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Washington Burning
How a Frenchman's Vision for Our Nation's Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army
Written by Les Standiford
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $11.99
The Riveting Story of the Federal City and the Men Who Built It
In 1814, British troops invaded Washington, consuming President Madison’s hastily abandoned dinner before setting his home and the rest of the city ablaze. The White House still bears scorch and soot marks on its foundation stones. It was only... Read more >
How a Frenchman's Vision for Our Nation's Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army
Written by Les Standiford
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $11.99
The Riveting Story of the Federal City and the Men Who Built It
In 1814, British troops invaded Washington, consuming President Madison’s hastily abandoned dinner before setting his home and the rest of the city ablaze. The White House still bears scorch and soot marks on its foundation stones. It was only... Read more >
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Rebel Giants
The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln & Charles Darwin
Written by David R. Contosta
Format: Hardcover, 365 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $26.99
February 12, 2009, will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of two of the most extraordinary and influential men in recent history — Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. While the coincidence of these two men being born on exactly the same day might fill astrologers with glee, further reflection points... Read more >
The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln & Charles Darwin
Written by David R. Contosta
Format: Hardcover, 365 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $26.99
February 12, 2009, will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of two of the most extraordinary and influential men in recent history — Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. While the coincidence of these two men being born on exactly the same day might fill astrologers with glee, further reflection points... Read more >
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America's Jubilee
A Generation Remembers the Revolution After 50 Years of Independence
Written by Andrew Burstein
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.99
In America's Jubilee distinguished historian Andrew Burstein presents an engrossing narrative that takes us back to a pivotal year in American history, 1826, when the reins of democracy were being passed from the last Revolutionary War heroes to a new generation of leaders.
Through brilliant sketches of selected individuals and events, Burstein... Read more >
A Generation Remembers the Revolution After 50 Years of Independence
Written by Andrew Burstein
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.99
In America's Jubilee distinguished historian Andrew Burstein presents an engrossing narrative that takes us back to a pivotal year in American history, 1826, when the reins of democracy were being passed from the last Revolutionary War heroes to a new generation of leaders.
Through brilliant sketches of selected individuals and events, Burstein... Read more >
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American Massacre
The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
Written by Sally Denton
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an open field called Mountain Meadows has ever since been the focus of passionate debate: Is it possible that... Read more >
The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
Written by Sally Denton
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an open field called Mountain Meadows has ever since been the focus of passionate debate: Is it possible that... Read more >
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Bold Spirit
Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
Written by Linda Lawrence Hunt
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America.
Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged... Read more >
Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
Written by Linda Lawrence Hunt
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America.
Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged... Read more >
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Centennial Crisis
The Disputed Election of 1876
Written by William H. Rehnquist
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99
In the annals of presidential elections, the hotly contested 1876 race between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden was in many ways as remarkable in its time as Bush versus Gore was in ours. Chief Justice William Rehnquist offers readers a colorful and peerlessly researched chronicle of the post—Civil War... Read more >
The Disputed Election of 1876
Written by William H. Rehnquist
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99
In the annals of presidential elections, the hotly contested 1876 race between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden was in many ways as remarkable in its time as Bush versus Gore was in ours. Chief Justice William Rehnquist offers readers a colorful and peerlessly researched chronicle of the post—Civil War... Read more >
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Civil War, A to Z
The Complete Handbook of America's Bloodiest Conflict
Edited by Clifford L. Linedecker
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $7.99
With hundreds of entries, as well as photographs, drawings, and a handy time line of events, Civil War, A to Z encompasses everything about this historic conflict . . . from Appomattox to Zouaves.
This encyclopedic illustrated reference features facts both familiar and engagingly new, organized in an easy-to-follow alphabetical format. Ranging... Read more >
The Complete Handbook of America's Bloodiest Conflict
Edited by Clifford L. Linedecker
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $7.99
With hundreds of entries, as well as photographs, drawings, and a handy time line of events, Civil War, A to Z encompasses everything about this historic conflict . . . from Appomattox to Zouaves.
This encyclopedic illustrated reference features facts both familiar and engagingly new, organized in an easy-to-follow alphabetical format. Ranging... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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Death in the Haymarket
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America
Written by James Green
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it... Read more >
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America
Written by James Green
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Divided Ground
Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
Written by Alan Taylor
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Town comes a dramatic and illuminating portrait of white and Native American relations in the aftermath of the American Revolution.
The Divided Ground tells the story of two friends, a Mohawk Indian and the son of a colonial clergyman, whose relationship helped redefine North... Read more >
Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
Written by Alan Taylor
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Town comes a dramatic and illuminating portrait of white and Native American relations in the aftermath of the American Revolution.
The Divided Ground tells the story of two friends, a Mohawk Indian and the son of a colonial clergyman, whose relationship helped redefine North... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Executioner's Current
Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair
Written by Richard Moran
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more humane but through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other.
In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity”... Read more >
Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair
Written by Richard Moran
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more humane but through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other.
In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity”... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Faith and Betrayal
A Pioneer Woman's Passage in the American West
Written by Sally Denton
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99
In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. Traveling across the Atlantic by steamer, up the Mississippi by riverboat, and westward by wagon, Rio kept a detailed diary of her extraordinary journey.In Faith and Betrayal... Read more >
A Pioneer Woman's Passage in the American West
Written by Sally Denton
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99
In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. Traveling across the Atlantic by steamer, up the Mississippi by riverboat, and westward by wagon, Rio kept a detailed diary of her extraordinary journey.In Faith and Betrayal... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Joseph Smith
Rough Stone Rolling
Written by Richard Lyman Bushman
Format: eBook, 784 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.99
Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a... Read more >
Rough Stone Rolling
Written by Richard Lyman Bushman
Format: eBook, 784 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.99
Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
The Oregon Trail
An American Saga
Written by David Dary
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $21.99
A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West.
Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David... Read more >
An American Saga
Written by David Dary
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $21.99
A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West.
Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David... Read more >
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The Passions of Andrew Jackson
Written by Andrew Burstein
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Most people vaguely imagine Andrew Jackson as a jaunty warrior and a man of the people, but he was much more—a man just as complex and controversial as Jefferson or Lincoln. Now, with the first major reinterpretation of his life in a generation, historian Andrew Burstein brings back Jackson with all... Read more >
Written by Andrew Burstein
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Most people vaguely imagine Andrew Jackson as a jaunty warrior and a man of the people, but he was much more—a man just as complex and controversial as Jefferson or Lincoln. Now, with the first major reinterpretation of his life in a generation, historian Andrew Burstein brings back Jackson with all... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Representative Men
Seven Lectures
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introduction by Brenda Wineapple
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Introduction by Brenda Wineapple
In 1845 Ralph Waldo Emerson began a series of lectures and writings in which he limned six figures who embodied the principles and aspirations of a still-young American republic. Emerson offers timeless meditations on the value of individual greatness, reconnecting readers with the everyday virtues of his “Representative... Read more >
Seven Lectures
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introduction by Brenda Wineapple
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Introduction by Brenda Wineapple
In 1845 Ralph Waldo Emerson began a series of lectures and writings in which he limned six figures who embodied the principles and aspirations of a still-young American republic. Emerson offers timeless meditations on the value of individual greatness, reconnecting readers with the everyday virtues of his “Representative... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Blood and Thunder
The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West
Written by Hampton Sides
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $17.00
In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the... Read more >
The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West
Written by Hampton Sides
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $17.00
In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the... Read more >
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Blood and Thunder
Written by Hampton Sides
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $13.99
In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the... Read more >
Written by Hampton Sides
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $13.99
In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Lincoln's Sword
The Presidency and the Power of Words
Written by Douglas L. Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $16.00
Widely considered in his own time as a genial but provincial lightweight who was out of place in the presidency, Abraham Lincoln astonished his allies and confounded his adversaries by producing a series of speeches and public letters so provocative that they helped revolutionize public opinion on such critical issues as... Read more >
The Presidency and the Power of Words
Written by Douglas L. Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $16.00
Widely considered in his own time as a genial but provincial lightweight who was out of place in the presidency, Abraham Lincoln astonished his allies and confounded his adversaries by producing a series of speeches and public letters so provocative that they helped revolutionize public opinion on such critical issues as... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Driven Out
The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
Written by Jean Pfaelzer
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $14.99
The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
Written by Jean Pfaelzer
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $14.99
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten episode in our nation’s past. Drawing on years of groundbreaking...
Age of Betrayal
Written by Jack Beatty
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $13.99
Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of... Read more >
Written by Jack Beatty
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $13.99
Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Death in the Haymarket
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America
Written by James Green
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $16.95
On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it... Read more >
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America
Written by James Green
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $16.95
On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Joseph Smith
Rough Stone Rolling
Written by Richard Lyman Bushman
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $18.95
Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a... Read more >
Rough Stone Rolling
Written by Richard Lyman Bushman
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $18.95
Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a... Read more >
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The Big Oyster
History on the Half Shell
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $16.00
“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.”
–The New York Times
“A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowly oyster.”
–Rocky Mountain News
Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York... Read more >
History on the Half Shell
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $16.00
“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.”
–The New York Times
“A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowly oyster.”
–Rocky Mountain News
Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York... Read more >
The Big Oyster
History on the Half Shell
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $11.99
Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled.
For centuries New York... Read more >
History on the Half Shell
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $11.99
Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled.
For centuries New York... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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The Divided Ground
Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
Written by Alan Taylor
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $18.00
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Town comes a dramatic and illuminating portrait of white and Native American relations in the aftermath of the American Revolution.
The Divided Ground tells the story of two friends, a Mohawk Indian and the son of a colonial clergyman, whose relationship helped redefine North... Read more >
Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
Written by Alan Taylor
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $18.00
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Town comes a dramatic and illuminating portrait of white and Native American relations in the aftermath of the American Revolution.
The Divided Ground tells the story of two friends, a Mohawk Indian and the son of a colonial clergyman, whose relationship helped redefine North... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
