Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
$32.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, … [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1501116223
- Language: English
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To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
$17.95 Read morePriscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the dawn of emancipation. Raised by a white slaveholding woman, Joyner never knew the truth about her pare
- Author: Emberton, Carole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050276
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$26.00 Add to cartFamilies trapped in poverty and systemic injustices. Children denied civil rights because of race. A nation with immense potential for freedom spiraling into prejudice, violence, and hate.
The countr- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1637631707
- Language: English
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The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy
$21.00 Add to cartA delicious group biography of the young American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century – the real women who inspired Downton Abbey.
Towards the end o- Author: De Courcy, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1250164605
- Language: English
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Commanding Lincoln’s Navy: Union Naval Leadership During the Civil War
$24.95 Add to cartThe Union Navy played a vital role in winning the Civil War by blockading Confederate ports, cooperating with the Union Army in amphibious assaults, and operating on the Mississippi River and its trib
- Author: Taaffe, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1682479277
- Language: English
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We Have Taken A City: The Wilmington Racial Massacre and Coup of 1898
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1898, Wilmington, North Carolina was the scene of what many describe as the only successful coup d’ etat in the history of the United States, when angry whites overthrew the duly elected government… [more below]
- Author: Prather, Sr. H., Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: February 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0972324089
- Language: English
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Mystery of E Troop
$20.00 Add to cartThe men of Company E rode big gray horses that stood out amidst the confusion during the afternoon of June 25, 1876. Twenty-eight of these men were found dead in a ravine after the fighting ceased. Bu… [more below]
- Author: Michno, Gregory F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0878423044
- Language: English
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Leadville
$14.00 Add to cartLeadville is a first-rate frontier epic, with romance and excitement enough for ten cities. The real story of Leadville, Colorado is beyond the portals–it is of the men who worked the mines, of thund… [more below]
- Author: Voynick, Stephen M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 15 1984
- ISBN10: 0878421718
- Language: English
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The Irish General: Thomas Francis Meagher
$24.95 Add to cartIrish patriot, Civil War general, frontier governor–Thomas Francis Meagher played key roles in three major historical arenas. Today he is hailed as a hero by some, condemned as a drunkard by others.
- Author: Wylie, Paul R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: March 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141859
- Language: English
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The Germans from Russia in Oklahoma
$9.95 Add to cartIn 1980, the University of Oklahoma Press published a ten-book series titled Newcomers to a New Land that described and analyzed the role of the major ethnic groups that have contributed to the histor… [more below]
- Series: Newcomers to a New Land
- Author: Hale, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 080611620X
- Language: English
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
$19.00 Read moreOriginally published in 1998 and a best seller in its hardcover and paperback publications, Gary Kinder’s Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea tells the story of the sinking of the SS Central America, a … [more below]
- Author: Kinder, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 20 2009
- ISBN10: 080214425X
- Language: English
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Rebel Gold: One Man’s Quest to Crack the Code Behind the Secret Treasure of the Confederacy
$19.99 Add to cartWhat if a secret society, founded during the Civil War, accumulated a fortune in gold coins in the hopes of someday funding a second war between the states? What if they buried their treasure in a vas… [more below]
- Author: Brewer, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0743219694
- Language: English
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Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation
$27.99 Add to cartFletcher Pratt Award
McLemore Prize In the spring of 1862, there was no more important place in the western Confederacy–perhaps in all the South–than the tiny town of Corinth, Mississippi. Major Gen- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0700623450
- Language: English
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Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad
$18.99 Add to cartBeyond the River brings to brilliant life the dramatic story of the forgotten heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad.
From the highest hill above the town of Ripley, Ohio, you ca- Author: Hagedorn, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0684870665
- Language: English
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Freud: A Life for Our Time
$49.99 Add to cart“A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas. A fresh, illuminating perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time.” –J. Anthony Lukas
“[This] remarkable biography… briskly traces the
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 866
- Publish Date: May 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328619
- Language: English
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Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBeneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamen… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0195367804
- Language: English
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Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
$18.99 Add to cart“Reads like a nail-biting thriller.” — Library Journal, starred review
A gripping new history celebrating the remarkable heroes of the Johnstown Flood–the deadliest flood in U.S. history–from NBC h
- Author: Roker, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062445537
- Language: English
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My Life and Work: An Autobiography of Henry Ford
$14.99 Add to cartThis book is the original autobiographical work by Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. In this book, Ford details how he got into business, the strategies that he used to become a wealthy a… [more below]
- Author: Ford, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: May 06 2008
- ISBN10: 0979311985
- Language: English
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Upton and the Army
$24.95 Add to cartEmory Upton (1839-1881) was “the epitome of a professional soldier,” according to Stephen E. Ambrose. Indeed, his entire adult life was devoted to the single-minded pursuit of a military career. Upton
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0807118508
- Language: English
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Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill
$24.95 Add to cartFort Sill, located in the heart of the old Kiowa-Comanche Indian country in southwestern Oklahoma, is known to a modern generation as the Field Artillery School of the United States Army. To students … [more below]
- Author: Nye, Wilbur S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0806118563
- Language: English
