Chronological Period/19th Century
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In the Shadow of the Dam: The Aftermath of the Mill River Flood of 1874
$20.95 Add to cartEarly one May morning in 1874, in the hills above Williamsburg, Massachusetts, a reservoir dam suddenly burst, sending an avalanche of water down a narrow river valley lined with factories and farms. … [more below]
- Author: Sharpe, Elizabeth M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 10 2007
- ISBN10: 1416572643
- Language: English
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To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
$17.95 Read morePriscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the dawn of emancipation. Raised by a white slaveholding woman, Joyner never knew the truth about her pare
- Author: Emberton, Carole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050276
- Language: English
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Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
$25.00 Add to cartBefore the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade … [more below]
- Series: Studies in Legal History
- Author: Jones, Martha S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1316604721
- Language: English
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The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy
$21.00 Add to cartA delicious group biography of the young American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century – the real women who inspired Downton Abbey.
Towards the end o- Author: De Courcy, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1250164605
- Language: English
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Pity for Evil: Suffrage, Abortion, and Women’s Empowerment in Reconstruction America
$34.99 Read moreIn the years following the Civil War, pioneers in the women’s rights movement, women’s medical education, and public-private charitable partnerships joined forces to reduce the incidence of abortion i… [more below]
- Author: Klem, Monica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1641773391
- Language: English
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Victorian Circus Coloring Book for Adults: Victorian Coloring Book for Adults Grayscale Victorian Circus Grayscale coloring book Victorian Fashion Col
$9.99 Add to cart★Victorian Circus Grayscale Coloring Book★
An outstanding grayscale coloring book for Victorian era lovers
The coloring book includes
- A4
- 60 pages
- blank backsides – no pushing through
- matte S
- Author: Publishing, Monsoon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 3758406293
- Language: English
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Encyclopedia of Indian Wars
$30.00 Add to cartAfter years of research, independent history scholar Gregory Michno has created a chronological listing of every significant fight between Indians and the United States Army, as well as better-known I… [more below]
- Author: Michno, Gregory F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 476
- Publish Date: June 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0878424687
- Language: English
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Mystery of E Troop
$20.00 Add to cartThe men of Company E rode big gray horses that stood out amidst the confusion during the afternoon of June 25, 1876. Twenty-eight of these men were found dead in a ravine after the fighting ceased. Bu… [more below]
- Author: Michno, Gregory F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0878423044
- Language: English
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Leadville
$14.00 Add to cartLeadville is a first-rate frontier epic, with romance and excitement enough for ten cities. The real story of Leadville, Colorado is beyond the portals–it is of the men who worked the mines, of thund… [more below]
- Author: Voynick, Stephen M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 15 1984
- ISBN10: 0878421718
- Language: English
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Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation
$21.95 Add to cartThomas Jefferson once called his plantation Poplar Forest, “the most valuable of my possessions.” For Jefferson, Poplar Forest was a private retreat for him to escape the hordes of visitors and everyd
- Author: Heath, Barbara J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0813062993
- Language: English
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The Irish General: Thomas Francis Meagher
$24.95 Add to cartIrish patriot, Civil War general, frontier governor–Thomas Francis Meagher played key roles in three major historical arenas. Today he is hailed as a hero by some, condemned as a drunkard by others.
- Author: Wylie, Paul R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: March 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141859
- Language: English
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Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley
$21.95 Add to cartWith a widowed mother and six siblings, Annie Oakley first became a trapper, hunter, and sharpshooter simply to put food on the table. Yet her genius with the gun eventually led to her stardom in Buff
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #7
- Author: Riley, Glenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0806135069
- Language: English
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The Germans from Russia in Oklahoma
$9.95 Add to cartIn 1980, the University of Oklahoma Press published a ten-book series titled Newcomers to a New Land that described and analyzed the role of the major ethnic groups that have contributed to the histor… [more below]
- Series: Newcomers to a New Land
- Author: Hale, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 080611620X
- Language: English
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Amer Pres: Fillmore
$33.00 Add to cartThe oddly named president whose shortsightedness and stubbornness fractured the nation and sowed the seeds of civil war
In the summer of 1850, America was at a terrible crossroads. Congress was in an- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Finkelman, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 080508715X
- Language: English
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Calvin Coolidge: The American Presidents Series: The 30th President, 1923-1929
$33.99 Add to cartThe austere president who presided over the Roaring Twenties and whose conservatism masked an innovative approach to national leadership
He was known as Silent Cal. Buttoned up and tight-lipped, Calvi- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Greenberg, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0805069577
- Language: English
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The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent
$24.95 Add to cartCritics have called David Lavender a “master storyteller” (Library Journal), his prose “virile, disciplined, yet personal” (New York Times), and his book “a balanced, learned, and lively history of an… [more below]
- Author: Lavender, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0803280033
- Language: English
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Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914
$34.95 Add to cart“A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty.” –Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Harvard Univ… [more below]
- Author: Fuller, William C., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 19 1992
- ISBN10: 0684863820
- Language: English
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Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad
$18.99 Add to cartBeyond the River brings to brilliant life the dramatic story of the forgotten heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad.
From the highest hill above the town of Ripley, Ohio, you ca- Author: Hagedorn, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0684870665
- Language: English
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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
$19.99 Add to cartIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted’s role as a major cultural figure at the epi… [more below]
- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0684865750
- Language: English
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Wagon Wheels A’Rollin’
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Ackley, Daisy Belle Catherine Brown Pier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0595744230
- Language: English
