19th Century Books


The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America Best Price: $5.99 Loved it from start to finish! Wanted it to never end. As an enthusiest of non-fiction, I was...	Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Best Price: $16.98 I hope Mr. Blackmon's book sells well. He has documented a piece of history of which too many...	John Adams Best Price: $10.97 It's so much easier to learn & remember history when the writer allows you to become...	Massacre at Mountain Meadows Best Price: $19.77 After I read this book I attended a book signing where all three authors were present. Apart...	Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation Best Price: $12.93 I must be the only one who found Ladies of Liberty difficult to read. The ladies and their lives...



What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States) Best Price: $19.75 I debated giving this book a five star rating but decided to go with four stars because author...	Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West Best Price: $3.95 Read this as a first edition hardback---my Amazon reviewing is a little behind, to say the...	American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic Best Price: $13.99 Admittedly, there's not much new here, but this concise, well written, thought provoking book...	Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt Best Price: $7.90 I thought I knew much about Theodore Roosevelt before I read this book, but learned even more...	A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West Best Price: $12.65 I read "Son of the Morning Star" fifteen years ago and thought that might be the...



Democracy in America (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.56 935 page book with no index. Come on, you don't need one. You can remember that part about...	Washington: The Making of the American Capital Best Price: $16.06 This is simply a superb book. Extremely well told, rich with historical texture, with detail...	American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson Best Price: $6.50 Absolute claptrap from a morally bankrupt excuse of a human being who cannot find his niche in...	The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage Best Price: $15.83 One might have thought there would be little more to say about Abraham Lincoln, certainly not...	The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it Best Price: $8.83 Therefore, I'll average it out at 3. I greatly enjoyed this book up until the last two chapters....

Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America Best Price: $16.22 Since I am a standardbred trainer I can relate to this book. I also think that everyone can...	Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America Best Price: $16.23 James K. Polk always shows up on the best Presidents' list along with the obvious Washingtons,...	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Best Price: $8.00 Have you ever played cowbow and indians when you were a boy? I did and always wanted to be the...	On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family Best Price: $8.49 I enjoyed this book very much. Amazing to read about one man's dreams and hard work from 4...	The Light and the Glory Best Price: $4.00 This volume of early American history is limited in its scope, covering a period of about 300...

The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition) Best Price: $4.05 I am not an accomplished reader so it has to really hold my attention to finish a book. This...	Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Best Price: $11.67 There are going to be other reviewers who can provide more erudite reviews-- reviews better...	The American Promise: A History of the United States, Volume II: From 1865 Best Price: $64.69 i read some of this book for a class.. but it is well written.. but its history,,,, so its...	A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign Best Price: $8.97 Edward J. Larson's magnificent look at America's first disputed election manages to remain very...	Lincoln at Peoria Best Price: $17.72 Many legends, from the factual to the sublime, have been constructed about the rise of Abraham...

A Short History of Reconstruction Best Price: $6.99 A truly fascinating time in American history, the Reconstruction era (1865-1877) is not...	The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America Best Price: $11.09 Fundamentalism whether Christian or Moslem always breaks out the nut cases. So it was with...	House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family Best Price: $18.67 I've been reading books by and about the various Jameses for years and this is one of the...	The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion Best Price: $7.34 I had to buy this book for one of my college History classes. The book is very informative, sad,...	The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations (Thrift Edition) Best Price: $0.86 As a US History teacher, this small and inexpensive book brings personality and life to one of...

The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts Best Price: $2.47 I can recommend this book because the facts I found were not only interesting, but also...	For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War Best Price: $10.69 This book is mainly for academics and true historians. It's a short book, which makes it a...	Celia, A Slave Best Price: $2.11 I feel that the story of Celia is better than the book. I say that because the book can be very...	Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market Best Price: $15.00 Johnson has done a splendid job of collating primary resources focused specifically on aspects...	American Slavery, American Freedom Best Price: $10.10 This very well written and researched book is an effort to answer a single interesting question;...

Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West Best Price: $15.76 I had never before read a book about the Donner Party, and was lucky enough to have this be my...	The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell Best Price: $8.30 I'll grant that Mark Kurlansky did his homework.He provides an extensive Bibliography and the...	Volume Ii: Since 1865: Volume of ...Boyer-The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People Best Price: $65.54 I received this before I expected. My son was able to have it for his class when needed. ...	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Best Price: $7.15 There's already been much ink shed reviewing this seminal work by Dee Brown on the...	The Strange Career of Jim Crow Best Price: $11.72 C. Vann Woodward's "The Strange Career of Jim Crow" remains one of the most important...

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Best Price: $4.30 This book is an amazing tour through cultural, legal and philosophical ideas in America from the...	Boyer's the Enduring Vision: A History of the American People Best Price: $67.00 I save alot of money buying this book. If is in really good shape. I am very satisfied with my...	Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction Best Price: $67.75 I bought the abridged version here instead of the two - volume set. This book was great! The...	The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction Best Price: $15.40 "The Day Freedom Died" is both one of the most gripping books I've read, and one of...	Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South Best Price: $8.00 Deborah Gray White writes tellingly about the double evils faced by the Black woman of the old...

A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 Best Price: $11.43 In McGerr's view, progressivism was a broad based Victorian middle class movement dedicated to...	The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 Best Price: $14.99 Dugard surveys Mexican War history from the biographical angle - following the trajectory of the...	Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion Best Price: $16.50 In some ways this is a surprisingly iconoclastic but not an entirely polemic free rendition of...	Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign (Civil War America) Best Price: $23.10 In the spring of 1862, Federal troops under the command of General George B. McClellan launched...	In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Best Price: $3.00 A very good story, but as the whalers were slaughtering every whale in sight and dragging the...

Democracy in America (Signet Classics) Best Price: $2.65 Before approaching the text of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, I had little...	American Story, The, Volume II, (Penguin Academics Series) (3rd Edition) (Penguin Academics) Best Price: $29.95	The Maps of Gettysburg: The Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 - July 13, 1863 Best Price: $16.99 I can't begin to tell you how many descriptions of Civil War troop movements I've been...	Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling Best Price: $11.10 Dr. Richard Bushman is to be commended for writing one of the best, most balanced biographies of...	Selected Speeches and Writings: Abraham Lincoln Best Price: $10.45 Of all the folks in the storied history of this world of ours, Mr. Lincoln is the one I'd most...

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea Best Price: $2.99 On September 9, 1857, the sidewheel steamer "Central America", which was carrying...

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