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Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction by Allen C. Guelzo
RRP: $23.85$21.05The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destruction (in modern dollars) of more than $700 billion... -
Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by W. Bagley 9780806136394
RRP: $38.64$30.73The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley's Blood of the Prophets is an... -
Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave by William L. Andrews 9780195343328
RRP: $29.01$20.87Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. When it appeared in New York in 1825, it was the longest African American autobiography published up to that time. Because Grimes wrote and published his... -
Rebel Gold: One Man's Quest to Crack the Code Behind the Secret Treasure of the Confederacy by Warren Getler 9780743219693
$18.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743219693Author Bob BrewerFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
The US Marine Corps 1775–1859: Continental and United States Marines by Ron Field
RRP: $19.34$14.13Featuring 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... -
Draw: The Greatest Gunfights of the American West by James Reasoner 9780425191934 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.37$3.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425191934Author James ReasonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 288g -
Draw: The Greatest Gunfights of the American West by James Reasoner
RRP: $28.37$18.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425191934Author James ReasonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 288g -
Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class by Michael Gross 9780802161864
RRP: $28.37$19.13Fifteen 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... -
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle
RRP: $20.63$15.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385239547Author John EhleFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
$28.66Winner of the 2017 Frederick Douglass Prize A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War Received historical... -
Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson by Fred I. Greenstein
RRP: $21.92$17.61From George Washington's decision to buy time for the new nation by signing the less-than-ideal Jay Treaty with Great Britain in 1795 to George W. Bush's order of a military intervention in Iraq in 2003, the matter of who is president of the United... -
Cowboy - American Icon: A Short History of Wild West Culture by Daniel Pruitt 9780228104490
RRP: $38.70$27.03A sweeping visual history of the iconic figure of the Old West - and the present west. Cattle were introduced to North America as early as the 1680s. But the true era of the cowboy required an intersection of inventions and conditions that finally... -
A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 by Michael McGerr 9780195183658
RRP: $29.66$24.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195183658Author Michael McGerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 27mm -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs
RRP: $11.60$8.32A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the... -
Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855 by J. Matthew Gallman 9780807848456
RRP: $60.57$56.45Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities that were already wrestling with a complex array of urban problems. In this innovative work of comparative urban... -
The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West from 1840-1900 by Candy Mouton 9781582972114
RRP: $21.66$19.98Apologies 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)... -
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire by Stephen Kinzer
RRP: $18.05$16.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250159687Author Stephen KinzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Little Phil: A Reassessment of the Civil War Leadership of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan by Eric J. Wittenberg 9781574885484
RRP: $20.63$16.98Unlike Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. William T. Sherman, whose controversial Civil War-era reputations persist today, Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan has been largely untouched by controversy. In Little Phil, historian Eric J. Wittenberg reassesses the war... -
The War for America, 1775-1783 by Piers Mackesy 9780803281929
RRP: $37.40$31.22The events of the American Revolution signified by Lexington, Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Saratoga, and Yorktown are familiar to American readers. Far less familiar is the fact that, for the British, the American colonies were only one front in a world... -
Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer 9780195098310
RRP: $25.14$24.29This widely acclaimed and meticulously researched book is the first serious study of Paul Revere's famous ride. Fischer's exciting narrative offers new insight into the coming of the American Revolution.About the AuthorDavid Hackett Fischer is Warren... -
Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 by W. E. B. Du Bois 9780199385652
$30.42W. 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... -
American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow by Jerrold M Packard 9780312302412
RRP: $29.66$18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312302412Author Jerrold M PackardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)... -
New York City In 3D In The Gilded Age: A Book Plus Stereoscopic Viewer and 50 3D Photos from the Turn of the Century by Esther Crain
RRP: $38.70$28.32Be transported to New York during the Gilded Age and experience daily life in one of the world's most vibrant cities through mesmerizing, contemporary 3D photography and exciting tales of the time.Black Dog & Leventhal has partnered with the New-York... -
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass 9780300190595
$16.81"David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass' second autobiography. This is an essential work in African-American and American history, and displays Douglass' developing strength as a writer and political leader."-Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan... -
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs 9780674659926
RRP: $23.16$18.83Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap... -
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
RRP: $23.22$14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780767929714Author Candice MillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House... -
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner
$18.11More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and... -
Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy by Stewart 9781416547501
RRP: $25.79$17.25Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9781416547501Author StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & Schuster -
The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War by James L. Huston 9780807124925
$29.48In the autumn of 1857, sustained runs on New York banks led to a panic atmosphere that affected the American economy for the next two years. In The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War, James L. Huston presents an exhaustive analysis of the... -
Colonial America: A History to 1763 Richard Middleton (Formerly Queen's University, Belfast, UK) 9781405190046
RRP: $43.80$39.96Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies. Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated... -
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S C Gwynne
RRP: $29.66$16.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451673296Author S C GwynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Rosebud, June 17, 1876: Prelude to the Little Big Horn by Paul L Hedren 9780806162324
$40.07The Battle of the Rosebud may well be the largest Indian battle ever fought in the American West. The monumental clash on June 17, 1876, along Rosebud Creek in southeastern Montana pitted George Crook and his Shoshone and Crow allies against Sioux and... -
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West by Steven Ambrose 9780684826974 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$4.81A chronicle of the two-and-a-half year journey of Lewis and Clark covers their incredible hardships and the contributions of Sacajawea.AwardsWinner of Spur Awards (Western Nonfic Histl) 1997.Book InformationISBN 9780684826974Author Steven AmbroseFormat... -
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West by Steven Ambrose 9780684826974
$21.97"Unduanted Courage" is the story of a heroic and legendary man, and the saga of a great nation creating itself. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson chose Captain Meriwether Lewis to lead the first government-backed exploration of the vast and... -
A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868 by Anne Sarah Rubin 9780807855928
RRP: $38.64$34.74Historians often assert that Confederate nationalism had its origins in pre-Civil War sectional conflict with the North, reached its apex at the start of the war, and then dropped off quickly after the end of hostilities. Anne Sarah Rubin argues instead... -
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich 9780593317815
RRP: $45.15$29.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593317815Author Fergus M. BordewichFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Walden Henry Thoreau 9781857151367
RRP: $21.92$15.84In this classic of American literature, Thoreau gives an account of his two years experience of the 'simple life' in the woods, telling how he sought and found material and spiritual sustenance in the solitude of the cabin which he built for himself on... -
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville 9780553214642
RRP: $9.02$6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553214642Author Alexis De TocquevilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath by Richard E. Turley 9780195397857
RRP: $34.82$29.93The long-awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking Massacre at Mountain Meadows Published in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows was a bombshell of a book, revealing the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history, when settlers in... -
The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur by Scott S. Greenberger
RRP: $19.34$15.89Despite his promising start as a young man, by his early fifties Chester A. Arthur was known as the crooked crony of New York machine boss Roscoe Conkling. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and the vast majority...