19th Century

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Long before the secession crisis at Fort Sumter ignited the War between the States, men fought and died on the prairies of Kansas over the incendiary issue of slavery. "War to the knife and knife to the hilt," cried the Atchison Squatter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692114926Author Everett R WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Wimbledon PressPublisher Wimbledon PressWeight(grams) 218g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615774541Author Lynn CoffeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Backroads PublishingPublisher Backroads PublishingWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615500416Author Theodore MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Yesterquest ProductionsPublisher Yesterquest ProductionsWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609807101Author M R MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Broadway BooksPublisher Broadway BooksWeight(grams) 485g

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The mass industrial democracy that is the modern United States bears little resemblance to the simple agrarian republic that gave it birth. The market revolution is the reason for this dramatic - and ironic - metamorphosis. The resulting tangled...

This book examines social, political, and cultural conflicts opened by the abolition of slavery and the fashioning of wage relations in the era of the American Civil War. It offers a new, close look at the origins, goals, and tactics of popular political...

At first a voice in the wilderness, then the rallying cry of a new morality, abolitionism became the springboard to power of a major national party. Ballots for Freedom recapitulates the political war against slavery, from the first debates over the...

In August of 1862, the Santee (Dakota) Sioux tribe launched a spontaneous revolt against their white neighbours. Looting and killing, the Santee Sioux ravaged the unprotected countryside and small towns of southern Minnesota. When it was all over, more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115649Author Julia KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *...

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The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 as a slave revolt on the French colonial island of Saint Domingue and ended thirteen years later with the founding of an independent black republic. Waves of French West Indians -- slaves, white colonists, and free...

African American records of the Gold Rush are rare, as are underground railroad accounts from those fleeing to freedom; yet here is the account of a self-taught escaped slave and underground railroad worker who also succumbed to the lure of the...

Born in slavery, Charles Young (1864-1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first black U.S. military attache, and the highest-ranking black officer in the Regular Army until his death. Unlike the two black graduates before him, Young went...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLillian Schlissel is a professor emerita of English and American Studies at Brooklyn College-CUNY. She is the author of numerous books, including The Western...

In 1841 and 1842 small groups of emigrants tried to discover a route to California passable by wagons. Without reliable maps or guides, they pushed ahead, retreated, detoured, split up, and regrouped, reaching their destination only at great cost of...

After political defeats and the loss of half his capital in a ranching venture in North Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt began writing his ambitious history of the conquest of the American West in 1888. He projected a sweeping drama, well documented and filled...

After political defeats and the loss of half his capital in a ranching venture in North Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt began writing his ambitious history of the conquest of the American West in 1888. He projected a sweeping drama, well documented and filled...

Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward...

Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward...

Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward...

Eaten by tuberculosis, sustained by alcohol, John Henry "Doc" Holliday walked the streets of Dodge City, Dallas, Denver, Leadville, Deadwood, and Tombstone in their roistering heydays. The frail-looking dentist could be deadly when the drink wore off and...

Dorothy Johnson, author of The Hanging Tree and Indian Country, describes the great western experience of a number of nineteenth-century women of widely different situations and fates. Some were captured by Indians. Cynthia Ann Parker, assimilated to the...

In 1857 President Buchanan quietly sent new officials to rule the Utah Territory and replace Brigham Young as the territorial governor. With no official announcement, the new leaders were accompanied by a twenty-five-hundred-member troop under the...