Chronological Period/19th Century
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If You Were a Kid During the California Gold Rush (If You Were a Kid)
$7.95 Add to cartLearn how prospectors mined for gold, what life was like in mining camps, and much more.
In 1848, gold was discovered in a California river, kicking off a period of time when thousands of people travel… [more below]
- Series: If You Were a Kid
- Author: Gregory, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0531243125
- Language: English
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Cheyenne Again
$9.99 Read moreIn the late 1880s, a Cheyenne boy named Young Bull is taken from his parents and sent to a boarding school to learn the white man’s ways. “Young Bull’s struggle to hold on to his heritage will touch c
- Author: Bunting, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 20 2002
- ISBN10: 0618194657
- Language: English
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Johannes Brahms: A Biography
$23.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
“This brilliant and magisterial book is a very good bet to…become the definitive study of Johannes Brahms.”–The Plain Dealer Judicious, compassionate, and full of insi- Author: Swafford, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: December 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0679745823
- Language: English
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The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
$20.00 Add to cartWe must reduce our volume to the simple evangelists, select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus. There will be remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been of… [more below]
- Author: Jefferson, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0807077143
- Language: English
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Pirates, Raiders & Invaders of the Gulf Coast
$24.99 Read moreAuthors Ryan Starrett and Josh Foreman chart a Gulf Coast odyssey with French adventurers, English colonists, Spanish Dons, American filibusters, Indian warriors, African Maroons, and pirate outlaws .
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Starrett, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153230
- Language: English
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The Souls Close to Edgar Allan Poe: Graves of His Family, Friends and Foes
$23.99 Read moreJourney to the burial places of the people who lived in Poe’s world.
Edgar Allan Poe considered himself a Virginian. Credited with originating the modern detective story, developing Gothic horror tal… [more below]- Series: The History Press
- Author: Pajka, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154547
- Language: English
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Seeking Fortune During the California Gold Rush: A History Seeking Adventure
$9.99 Read moreYOU are one of the many fortune seekers during the California Gold Rush in the 1850s. Will you pan for gold, set up a mine, or make your riches by serving the miners who have flocked to the area? Step… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Seeking History
- Author: Doeden, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669032736
- Language: English
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Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
$8.99 Read moreGeorge loved words. Enslaved and forced to work long hours, he was unable to attend school or learn how to read.
But he was determined―he listened to the white children’s lessons and learned the- Author: Tate, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1682630625
- Language: English
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The Pickwick Papers: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
$16.00 Read moreThe quintessentially English Don Quixote, here presented in a new edition based on the authoritative text and accompanied by notes and extra material to help the modern reader.
A rich and varied arra- Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1847498310
- Language: English
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
$27.95 Read moreThe term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The fi
- Author: Dreilinger, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1324004495
- Language: English
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Architects of an American Landscape: Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Reimagining of America’s Public and Private Spaces
$30.00 Read moreA dual portrait of America’s first great architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, and her finest landscape designer, Frederick Law Olmsted–and their immense impact on America
As the nation recovered from a
- Author: Howard, Hugh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159230
- Language: English
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The Paris Commune: A Brief History
$22.95 Read moreThe Paris Commune, France’s revolutionary civil war, rocked the nineteenth century and shaped the twentieth. A pivotal moment in history, it is the linchpin between revolutionary pasts and futures and… [more below]
- Series: Reinventions of the Paris Commune
- Author: Eichner, Carolyn J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1978827687
- Language: English
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Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows
$18.95 Read more“How should one envisage this subject? With a great pomp of words, or with simplicity?” –Charlotte Brontë, “The Death of Napoleon”
The most celebrated general in history, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-18
- Author: Scurr, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092025
- Language: English
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Man of Fire: William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War
$16.95 Read moreHe has been accused of “studied and ingenious cruelty.” By turns, he has been called a savior and a barbarian, a hero and a villain, a genius and a madman. But whatever you call William Tecumseh Sherm… [more below]
- Series: Emerging Civil War
- Author: Maxfield, Derek D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1611215994
- Language: English
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The Blue Nile
$17.99 Add to cartIn the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterra
- Author: Moorehead, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956402
- Language: English
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Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
$9.99 Add to cartThe pioneer spirit of the Little House series lives on in this picture book biography perfect for young readers This picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular f
- Series: Little House Nonfiction
- Author: Anderson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 02 2000
- ISBN10: 006446234X
- Language: English
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
$15.95 Read moreTwenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin’s epiphany that “natural selection” formed the basis of evolution and the scientist’s publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin delay, and … [more below]
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 039332995X
- Language: English
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The Necklace and Other Short Stories
$6.00 Read moreThe French author Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a master of the short story, creating detailed character studies and brief but moving dramas well suited to the genre.
The nine stories in this colle… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Maupassant, Guy De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0486270645
- Language: English
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Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride
$18.99 Read moreBorn into slavery, Belle had to endure the cruelty of several masters before she escaped to freedom. But she knew she wouldn’t really be free unless she was helping to end injustice. That’s when she c… [more below]
- Author: Pinkney, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0786807679
- Language: English
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
$12.99 Read more– Deluxe foiled and embossed cover, with gilded edges.
Little tre
– Gift editions of much-loved classics.
– Accessible and timeless unabridged text.
– Features a glossary of Victorian and Literary terms.- Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics
- Author: Brontë, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1839649674
- Language: English
