19th Century

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...

From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at...

"Steel Trails of Hawkeyeland offers a comprehensive examination of railroads in Iowa from the introduction of the iron horse to the present. It is more than a study of a single, albeit significant American state. Hofsommer superbly relates local...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700602063Author Lewis L. GouldFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of KansasWeight(grams)...

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807-90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California. In 1874-75, Vallejo, working with historian and...

A scholarly work on children's narratives of life on the overland trails, Children's Voices from the Trail is an invaluable source book for researchers and historians of the overland experience. Although at least one-fifth of the approximately 350,000...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738524054Author Jane EppingaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 386g

An accomplished carpenter and boat builder, Patrick Gass proved to be an invaluable and well-liked member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Promoted to sergeant after the death of Charles Floyd, Gass was almost certainly responsible for supervising the...

Biographer and historian Stephen B. Oates tells the story of the coming of the American Civil War through the voices and perspectives of thirteen principal players in the drama, from Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay in the Missouri crisis of 1820 down to...

A Kansas Notable BookNearing 60, William D. Street (1851–1911) sat down to write his memoir of frontier life. Street’s early years on the plains of western Kansas were both ordinary and extraordinary; ordinary in what they reveal about the everyday life...

In this engaging book, David Brion Davis offers an illuminating perspective on American slavery. Starting with a long view across the temporal and spatial boundaries of world slavery, he traces continuities from the ancient world to the era of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393335637Author Ben MaddowFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 463g

When nearly 200,000 black men, most of them former slaves, entered the Union army and navy, they transformed the Civil War into a struggle for liberty and changed the course of American history. Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of those men in their...

In War-Path and Bivouac, published in 1890, John Finerty (1846-1908) recalled the summer he spent following George Crook's infamous campaign against the Sioux in 1876. Historians have long surmised that Finerty's correspondence covering the campaign for...

In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer's work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in...

Modern Cronies traces how various industrialists, thrown together by the effects of the southern gold rush, shaped the development of the southeastern United States. Existing historical scholarship treats the gold rush as a self-contained blip that-aside...

Indian labor was vital to the early economic development of the Los Angeles region. This first volume in the new series Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico explores for the first time Native contributions to early Southern California. Opening...

Once the beehive coke oven was perfected in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, the coal and coke industry began to flourish and supply other fledgling industries with the fuel they needed to succeed. The thrust of this growth came from Henry Clay Frick, who...

In the spring and summer of 1875, Lt. Col. Richard Irving Dodge escorted the scientific expedition of geologist Walter P. Jenney into the Black Hills of the Dakotas to determine the truth of rumors of gold started by Gen. George Armstrong Custer the...

Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains is a comprehensive account of Indian conflicts in the area between the Platte River and the Rio Grande, from the first written reports of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century through the United States-Cheyenne Battle...

This is the story of the Spanish-American War, told not from the perspective of generals, policy makers, or politicians, but from that of the soldiers, sailors and marines in the field and the reporters who covered their efforts. Concentration on the...

Following the Nez Perce War of 1877, federal representatives promised the Nimiipuu who surrendered with Chief Joseph repatriation to their Pacific Northwest homes. Instead, they were driven into exile. This book tells the story of the Nimiipuu captivity...

Much of late-nineteenth-century American politics was parade and pageant. Voters crowded the polls, and their votes made a real difference on policy. In Party Games, Mark Wahlgren Summers tells the full story and admires much of the political carnival,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999497906Author Ed SitzbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Cimarron PressPublisher Cimarron PressWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999494509Author Floyd ScharffFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Floyd E ScharffPublisher Floyd E ScharffWeight(grams) 240g

J. Williams Thorne (1816-1897) was an outspoken farmer who spent the first half-century of his remarkable life in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he took part in political debates, helped fugitive slaves in the Underground Railroad and co-founded the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991010776Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Warren BluhmPublisher Warren BluhmWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982274118Author Jim GrayFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Kansas Cowboy PublishingPublisher Kansas Cowboy PublishingWeight(grams) 508g

Edward Coles, who lived from 1786-1868, is most often remembered for his antislavery correspondence with Thomas Jefferson in 1814, freeing his slaves in 1819, and leading the campaign against the legalization of slavery in Illinois during the 1823-24...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820361697Author Marcus P NeviusFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 152g

This is a lively and engaging look at patriotism and collective memory.In ""Here, George Washington Was Born"", Seth C. Bruggeman examines the broader history of commemoration in the United States by focusing on the George Washington...

It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage-in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of...

Two centuries ago, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte was one of the most famous women in America. Beautiful, scandalous, and outspoken, she had wed Napoleon's brother Jerome, borne his child, and seen the marriage annulled by the emperor himself. With her...

In retrospect, General William Tecumseh Sherman considered his march through the Carolinas the greatest of his military feats, greater even than the Georgia campaign. When he set out northward from Savannah with 60,000 veteran soldiers in January 1865,...

In much of the United States, immigrants from China banded together in self-enclosed communities, ""Chinatowns,"" in which they retained their language, culture, and social organization. In the South, however, the Chinese began to...

Simon P. Newman vividly evokes the celebrations of America's first national holidays in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. He demonstrates how, by taking part in the festive culture of the...

The society of the postbellum South was built upon two interweaving but ultimately irreconcilable systems: a racist caste system and an economic class system. The caste system was supposed to assure that all whites would be equals above the underclass of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813949314Author James Hill Welborn IIIFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia Press

This is the story of the antebellum frontier in Texas, from the Red River to El Paso, a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence. During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked at...