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  • Devil's Gate

    Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy

    by David Roberts ...
    The little-known story of a deadly 1,300-mile trek by Mormon converts in 1856: “This compelling account of a major frontier catastrophe is hard to put down.” —BooklistIn 1856, led by the church’s second Prophet and new leader, Brigham Young, the Mormon faithful headed west to escape persecution. They arrived in what is now Utah the following year and established a new Zion in the wilderness. Nine ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Demon of Unrest

    A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

    by Erik Larson ...
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Time, Men’s Health, Lit HubOn November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • America's Great Debate

    Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union

    Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a “gripping, vigorous [history] featuring a large cast of unforgettable characters with fierce beliefs” (Publishers Weekly, starred Review).When gold was discovered in California in the great Gold Rush of 1849, the population swelled, and settlers petitioned for admission to the Union. But the US Senate was precariously balanced with fifteen free states ... Read more

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  • Origin And Fall of the Alamo, March 6, 1836

    Texas History Tales, #1

    Series Book 1 - Texas History Tales
    "Origin And Fall of the Alamo, March 6, 1836" by John S. Ford is a look at one of the most famous battles in U. S. Military history; the fall of the Alamo in the Texas War for independence.John Salmon Ford 1815-97 was a member of the Republic of Texas Congress; theTexas State Senate; mayor of Brownsville, Texas; a Texas Ranger; a Confederate Colonel and a Texas journalist.Ford, known to ... Read more

    $2.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Texas Rangers

    A Century of Frontier Defense

    Series series Texas Classics
    The renowned historian’s classic study of the Texas Ranger Division, presented with its original illustrations and a foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson.Texas Rangers tells the story of this unique law enforcement agency from its origin in 1823, when it was formed by “Father of Texas” Stephen F. Austin, to the 1930s, when legendary lawman Frank Hamer tracked down the infamous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Serving the Nation

    Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800–1907

    by Julie L. Reed ...
    Series Book 14 - New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy—a form of what today might be called social welfare—based on matrilineal descent, egalitarian relations, kinship obligations, and communal landholding. The ethic of gadugi, or work coordinated for the social good, was at the heart of this system. Serving the Nation explores the role of such ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Death of a Texas Ranger

    A True Story of Murder and Vengeance on the Texas Frontier

    Death of a Texas Ranger is the thrilling, action-packed story of the murder of Texas Ranger John Green by Cesario Menchaca, one of three Rangers of Mexican descent under Green’s command. Immediately word spread that the killing may have been the botched outcome of a contract taken out on Menchaca’s life by the notorious Gabriel Marnoch, a local naturalist who had run up against the law himself. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Bloody Lowndes

    Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt

    Bloody Lowndes is the true story of the people of rural Lowndes County, Alabama, who organized a radical experiment in democratic politics in 1966.Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the Best Book on local history from the Alabama Historical AssociationEarly in 1966, African Americans in Lowndes County, Alabama, aided by activists from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Search for Order, 1877-1920

    At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search for Order, 1877-1920, Robert H. Wiebe shows how, in subsequent years, during the Progressive Era of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, Americans ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Ecstatic Nation

    Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877

    “From the death of John Quincy Adams through the Civil War to the tragedy of Reconstruction, Wineapple tells the American story brilliantly.” —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorA New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Kirkus Best Book of 2013A Bookpage Best Book of 2013Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and moment... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Manhunt

    The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer: An Edgar Award Winner

    Now an Apple TV+ Series“A terrific narrative of the hunt for Lincoln’s killers that will mesmerize the reader from start to finish.”—Doris Kearns GoodwinThe murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history--the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry troops on a wild, 12-day chase from the streets of ... Read more

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  • The Survivors of the Clotilda

    The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

    by Hannah Durkin ...
    Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston’s rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors—the last documented survivors of any slave ship—whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways.The Clotilda, the last slave ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Mystery of Mysteries

    The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

    A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes.It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own tales of terror. What was ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Johnstown Flood

    The summer of 1889 will ever be memorable for its appalling disasters by flood and flame. In that period fell the heaviest blow of the nineteenth century—a blow scarcely paralleled in the histories of civilized lands. Central Pennsylvania, a center of industry, thrift and comfort, was desolated by floods unprecedented in the records of the great waters. On both sides of the Alleghenies these ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Devil in the White City

    A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America

    by Erik Larson ...
    **#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.“As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.” —San Francisco Chronicle* ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Spying on the South

    An Odyssey Across the American Divide

    by Tony Horwitz ...
    The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Last Gunfight

    The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral—And How It Changed the American West

    by Jeff Guinn ...
    This myth-busting account of the most famous gunfight in American history reveals the truth about Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the shootout itself.On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona, a confrontation between eight armed men erupted in a deadly shootout. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral would shape how future generations came to view the Old West. Wyatt Earp, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Bloody Spring

    Forty Days that Sealed the Confederacy's Fate

    For forty crucial days they fought a bloody struggle. When it was over, the Civil War's tide had turned.In the spring of 1864, Virginia remained unbroken, its armies having repelled Northern armies for more than two years. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had defeated the campaigns of four Union generals, and Lee's veterans were confident they could crush the Union offensive this spring, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A Secret Life

    The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland

    The child was born on September 14, 1874, at the only hospital in Buffalo, New York, that offered maternity services for unwed mothers. It was a boy, and though he entered the world in a state of illegitimacy, a distinguished name was given to this newborn: Oscar Folsom Cleveland. The son of the future president of the United States—Grover Cleveland. The story of how the man who held the nation’s ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • In the Lion's Mouth

    Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900

    by Omar H. Ali ...
    Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    Following the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877, African Americans organized a movement—distinct from the white Populist movement—in the South and parts of the Midwest for economic and political reform: Black Populism. Between 1886 and 1898, tens of thousands of black farmers, sharecroppers, and agrarian workers created their own organizations and tactics primarily under black leadership.As Black ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • American Heretic

    Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism

    by Dean Grodzins ...
    Theodore Parker (1810-1860) was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and of Jesus, a brilliant scholar who became a popular agitator for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights, and a political theorist who defined democracy as "government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people--words that inspired Abraham Lincoln. Parker had more influence than ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

    by Manisha Sinha ...
    A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history.We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. That effort failed—and that failure serves as a warning ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • John Quincy Adams

    Militant Spirit

    by James Traub ...
    "Penetrating, detailed, and very readable. . . . A splendid biography." -- Wall Street JournalFew figures in American history have held as many roles in public life as John Quincy Adams. The son of John Adams, he was a brilliant ambassador and secretary of state, a frustrated president, and a dedicated congressman who staunchly opposed slavery. In John Quincy Adams, scholar and journalist James ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Martin Van Buren

    The American Presidents Series: The 8th President, 1837-1841

    Series series The American Presidents
    The first president born after America's independence ushers in a new era of democracyDive deep into the political life of the first president born after America's independence. Martin Van Buren, skillfully crafted by Ted Widmer, a veteran of the Clinton White House, brings to life an era of no-holds-barred democracy. The story unfolds with the rise of Martin Van Buren, characterized as the first ... Read more

    $11.99 USD