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New York: NYU Press. Fine. 1995. Trade Paperback. Full number line.. 208 pages. The American South before the Civil War was the site of an unprecedented social experiment in women's education. The South offered women an education explicitly designed to be equivalent to that of men, while maintaining and nurturing the gender conventions epitomized by the ideal of the Southern belle. This groundbreaking work provides us with an intimate picture of the entire social experience of antebellum women's colleges and seminaries in the South, analyzing the impact of these colleges upon the cultural construction of femininity among white Southern women, and their legacy for higher education. Christie Farnham investigates the contradiction involved in using a male-defined curricula to educate females, and explores how educators denied these incongruities. She also examines the impact of slavery on faculty and students. The emotional life of students is revealed through correspondence,… Read More

New York: Schocken. Very Good. 1990. Trade Paperback. Creases on front, back covers, and a number of pages. 264 pages. Takes a look at the human cost of the cross continental trek. Using letters and diaries, the author pieces together the sagas of 3 families of the mid-19th to the early 20th centuries who ventured West - the Malicks in Oregon Territory 1848-1867, Charles and Maggie Brown in Colorado and New Mexico 1880-1930, and the Nehers and Martins in North Dakota 1909-1911. Indexed .

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. Near Fine. 1975. Trade Paperback. 284 pages. The number and variety of forts and posts, together with changes of location, name, and designation, have posed perplexing problems for students of western history. Now Robert W. Frazer has prepared a systematic listing of all presidios and military forts, which were ever, at any time and in any sense, so designated. The lists of posts are arranged alphabetically within the boundaries of present states. Pertinent information is included for each fort: date of establishment, location, and reason for establishment; name, rank, and military unit of the person establishing the post; origin of the post name and changes in name and location; present status or date of abandonment; and disposition of any existing military reservation. A map for each state shows the location of the posts discussed. A prime reference for historians, Forts of the West will prove useful to readers of western history as well. .

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Fine. 2015. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Full number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 . 305 pages. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom.A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition, traveling with owners doing business with the city's major banks, merchants, and manufacturers. New York was also home to the North’s largest free black community, making it a magnet for fugitive slaves seeking refuge. Slave catchers and gangs of kidnappers roamed the city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to slavery.To protect fugitives… Read More

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. Personal inscription on half-title; some underlining. Navy cloth boards and spine imprinted with title and author on spine in gold. Dark blue endpapers.. 451 pages. Discusses historical interpretation of Lincoln's life, personality, motivations, ideology, and assassination .

New York: Penguin Books. Near Fine. 2001. Trade Paperback. 1.2 x 9.1 x 5.8 Inches. 320 pages. Recounts the story of the 1820 wreck of the whaleship Essex, which in its time was as mythic as the sinking of the Titanic and which inspired Melville's classic Moby Dick, and recounts its doomed crew's ninety-day attempt to survive whale attacks and the elements on three tiny lifeboats. Includes list of the crew members. .

El Paso, TX: Texas Western Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. One lightly bumped corner; 1/4 inch closed tear on d j . 442 pages. From 1899 to 1906, George Wythe Baylor wrote fifty-two articles for the El Paso Daily Herald. These articles, edited and annotated by historian Jerry D. Thompson, provide a rare glimpse into the Civil War west of the Mississippi as well as the violent Texas frontier of the 19th century. .

Fort Collins, CO: First Light Publishing. Near Fine. 1997. Stapled wraps. 40 pages .

Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books Inc.. Fine. 2005. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 256 pages. Unlike Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. William T. Sherman, whose controversial Civil War-era reputations persist today, Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan has been largely untouched by controversy. In <I>Little Phil</I>, historian Eric J. Wittenberg reassesses the war record of a man long considered one of the Union Army’s greatest generals. From his earliest days at West Point, Phil Sheridan refused to play by the rules. He was fortunate to receive merely a suspension, rather than expulsion, when as a cadet he charged a superior officer with a bayonet. Although he achieved fame as a cavalryman late in the Civil War, Sheridan actually began the conflict as an infantry commander and initially knew little of the mounted service. In his first effort as a cavalry commander with the Army of the Potomac in the spring of 1864, he gave a performance that Wittenberg argues has long been overrated.… Read More

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. Two lightly bumped corners. 288 pages. The author plumbs the boundaries of slave law and identity in the 19th century, focusing on the famous case of Sally Miller--a German girl who was reported to have been kidnapped and sold into slavery in New Orleans. .

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Near Fine. 1982. Trade Paperback. 416 pages .

New York: Vintage Books. Fine. 1999.. 1st Vintage Book Edition. Trade Paperback. 498 pages .

New York: Penguin. Near Fine. 2003.. Trade Paperback. 452 pages .

New York, N.Y.: Free Press. Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Pages 45 thru 72 appear to have been "bookmarked" with a clamp and a number of the pages have one or two 1/4 inch tears not affecting the text block. Light tan boards with brown spine imprinted in gold with title and author.. 307 pages .

Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado. Fine. 1998. Trade Paperback. 279 pages. Writers on the Range is a book by seventeen westerners about the American West. It is a story of place, mostly good but sometimes bad, a celebration of community, or at least its potential, and a tribute to the men and women, neither saints nor devils, who are the heart and soul of this land of desert, prairie, and forested mountain. Yet it is also much more. It is the melding of diverse western minds, backgrounds and beliefsranchers and one-time ranchwives, poets and policy tinkerers, essayists and hunters, journalists and political theorists, and community organizers and urban refugees - into a fierce resolve to stake claim and take a stand for a land that is loved in common .