Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Wagon Wheels
$5.99 Add to cartBased on a true story, Wagon Wheels tells a powerful and overlooked story of the country’s post-Civil War era.
Formerly enslaved Ed Muldie and his family travel to Kansas in 1878 to claim land under th
- Series: I Can Read History Book
- Author: Brenner, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 23 1984
- ISBN10: 0064440524
- Language: English
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Henri’s Scissors
$19.99 Add to cartStep into the colorful world of Henri Matisse and his magnificent paper cutouts in this biography by acclaimed picture book creator Jeanette Winter.
In a small weaving town in France, a young boy name- Author: Winter, Jeanette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 1442464844
- Language: English
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Caddie Woodlawn
$8.99 Add to cartCaddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She’d rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother’s dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the … [more below]
- Author: Brink, Carol Ryrie
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0689815212
- Language: English
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What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?
$7.99 Add to cart“Four score and seven years ago…” begins Abraham Lincoln’s beautiful speech commemorating the three-day battle that turned the tide of the Civil War. The South had been winning up to this point. So … [more below]
- Series: What Was…
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0448462869
- Language: English
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
$15.99 Add to cartIn a riveting biography that reads like a crime novel, Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti uncovers the true story of Mary Mallon, a.k.a. Typhoid Mary, one of the most m
- Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0063295962
- Language: English
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Across Five Aprils
$9.99 Add to cartThe Newbery Award-winning author of Up a Road Slowly presents the unforgettable story of Jethro Creighton–a brave boy who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War.
In 1861, America is- Author: Hunt, Irene
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0425182789
- Language: English
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Ransom’s Mark: A Story Based on the Life of the Pioneer Olive Oatman
$8.99 Add to cartDaughters of the Faith: Ordinary Girls Who Lived Extraordinary Lives.
When 13-year-old Olive Oatman’s wagon train is raided by outlaw Yavapai Indians, she and her sister are captured. After enduring ha
- Series: Daughters of the Faith
- Author: Lawton, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0802436382
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
$12.99 Read moreLittle treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury … [more below]
- Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1839641789
- Language: English
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The Civil War: An Interactive History Adventure
$9.99 Add to cartIt’s 1863, and the Civil War has torn apart the United States. For two years, the Confederacy and the Union have battled over slavery and states’ rights. Will you: Fight for the Union at the Battle of… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: History
- Author: Doeden, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 20 2016
- ISBN10: 1515733890
- Language: English
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The Tea Rose
$24.00 Read moreThe Tea Rose is a towering old-fashioned story, imbued with a modern sensibility, of a family’s destruction, of murder and revenge, of love lost and won again, and of one determined woman’s quest to s
- Series: Tea Rose #1
- Author: Donnelly, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0312378025
- Language: English
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Adoniram Judson: Bound for Burma
$11.99 Read moreAs America’s first foreign missionary, Adoniram Judson spent thirty-eight years working in Burma, then one of the most hostile countries on earth. Judson was ignored, mocked, beaten, and tortured, yet… [more below]
- Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
- Author: Benge, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 05 2001
- ISBN10: 1576581616
- Language: English
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Bust Hell Wide Open
$19.99 Read moreAt fourteen he became the head of his impoverished family, responsible for feeding eleven on the rough American frontier. By thirty-nine he had established himself as a successful plantation owner wor… [more below]
- Series: Civil War Collection
- Author: Mitcham, Samuel W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 31 2019
- ISBN10: 1684510309
- Language: English
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Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines
$19.99 Read moreDiscover how Rube Goldberg followed his dreams to become an award-winning cartoonist, inventor, and even an adjective in the dictionary in this inspiring and funny biographical picture book.
Want to- Author: Aronson, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1481476688
- Language: English
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The Big Book of Civil War Sites: From Fort Sumter to Appomattox, a Visitor’s Guide to the History, Personalities, and Places of America’s Battlefields
$34.95 Add to cartThe definitive travel reference for America’s most famous–and infamous–Civil War battle sites!
With The Big Book of Civil War Sites, history-focused travelers finally have ready access to in-depth an
- Author: Bradford, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072021
- Language: English
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Hard Country
$24.00 Add to cartA richly authentic epic adventure of rough-hewn men and courageous women, set in the hard country of the American Southwest frontier.
Hard Country is a rare and extraordinary story of one family’s st- Series: American West Trilogy #1
- Author: McGarrity, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 451417143
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$21.00 Add to cartConsidered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy’s classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: October 10 2000
- ISBN10: 067978330X
- Language: English
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
$18.99 Add to cartIn this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and
- Author: Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346105
- Language: English
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. – “A splendid book in … [more below]
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0307946916
- Language: English
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The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story
$19.00 Add to cartOur idea of the Founders’ America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders, but we can be the heirs of Reconstruction and its vision for equality.
There’s a common story we te- Author: Roosevelt III, Kermit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829510
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
$19.99 Read moreBestselling author-illustrator Marissa Moss tells the gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission
As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century,
- Author: Moss, Marissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1419758535
- Language: English
