History - United States - 19th Century
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The Fateful Lightning: A Novel of the Civil WarNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thunder and The Smoke at Dawn. November 1864: As the Civil War rolls...
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The Fever: The Most Fatal Plague in American History"...transports modern pandemic survivors into the bedchambers, clinics, and graveyards of a thriving American port laid low by pestilence..."-Earl Swift, author of Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery"Richly reported and eloquently written, this true...
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The Flag Was Still There: A History of the American Experiment in Five AnniversariesA clear-eyed yet hopeful history of the United States, revisiting the state of the union every fifty years since America's birth. "Brilliantly written and illuminating." --Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring Revolution America is the rare country that was founded...
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The Galveston Dispatches: A Swiss Missionary's Account of Nineteenth-Century TexasPersonal stories of life in Galveston in the mid-nineteenth century.In 1855, Friedrich Gloor was just nineteen when he was sent from Basel, Switzerland, halfway around the world to teach at the First German Lutheran Church school in Galveston, Texas. He spent the next eleven...
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The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910An expansive exploration of The Gilded Age in New York City, from of the extravagant lifestyles and magnificent mansions of the ultra-rich to the daily doings of the wretchedly poor who lived in the shadows of their newly constructed skyscrapers. Written by the curator...
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The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American WestShortlisted for the Cundill History Prize A haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American West In 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner traveled to Fort Laramie to document the federal government's treaty negotiations with the Lakota...
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The Great BridgeA monumental tale of American ambition, told by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master historian David McCullough. This gripping saga of the creation of the Brooklyn Bridge, one of the country's boldest engineering achievements, reveals not only the politics and personalities behind "America's Eiffel Tower,"...
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn BridgeA monumental tale of American ambition, told by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master historian David McCullough. This gripping saga of the creation of the Brooklyn Bridge, one of the country's boldest engineering achievements, reveals not only the politics and personalities behind "America's Eiffel Tower,"...
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The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial HeroThe "superb" (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. They say that history is written by the victors. But not in...
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The Greater Journey: Americans in ParisThe #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America's master historian, David McCullough....
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The Greatest Stories of the Old West Ever Told: True Tales and Legends of Famous Gunfighters, Outlaws and Sheriffs from the Wild WestStep back in time and immerse yourself in the rugged landscapes, daring outlaws, fearless lawmen, and untamed frontier spirit that defined an era. Introducing The Greatest Stories of The Old West Ever Told - a captivating journey into the heart of the Wild West's...
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The Grimké SistersThe Grimké Sisters - Sarah and Angelina Grimké: the First American Women Advocates of It was with great diffidence, from inexperience in literary work of such length, that I engaged to write the biography which I now present to the public. But the diaries...
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The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild"One hell of a good read." --The New York Times "One of the most important books written on the American West in many years." --True West Magazine From the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Rich and Forget the Alamo comes an...
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The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West WildNamed a Best Book of 2025 by Bloomberg "One hell of a good read." --The New York Times "One of the most important books written on the American West in many years." --True West Magazine From the New York Times bestselling author of The...
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The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the WorldA "well-researched and very readable new biography" (The Wall Street Journal) of "the Thomas Edison of guns," a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of firearms helped ensure victory in numerous American wars and holds a crucial place in...
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The Hand-Made Gentleman: A Tale of the Battles of PeaceThe Hand-Made Gentleman: A Tale of the Battles of Peace THIS is a tale of youthof its loves and dreams and hazards, and of the incredible riches of purity which often belong to it. Many of the adventures which led to the Hand-Made Gentleman...
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The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American LegendThis acclaimed New York Times bestselling biography of the legendary Sioux warrior Red Cloud, is "a page-turner with remarkable immediacy...and the narrative sweep of a great Western" (The Boston Globe). Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States...
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The Hero Returns: Lafayette and the Legacy of RevolutionThe return of a revered revolutionary and the meaning of independence in a divided nation--in the 1820s and todayIn 1824, the legendary French hero of the American Revolution, Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette, commenced an epic tour of the United States at the invitation...
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The History of the Negro ChurchThis book is the non-illustrated version. An illustrated version, which includes images of some of the people mentioned in the book, is available via ISBN 9781680920666.The importance of the church in the life of the Negro justifies the publication of this brief account of...
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The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate MigrantsA panoramic history of America's first climate migrants From the mid-nineteenth century through the dust bowl years of the Great Depression, a new kind of migrant worker became a familiar sight in communities across America. The Hobo traces the journeys of these homeless men...
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