19th Century

America's greatest conflict was the first war to be extensively documented in photographs. More than 350 images graphically portray the battles, the ships, ...

For this second edition of The Oxford Paperback French Dictionary , the text has been fully revised and updated. Covering the essential vocabulary of everyd...

A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work—brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate co...

For more than a century, the enduring feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has been American shorthand for passionate, unyielding, and even violent con...

Chronicles The Final Voyage Of The Ss Central America, As It Sank Off The Carolina Coast In 1857, And Explains The Recent Technology Used To Recover The Shi...

In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mo...

William Baxter ; Introduction By William L. Shea. Originally Published: Cincinnati : Poe & Hitchcock, 1864.Categories: History United StatesState & ...

At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nat...

In Thomas Dixon's Novel That Became The Film The Birth Of A Nation, The Scalawag - A White Southerner Who Supported Congressional Reconstruction And The Rep...

This book presents, for the first time, a comprehensive picture of Minnesota's contribution to the nation's epic struggle during the Civil War." "From diari...

Elizabeth R. Varon. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 435-487) And Index.Categories: HistoryMilitary

The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad has operated for more than three decades as a tourist ride over the breathtaking Cumbres Pass, ten thousand feet ab...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award! A thrilling, page-turning piece of writing that describes the forces conspiring to tear apart the ...

The American Republic, written in 1865, is a part of the Conservative Leadership Series, and proves to remain a cornerstone of American thinking, a great in...

Confederate Williamsburg. A Line Of Defense -- Sickly Season -- Rumors Of War -- The Battle Of Williamsburg. Sunday Skirmish -- Pandemonium Broke Loose -- A...

Ordeal by Fire blends the most up-to-date scholarship with interpretations based on decades of teaching, research, and writing, to tell an important story-...

The Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill Create® includes current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest an...