Chronological Period/19th Century
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American Transcendentalism
$27.00 Add to cartAmerican Transcendentalism is a sweeping narrative history of America’s first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in t
- Author: Gura, Philip F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0809016443
- Language: English
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The Other Civil War
$21.00 Add to cartA lively, comprehensive account of the struggle for women’s rights at a vital time in our national history.
The American women who worked for our country’s indepence in 1776 hoped the new Republic wou- Author: Clinton, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: April 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0809016222
- Language: English
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Gettysburg–The Second Day
$38.00 Add to cartThe second day’s fighting at Gettysburg–the assault of the Army of Northern Virginia against the Army of the Potomac on 2 July 1863–was probably the critical engagement of that decisive battle and, … [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Pfanz, Harry W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 02 1998
- ISBN10: 0807847305
- Language: English
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The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy’s Great Gamble Volume 3
$61.58 Add to cartOne hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, the… [more below]
- Series: Public Lands History #3
- Author: Sherow, James E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160535
- Language: English
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The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience
$26.95 Add to cartWhen The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no on
- Author: Holliday, J. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: October 29 2018
- ISBN10: 080613464X
- Language: English
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Ghost Towns of Arizona
$24.95 Add to cartArizona’s ghost towns exemplify man’s courage, tenacity, and perhaps even foolishness in his search for wealth. Inevitable by-products of the development of gold, silver, copper, and other mineral dep
- Author: Sherman, James E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: February 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0806108436
- Language: English
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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One
$19.95 Read moreGlimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a complete, two-volume set of one of the most outstanding books on 19th century Japanese history and culture.
Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: Hearn, Lafcadio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 080484755X
- Language: English
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Forty Years on the Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartThere is no other pioneer record of this section quite like it.—American Historical Review
When originally published in 1925, one reviewer called Forty Years on the Frontier “the odyssey of a nineteen
- Author: Stuart, Granville
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803293208
- Language: English
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The Great Platte River Road
$29.95 Add to cartThe Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America’s westward expansion. A number of famous trails converged in the broad valley of the Platte, forming a kind o… [more below]
- Series: Great Plains Photography
- Author: Mattes, Merrill J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0803281536
- Language: English
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Indian War in the Pacific Northwest: The Journal of Lieutenant Lawrence Kip
$13.95 Add to cartThroughout the 1850s, Native peoples of the inland Northwest actively resisted white encroachments into their traditional territories. Tensions exploded in 1858 when nearly one thousand Palouses, Spok… [more below]
- Author: Kip, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 151
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803277911
- Language: English
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The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
$24.95 Add to cartDugard’s spirited narrative animates a group of men whose force of character, professional skill and ability to think outside conventional limits revitalized the sclerotic arm.—Publishers Weekly
For f
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803228120
- Language: English
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Toward the Setting Sun: John Ross, the Cherokees, and the Trail of Tears
$18.00 Add to cart“Richly detailed and well-researched, this heartbreaking history unfolds like a political thriller with a deeply human side.”–Publishers Weekly
Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most signi- Author: Hicks, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0802145698
- Language: English
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Badasses of the Old West: True Stories Of Outlaws On The Edge
$16.95 Add to cartTrue stories of outlaws on the edge. The worst (and best) of the robbers, rustlers, and bandits who shaped the history of the Wild West.
- Author: Turner, Erin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0762754664
- Language: English
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Hearts West: True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier
$12.95 Add to cartHearts West includes more than a dozen stories of courageous mail order brides and their exploits. Accompanying the text are actual advertisements placed by both women seeking husbands and men seeking… [more below]
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 076272756X
- Language: English
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Thus Fell Tecumseh
$26.95 Add to cart“Rumpsey-dumpsey, Rumpsey-dumpsey, Colonel Johnson killed Tecumseh ” Did he really? Such was the slogan craftily used by Richard M. Johnson’s campaign strategists to win him the vice-presidency of the… [more below]
- Author: Kuron, Frank E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0615415229
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
$8.00 Read more“The most impressive satirist of his day.” — Time Magazine
With devastating satiric wit, this book examines the hollowness and falsity suggested by the term “conspicuous consumption” (coined by Veblen
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Veblen, Thorstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 20 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280624
- Language: English
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Pugin’s Gothic Ornament
$14.95 Add to cartOne hundred plates of royalty-free Gothic designs, meticulously reproduced from rare 19th-century engravings. Many are floral and foliate designs rendered from panels, capitals, borders, brackets, fri… [more below]
- Series: Dover Pictorial Archives
- Author: Pugin, Augustus Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: December 01 1987
- ISBN10: 048625500X
- Language: English
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In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
$29.99 Add to cartA landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the explo
- Author: Taylor, Quintard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318893
- Language: English
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American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow
$22.99 Add to cartFor a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial etiquet
- Author: Packard, Jerrold M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031230241X
- Language: English
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Andrew Jackson
$19.00 Add to cartA gripping account of Andrew Jackson’s triumphant military career by acclaimed military historian Robert Remini, winner of the National Book Award.
Andrew Jackson is best known as the president who cr- Series: Great Generals (Paperback)
- Author: Remini, Robert Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0230617557
- Language: English
