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Daniel Rood
In the Shadow of the Great House

We imagine the plantation-the big house, the slave quarters, the vast cotton fields-as situated firmly in the American past. Yet as historian Daniel Rood shows, the plantation is still very much with us. …

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Lauretta Malloy Noble, Leeanet Noble
Black, White, Colored

An absorbing investigation into a little-known historical tragedy---an insurrection which upended a resilient and wealthy Black community who found themselves in the clutches of an insurrection at the tur…

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Andrew Wender Cohen
Gangster of New York

This is the story of Louis Bieral, a nineteenth-century gangster, politician, sportsman, and Civil War hero. Kidnapped from his birthplace in revolutionary South America, he doused fires in Jacksonian New…

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Shakers at the Center

Exploring the theological, social, and cultural dimensions of one of America's most ambitious prophetic movementsThe Shakers' Era of Manifestations ranks among the most astounding events in American relig…

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Shakers at the Center

Exploring the theological, social, and cultural dimensions of one of America's most ambitious prophetic movementsThe Shakers' Era of Manifestations ranks among the most astounding events in American relig…

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Niall O'Dowd
From Tragedy to Triumph

The Irish Famine forced a million Irish to flee to America, where they faced discrimination and hatred as unwanted immigrants. They sailed on coffin ships, destitute and desperate. However, the new immigr…

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Kevin M. Burton
Apocalyptic Abolitionism

Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century AmericaIn March 1844, Melissa Botsford of Meriden, Connecticut, defiantly left h…

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The Life of Ten Bears

The Life of Ten Bears is a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century Comanche oral histories given by Francis Joseph "Joe A" Attocknie. Although various elements of Ten Bears's life (ca. 1790-…

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Kevin M. Burton
Apocalyptic Abolitionism

Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century AmericaIn March 1844, Melissa Botsford of Meriden, Connecticut, defiantly left h…

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Megan Kate Nelson
The Westerners

"A uniquely compelling look at the dynamism and conflict that defined the West" (Booklist), shattering the traditional frontier myth that has dominated popular American culture."A richly la…

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Carrie Hagen
The Vigilance Network

The Vigilance Network illuminates the actions of a group of unsung American heroes--the Black and white abolitionists who, driven fiercely by their beliefs and dogged by personal demons, fought threats, p…

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Victoria Johnson
Glorious Country

Scribner

From the author of American Eden---finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and more---comes a sweeping, richly researched biography of Frederic Church, the great 19th-century American ar…

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Mark Christian
Frederick Douglass

Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic TitleMeet one of the most influential men in the United States' history of emancipation and Black rights.Chronicling Frederick Douglass's life in an accessible way, this b…

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Dennard Dayle
How to Dodge a Cannonball

Holt Paperbacks

A New York TimesNotable Book of 2025 An NPR Books We Love pick A New York TimesEditors ' Choice pickHow to Dodge a Cannonball is a razor-sharp satire that dives into the heart of the Civil War, hilariousl…

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Natalia Doan
Civil War Samurai

In 1860, seventeen-year-old samurai Tateishi Onojirō, nicknamed "Tommy," made headlines across America for his real and imagined adventures as part of the 1860 Japanese Embassy, the first Japane…

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James Long
The Pepys Conspiracy

In 1679, Samuel Pepys is Secretary to the Admiralty, in charge of the navy, and at the right hand of King Charles.But also in 1679, England is awash with suspicion and fear. In this maelstrom of distrust,…

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John Reeves
Grant's Betrayal

The controversial story of the secret conspiracy inside Ulysses S. Grant's White House that led to the theft of the sacred Black Hills from the Lakota people, set against a backdrop of brazen corruption, …

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Shane White
A Moment in the Sun

Dispelling the persistent narrative that abject poverty followed the end of slavery in New York City, acclaimed historian Shane White finally sets the historical record straight. A Moment in the Sun , a r…

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Jana Milbocker
Gardens of the Gilded Age

Step into the era when American wealth created landscapes that rivaled European royalty and discover the magnificent gardens that still captivate visitors today.During the Gilded Age in America (1870-1920…

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Janet Dailey
Calder Brand

The Calder family patriarch is known throughout Montana as a force no one in his right mind would cross. But sometimes love can make a man do crazy things . . .Ambition drove Joe Dollarhide across the par…

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