Univ Tennessee Press, January 2009. Hardcover. The eleventh volume of the Correspondence of James K. Polk contains some of the most consequential and interesting material in the series. Failure to restore diplomatic relations with Mexico, the advent of the Mexican-American war, British preparations for war over the Oregon country, the... More about Correspondence of James K. Polk, Vol. 11: Volume 11, 1846 (Utp Correspondence James Polk

Bison Books, February 2001. Paper Back. On May 7, 1877, less than a year after his overwhelming victory at Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse, the charismatic Oglala Sioux whose name had become the epitome of Indian resistance to white encroachment, surrendered at Camp Robinson, Nebraska Territory. A young man of... More about The Death of Crazy Horse: A Tragic Episode in Lakota History

Brill Academic Publishers, May 2006. Hardcover. This volume is concerned with examining the histories of freed slaves in a variety of slave societies in the ancient and modern world, ranging from ancient Rome to the southern states of the US, the Caribbean, and Brazil to Africa in the aftermath of... More about The Faces of Freedom: The Manumission And Emancipation of Slaves in Old World And New World...

Easton Press, January 1995. Leather. Two volume set. Full leather. Gilt edges. Silk ribbon page marker. More about SPEECHES OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS (LIBRARY OF THE PRESIDENTS, 2 Volume Matched Set

University of Texas Press, January 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. This book is a tribute to "an incomparable triumvirate." "One was a naturalist, one a historian, and one a chronicler, but each of them was each of these. The manly love between them, a handsome thing in times and places blighted... More about Three Men in Texas: Bedichek, Webb, and Dobie

Modern Library, 1972. Cloth. More about The Life and Selected Writing of Thomas Jefferson

W. W. Norton, September 2008. Hardcover. So begins this epic work--named a best book of the year by theWashington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times--Annette Gordon-Reed's "riveting history" of the Hemings family, whose story comes to... More about The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Easton Press, January 1989. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Silk ribbon page marker. More about Franklin D. Roosevelt: Selected Speeches, Messages, Press Conferences and Letters

Easton Press, January 1976. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Silk ribbon page marker. Previous owner's book plate affixed to front pastedown. More about THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Easton Press

Jewish Publication Society of America, 1951. Hardcover. Some shelf wear and small tears on the dust jacket, bumped corners, and previous owner's name on first free page. More about American Jewry and the Civil War

Simon & Schuster, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first. Signed on publisher supplied special bound in page. More about The Last of the President's Men

Hakluyt Society, January 1988. Hardcover. In 1845 Sir John Franklin's expedition left England, searching for a northwest passage, and vanished into the Arctic forever. Three years later HMS Plover's was the first departure of 21 expeditions searching for Franklin. Although most of the analyses of the Franklin Search have focused... More about The Journal of Rochfort Maguire 1852-1854 Volume I (2nd Series 169) (Works issued by the Hakluyt...

Smithsonian, March 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Two lightly bumped corners (book and jacket). Library stamp on the front free endpaper. Address label on the half title page. Mylar wrapped. More about ROSCOE TURNER (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series