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The Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired with John Brown

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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign

Edward J. Larson

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The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South

Edward Ball

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Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum

Tyler Anbinder

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Mornings on Horseback

David McCullough

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The Journals of Lewis and Clark

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The Devil in the White City

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Custer's Last Stand

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The Greater Journey: Americans In Paris

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Matthew Josephson

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

S.C. Gwynne

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Nathaniel Philbrick

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One Crazy Summer

Rita Williams-Garcia

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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham

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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

Candice Millard

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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Hampton Sides

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The Johnstown Flood

David McCullough

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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

Stephen E. Ambrose

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The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century

Martha Hodes

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Sufferings in Africa: The Incredible True Story of a Shipwreck, Enslavement, and Survival on the Sahara

James Riley

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Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex

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The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln

C.A. Tripp

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Tracks in the Sea : Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans

Chester G. Hearn

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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto

Vine Deloria Jr.

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The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World

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Speeches and Writings 1832–1858

Abraham Lincoln

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Douglass and Jacobs: The Autobiographies Of Two Escaped Slaves

Frederick Douglass

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He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey (American Profiles (Rowman & Littlefield Paperback))

Douglas R. Egerton

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Fire from the Midst of You: A Religious Life of John Brown

Louis A. DeCaro Jr.

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Celia, A Slave

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I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad

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To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1823-1839

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Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull

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Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad

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Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad

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The Falcon (Penguin Classics)

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We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

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Canyons of the Colorado

John Wesley Powell

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American Slavery, American Freedom

Edmund S. Morgan

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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

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The American Civil War: A Military History

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Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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The Last Gunfight

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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War

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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

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From Sea to Shining Sea

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A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn

James Donovan

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Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend

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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman (Women in the West)

Margot Mifflin

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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

W.E.B. Du Bois

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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

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The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness

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Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894

Daniel James Brown

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The Metaphysical Club

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With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

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Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation

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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam: The Battle that Changed the Course of the Civil War

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Sounding Forth the Trumpet: God's Plan for America in Peril--1837-1860

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Custer's Fall: The Native American Side of the Story

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Unfamiliar Fishes

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American Slavery, 1619-1877

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Lewis & Clark

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War on the Frontier (Civil War Series)

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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

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When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age

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The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York

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Across the Wide Missouri

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Speeches and Writings 1859–1865

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When the Mississippi Ran Backwards : Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes

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James Madison

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Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West

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Everyday Life in the 1800s: A Guide for Writers, Students & Historians (Writer's Guides to Everyday Life)

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Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Big Horn and the Fate of the Plains Indians

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Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890

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To California by Covered Wagon

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The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861

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Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party

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The Big Oyster

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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream

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Thomas Jefferson: Author of America

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The Cowboys (The Old West)

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Bad Land: An American Romance

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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West

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A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific

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The West: An Illustrated History

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American Passage: The History of Ellis Island

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Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers

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97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement

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The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South

John W. Blassingame

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Good Time Girls: Of the Alaska/ Yukon Gold Rush

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Homestead: Modern Pioneers Pursuing the Edge of Possibility (Kirkpatrick, Jane)

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Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis

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The Foods and Wines of Spain

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Tough Trip Through Paradise, 1878-1879

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A History of U. S.: War, Peace & All That Jazz (History of U. S.)

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Through My Eyes

Ruby Bridges

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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

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Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade

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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

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The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane

Russell Freedman

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Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times

H.W. Brands

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Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey

Lillian Schlissel

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Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon

Edward Dolnick

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The Dorling Kindersley Geography of the World

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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Annette Gordon-Reed

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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

Wallace Stegner

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Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11

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A Short History of Reconstruction

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography (Little House)

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Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas

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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars

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The Captured: : A True Story Of Abduction By Indians On The Texas Frontier

Scott Zesch

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Nothing Like It in the World

Stephen E. Ambrose

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The Children's Blizzard

David Laskin

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The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Nathaniel Philbrick

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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

Dean King

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On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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The Light and the Glory

David Manuel

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A History of U.S.: All the People (History of U. S.)

Joy Hakim

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Bravest Dog Ever: Story of Balto (Step Into Reading: A Step 2 Book) Grade 1-3

Natalie Standiford

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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

Nathaniel Philbrick

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A History of US: Book 8: An Age of Extremes 1880-1917 (History of Us)

Joy Hakim

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Simon Adams

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DK Eyewitness Books: Titanic

Simon Adams

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Colonel Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

John M. Barry

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

Daniel James Brown

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West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco 1915

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Son of the Morning Star

Evan S. Connell

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Slaves in the Family

Edward Ball

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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916

Michael Capuzzo

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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic

Joseph J. Ellis

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