Chronological Period/19th Century
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The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman–and how its breakup led to the success of America’s most important social mov
- Author: Hirshman, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268701
- Language: English
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Blood in the Borderlands: Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821-1920
$29.95 Add to cartHistorical Society of New Mexico’s Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award
The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American W
Santa Fe Trail Association’s Louise Barry Writing Award- Author: Beyreis, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496234650
- Language: English
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The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
$22.99 Add to cart
A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind–the Great Irish Potato Famine–conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great Mortality
In this ma- Author: Kelly, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 23 2013
- ISBN10: 1250032172
- Language: English
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First Telegraph Line Across the Continent: Charles Brown’s 1861 Diary
$14.95 Add to cart2012 Nebraska Book Award: Cover/Design/Illustration
The transcontinental telegraph was a remarkable technological feat that had major consequences for the West and the nation as a whole. Yet relatively
- Author: Mihelich, Dennis N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 133
- Publish Date: August 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0933307322
- Language: English
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Rosanna of the Amish
$17.99 Add to cartThe thrilling narrative of Rosanna McGonegal Yoder, the Irish Catholic baby girl, who lived with an Amish woman, Elizabeth Yoder. All the episodes of Rosanna of the Amish are based on fact. Joseph W.
- Author: Yoder, Joseph W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 13 1995
- ISBN10: 0836190181
- Language: English
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Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of Baroness de Pontalba
$34.95 Add to cartBorn into wealth in New Orleans in 1795 and married into misery fifteen years later, the Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba led a life ripe for novelization. Intimate Enemies, however, is the spe
- Author: Vella, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 23 2004
- ISBN10: 0807129623
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$29.95 Add to cartSolomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly,
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 01 1968
- ISBN10: 0807101508
- Language: English
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After Lewis and Clark: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1807, a year after Lewis and Clark returned from the shores of the Pacific, groups of trappers and hunters began to drift West to tap the rich stocks of beaver and to trade with the Native nations…. [more below]
- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803295642
- Language: English
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Black Church Beginnings: The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years
$25.99 Add to cartBlack Church Beginnings provides an intimate look at the struggles of African Americans to establish spiritual communities in the harsh world of slavery in the American colonies. Written by one of tod… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Henry H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 197
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0802827853
- Language: English
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Clara Schumann (Revised)
$25.95 Add to cartThis absorbing and award-winning biography tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896), a musician of remarkable achievements. At once artist, composer, editor, t
- Author: Reich, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0801486378
- Language: English
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Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany
$49.92 Add to cartIn a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked
- Author: Hull, Isabel V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0801472938
- Language: English
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Famous Firearms of the Old West: From Wild Bill Hickok’s Colt Revolvers To Geronimo’s Winchester, Twelve Guns That Shaped Our History
$19.95 Add to cartFrom Buffalo Bill to Wild Bill and from Chief Joseph to Geronimo, the most famous guns in the West and the history behind them.
- Author: Herring, Hal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0762773499
- Language: English
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Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of Hardscrabble New England
$16.95 Add to cartThe story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating stories of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks will take the top fifty wil… [more below]
- Author: Mayo, Matthew P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0762759682
- Language: English
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American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Th
$16.99 Add to cartThe 1850s were heady times in Concord, Massachusetts: in a town where a woman’s petticoat drying on an outdoor line was enough to elicit scandal, some of the greatest minds of our nation’s history wer… [more below]
- Author: Cheever, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0743264622
- Language: English
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Once They Moved Like the Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars
$24.95 Add to cartUsing first-person accounts in historical archives, David Roberts presents many sides of the Native American rebellion that began in the mid-1800s.
Once They Moved Like The Wind is the epic story of t- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0671885561
- Language: English
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The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why
$17.95 Add to cartA renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word.
The N Word reveals how the term “nigger” has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigo- Author: Asim, Jabari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0547053495
- Language: English
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1848: Year of Revolution
$22.99 Read moreA “lively, panoramic” history of a revolutionary year (New York Times)
In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had ke- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0465020674
- Language: English
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Victorians
$40.99 Add to cartAs one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in this spectacular work he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers,
- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 738
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325431
- Language: English
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Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair
$26.00 Add to cartAn insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents
On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s cries of innoc- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Samuels, Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300254008
- Language: English
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Eminent Victorians
$12.95 Add to cartEminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey’s wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liber… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Strachey, Lytton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019955501X
- Language: English
