19th Century

During its heyday in the nineteenth century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the United States and Brazil. The Deepest South tells the disturbing story of how U.S. nationals - before and after Emancipation -- continued to...

Fort Sill, located in the heart of the old Kiowa-Comanche Indian country in southwestern Oklahoma, is known to a modern generation as the Field Artillery School of the United States Army. To students of American frontier history, it is known as the focal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767926195Author Richard ZacksFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 410gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison sent the largest American naval force ever gathered to that time, led by the heroic Commodore...

Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together -- and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property...

Winner of the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction The little-known but uniquely American story of the unlikely friendship of two famous figures of the American West-Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull-told through the prism of their collaboration in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395850114Author Alvin M. JosephyFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Houghton Mifflin Juvenile BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553383485Author Stephen FriedFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm)...

Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil , first published in 2006, concerns what is entailed by pledging allegiance to a constitutional text and tradition saturated with concessions to evil. The Constitution of the United States was originally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802140630Format PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

This extraordinary account of a struggling midwestern coal town profiles small-time bootlegger Kelly Wagle, whose mysterious career--and suspected involvement with two unsolved murder cases--had a profound and lasting impact on his community. In...

Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, treated as fringe cultists at best or marginalized as polygamists unworthy of serious examination at worst. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, the historian Benjamin E. Park excavates the brief life of a...

From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it Between October 8-10, 1871, much of the city of Chicago was destroyed by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809064304Author University Steven StollFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material things--objects and pictures--were used to reason about issues of morality, race, citizenship, and capitalism, as well as reality and...

The world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. Johnson...

Western Writers of America Spur Awards Finalist, Best Western Historical Nonfiction"A GROUNDBREAKING WORK. ... The first comprehensive history of the legendary transcontinental experiment in mail delivery in sixty years." -True West"This rollicking...

Cherokee Removal excited the passions of Americans across the country. Nowhere did those passions have more violent expressions than in Georgia, where white intruders sought to acquire Native land through intimidation and state policies that supported...

A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States-laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878425570Author Joanne S LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Mountain Press Publishing CompanyPublisher Mountain Press Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620876534Author Bruce WexlerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 262mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805089226Author Charles LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Holt PaperbackPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 454g

Relations between the United States and South Africa - or the parts of the world these nations now occupy - go nearly as far back as the very beginning of their inception as permanent European colonial intrusions. This book is a critical overview of...

This is a comprehensive examination of the use of violence by conservative southerners in the post-Civil War South to subvert Federal Reconstruction policies, overthrow Republican state governments, restore Democratic power, and reestablish white racial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857069405Author F C McGlashanFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 408g

"Notice is hereby given to all persons, that Christopher Carson, a boy about 16 years old, small of his age, but thick-set; light hair, ran away from the subscriber, living in Franklin, Howard County, Missouri, to whom he had been bound to learn the...

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "unproductive citizens." Before that, disabled people had contributed as they were able in homes, on farms, and in the wage labor...

This book examines emancipation after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Focusing on the making and meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment, Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616407377Author Pat F GarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

In May 1830, the United States launched an unprecedented campaign to expel 80,000 Native Americans from their eastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River. In a firestorm of fraud and violence, thousands of Native Americans lost their...

When a mother is charged with murder in a town already convinced of her guilt, can defense attorney Powell Harrison find truth and justice in a legal system where innocence is not presumed? Emily Lloyd, a young widow in Reconstruction-era Virginia, is...

"An excellent book based on exhaustive research and written with fresh insight. It is a spellbinding accomplishment and brings both the man and his era to life. . . . It is an extraordinary achievement." -Arizona Daily Star "Carter presents this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939150080Author Kate R GillettFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Inland ExpressionsPublisher Inland ExpressionsWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578515168Author David S TurkFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Cold West PublishingPublisher Cold West PublishingWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

This text explores American culture from the mid-19th century to 1920 through the lens of one episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language amongst deaf people. The debate about sign...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250852540Author Tom ClavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur have emphasized how American democratic identity...

The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647487669Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...