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 The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed AmericaBest Price: $5.60 Larson captures the best and worst of mankind. Two bigger than life men, Daniel Burnham and... |  Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War IIBest Price: $16.40 This is a painful but necessary read. It puts meat on the skeletal knowledge we have of the Jim... |  What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States)Best Price: $20.25 This book is truly deserving of the Pulitzer Prize and inclusion in the Oxford History Of the... |  Massacre at Mountain MeadowsBest Price: $19.77 The Mountain Meadows massacre of September 1857 where more than 120 men, women and children... |  Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American WestBest Price: $2.99 Read this as a first edition hardback---my Amazon reviewing is a little behind, to say the... |
 Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in AmericaBest Price: $12.00 This story takes place in the late 1800s, early 1900s. You will fall in love with the horse... |  American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas JeffersonBest Price: $6.54 Absolute claptrap from a morally bankrupt excuse of a human being who cannot find his niche in... |  Democracy in America (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $4.04 935 page book with no index. Come on, you don't need one. You can remember that part about... |  House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James FamilyBest Price: $18.19 I love this biography. I grew up in the Albany-Saratoga area, lived in New York for many years... |  Lincoln at PeoriaBest Price: $17.72 Many legends, from the factual to the sublime, have been constructed about the rise of Abraham... |
 The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made itBest Price: $8.83 Therefore, I'll average it out at 3. I greatly enjoyed this book up until the last two chapters.... |  On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American FamilyBest Price: $8.93 I enjoyed this book very much. Amazing to read about one man's dreams and hard work from 4... |  Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey WestBest Price: $14.96 I had never before read a book about the Donner Party, and was lucky enough to have this be my... |  The Light and the GloryBest Price: $4.31 This volume of early American history is limited in its scope, covering a period of about 300... |  The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations (Thrift Edition)Best Price: $0.98 As a US History teacher, this small and inexpensive book brings personality and life to one of... |
 Joseph Smith: Rough Stone RollingBest Price: $11.10 Dr. Richard Bushman is to be commended for writing one of the best, most balanced biographies of... |  The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)Best Price: $4.08 I am not an accomplished reader so it has to really hold my attention to finish a book. This... |  Habits of Empire: A History of American ExpansionBest Price: $16.89 Discussions abound today about the state of the union, its place in the world, and the founding... |  The Big Oyster: History on the Half ShellBest Price: $8.30 I'll grant that Mark Kurlansky did his homework.He provides an extensive Bibliography and the... |  The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating FactsBest Price: $2.70 I can recommend this book because the facts I found were not only interesting, but also... |
 The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in AmericaBest Price: $4.46 This book is an amazing tour through cultural, legal and philosophical ideas in America from the... |  Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words (Vintage)Best Price: $8.91 Author Douglas L. Wilson once again hits the bull's-eye, this time with a painstaking study of... |  Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave MarketBest Price: $15.00 Johnson has done a splendid job of collating primary resources focused specifically on aspects... |  The Comanche Empire (The Lamar Series in Western History)Best Price: $20.49 In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in... |  Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue SeaBest Price: $2.99 On September 9, 1857, the sidewheel steamer "Central America", which was carrying... |
 The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848Best Price: $14.99 Dugard surveys Mexican War history from the biographical angle - following the trajectory of the... |  Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American WarriorsBest Price: $7.00 Very well written account of Crazy Horse and the "crazy" attitudes of the US... |  The Maps of Gettysburg: The Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 - July 13, 1863Best Price: $19.95 I can't begin to tell you how many descriptions of Civil War troop movements I've been... |  For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil WarBest Price: $10.69 This book is mainly for academics and true historians. It's a short book, which makes it a... |  Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined AmericaBest Price: $5.75 This is an almost day by day account of how the 1858 campaign for US Senator from Illinois was... |
 In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship EssexBest Price: $2.99 this is one of the finest books i've ever read. the story is fabulous and the author's delivery... |  The Mountain Meadows MassacreBest Price: $12.60 It's definitely a painful story but needed to be told, and Ms Brooks presented a detailed,... |  Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the WestBest Price: $8.68 Once upon a time in the West, a man named William Gilpin was blown westward along with an... |  American Slavery, American FreedomBest Price: $10.10 This very well written and researched book is an effort to answer a single interesting question;... |  The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century AmericaBest Price: $11.09 Fundamentalism whether Christian or Moslem always breaks out the nut cases. So it was with... |
 Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of SurvivalBest Price: $4.47 Skeletons on the Zahara was one of the most amazing survival stories I have ever read. What an... |  Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas JeffersonBest Price: $8.99 I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Being retired and elderly my self I am interested to see how... |  Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the LegendBest Price: $10.74 the book was of excellent quality being used as stated on amazon. The shipping time was quick... |  Democracy in America (Signet Classics)Best Price: $2.65 Before approaching the text of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, I had little... |  Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (Eminent Lives)Best Price: $11.77 If you need an extremely well-written, concise, sympathetic, balanced and reasonably complete... |
 Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to AmericaBest Price: $17.75 For 300 years the Atlantic Slave Trade brought 12 million people from Africa to the New World.... |  The Madness of Mary LincolnBest Price: $17.72 the book is chock full of information about the lady but also about her lesser know role as a... |  The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.45 Although this one-armed Major from the Civil War has a tendency to marginalize the dangers,... |  Volume Ii: Since 1865: Volume of ...Boyer-The Enduring Vision: A History of the American PeopleBest Price: $66.65 I received this before I expected. My son was able to have it for his class when needed. ... |  The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce RebellionBest Price: $7.34 I had to buy this book for one of my college History classes. The book is very informative, sad,... |
 Selected Speeches and Writings: Abraham LincolnBest Price: $10.22 Of all the folks in the storied history of this world of ours, Mr. Lincoln is the one I'd most... |  Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation SouthBest Price: $6.99 Deborah Gray White writes tellingly about the double evils faced by the Black woman of the old... |  With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham LincolnBest Price: $8.30 Will anyone dare to write an accurate assessment of the 16th President or are the myths that... |  Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground RailroadBest Price: $7.65 I'm not a big history fanatic, but I wanted to learn a bit more about how quilts were by slaves.... |  Washington: The Making of the American CapitalBest Price: $13.97 This is simply a superb book. Extremely well told, rich with historical texture, with detail... |
 The American Promise: A History of the United States, Volume II: From 1865Best Price: $64.50 i read some of this book for a class.. but it is well written.. but its history,,,, so its... |  Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer (Civil War America)Best Price: $25.04 Wade Hampton III who was born in 1818 and whose life spanned the century (he died in 1902) was... | |||
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