books by subject
19th Century U.S. History

Davy Crockett

Civil War Commanders (In Their Own Words)

Diary of a Union Lady, 1861-1865

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

Domestic Manners of the Americans

Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic

Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation

Walden: Henry David Thoreau (Vintage Classics)

The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries 1850-1980 (Studies in Environment and History)

Letters from an American Farmer (Oxford World's Classics)

The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion

American Warsaw: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago

Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made

Philosophical Papers (Clarendon Paperbacks)

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

Prairie Fires: The Life and Times of Laura Ingalls Wilder

AQA A-level History: The Making of a Superpower: USA 1865-1975

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

The North Reports the Civil War

Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South

City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (Illinois)

Britain and America: Studies in Comparative History, 1760-1970 (In Association with the Open University)

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Impending Crisis, The: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861 (Torchbooks)

Twelve Years a Slave

Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation

Ideas and Mechanism: Essays on Early Modern Philosophy (Princeton Legacy Library)
