993円 Philip Reid grew up in slavery near Charleston, South Carolina, where he became a skilled foundry craftsman. He was purchased by Clark Mills, who owned the Clark Mills Foundry of Washington, D.C. Clark Mills received a U.S. Government contract to cast the Statue of Freedom to stand atop the Capit...

403円 Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 O.S.) – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental...

3,310円 In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the U.S. government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his previous biographies of Chiricahua leaders C...

399円 Billy the Kid spent the winter of 1880-1881 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, trying desperately to get out its jail. He hired lawyers. He wrote the Governor. He even tried digging his way out! Nothing worked. Billy only escaped the “safest jail in the Territory” in March when deputies finally escorted hi...

661円 This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and List of Illustrations CONTENTS (abridged list) CHAPTER I Parents, School and Teacher ー Foundation of the Negroes' Mechanical Knowledge ー First Brick A. M. E. Church ー Bishop Allen ー Olive Cemetery ー Harriet Smith Home ー ...

10,943円 Assembling a full and comprehensive collection of material which illustrates all aspects of the emergent women’s movement during the years 1850-1900, this fascinating book will prove invaluable to students of nineteenth century social history and women's studies, to those studying the Victorian n...

2,801円 “In all the vast collection of books on the American Civil War there is no book like this one,” says Bruce Catton. Never before has such a stunning body of facts dealing with the war been gathered together in one place and presented in a coherent, useful, day-by-day narrative. And never before ha...

777円 Like Charles Seife s Zero and Dava Sobel s Longitude, this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen in the late 1700s. That breakthrough changed the world as radically as those of Newton and Darwin but...

330円 A contemporaneous account of the raids, pursuit and capture of the confederate raider John Morgan. Illustrated.

496円 The story of the war along the Niagara River between Lakes Ontario and Erie.

4,637円 Many Anglo-Americans in the nineteenth century regarded Indian tribes as little more than illiterate bands of savages in need of “civilizing.” Few were willing to recognize that one of the major Southeastern tribes targeted for removal west of the Mississippi already had an advanced civilization ...

496円 This book contains the complete collection of all 37 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Ohio at the time of the Great Depression in the United States.  The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life a...