History - Modern - 19th Century
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Gilded Age Fashion: More Than 50 Iconic Looks and the Stories Behind ThemTransport yourself to the glamour of elite American society in the 1870s-90s. Showcasing stunning gowns from the late 19th century designed by founders of couture, Gilded Age Fashion draws from the finest museum collections to tell the story of an era defined by opulence,...
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Grievous Entanglement: Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic WorldHow abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection to, and complicity with, slavery in the late eighteenth...
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He Has the People: Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860A gripping and granular look at how Abraham Lincoln got elected the 16th president of the United States.James McPherson calls the election of 1860 "undeniably the most important--and pivotal--in all of American history." The nation was not merely divided over the issue of slavery;...
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Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American FrontierOne of NPR's "Books We Love"New York Times Book Review's "The Best True Crime of 2022" "Rich in historical perspective and graced by novelistic touches, grips the reader from first to last."--Wall Street Journal A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier--shedding...
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How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide to Victorian LifeLauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the "the cheapest time-travel machine you'll find" (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an historian who believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her...
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil WarFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes "a masterwork of history" (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, epic account of the last year of the Civil War. The fourth...
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I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for FreedomA moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti's fight for independence from French colonial rule "My name has become a horror to all those who want slavery," declared Jean-Jacques Dessalines as he announced the independence of Haiti, the...
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I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for FreedomA moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti's fight for independence from French colonial rule"My name has become a horror to all those who want slavery," declared Jean-Jacques Dessalines as he announced the independence of Haiti, the most...
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In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in AmericaOver the last few decades, and especially in the last ten years, our understanding of slavery has been transformed by the work of many talented scholars. We have learned a great deal about the actions of enslavers, the struggles and victories of the enslaved,...
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Invaded on All Sides: The War of 1812 and Michigan's greatest battlefield engagements at Frenchtown and the River RaisinFrom January 18 to January 23, 1813, Frenchtown, on the banks of the River Raisin, became a battleground where the military forces of the United States and Great Britain fought each other for control of the Lower Great Lakes. At stake were the destinies...
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Israel: A HistoryWritten by one of Israel's most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late nineteenth century to the present day. Organized chronologically, the volume explores the emergence of Zionism in Europe against...
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Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information AgeIn 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Field knew nothing about telegraphy, electricity, ships, or oceans, and science itself still lacked a...
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Lincoln's Road to WarFollow Lincoln's day-by-day path from peacemaker to war leader as the Union edges toward Civil War. The months after the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, between March 4 and May 3, 1861, mark one of the most significant periods in American history. Antagonism between the...
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our LivesSometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, and always fascinating: the New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters offers an "entertaining discussion of the various ways our lives are enriched by fluids" (The Wall Street Journal). We know that we need water to survive,...
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey Into the Dark Antarctic NightNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing" (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry--with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter "The...
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Mark TwainThe #1 New York Times Bestseller! One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks "Comprehensive, enthralling . . . Mark Twain flows like the Mississippi River, its prose propelled by Mark Twain's own exuberance." --The Boston Globe "Chernow writes with such ease and clarity...
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Mark TwainThe #1 New York Times Bestseller - One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025- A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book - Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews "Comprehensive,...
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Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern CityHow a devastating outbreak of horse flu in the 1870s ground city life to a halt--but ultimately revolutionized animal rights, medicine, and transportation. From a veteran science writer, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and the coauthor of the acclaimed How to Tame a Fox...
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Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great PicturesA spellbinding account of the rapacious pursuit of the most exquisite paintings in the world In the Gilded Age, newly wealthy and culturally ambitious Americans began to compete for Europe's extraordinary Old Master pictures, causing a major migration of art across the Atlantic. Old...
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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward "Refreshingly original . . . Familiar characters are given vibrancy...
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