Chronological Period/19th Century
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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
$18.95 Add to cartThe “settling” of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a histor… [more below]
- Author: Limerick, Patricia Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0393304973
- Language: English
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First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
$38.99 Add to cart“We were sure that we would win, that we should score the first great triumph in a mighty world-movement.”–Theodore Roosevelt, 1904
Americans like to think they have no imperial past. In fact, the Uni
- Author: Zimmermann, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: January 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0374528934
- Language: English
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Revolver
$11.99 Read moreA loaded gun. Stolen Gold. And a menacing stranger. A taut frontier survivor story, set at the time of the Alaska gold rush. A Printz Honor Book.
“A memorable tale, one that will appeal to fans of Gary- Author: Sedgwick, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0312547978
- Language: English
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Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America’s Richest City
$39.99 Add to cartMost readers know Salem only for the city’s notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced America’s first millionaire (still one of history’s 75 wealthiest
- Author: Booth, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0312540388
- Language: English
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The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
The early years of the nineteenth century saw an intriguing yet little-known scientific advance catapult a shy young Quaker to the dizzy heights of fame. The- Author: Hamblyn, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420013
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
$27.99 Add to cartTheodore Roosevelt’s writing has the same verve, panache, and energy as the life he lived. Perhaps no president in U.S. history–not even Jefferson–had so many opinions and intellectual interests, be… [more below]
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 636
- Publish Date: March 22 1985
- ISBN10: 0306802325
- Language: English
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition
$46.67 Add to cartCrisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry
- Author: Jaffa, Harry V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226391183
- Language: English
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Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
$21.99 Add to cartIn the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would la… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: McMillen, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195393333
- Language: English
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880
$23.99 Add to cartThe two volumes of Kelley and Lewis’s To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, f… [more below]
- Author: Kelley, Robin D. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181344
- Language: English
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Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
$18.99 Add to cartA sweeping and original work of economic history by Michael Lind, one of America’s leading intellectuals, Land of Promise recounts the epic story of America’s rise to become the world’s dominant econo
- Author: Lind, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0061834815
- Language: English
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Lost Texas Treasure: Sunken Ships, Rawhide Maps and Buried Plunder
$34.99 Add to cartTrack pirate gold and misplaced riches across 168 counties in this comprehensive guide to the lost treasures of Texas.
Countless fortunes have disappeared into the vast expanse of the Lone Star State.
- Author: Gaines, W. Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: July 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1540252817
- Language: English
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Massapequas: Two Thousand Years of History
$40.99 Add to cartWhether as a town, village or hamlet, the communities of East Massapequa, North Massapequa, Massapequa Park and Massapequa proper all share a rich historic legacy. The area’s abundant supply of fish a… [more below]
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Kirchmann, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: May 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1540248011
- Language: English
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Warrior Spirit: The Story of Native American Patriotism and Heroism
$19.95 Add to cartFor decades, American schoolchildren have learned only a smattering of facts about Native American peoples, especially when it comes to service in the U.S. military. They might know that Navajos serve… [more below]
- Author: Viola, Herman J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0806180315
- Language: English
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The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
$42.50 Add to cartFor the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise analysis of the near-extinction of the North American b… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Environment and History
- Author: Isenberg, Andrew C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 26 2020
- ISBN10: 110881672X
- Language: English
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One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement
$29.00 Add to cartIncludes definitive writings by leading scholars that cover the full scope of the woman suffrage movement in the U.S., up to and including the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. This revised a… [more below]
- Author: Spruill, Marjorie J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0939165767
- Language: English
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Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy Times
$24.95 Add to cartAs well as being the center of ranching activity in the Panhandle, Tascosa also became the last best hiding place in Texas for killers on the run, horse thieves, tinhorn gamblers, hair-trigger shootis… [more below]
- Author: Nolan, Frederick W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 361
- Publish Date: September 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1682830284
- Language: English
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Problem of Increasing Human Energy
$9.99 Add to cartNIKOLA TESLA, the revolutionary scientist and inventor who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism.
From the possibilities presented by robotics to the “civilizing p
- Author: Tesla, Nikola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: January 29 2008
- ISBN10: 9561001616
- Language: English
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The Ute Indians of Southwestern Colorado
$17.95 Add to cartHelen Sloan Daniels, now deceased archeologist, anthropologist, and historian from Durango, Colorado, wrote The Ute Indians of Southwestern Colorado in 1941 as a project for the Durango Public Library… [more below]
- Author: Daniels, Helen Sloan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 163
- Publish Date: May 16 2008
- ISBN10: 1932738606
- Language: English
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The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852
$22.00 Add to cartThe Shirley Letters, written from the mining camps in 1851 and 1852, are something valuable and rare–a portrait by a woman of an era dominated by men. They offer a vivid picture of gold rush life, fr… [more below]
- Author: Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: January 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1890771007
- Language: English
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Old Forts of the Great Lakes: Sentinels in the Wilderness
$19.95 Read moreThis fascinating book traces the development of Great Lakes forts from the 1600s to the American Civil War. The French, British, and Americans build military forts and established fortified trading po… [more below]
- Author: Barry, James P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1882376056
- Language: English
