19th Century

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original book," Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of...

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally...

Is modern racism a product of secularisation and the decline of Christian universalism? The debate has raged for decades, but up to now, the actual racial views of historical atheists and freethinkers have never been subjected to a systematic analysis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593297865Author Steve InskeepFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

A New Gospel for Women tells the story of Katharine Bushnell (1855-1946), author of God's Word to Women, one of the most innovative and comprehensive feminist theologies ever written. An internationally-known social reformer and women's rights activist,...

Winner of the Bolton-Johnson PrizeWinner of the Utley PrizeWinner of the Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History"The Dead March incorporates the work of Mexican historians...in a story that involves far more than military strategy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933909035Author John KosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint History Publishing Company llcPublisher History Publishing Company llcWeight(grams) 376g

This landmark work provides a fundamental reinterpretation of the American South in the years since the Civil War, especially the decades after Reconstruction, from 1877 to 1920. Covering all aspects of Southern life--white and black, conservative and...

In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York's modern and democratic culture. From the Iroquois confederacy serving as a model for the US Constitution, to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250792495Author Mark DawidziakFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 245mm *...

The American Civil War was by far the bloodiest conflict in American history. Arising out of a political crisis over the expansion of slavery, the war set the stage for the emergence of the modern American nation-state. This new interpretation of one...

Kenneth S. Sacks explores how America's first public intellectual, determined to live self-reliantly, wrestled with his personal philosophy and eventually supported collective action to abolish slavery. Ralph Waldo Emerson was successful in creating a...

'Send Back the Money!' is a thorough and gripping examination of a fascinating and forgotten aspect of Scottish and American relations and Church history. A seminal period of Abolition activity is exposed by Iain Whyte through a study of the fiery 'Send...

Slavery transformed Africa, Europe and the Americas and hugely-enhanced the well-being of the West but the subject of slavery can be hard to understand because of its huge geographic and chronological span. This book uses a unique atlas format to present...

Historian Jerome A. Greene is renowned for his memorable chronicles of egregious events involving American Indians and the U.S. military, including Sand Creek, Washita, and Wounded Knee. Now, in January Moon, Greene draws from extensive research and...

The abolitionist movement launched the global human rights struggle in the 18th and 19th centuries and redefined the meaning of equality throughout the Atlantic world. Even in the 21st century, it remains a touchstone of democratic activism-a timeless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451416865Author Thom HatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 355g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578634623Author Rachael ConradFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Old Kitchen MediaPublisher Old Kitchen MediaWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

"Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating."-Jon MeachamBased on genealogical breakthroughs and previously unreleased records, this is the first book to explore the inspiring story of the poor Irish...

Of all the Old West figures whose images eventually found their way into our popular culture, none was better known than Wild Bill Hickok. This book, a companion volume to Joseph Rosa's exhaustive biography, They Called Him Wild Bill, reproduces in one...

If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River...

Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America's history. For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed the diminishment of the...

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one...

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and archive illustrations, this engrossing study describes the US Marine Corps' early operations and illustrates its evolving uniforms and personal equipment. The US Marine Corps' uniforms, personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582972114Author Candy MoultonFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Penguin Publishing GroupPublisher Penguin Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land...

Some of the most popular stories in 19th-century America were sensational tales of whites captured and enslaved in North Africa. This book gathers together a selection of these Barbary captivity narratives, which significantly influenced early American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688132200Author Nathan MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 890g

'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published...

In this provocative new work, Heather Cox Richardson argues that while the North won the Civil War, ending slavery, oligarchy, and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," the victory was short-lived. Settlers from the East pushed into the West,...

Ballyhoo! The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling is a history of professional wrestling's formative period in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to 1941, and the contested interplay of wrestlers and promoters who built...

A dramatic, exciting and tragic book about the Irish fur trapper who held the fate of America and the British Empire in his hands.William Johnson began life as a poor Irish Catholic peasant. After converting to Protestantism, he emigrated to America...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984880116Author Bryan BurroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 142mm...

General George Crook was one Civil War general who didn't win his reputation east of the Mississippi River. To him, the Civil War was just an interlude. Before and after this great conflict, Crook was an Indian fighter.Crook fought the greatest of the...

In the nineteenth century, white Americans contrasted the perceived purity of white, middle-class women with the perceived eroticism of women of color and the working classes. The Latter-day Saint practice of polygamy challenged this separation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316924856Author Ken BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

EXCERPT: "So great was the ferment of reform in the pre-Civil War United States that to understand it, to grasp the motives of the reformers, the nature of their work, their successes and failures, is to understand much about the American nation as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394746227Author Shelby FooteFormat PaperbackPage Count 1120Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1451gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

In this beautifully written history of America's formative period, an eminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as an internally...