History

Hardcover. NY, Touchstone, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first biography of arguably the most influential member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt?s administration, Marguerite "Missy" LeHand, FDR?s de facto chief of staff, who has been misrepresented, mischaracterized, and overlooked throughout history until now. If you wanted access to Franklin, you had to get through Missy. She was one of his most trusted advisors, affording her a unique perspective on the president that no one else could claim, and she was deeply admired and respected by Eleanor and the Roosevelt children. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Moutard, 1st, 1789, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leatherbond, chipped and worn, marbled endpapers, 336 pages. Vol. 1 only (of 4). FRENCH TEXT. Interior pages very good. Anquetil (1723 - 1806) became prior of the abbey of La Roee, in Anjou, in 1759 and soon after was appointed director of the college of Senlis, where he taught history and theology. He published this work just on the eve of the French Revolution (the Approbation is dated 30 September 1788) and was imprisoned during the Terror for his troubles.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, A two-volume set, taupe-colored cloth boards with gilt decorated illustration of Rome on front cover. Top edge gilt. Vol I: Fold-out map of Rome as frontis., 332 pages, 14 photogravure plates with tissue guards, numerous line illustrations in the text. Vol II: Photo of St. Peters Square as frontis., 344 pages, 13 photogravure plates with tissue guards, numerous line illustrations in the text. Light soil to covers, both volumes with mild residue to inside covers where bookplate may have been removed. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Peterborough NH, Noone House, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. 282 pages. Fascinating stories behind the naming of New Hampshire's towns and cities. Front fly leaf with 3/4" bottom corner gone, otherwise clean, tight copy. Review slip laid in.

Softcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin, reprint., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 244 pages. The Blind African Slave recounts the life of Jeffrey Brace (ne Boyrereau Brinch), who was born in West Africa around 1742. Captured by slave traders at the age of sixteen, Brace was transported to Barbados, where he experienced the shock and trauma of slave-breaking and was sold to a New England ship captain. After fighting as an enslaved sailor for two years in the Seven Years War, Brace was taken to New Haven, Connecticut, and sold into slavery. After several years in New England, Brace enlisted in the Continental Army in hopes of winning his manumission. After five years of military service, he was honorably discharged and was freed from slavery. As a free man, he chose in 1784 to move to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. There, he met and married an African woman, bought a farm, and raised a family. Although literate, he was blind when he decided to publish his life story, which he narrated to a white antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss, who published it in 1810. Upon his death in 1827, Brace was a well-respected abolitionist. In this first new edition since 1810, Kari J. Winter provides a historical introduction, annotations, and original documents that verify and supplement our knowledge of Brace's life and times. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Honolulu, University of Hawaii, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Yellow cloth back & white cloth boards with arrangement of shells on front cover. 161 pages, index, b&w illustrations. Double-page map of voyages, portrait of La Perouise, 13 illustrations (many double-page). This translation includes a supplement of notes from the ship surgeon's journal regarding natives of Easter Island and Maui, and an appendix describing to efforts made to solve the mysterious disappearance of the expedition.

Hardcover. NY, Amistad/HarperCollins, 3rd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 540 pages, b&w illustrations, index. An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously-inspired political movement for change-The Underground Railroad, a movement peopled by daring heroes and heroines, and everyday folk For most, the mention of the Underground Railroad evokes images of hidden tunnels, midnight rides, and hairsbreadth escapes. Yet the Underground Railroad's epic story is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion,which brought together Easterners who had engaged in slavery primarily in the abstract alongside slaveholding Southerners and their slaves, arose a clash of values that evolved into a fierce fight for nothing less than the country's soul. Beginning six decades before the Civil War, freedom-seeking blacks and pious whites worked together to save tens of thousands of lives, often at the risk of great physical danger to themselves. Not since the American Revolution had the country engaged in an act of such vast and profound civil disobedience that not only subverted federal law but also went against prevailing mores.

NY, Charles Scriber's Sons, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 344 pages, b&w illustrations. A history of the great colonial seaports of America. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, BC Ed., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. The dramatic true story of one of the great adventures of our nation's earliest years - the Lewis and Clark expedition 1803-6 to explore the American continent to the Pacific and return. This book includes in-depth profiles of the expedition's members and recounts the varying reactions of the Indians, from helpful to hostile and even violent. It provides compelling accounts of each leg of the journey. An engrossing reexamination of the expedition written by a master of narrative history. 444 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Quadrangle/The New York Times, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. 370 pages. Experiences & Agterthoughts by New York Newspapermen on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Their Old Timers' Society, selected from issues of SILURIAN NEWS. Clean copy.

Softcover. Jay NY, Graphics North, 1st thus, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 430 pages plus index and photo pages. Two extensive memoirs written by a pioneer farmer and outdoorsman from Keeseville, New York. They cover the years 1831-1904 and his experiences in the Adirondacks as a hunter, farmer, innkeeper, educator, and adventurer. Edited by his son. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton , 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 184 pages, coloe illustrations. From before the days of Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. Pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims bought and sold at the slave markets for millennia, trading the human plunder of wars and slave raids that reached from the Russian steppes to the African jungles. But if the Middle East was one of the last regions to renounce slavery, how do we account for its--and especially Islam's--image of racial harmony? How did these long years of slavery affect racial relations? In Race and Slavery in the Middle East, Bernard Lewis explores these questions and others, examining the history of slavery in law, social thought, and practice over the last two millennia. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Arthur Barker Ltd., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 640 pages 16 plates (including portraits, facsimiles). Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 502 pages, b&w illustrations. "Superb...A remarkable achievement, by far the best general account of the war now available. It is critical, insightful, and rooted in a wealth of archival sources; it brings far more of the Mexican experience than any other work...and it clearly demonstrates the social and cultural dynamics that shaped Mexican and American politics and military force."-Journal of American HistoryIt has long been held that the United States emerged victorious from the Mexican-American War because its democratic system was more stable and its citizens more loyal. But this award-winning history shows that Americans dramatically underestimated the strength of Mexican patriotism and failed to see how bitterly Mexicans resented their claims to national and racial superiority. Their fierce resistance surprised US leaders, who had expected a quick victory with few casualties. By focusing on how ordinary soldiers and civilians in both countries understood and experienced the conflict, The Dead March offers a clearer picture of the brief, bloody war that redrew the map of North America. Clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 272 pages. Pages have clear, concise listings of cemetery locations and are in excellent condition as well. This one-of-a-kind guidebook provides genealogists and historians with a valuable reference for Massachusetts research. For the first time ever, a researcher can quickly gain information on: * cemetery names *year of consecration or the oldest known gravestone or burial * location of cemetery * printed and manuscript sources for the cemetery * contact information for the office affiliated with the cemetery. This book contains many previously undocumented burial grounds as well as citations to published transcriptions of gravestone listings in places such as the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, and the official Massachusetts Vital Records to the end of 1850 series. Clean copy.

Softcover. Caldwell ID, Caxton Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 328 pages. illustrated frontispiece. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. The Nez Perce campaign is among the most famous in the brief and bloody history of the Indian wars of the West. Yellow Wolf was a contemporary of Chief Joseph and a leader among his own men. His story is one that had never been told and will never be told again. A first person account, through author L.V. McWhorter of the Nez Perce's ill-fated battle for land and freedom. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Overlook Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 358 pages, Illustrated with three sections of color plates. b&w maps, illustrations. Clean copy. A fascinating survey of the life and enduring legacy of perhaps the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the Roman emperors-written by a richly gifted historian.In 312 A.D., Constantine-one of four Roman emperors ruling a divided empire-marched on Rome to establish his control. On the eve of the battle, a cross appeared to him in the sky with an exhortation, "By this sign conquer." Inscribing the cross on the shields of his soldiers, Constantine drove his rivals into the Tiber and claimed the imperial capital for himself. Under Constantine, Christianity emerged from the shadows, its adherents no longer persecuted. Constantine united the western and eastern halves of the Roman Empire. He founded a new capital city, Constantinople. Thereafter the Christian Roman Empire endured in the East, while Rome itself fell to the barbarian hordes.

Softcover. Louisiana State University, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 654 pages with index. After more than half a century, Origins of the New South is still recognized both as a classic in regional historiography and as the most perceptive account yet written on the period which spawned the New South. Historian Sheldon Hackney recently summed it up this way: "The pyramid still stands. Origins of the New South has survived relatively untarnished through twenty years of productive scholarship, including the eras of consensus and of the new radicalism. . . . Woodward recognizes both the likelihood of failure and the necessity of struggle. It is this profound ambiguity which makes his work so interesting. Like the myth of Sisyphus, Origins of the New South still speaks to our condition." Light rubbing to wrappers, clean copy.

Hardcover. Edmonton CA, Hurtig , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages, b&w photographs, map end papers. Edge wear, rubbing, small tears to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with purple and gilt title block an front and spine. 346 pages. VOLUME 4 ONLY of a 7 volume set. Reprint of the 1897 edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume VI in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 297 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. This volume covers the operations of the United States Navy in North African waters, both on the Atlantic coast and in the Mediterranean, from the beginning of World War II through the capture of Pantelleria in June 1943. More than half the volume is devoted to the capture of bases in French Morocco, which was an all-American operation and in many respects one of the most remarkable of the war. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Los Angeles, The Augustan Reprint Society , reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 31 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1650 pamphlet by Dury, laying out a plan for the organization of books and libraries. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Richmond VT, Richmond Historical Society, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 506 pages. Many b&w illustrations, like new condition.

Softcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2004, Softcover, 222 pages. From 1942 to 1945, Lieutenant Colonel Betty Bandel (retired) served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC, later WAC, the Women's Army Corps), eventually heading the WAC Division of the Army Air Force. During these years she wrote hundreds of letters to family and friends tracing her growth from an enthusiastic recruit, agog in the presence of public figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt (code named Rover), to a seasoned officer and leader.Bandel was one of the Corps' most influential senior officers. Her letters are rich with detail about the WAC's contribution to the war effort and the inner workings of the first large, non-nurse contingent of American military women. In addition, her letters offer a revealing look at the wartime emergence of professional women. Perhaps for the first time, women oversaw and directed hundreds of thousands of personnel, acquired professional and personal experiences, and built networks that would guide and influence them well past their war years.

Hardcover. Cambridge MD, Cornell Maritime Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w photographs. The story of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company's "Old Bay Line"that maintained faithful and uninterrupted service on the Chesapeake Bay from its founding in 1840 until operations suspended in 1962. The line line offered transportation of passengers and frieght between Norfolk and Baltimore. Edge wear, small tears to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Hampton NH, Peter E. Randall, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth with gilt lettering, two reprinted publications in one volume. B&w illustrations. Perry's work originally published in 1913; and Bell's in 1876. Fold-out map of Exeter of the past with a facsimile of 1776 newspaper page on rear. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 363 pages. In examining the founding of New England towns during the seventeenth century, John Frederick Martin investigates an old subject with fresh insight. Whereas most historians emphasize communalism and absence of commerce in the seventeenth century, Martin demonstrates that colonists sought profits in town-founding, that town founders used business corporations to organize themselves into landholding bodies, and that multiple and absentee landholding was common.In reviewing some sixty towns and the activities of one hundred town founders, Martin finds that many town residents were excluded from owning common lands and from voting. It was not until the end of the seventeenth century, when proprietors separated from towns, that town institutions emerged as fully public entities for the first time. Name on front endpaper, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, D. Van Nostrand Co., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 125 pages, endpapers map, 'The New Jersey Historical Series, Volume 12'. A look at radicalism from colonial days forward. Mild soil to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 454 pages plus index. A study of the British Empire before the American Revolution. Remainder stamp to bottom edge otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Vintage Books, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. The "old revolutionaries" were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee, and Charles Carroll. Of widely varying backgrounds and interests, all of them had their greatest influence in the years between 1769 and 1776, and all of them saw their power transferred after the war to the men we know as "the Founding Fathers." In telling the stories of these men, Maier shows how the American Revolution was less a collective movement than a commitment to an ideal of a republic, which different people interpreted differently. She describes not just why Americans made the Revolution, but what the Revolution did to them.

Softcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, gray card covers, 42 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket, 416 pages including index, bibliography and abbreviations. "The first adequately comprehensive history of the Resistance in Europe during Hitler's war to be published in any language." Name on frontfly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 414 pages. Volume 1 ONLY. No dust jacket. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket, 160 pages. ".based on the Gino Speranza Lectures delivered in Columbia University by Broadus Mitchell as a part of the national celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alexander Hamilton." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd pr., 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 390 pages. With 30-page booklet outlining speeches laid-in, containing a number of press blurbs supporting Hoover's ideas. Scribner's colophon on copyeight page but no A, so assumed 2nd printing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 410 pages with index. Contains selected translations from Taiheiyo senso e no michi: kaisen gaiko shi. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. The first volume in Morley's 4 volume set "Japan's Road to the Pacific War".

Hardcover. NY, Richard Brinkerhoff , 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original 1887 edition, maroon cloth gilt lettering on spine, no jacket, 188 pages, frontis, historical photographs and maps. Scarce genealogy of an early New York and New Jersey Dutch family, Bergen, Passaic, and Hudson Counties and surrounding areas. Title page loose but present. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Program for Dutch church service in 1894 laid-in.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1st, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 227 pages, b&w illustrations. In this penetrating study, Carl Brasseaux looks beyond long-standing mythology to provide a critical account of early Acadian culture in Louisiana and the reasons for its survival. He convincingly dispels many received notions about the routes Acadians traveled from Nova Scotia to Louisiana, their original settlement sites, and the patterns of their subsequent migrations within the state, and closely examines the relations of Louisiana's Acadians with their black, Spanish, Indian, and Creole neighbors. In adapting to subtropical Louisiana, with its turmoil of alternating French and Spanish regimes, the Acadians exhibited industry, pragmatism, individualism, and the ability to close ranks in the face of a general threat. As Brasseaux reveals, Acadians' cohesiveness and insularity preserved the core elements of their culture and helped them adjust to new physical and social demands. Names, inscription to front fly leaf, interior clean and bright.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 178 pages. A new perspective on the Supreme Court during the Reconstruction period. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light brown cloth with black lettering on spine, 301 pages. Endpapers map, frontis. portrait. Light ring stain on front cover otherwise clean, no dust jacket.

Softcover. Newport RI, Naval War College Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 419 pages. Naval War College Historical Monograph Series No. 11. Collection of papers by naval historians on the state of international maritime history in the 1990;s. Includes footnotes, chapter bibliographies, Illustrated with b&w charts & tables. Clean copy.

Softcover. Guilford CT, TwoDot, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 151 pages, b&w illustrations. The massacre at Wickenburg was one of the most notorious crimes committed in the Wild West--a story revealed in this book through a criminal investigation. November 5, 1871. A westbound stagecoach carrying seven men and one woman left Wickenburg in the early morning hours. At 8:00 a.m., six of the passengers were shot dead. One man and the lone woman, severely wounded, escaped into the desert. Debates raged over the identity of the murderous ambushers -- Indians? Mexican bandits? The two survivors? After a massive investigation, the U.S. Army concluded that a band of local Yavapai Indians were responsible, which led to a policy of "removal and concentration" that altered the fate of nearly every Indian in America's Southwest. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Westholme Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 374 pages, b&w illustrations. Bright, clean. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. "Early in the afternoon of May 22, 1856, ardent pro-slavery Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina strode into the United States Senate Chamber in Washington, D.C., and began beating renowned anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner with a cane until it splintered and the helpless Massachusetts senator lay unconscious and covered in blood. One of the most shocking and provocative events in American history, the caning convinced each side that the gulf between them was unbridgeable and that they could no longer discuss their vast differences of opinion regarding slavery on any reasonable level."

Hardcover. Toronto, Key Porter Books, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 377 pages. SIGNED BY MOWAT on the title page. Blue endpaper maps, b&w photo illustrations. chronology. notes. After years of research, sparked by his discovery of roofless ruins in Hudson Bay, Farley Mowat presents a speculative history of the first Europeans in North America and a challenge to the presently held notion that the Vikings were the first to inhabit northern Canada. Carbon dating placed these ruins hundreds of years before the Vikings landed in Newfoundland, but the conventional accepted historical theory could offer no explanation for them. Mowat`s search led him to Scotland and the Northern Isles where he discovered ruins that resembled those he had seen on the other side of the Atlantic. He painstakingly researched early historical accounts from Roman and pre-Roman times for answers and was able to reconstruct the story of a forgotten people.

Hardcover. Washington DC, War Department, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, Large folio volume (17x12 inches) in pebbled red embossed cloth with gilt lettering, modest wear at the extremities with bottom corners bumped. Marbled edges, 584 pages. Hundreds of woodcut illustrations with no stains or flaws. Massive work which reproduces hundreds of black and white engravings of the Civil War. The illustrations originally appeared in Leslie's Magazine during the war. Narrative and descriptions by John Clark Ridpath, Rossiter Johnson, General Fitzhugh Lee, General John T. Morgan, George L. Kilmer, General Joseph B. Carr. No makings. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages, b&w illustrations. A history of the circus parade and the beautifully decorated wagons that were a part of them. Clean copy.