Chronological Period/19th Century
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Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
$5.95 Add to cartThomas B. Allen’s follow-up to the multi-award-winning George Washington, Spymaster is now available in paperback. This compelling biography tells the amazing tale of Harriet Tubman using details unco… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Thomas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1426304013
- Language: English
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Que Fue El Tren Clandestino?
$14.95 Add to cartNo one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from; there were no trains or tracks, only ‘conductors’ who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about ‘passengers’ on the ‘R… [more below]
- Series: Quien Fue? / Who Was?
- Author: McDonough, Yona Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1631134175
- Language: Spanish
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The Story of My Heart
$21.95 Read more“A first-rate tribute to an author who now has been rescued from obscurity.”
—THE UTAH REVIEWOriginally published in 1883, The Story of My Heart explores the existence of a “soul-life” as British natu
- Author: Jefferies, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1937226417
- Language: English
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Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth . . . the Remedy
$34.95 Read moreProgress and Poverty offers a fundamental inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and the persistence of poverty and advancing wealth. Upon its 1879 debut, it quickly became the bestselling b… [more below]
- Author: George, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: July 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0486842088
- Language: English
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Goldtown Beginnings
$32.50 Add to cartRush into adventure with Jem Coulter
Readers ages 6-8 have gold fever Goldtown, California, in the 1800s is at the heart of the gold rush . . . and young Jem Coulter and his family are right in the- Series: Goldtown Beginnings
- Author: Marlow, Susan K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0825447003
- Language: English
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Highland Wolf: Highland Brides
$9.99 Read moreNew York Times Bestselling Author Lynsay Sands delivers another sexy historical romance set in the wilds of the Highlands
In all her daydreams about her wedding day, Lady Claray MacFarlane never once i
- Series: Highland Brides #10
- Author: Sands, Lynsay
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0062855433
- Language: English
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The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Fathers Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
$26.00 Read moreAn Alexander Hamilton heir, a beautiful female con artist, an abandoned baby, and the shocking courtroom drama that was splashed across front pages from coast to coast–this is the fascinating true st… [more below]
- Author: Shaffer, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 080654225X
- Language: English
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The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics
$22.00 Read moreIn roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations. But friction b
- Author: Ngai, Mae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036109
- Language: English
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Studies in Classic American Literature
$17.00 Read more“Nobody ever read [the great old books] like Lawrence did–as madly, as wildly or as insightfully. . . . You will be jolted awake.” –A. O. Scott, The New York Times
A Penguin Classic Lawrence asserte- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140183779
- Language: English
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Black Communities of Fairfax: A History
$24.99 Add to cartThe story of Black Fairfax has long been untold. The free Black population of Fairfax Court House dates to at least the 1820s. After the Civil War, newly freed Black citizens expanded the hamlet of Je… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Willson, Etta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155497
- Language: English
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Monumental Lies: Early Nevada Folklore of the Wild West
$29.95 Read moreA playful embrace of tall tales and exaggeration, Monumental Lies explores the evolution of folklore in the Wild West.
Monumental Lies: Early Nevada Folklore of the Wild West invites readers to explor- Series: Shepperson Nevada History
- Author: James, Ronald M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1647791162
- Language: English
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House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
$14.95 Read moreOn September 11, 1857, some 120 men, women, and children from the Arkansas hills were murdered in the remote desert valley of Mountain Meadows, Utah. This notorious massacre was, in fact, a mass execu
- Author: Novak, Shannon A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 27 2008
- ISBN10: 1607811693
- Language: English
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The War of 1812 in the Old Northwest
$24.95 Read moreThis engaging narrative history deftly illustrates the War of 1812 as it played out in the Old Northwest — Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and bordering parts of Canada. From the stirrings of conf
- Author: Gilpin, Alec R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1611860385
- Language: English
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The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom
$17.95 Read moreFrom the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln–two men moved to radically different acts t… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0525563458
- Language: English
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Desolation Island
$16.95 Read moreCommissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautif
- Series: Aubrey-Maturin (Paperback) #5
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 17 1991
- ISBN10: 039330812X
- Language: English
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The Witch of Mansfield: The Tetched Life of Phebe Wise
$24.99 Read moreMeet one of Richland County’s most colorful citizens.
There are those who thought Phebe Wise was a witch. More thought that the cranky old lady was “tetched,” meaning crazy. And she was crazy–like
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Jordan, Mark S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155217
- Language: English
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Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives
$30.00 Read moreThe never-before-told story of the extraordinary women behind a trailblazing British magazine.
During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accom- Author: Adams, Jad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147891
- Language: English
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River Master: John Wesley Powell’s Legendary Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1869, Civil War veteran and amputee Major John Powell led an expedition down the uncharted Colorado River through the then-nameless Grand Canyon. This is the story of what started as a geological s… [more below]
- Author: Kuhne, Cecil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1682685187
- Language: English
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Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
$32.00 Read moreThe half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling w
- Author: Masur, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1324005939
- Language: English
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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
$26.00 Add to cartBy the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies o… [more below]
- Author: Green, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 650
- Publish Date: March 05 2021
- ISBN10: 022678973X
- Language: English
