History - United States - 19th Century
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The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American HeroIn the New York Times bestseller The Immortal Irishman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan illuminates the dawn of the great Irish American story, with all its twists and triumphs, through the life of one heroic man.A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of...
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The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861"David M. Potter's magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War." --Civil War HistoryDavid M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is "the classic study of of antebellum America" (American Prospect). Potter's sweeping epic...
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The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for PresidentFrom the acclaimed author of What the Ermine Saw and Behaving Badly, a portrait of Victoria Woodhull, a celebrated and maligned 19th-century businesswoman and activist, and a leader in the fight for women's suffrage and labor reforms. In 1894, a remarkably self-possessed American woman,...
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The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic CityIn the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in the streets, saloons, churches, and workplaces of the American city. This process of "Americanization from the bottom up"...
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The Johnstown FloodThe stunning story of one of America's great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a...
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The Journals of Lewis and ClarkAn in-depth look at Lewis and Clark's historic expedition through the explorers' journals--America's "first report on the West" (Bernard DeVoto, Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar-historian of the American West).In 1803, the great expanse of the Louisiana Purchase was an empty canvas. Keenly aware that the course...
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The Killing of Crazy HorseWith the Great Sioux War as background and context, and drawing on many new materials, Thomas Powers establishes what really happened in the dramatic final months and days of Crazy Horse's life. He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century, whose victory...
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The Last Adieu: Lafayette's Triumphant Return, the Echoes of Revolution, and the Gratitude of the Republic"Memories of the Revolution have come back to life..."In the summer of 1824, the aging Marquis de Lafayette, defeated politically and distraught over the fate of liberty in Europe, set sail one last time from France for America after an absence of forty years.Across...
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The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for AmericaBestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent. "Gripping...Brands' writing style and...
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The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce StoryThis newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and...
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The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton GangThe definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one of the greatest outlaw gangs. The dreaded Dalton...
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The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn"An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history." --Los Angeles Times Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane's Eye, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mayflower, and Valiant Ambition, is a historian with a unique ability to bring history to life. The...
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day"The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day has several key strengths making it an admirable contribution to both historical geography and Lewis and Clark scholarship."--Robert M. Briwa, Historical GeographyIn May 1804, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and their Corps of Discovery set out on...
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The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley: Volume 7With 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 Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show during the latter half...
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The Life and Times of Jim BridgerAuthor: Bill MarkleyPublisher: Farcountry PressPublished: 09/01/2025Pages: 248Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.55dISBN: 9781560378402
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The Life and Trial of Lizzie Borden: The History of 19th Century America's Most Famous Murder Case*Includes pictures *Includes reports and witness testimony regarding the murders *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't...
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The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to FreedomA graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed man of the nineteenth century, based on his autobiographical writings and speeches, spotlighting the key events and people that shaped the life of this great American. Recently returned to the...
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The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President--And Why It FailedBrad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, the bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on the sixteenth president in The Lincoln Conspiracy. Everyone...
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The Little ImmigrantThe Little ImmigrantIn 1921, my great-grandmother, wrote this book about how her parents met, married and began a family. Eva's mother, Ernestine, was presumably "the little immigrant." The book was privately printed, and only a few copies survive. Renestine Jewel Ernestine Jacobowsky Aldine Bilter...
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The Long Revolution: Creating a United States After 1776For America 250, a provocative argument that a "Long Revolution" formed the violently beating heart of American politics for decades after 1776. "Nathan Perl-Rosenthal's delightful The Long Revolution shows how much the story of America remains unsettled--and ours to make anew." --Garrett M. Graff,...
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