496円 A Brief look at the history of the practice of Law in New York to 1900.

2,022円 An incisive look at the turning point of the Civil War, when the great armies of the North and South came to Gettysburg in July 1863ーfrom Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Catton, one of the great historians of the Civil War. Engaging and authoritative, Catton analyzes the course of events at Gettysbu...

496円 An early exploration briefly describes life with the Inuit peoples during the mid nineteenth century. Illustrated.

5,573円 Legal Publishing in Antebellum America presents a history of the law book publishing and distribution industry in the United States. Part business history, part legal history, part history of information diffusion, M. H. Hoeflich shows how various developments in printing and bookbinding, the int...

661円 Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS CATHARINE MARIA SEDGWICK, 1789 – 1867 MARY LOVELL WARE, 1798 – 1849 LYDIA MARIA CHILD, 1802 – 1880 DOROTHEA LYNDE DIX, 1802 – 1887 SARAH MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI, 1810...

496円 In April 1849, seventy-six slaves - all household servants in Washington, D.C. - made a run for freedom on the schooner The Pearl. The escape was planned in part by Paul Jennings, a slave of President James Madison during and after his White House years and who later became a servant to Senator D...

11,275円 The decision to emigrate has historically held differing promises and costs for women and for men. Exploring theories of difference in labor market participation, network formation and the immigrant organising process, on belonging and diaspora, and a theory of ‘vulnerability,’ A Global History o...

1,399円 A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city. In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban A...

933円 The gripping history of electricity and how the fateful collision of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse left the world utterly transformed. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded AgeーThomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, ...

496円 In the tradition of his award-winning biographies, Meriwether Lewis and Fool’s Gold, acclaimed historian Richard Dillon recreates the life of one of frontier America’s most gifted lawmen, James B. Hume. Dillon paints a vivid picture of Hume, the greatest of Wells, Fargo and company’s detectives, ...

164円 David McMurtrie Gregg (April 10, 1833 August 7, 1916) was a prominent Union cavalry general in the Civil War who distinguished himself in the Seven Days Battles, expertly screening retreating Union infantry. He fought at Antietam and during the Chancellorsville campaign, but cavalry had little r...

777円 In 1898: The Birth of the American Century, David Traxel tells the story of a watershed year, a year of foreign conflict, extravagant adventure, and breakneck social change that forged a new Americaーa sudden empire with many far-flung possessions, a dynamic new player upon the global stage. At t...