Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson...
Steve InskeepA thrilling narrative history of two men--President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee Chief John Ross--who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American historyFive decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States faced a c...
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New...
Brian KilmeadeAnother history pageturner from the authors of the #1 bestsellers George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, now with an afterword delving into Jackson's influence on later U.S. Presidents.The War of ...
Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: T...
Brian KilmeadeThe New York Timesbestseller now in paperback with a new epilogue. In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than two hundred Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo. After thirteen days of fighting...
Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: T...
Brian KilmeadeThe heart-stopping story of the fight for Texas by The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.In his now-trademark style, Brian Kilmeade brings alive one of the...
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the...
David McCulloughThe #1 New York Timesbestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's "as resonant today as ever" (The Wall Street Journal)--the settling of the No...
The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Pl...
Brad MeltzerNarrator Scott Brick]...makes the pages come alive. He varies his volume during dramatic moments, at times almost whispering. He also varies his tone, enhancing the drama but never overpowering it...This work is an excellent example o...
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Ma...
Candice MillardJames A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for presid...
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull,...
Nathaniel Philbrick"An engrossing, thoughtfully researched, and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history." -Los Angeles Times With a fantastic body of work that includes In the Heart of the Sea and Pulitzer Prize finali...
Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws: ...
William MacLeod RaineThis in-depth collection, unchanged since the 1940s, tells of the most legendary heroes and villains of the Old West. Get swept back to a time when sheriffs did their best to keep order in a lawless land. Read about the likes of Tom H...
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It...
Lee SandlinA riveting narrative look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America\'s historical landscape: the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the 19th century.\r\n \r\nBeginning in the ...
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pira...
Brian KilmeadeThe mass market edition of the New York Times Bestseller. This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to in...
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of ...
Hampton SidesIn the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people's chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting his whole long life. He had come t...
From Puritans to heathens-Sarah Vowell takes on Hawaii in this New York Times bestseller. Of all the countries the United States invaded or colonized in 1898, Sarah Vowell considers the story of the Americanization of Hawaii to be ...
The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the Titanic disaster was in the twentieth. Nathaniel Philbrick now restores this epic story -- which inspired the climactic scene in Herman Melville...
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Cor...
Dayton DuncanThe companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color.In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of Discovery cros...
American Colossus: The Triumph of Cap...
H. W. BrandsIn this grand-scale narrative history, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands brilliantly portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably modern America. American Colossus captures the decades between th...
Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the...
Larry McMurtryMaster of the literary Western Larry McMurtry explores real-life Wild West events in this harrowing nonfiction chronicle of six separate occasions in which mass murder took place on the 19th-century American frontier. As in present-da...
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Acros...
Tony HorwitzThe New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for ...
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup ...
From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina’s largest city and ...
Pedestrianism: When Watching People W...
Matthew AlgeoStrange as it sounds, during the 1870s and 1880s, America's most popular spectator sport wasn't baseball, boxing, or horseracing—it was competitive walking. Inside sold-out arenas, competitors walked around dirt tracks almost nonsto...
An Account Of The Proceedings On The ...
AnonymousThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1...
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Ensla...
Douglas A. Blackmon“An astonishing book. . . . It will challenge and change your understanding of what we were as Americans ― and of what we are.” ― Chicago TribuneIn this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light on...
One of the most significant and far-reaching events in U. S. history, the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 sharpened and brought to a head a number of crucial questions concerning slavery, states' rights, the legal status of blacks, an...
Dear Reader, I wanted to tell all of my friends in Savannah that this story is true. It's about a man in the 1860's that literally used to own the town. He and his father owned all of River Street, the banks, the horse racing tracks, ...
America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, S...
Fergus M. BordewichThe Mexican War introduced vast new territories into the United States, among them California and the present-day Southwest. When gold was discovered in California in the great Gold Rush of 1849, the population swelled, and settlers p...
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love o...
H. W. BrandsEven before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James "Jubilee Jim" Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure. From his audacious attempt to corner the gold market in 186...
The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr: A Tale ...
Henry W. BrandsThough he was a hero of the Revolutionary War, a prominent New York politician, and vice president of the United States, Aaron Burr is today best remembered as the villain who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. But as H. W. Brands ...
The Adventures of the Mountain Men: T...
Stephen BrennanIncredible stories from those who thrived in the Wild West.The "mountain men" were the hunters and trappers who fiercely strode the Rocky Mountains in the early to mid-1800s. They braved the elements in search of the skins o...
No God But Gain: The Untold Story of ...
Stephen ChambersFrom 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US participation in the trade, and on Ja...
Washington's KKK: The Union League Du...
John ChodesTHIS BOOK TELLS THE SHOCKING STORY of this long forgotten chapter in American history—the story of THE UNION LEAGUE, WASHINGTON'S KKK. The "official" version of Southern Reconstruction is that there was a reign of terror ...