History - United States - 19th Century

The first narrative history revealing the entire story of the development, operation, and harmful legacy of the Native American boarding schools--and how our nation still has much to resolve before we can fully heal. When Europeans came to the Americas centuries ago, too many...

A New York Times Notable Book - Inspiration for PBS's American Experience film The Poison Squad "A detailed, highly readable history of food and drink regulation in the United States." --Wall Street Journal "Riveting. . . . [A] timely tale about how scientists and...

Featured in the Wall Street Journal's 2021 Holiday Gift Books Guide2021 Marfield Prize Finalist Wallace Stegner called national parks "the best idea we ever had." But where did the idea originate? Before Yellowstone, with nothing to put up against Europe's cultural pearls--its cathedrals, castles,...

Filled with helpful information that was essential for safe travel west as well as a fascinating view of the strenuous life faced by prairie travelers before the era of the railroad.Author: Randolph B. MarcyPublisher: Applewood BooksPublished: 10/01/1986Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.10h x 4.70w...

A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin's bullet shattered the nation's confidence. The shocking murder of President...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In The President and the Freedom Fighter, Brian Kilmeade...

A prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America-ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves "A spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret shows for the first time just how far the American government went to secure...

The proposed union of the telegraph and postal systems - Statement of the Western Union Telegraph CompanyIn the second session of the Fortieth Congress, 1868, a bill was introduced and a paper submitted by Hon. E. B. Washburne, of Illinois, relating to the Union...

The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 was a monumental achievement. Linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, it transformed New York City into a hub of international trade, drove the rise of industrial cities in once sparsely populated areas, and accelerated...

Author: John AmesPublisher: Penguin Publishing GroupPublished: 08/31/2004Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 7.94h x 5.58w x 0.60dISBN: 9781596090316About the AuthorJohn Edwards Ames is a novelist from Ohio and has written several western novels and short stories. He studied at Eastern Michigan University and later served...

The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the...

The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the...

"Compact and insightful. "--New York Times Book Review "Jack Larkin has retrieved the irretrievable; the intimate facts of everyday life that defined what people were really like."--American HeritageAuthor: Jack LarkinPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 01/15/2020Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.00dISBN: 9780060916060

We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. That effort failed--and that failure serves as a warning today about...

We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. That effort failed--and that failure serves as a warning today about...

Pen Pictures, of Eventful Scenes and Struggles of Life It is fashionable to preface what we have to say. Some men build a large portico in front of the edifice they erect. This may attract the eye of a stranger, but no real comfort...

A New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026 - A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Fall National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California's Gold...

The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing...

The Sewards of New York shines a light on one of the most important and fascinating political families of the nineteenth century. Through recently discovered family correspondence, Thomas P. Slaughter unveils the inner lives of the Seward family, tracing their joys and sorrows as...

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! One of Amazon's Best History Books of January Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and the first...