Turn of the Century Books


The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America Best Price: $4.84 If you believe truth is stranger than fiction, then this book is for you. No fiction writer can...	Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt Best Price: $6.49 One of McCullough's early books, 'Mornings on Horseback' may surprise readers more accustomed to...	Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Theodore Roosevelt (Leaders in Action Series) Best Price: $7.95 What a wonderful book! Teddy Roosevelt was brilliantly ressurected for us by George Grant in...	The Search for Order, 1877-1920 Best Price: $11.00 by trying to read this book. Quoting another reviewer, the author is "often guilty of...	Theodore Roosevelt: A Life Best Price: $4.99 I feel the same as some of the other reviewers here. The coverage of Roosevelts presidency was...



Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age Best Price: $25.07 Daniel Rodgers' thesis in Atlantic Crossings is simple and direct: "the reconstruction of...	Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America Best Price: $6.82 Book was shipped promptly within the projected time frame. Quality of book met my expectations....	Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (P.S.) Best Price: $2.22 A massive forest fire swept through eastern Minnesota destroying almost an entire county in one...	A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era Best Price: $11.17 Steven Diner's A Very Different Age is a social history of the common man during the...	Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism Best Price: $5.95 This is a terrific and rarely-told story from our nation's legal history. This well-written...



Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth Best Price: $7.50 I bought this book at the Molly Brown House and Museum in Denver, a few weeks ago. I like...	Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy Best Price: $15.20 A most comprehensive source of information on this tragedy. Well written and well organized....	America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890s-1920s Best Price: $23.90 The Progressive Era, from the 1890s to the 1920s, was one of the most important periods in...	Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure Best Price: $18.00 Enstad takes U.S. women's history in important new directions because she understands how young...	Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924 (The American Ways Series) Best Price: $1.95 This timeless study gives the reader a snapshot in the long history of discrimination against...

Free to All: Carnegie Libraries & American Culture, 1890-1920 Best Price: $19.95 I had to read this book in library school a few years ago. It not only discusses Carnegie's...	White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States Best Price: $5.65 Several of the people who had been involved in the first wave of women's suffrage, despite...	The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography Best Price: $14.28 The easy American victory over Spain in 1898 is generally considered to be a watershed event in...	In a Far Country Best Price: $2.28 They certainly were a hardy lot. Those who chose to come Alaska in the latter part of the...	Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890-1970 Best Price: $21.93 I purchased this book for use in the courses I am completing in conjunction with my Public...

You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II Best Price: $32.19 Upon opening this book, and seeing my grandfather's name in the opening line, I knew it would be...	Self-Exposure: Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-1940 Best Price: $11.98 This is a brilliant book on a subject that we often dismiss as trivial. Remarkably, as you read...	First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power Warren Zimmerman uses short but trenchant bios of five important American decision makers and...	Boom and Bust in the Alaska Goldfields: A Multicultural Adventure Best Price: $24.97 "Far to the north of the 48 contiguous states," writes Steven C. Levi, "is a land...	Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States 1895-1917 Best Price: $11.06 Kissack, Terrence. "Free Comrades: Anarchy and Homosexuality in the United States,...

War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898 (Envisioning Cuba) Best Price: $28.60 WAR AND GENOCIDE IN CUBA, 1895-1898 is the Society for Military History 2008 Distinguished Book...	Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America Best Price: $3.84 Having survived 4 readings of this gargantuan treatise, I feel eminently qualified to tell you...	At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 Best Price: $15.00 Erika Lee is a very angry woman. Her diatribe on American immigration policy equates anyone who...	American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico During U.S. Colonialism (Politics, History, and Culture) Best Price: $22.54 When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the...	The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars Which Altered Forever the Political Life of the American Republic 1890-1920 Best Price: $10.78 Walter Karp's "The Politics of War" is simply the most concise and powerful study in...

Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880-1920 (Black Community Studies) Best Price: $15.90 I enjoyed this book. Even with 400+ pages, it read very quickly. Lots of research went into the...	The Spanish-American War and President McKinley Best Price: $10.00 #This succinct, readable paperback, an outgrowth of the author's highly-acclaimed volume The...	A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890-1960 (Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture) Best Price: $20.03 it is an interesting topic, but i was purchasing it for photo content and was very disappointed....	James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies , Vol 12) Best Price: $14.96 Right up front Malone admits this is neither an authoritative nor exhaustive biography of Jim...	Coal Towns Of West Virginia: A Pictorial Recollection, Fayette, Raleigh, Wyoming, Boone, Logan, Mercer Best Price: $10.08 "In the late 19th century, the advent of coal mining on a large scale changed the face of...

Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 (American Politics and Political Economy Series) Best Price: $21.57 Roots of Reform offers a sweeping revision of our understanding of the rise of the regulatory...	Conservation in the Progressive Era: Classic Texts (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics) Best Price: $8.95 Conservation was the first nationwide political movement in American history to grapple with...	American Progressivism: A Reader Best Price: $29.95 This collection of writings by prominent politicians, authors, and activists of the Progressive...	See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940 Best Price: $18.95 I speak as both an academic and general reader when I say that Marguerite S. Shaffer's See...	Spanish American War, 1898 (Great Campaigns) Best Price: $24.95 I purchased this book because an ancestor won the Medal of Honor in Cuba and the book has an...

The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925 Best Price: $24.00 In this pathbreaking work, Elisabeth S. Clemens recovers the social origins of interest group...	Dutch American Voices: Letters from the United States, 1850-1930 (Documents in American Social History) Best Price: $49.88 This volume offers a rich sampling of correspondence from the Dutch Immigrant Letter Collection...	1898: The Birth of the American Century Best Price: $8.99 David Traxel has taken the year 1898 as, to quote the subtitle, the birth of the American...	The Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914 (The Chicago History of American Civilization) Best Price: $16.50 From the last chapter of the book: "The unifying theme of American history between 1885 and...	Boise, Idaho 1882-1910: Prosperity in Isolation Best Price: $14.80 Written by Boise native Carol Lynn MacGregor, Boise, Idaho 1882-1910: Prosperity in Isolation is...

The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 Best Price: $21.56	Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization Best Price: $14.99 The roots of American globalization can be seen in its participation in the War of 1898. Then,...	The Age of the Bachelor Best Price: $26.31 Once in a while a book comes my way that gets me to see the world in a whole new way. Howard P....	Inside the World's Fair of 1904: Exploring the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Vol. 1 Best Price: $11.56 Though there are plenty of images, they are bad in quality, very grainy- even hard to see. I...	The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (Yale Historical Publications Series) Best Price: $14.56 A well-written and insightful book by an up-and-coming star in the field of the history of the...

Stevens Pass: The Story of Railroading and Recreation in the North Cascades Best Price: $8.23 Stevens Pass has always had an aura of mystery about it. Even while Seattle boomed during the...	Travel and Travails (Mesa Verde Centennial) Best Price: $4.00	Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898-1920 Best Price: $0.29 In this absorbing history of the first two decades of the twentieth century, David Traxel paints...	Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade Best Price: $19.95 From desciptions of the Durfee and Peck traders to the health conditions at the fort, the...	Boston's Back Bay in the Victorian Era (MA) (Images of America) Best Price: $12.30 The Back Bay was one of Boston?s premier residential neighborhoods between 1837 and 1901. From...

The Big One: The Earthquake That Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science Best Price: $3.34 Well, this book had the premise of being a very good, fascinating account of the New Madrid...

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