Chronological Period/19th Century
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A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
$20.00 Read moreDecember 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this
- Author: Matteson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 039388242X
- Language: English
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Abbie Against the Storm: The True Story of a Young Heroine and a Lighthouse
$10.99 Read moreThe dramatic true story of a young heroine who operated a lighthouse during a terrible winter storm in her father’s absence, saving countless lives out at sea.
When seventeen-year-old Abbie Burgess an- Author: Vaughan, Marcia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1582708886
- Language: English
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Lewis and Clark Trail Maps: A Cartographic Reconstruction, Volume II: Beyond Fort Mandan (North Dakota/Montana) to Continental Divide and Snake Ri
$30.00 Read moreIn Volume II, Martin Plamondon presents a cartographic reconstruction of the Corps of Discovery’s trek across the northwestern United States in 1805-06. Beginning a short distance above Fort Mandan, 1
- Series: Cartographic Reconstruction #2
- Author: Plamondon II, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0874222427
- Language: English
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The Louisa May Alcott Hidden Gems Collection (Boxed Set): Eight Cousins; Rose in Bloom; An Old-Fashioned Girl; Under the Lilacs; Jack and Jill
$39.99 Read moreWhile most famous for Little Women, Louisa May Alcott penned many other just as enthralling but lesser-known novels. Discover five of her hidden gems featuring Alcott’s signature coming-of-age stories… [more below]
- Series: The Louisa May Alcott Hidden Gems Collection
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1696
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1665926325
- Language: English
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The Underground Railroad in Ohio
$23.99 Read moreOhio was at the heart of it all. During a dark time in United States history, thousands of freedom seekers traveled the Underground Railroad through Ohio. The Buckeye State hosted about half of all fu… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Schulz, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153206
- Language: English
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Josefina: Second Chances
$7.99 Read moreWhen Josefina wants to rescue a newborn goat that needs help, Papa has doubts. But after a rattlesnake threatens the baby goat, Josefina discovers her healing skills — and her courage. She gets anoth… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: Tripp, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1683371577
- Language: English
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women, here is the true story of the one-hundred-year-odyssey of the author’s Chinese-American family, combining years of research with “fascinating fa… [more below]
- Author: See, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0307950395
- Language: English
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The People Could Fly: The Picture Book
$8.99 Read moreVirginia Hamilton’s Coretta Scott King Honor book is the breathtaking fantasy tale of slaves who possessed ancient magic that enabled them to fly away to freedom. And it is a moving tale of those who … [more below]
- Author: Hamilton, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 055350780X
- Language: English
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Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
$31.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography – Winner of the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize – Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western
- Author: Jackson, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1250141257
- Language: English
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Walden and Other Writings
$5.95 Add to cartWith their call for “simplicity, simplicity, simplicity “, for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in al… [more below]
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 1983
- ISBN10: 055321246X
- Language: English
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Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War
$35.00 Read moreIn the second half of the eighteenth century, approximately three quarters of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by a vast Islamic power, the centuries-old Ottoman Empire…. [more below]
- Author: Rutledge, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0863569501
- Language: English
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Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast Through Cross-Cultural Marriages
$27.95 Add to cartThroughout the mid-1800s, outsiders, including many Euro-Americans, arrived in what is now northwest Washington. As they interacted with Samish, Lummi, S’Klallam, Sto: lo, and other groups, some of th
- Author: Wellman, Candace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: May 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0874223466
- Language: English
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Wild West: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #10: Ghost Town at Sundown
$7.99 Read moreTrack the facts about cowboys, ghost towns, outlaws, and more!
When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #10: Ghost Town at Sundown, they had lots of questions. What is a- Series: Magic Tree House (R) Fact Tracker #38
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1101936452
- Language: English
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Veil of Doubt
$28.95 Read moreWhen a mother is charged with murder in a town already convinced of her guilt, can defense attorney Powell Harrison find truth and justice in a legal system where innocence is not presumed?
Emily Lloy… [more below]
- Author: Virts, Sharon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1959411446
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
$9.99 Read moreMark Twain’s adventurous story of boyhood is now available in an unabridged paperback edition for today’s young readers.
Whether he’s tricking others into doing his work or running away with Hucklebe… [more below]- Series: Children’s Signature Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1454950013
- Language: English
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Hammering for Freedom: The William Lewis Story
$19.95 Read moreThe inspirational story of William “Bill” Lewis, a hardworking blacksmith who slowly saved his money and bought the freedom of each and every member of his enslaved family.
Born into slavery in Chattan
- Series: New Voices
- Author: Hubbard, Rita Lorraine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1600609694
- Language: English
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The Portable Frederick Douglass
$25.00 Add to cartA new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader
This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick D… [more below]- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0143106813
- Language: English
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
$12.00 Read moreA tremendously influential philosophical work of the late nineteenth century, Thus Spake Zarathustra is also a literary masterpiece by one of the most important thinkers of modern times. In it, the an… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 05 1999
- ISBN10: 0486406636
- Language: English
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Wesley and Men Who Followed
$28.00 Read moreJohn Wesley – Oxford don and itinerant preacher, intellectual and evangelist, author and man of action, upholder of the Church of England yet founder of another world-wide denomination, disagreeing wi… [more below]
- Author: Murray, Iain H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: December 15 2005
- ISBN10: 0851518354
- Language: English
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Murder at Beacon Rock
$16.95 Read moreThe New York Yacht Club’s exclusive gathering at Newport, Rhode Island’s Beacon Rock mansion hits stormy seas in the summer of 1900 when reporter Emma Cross, a lesser Vanderbilt, discovers a drowned c… [more below]
- Series: Gilded Newport Mystery
- Author: Maxwell, Alyssa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1496749928
- Language: English
