiana’s land-grant university dedicated to agriculture and engineering. Today, Purdue stands as one of the elite research and education inst
- Series: Founders
- Author: Norberg, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1557538220
- Language: English
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Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
$47.50 Read moreA prizewinning political scientist traces the origins of urban-rural political conflict and shows how geography shapes elections in America and beyond
Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Part- Author: Rodden, Jonathan a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1541644271
- Language: English
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West Virginia and the Civil War: Mountaineers Are Always Free
$32.99 Add to cartThe only state born as a result of the Civil War, West Virginia was the most divided state in the nation. About forty thousand of its residents served in the combatant forces about twenty thousand on … [more below]
- Author: Snell, Mark A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: August 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1540223957
- Language: English
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Port Aransas
$31.99 Add to cartPort Aransas, known colloquially as Port A, is on Mustang Island, one of the Texas barrier islands. This community grew from the seed of El Mar Rancho, the homestead an Englishman established for his … [more below]
- Author: Guthrie Ford, J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: February 28 2011
- ISBN10: 1531652530
- Language: English
