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Taking Back the South Pacific: Operation Cartwheel

In the summer of 1943, Allied forces in the Pacific launched Operation Cartwheel, a series of amphibious assaults aimed at encircling the Japanese stronghold of Rabaul. Utilizing a new "island-hopp...

Collecting Unofficial 39-Star Flags

If you are looking for an impressive, antique American flag to acquire, consider an “unofficial” 39-star flag. In 1890, 14 years after Colorado statehood, a total of five states joined the Union to...

New York Maps

New York, being one of the original 13 colonies, has a deep and rich history. It has become one of the most popular and well-known states here in the United States. Our unique collection of New Yor...

The Great White Fleet in Japan

The Great White Fleet was a popular nickname for the group of United States Navy battleships that completed a journey around the globe to the Pacific, from December 16, 1907 to February 22, 1909, b...

New Arrivals: Remington-inspired bronzes

Frederic Remington’s bronzes have a profound sense of storytelling, resulting in some of the finest American bronzes of the time. It is no surprise Remington’s bronzes continue to inspire the next ...

Roughing It with Mark Twain

Mark Twain's Roughing It provides another look at the growing American landscape during a crucial period in history. It serves as both a snapshot in time, as well as an example of Twain’s humorist ...

Constructing a Canton: Stars on the American Flag

There are many ways to construct an American flag. And just as the configuration of stars changed and evolved as we added more states to the Union, so too did our way of adding stars to our flag, t...

A Signed Churchill Book

New to our shop is a set of first Italian editions of Winston Churchill’s A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, titled Storia in Italian. The set is signed in Volume II by Churchill. The books...

Marquis de Lafayette and the American Revolution

French aristocrat Marquis de Lafayette sailed to the United States in 1777 to volunteer his services to the Continental Army. Lafayette spent the long winter of 1777 with George Washington’s army a...

The Political Debates of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas

The seven debates between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois state election produced some of the most significant discussions in American political history, arguing issues...