History - United States - 19th Century
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The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person AccountsThe gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick's monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm whale thousands of miles from home in...
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The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's Missing StoriesOn a summer day in 1828, Book of Mormon scribe and witness Martin Harris was emptying drawers, upending furniture, and ripping apart mattresses as he desperately looked for a stack of papers he had sworn to God to protect. Those pages containing the only...
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The Lotz Family: Survivors of the Battle of Franklin: Robert Z. Carlisle IIThis is the story of Albert Lotz and his family. An immigrant family that lived through the hardships of establishing a new life only to to face the horrors of war on one of the most horrific battlefields of the American Civil War. This...
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The Man from the Train: Discovering America's Most Elusive Serial KillerAn Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, The Man from the Train is an "impressive...open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America" (The Wall Street Journal). In this groundbreaking work of historical true crime, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill...
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The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell: A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture Volume 6In the decades bracketing the turn of the twentieth century, Charles M. Russell depicted the American West in a fresh, personal, and deeply moving way. To this day, Russell is celebrated for his paintings and sculptures of cowboys at work and play, his sensitive...
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The Men Who United the StatesSimon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of...
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The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America's First Serial KillerWinner of the Texas Institute of Letters's Carr P. Collins Award A New York Times BestsellerOne of Book Riot Best Book of the YearIn nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized the city in what would soon become a story more shocking than any...
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The Mountain Meadows MassacreIn the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again,...
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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid WarsThe "enormously entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) account of a shocking 1897 murder mystery that "artfully re-create[s] the era, the crime, and the newspaper wars it touched off" (The New York Times) AN EDGAR NOMINEE FOR BEST FACT CRIME - "Fascinating . . ....
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The National Road: George Washington and America's First Highway WestUpon America's 250th anniversary comes the story of a new republic forging unity through ambition and action, inspired by George Washington's youthful dream to build the nation's first highway west The National Road is the first narrative history of the federal project--begun decades before...
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The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His FidelityThe Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity Feeling anxious to preserve for future reference an account of the part which the Negro took in suppressing the Slaveholders Rebellion, I have been induced to write this work. In doing so, it...
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The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and SurvivalThe Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath of the tragedy. Roys Oatman, a dissident Mormon, led his family of nine and...
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Winner of the PEN New England Award "Enchanting...A book filled with so much love...Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon." --The Wall...
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The Oregon Trail: An American SagaIn today's world of jet airplanes and smooth highways, it is nearly impossible to imagine the hardships faced by the thousands of people who headed west along the great Oregon Trail. In this detailed and engaging account, historian David Dary recounts the full saga...
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The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President's Black Family"A Roots for a new generation, rich in storytelling and steeped in history." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review "A compelling saga that gives a voice to those that history tried to erase . . . Poignant and eye-opening, this is a must-read." --Booklist In The...
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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 22: 1 November 1824 to 3 May 1825A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson The 586 documents in this volume begin with Lafayette's celebrated American tour, during which he spends eleven days at Monticello early in November 1825 and discusses the institution of slavery with Jefferson. During...
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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 49: 2 March to 10 July 1806A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Jefferson The Senate confirms John Armstrong and James Bowdoin as commissioners to negotiate with Spain and James Monroe and William Pinkney to do the same with Great Britain. In speeches in the House...
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The Partisans: James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, and the Politics of Rivalry and Revenge in the Gilded AgeThe Partisans tells the story of the feud that dominated American politics in the decades that followed the Civil War. It is the first detailed account of the battle between Republicans James G. Blaine and Roscoe Conkling. Blaine and Conkling fought for dominance on...
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal WestThe #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's "as resonant today as ever" (The Wall Street Journal)--the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build...
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal WestThe #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's "as resonant today as ever" (The Wall Street Journal)--the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build...
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