19th Century

Pioneer Days in the Black Hills is a rough-and-tumble account of the early days of Deadwood, Dakota Territory. In 1874, after leading an expedition into the Black Hills, George Armstrong Custer announced that he had found gold "among the roots of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989943758Author Daniel WayFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Warren County Historical SocieetyPublisher Warren County Historical SocieetyWeight(grams)...

The journals and diaries of John M. Roberts provide an intimate view of the life and dthoughts of a young schoolmaster, miller, itenerant bookseller, and farmer in centreal Ohio in a time of rising sectional crisis and Civil War.Book InformationISBN...

Practically speaking, nineteenth-century American literary history really refers to writings from the East seaboard of the United States. In fact, no author from the West prior to Mark Twain has been admitted into the canon of American literature, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857069412Author F C McGlashanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 281g

Henry Demarest Lloyd was one of the post-bellum 19th-century's best known journalists and non-fiction writers. In fact, only E.L. Godkin exceeded Lloyd in influence and prestige, and Godkin wrote no book-length expose with the impact of Lloyd's 1894...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837162737Author Edward P. CrapolFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Paul Johnson and Sean Wilentz brilliantly recapture the forgotten story of Matthias the Prophet, imbuing their richly researched account with the dramatic force of a novel. In the hands of Johnson and Wilentz, the strange tale of Matthias opens a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986406010Author James Edwin YoungFormat HardbackImprint Mmjw BookhousePublisher Mmjw BookhouseWeight(grams) 590g

On the last Thursday in January 1896, Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, accompanied by his eight-year-old son, Henry, left Lincoln, New Mexico, in a buckboard to drive to his home in Las Cruces. He never arrived. Later a pool of blood and a blood-soaked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857061652Author William H RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 154g

This volume provides bibliographic control over the extensive literature on the Haymarket Riot. It lists over 1,500 primary and secondary documents and provides descriptive annotations for most entries. It also includes subject and author indexes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989682794Author J M CarlisleFormat HardbackImprint Tangent PublishersPublisher Tangent PublishersWeight(grams) 651g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674181878Author Professor Emeritus of History Morton KellerFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068804Author Henry InmanFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 658g

George W. Bush and Al Gore were by no means the first presidential hopefuls to find themselves embroiled in a hotly contested electoral impasse. Two hundred years earlier, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams endured arguably the most controversial and...

Few casual readers of American history are aware of Fort Union, New Mexico, and its history. Many would probably confuse it with another Fort Union, on the headwaters of the Missouri--also important, but not as vital to the history of the West as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857061386Author A H TuttleFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 399g

The abolitionists of the 1830s-1850s risked physical harm and social alienation as a result of their refusal to ignore what they considered a national sin, contrary to the ideals upon which America was founded. Derived from the moral accountability...

An account of California journalist and wit Ambrose Bierce and his struggle with the railroad octopus controlled by the Big Four (Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins). This is the first book to look at Bierce's early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674330047Author Otelia CromwellFormat HardbackPage Count 251Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 540g

"Good fortune offered this nation an unusual chance at ideal nation-forming and... some honorable leaders seized that chance, " writes William Lee Miller in The Business of May Next, and none among the founders made more of the opportunity than...

On the hot, windless July 7 of 1865, Mary E. Surratt, who had been found guilty of complicity in the assassination of President Lincoln, was hanged with three of the men who had participated in the plot. When Mrs. Surratt was hanged, almost no one...

Andrew Jackson and those Tennesseans who, along with him, were a major force in Tennessee and American political life can best be understood by examining the political culture they all shared. The ten men studied here were the children or grandchildren...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857062062Author Cynthia Ann ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 308g

Mississippi represented the Old South and all that it stood for perhaps more than any other state. Christopher Morris takes a close look at one of those "typically" southern communities, Jefferson Davis's Warren County, the northern-most of the...

In this cultural history of Americans' engagement with Islam in the colonial and antebellum period, Timothy Marr analyzes the historical roots of how the Muslim world figured in American prophecy, politics, reform, fiction, art and dress. Marr argues...

This book begins the comparative study of U.S. urban development during the first half of the 19th century. Breathtaking in its comprehensiveness, its survey and comparisons of early urban politics is without parallel. The study is based on a thorough...

From primary sources collected over some thirty years, both textual and photographic, Wilbur S. Nye tells the story of the military subjugation of the Plains Indians and their removal to reservations in Indian Territory. Complementing the text, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857069238Author Margaret Irvin CarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 349g

Universally acknowledged as one of the most prolific activists of the 19th century, Susan B. Anthony devoted most of her adult life to humanitarian reform. She was an integral player in nearly every social reform movement of her time, including...

In the year 1800 the United States was a fledgling nation. By the time the century ended we had expanded westward exponentially, stamped our imprint as the major power in the Western hemisphere, revolutionized our economy from agriculture to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016112Author Steven J DinerFormat PaperbackImprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 313g

Nagel's classic work deals with nineteenth-century America's coming awareness as a nation and its agonizing struggle to turn itself into a model republic. He perceptively explores the growth of American nationalism in its political, social, religious,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359142521Author Nick VulichFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068811Author Henry InmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837104669Author Albert Bushnell HartFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Conceived during Thomas Jefferson's junket in Paris, Thomas Woodson was Jefferson's first child by Sally Hemings. He was banished from Monticello at the age of 12, after a journalist exposed Jefferson's relationship with his young slave. A President in...

This story is an account of the Santiago, Cuba, land campaign of the Spanish-American War, as conducted by General William R. Shafter's Fifth Army Corps. The narrative is based on firsthand information gathered from handwritten diaries, memoirs, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857061379Author A H TuttleFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 268g