Age of Homespun : Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
Random House Inc, September 2001. Trade Paperback. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Random House Inc, September 2001. Trade Paperback. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Printed by Wm. Greer, 1843. Trade Paperback. Kendall's Expositor, Vol. 3, No. 23, October 31, 1843, pages 354-368. Much on Clay, Jackson and tariffs. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Issue with illustrated banner. Paper tanned and soiled. Former owner name in ink on page 353. Extracted.....
One World, November 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER - A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. ONE OF THE BEST.....
Harper Perennial, November 2021. Trade Paperback. Remainder copy. Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country. -- James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) &.....
Scribner, June 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States--from before.....
Trade Paperback. All sheets are fragile, all have been previously folded and are browned to various degrees. Some are separated at folds. All remain legible. Interesting collection of early US documents.
American Flag House and Betsy Ross Memorial Association, 1899. Poster. Poster, oblong format, 11 x 14 inches, printed in black on white with color image of 'Birth of Our Nation's Flag' in center. The Association was formed to 1898 to raise money to purchase the house, restore it, and open.....
Sandstone Press, 1971. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 58 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Franklin. First edition thus. Near fine copy in brown cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine. No dust jacket as issued.
Simon & Schuster, September 2018. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The inspiration for the forthcoming two-part series Theodore Roosevelt, premiering May 31 on the HISTORY Channel, and three-part epic documentary event Abraham Lincoln, available now on the HISTORY Channel. "After five decades of magisterial.....
Free Press, July 2011. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This provocative perspective on America's history claims that the country's personality was defined not by the ideals of the elites and intellectuals, but by those who throughout have lived on the fringes of society history--slaves, immigrants, gangsters, and others.....
Simon & Schuster, September 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). One of the Best Books of the Year as chosen by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Time, USA TODAY, Christian Science Monitor, and more. "A tale so gripping that one questions the need for.....
Mariner Books, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This National Book Award-winning story, a tour de force of historical reportage, rescues an iconic chapter of American history--the Dust Bowl that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression--from the shadows. Following a dozen families.....
St Martins Pr, December 1995. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Knopf, January 2001. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Mjf Books, January 2012. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Scribner, January 2004. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock, extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the Moore's Ford Lynching in Walton County, Georgia in 1946--the last mass lynching in America, fully explored.....
Vintage, October 2011. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize-winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who.....
Academic Reprints, 1954. Hardcover. viii, [2], pp. 483-1029. Reprint edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is tanned and soiled with clear tape repair to closed tear along spine.
Princeton Architectural Press, June 2015. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). It's known as the world's friendliest border. Five thousand miles of unfenced, unwalled international coexistence and a symbol of neighborly goodwill between two great nations: the United States and Canada. But just how friendly is it really? In.....
Vintage, February 2004. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death. "Relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to.....
1842. Ephemera. Autograph letter signed, dated New Haven, Dec., 9, 1842. Addressed Mrs. Henry Huggins. Letter sends greeting and best wishes with hopes for Mr. Huggins to 'secure a competence even in these times & independence in better times, for which we see to hope. Several of thy standing in.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, October 2013. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - The Washington Post - Entertainment Weekly - The Seattle Times - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Bloomberg Businessweek In this magnificent.....
Bison Books, June 1997. Trade Paperback. Abigail Jane Scott was seventeen when she left Illinois with her family in the spring of 1852. Her record of the journey west is full of expressive detail: breakfasting in a snowstorm, walking behind the wagons to keep warm, tasting buffalo meat, trying to.....
Bison Books, April 1996. Trade Paperback. The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on.....
Bison Books, August 1996. Trade Paperback. The wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting became known. Those who did go west-about 2,160 men and 1,440 women-tended toward Oregon's rich Willamette Valley because of.....