Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Sailing Alone Around the World
$16.95 Read more“The classic of its kind.” —Travel World
“One of the most readable books in the whole library of adventure.” —Sports Illustrated
“The finest single-handed adventure story yet written.” —Seafarer
Chall- Author: Slocum, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 1956
- ISBN10: 0486203263
- Language: English
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Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
$23.00 Read moreNow an Apple TV+ documentary, Lincoln’s Dilemma.
One of the Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book A Christian Science Monitor and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of- Author: Reynolds, David S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0143110764
- Language: English
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My First Summer in the Sierra
$16.00 Add to cartMy First Summer in the Sierra presents Muir’s journal entries from his first long-term adventure in Yosemite and the surrounding area, when he helped drive a flock of sheep through the foothills towar… [more below]
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1597143391
- Language: English
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The Future of War: A History
$18.99 Add to cartAn award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its guises and applications, showing what has driven and continues to drive this u… [more below]
- Author: Freedman, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 154174277X
- Language: English
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1,417 Days in Rebellion: A History of the 19th Georgia Regiment
$16.95 Add to cartThe Civil War is the greatest tragedy ever experienced by our nation. The repercussions of the war are still alive today, almost 160 years after the final shots were fired in April 1865. Many books ha
- Author: Payton, Allan C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Blizzard Voices
$14.95 Add to cart2007 Book Sense Poetry Top Ten selection
This book is a collection of poems recording the devastation unleashed on
2007 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award for Poetry, honoring Tom Pohrt (Illustrator)- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803259638
- Language: English
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Cartoon History of the United States
$23.99 Add to cartWhat? You don’t know what a Burgess is? — You can’t outline the Monroe Doctrine? — Recall the 14th Amendment? — Explain the difference between a sputnik and a beatnik?
Then you need The Cartoon Hist… [more below]
- Series: Cartoon Guide
- Author: Gonick, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 1991
- ISBN10: 0062730983
- Language: English
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The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won
$24.99 Add to cartHistory isn’t always written by the winners…
Twenty-first-century controversies over Confederate monuments attest to the enduring significance of our nineteenth-century Civil War. As Lincoln knew, t- Series: Civil War Collection
- Author: Bonekemper, Edward H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 168451360X
- Language: English
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Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life
$36.00 Add to cartBenjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Remembered most often for his uncompromising administr… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Leonard, Elizabeth D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1469668041
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail
$32.00 Read moreThe inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUs
In The Devil’s Half Acre, New York Times bestsell
- Author: Green, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675630
- Language: English
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Gauguin
$23.33 Add to cartPaul Gauguin (1848-1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen who did not speak Danish. He began painting in his
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Walther, Ingo F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 27 2017
- ISBN10: 3836532239
- Language: English
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The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Texas Institute of Letters’s Carr P. Collins Award
A New York Times Bestseller
One of Book Riot Best Book of the Year
In nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized th- Author: Hollandsworth, Skip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 11, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118492
- Language: English
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The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
$24.00 Add to cartA classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century
Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in t- Author: Trachtenberg, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0809058286
- Language: English
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Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Revised Edition)
$21.95 Add to cartThis English translation–the first since 1909–restores Human, All Too Human to its proper central position in the Nietzsche canon. First published in 1878, the book marks the philosophical coming of… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 275
- Publish Date: December 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803283687
- Language: English
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
$40.00 Add to cartThe National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: June 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0743262131
- Language: English
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Churchill’s Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government
$22.99 Add to cart“A masterpiece of political philosophy and practical statesmanship…the one book on Winston Churchill that every undergraduate, every graduate student, every professional historian, and every member
- Author: Arnn, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0718096215
- Language: English
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Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
$19.00 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
In the spirit of Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot and Alain de Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage keeps circlin- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 10, 2009
- ISBN10: 0312429460
- Language: English
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Small But Important Riots: The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville
$36.95 Add to cartNamed a Top Ten Book of 2023 by Civil War Books and Authors
June 1863. The American Civil War was two years old, and the U.S. Army in Virginia was in chaos. Reeling after the recent defeat at Chancel- Author: O’Neill, Robert F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125477
- Language: English
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Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
$29.99 Read moreThe companion volume to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021
With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric
- Author: Conwill, Kinshasha Holman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0063160641
- Language: English
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America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United States
$36.40 Add to cart“The best one-volume history of the United States ever written” (Joseph J. Ellis), now updated to cover the Obama and Trump presidencies
In America, Empire of Liberty, prizewinning historian David Reyn… [more below]- Author: Reynolds, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 154167569X
- Language: English
