United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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The Legacy of the Civil War
$14.95 Add to cartIn this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousan… [more below]
- Author: Warren, Robert Penn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 109
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803298013
- Language: English
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
$19.99 Add to cartIn a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence to write the greatest speech in the nation’s history.
The power of words has rarely been given a more- Series: Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library
- Author: Wills, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0743299639
- Language: English
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The Battle of Franklin: When the Devil Had Full Possession of the Earth
$31.99 Add to cartIn late November 1864, the last Southern army east of the Mississippi that was still free to maneuver started out from northern Alabama on the Confederacy’s last offensive. John Bell Hood and his Army… [more below]
- Author: Knight, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: October 21 2009
- ISBN10: 1540220362
- Language: English
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Hour of Peril
$25.00 Add to cart“It’s history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller.” —Harlan Coben
Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award-winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true story
- Author: Stashower, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250042666
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Special Bicentennial Edition
$15.95 Add to cartThis International best seller is the dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, first published in 1845, when its author had just achieved his freedom.
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: January 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1722500395
- Language: English
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Phantoms of the South Fork: Captain McNeill and His Rangers
$22.00 Add to cartAt 3 a.m. on February 21, 1865, a band of 65 Confederate horsemen slowly made its way down Greene Street in Cumberland, Maryland. Thinking the riders were disguised Union scouts, the few Union soldier
- Series: Civil War Soldiers and Strategies
- Author: French, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1606354620
- Language: English
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The Medal of Honor at Gettysburg
$24.99 Read moreAbove and Beyond the Call of Duty
In early summer, 1863 Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia began moving northward. As Lee moved toward Maryland, the Union army followed, tak
- Series: Military
- Author: Gindlesperger, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155225
- Language: English
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His Sword a Scalpel: General Charles Stuart Tripler, MD, USA
$24.95 Add to cartCharles Stuart Tripler built a sterling reputation in the antebellum US Army. Veteran of the Seminole and Mexican-American wars, chief medical officer on the typhoid-ravaged voyage commanded by U.S. G
- Author: Dempsey, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 196130225X
- Language: English
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent takes us on an explosive adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where Civil War reenactors, battlefield visitors, and fans … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 22 1999
- ISBN10: 067975833X
- Language: English
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Fredericksburg to Meridian
$34.00 Add to cartFocused on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history brings to life the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant’s Vicksburg campaign and covers some of the most … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Foote, Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 988
- Publish Date: November 12 1986
- ISBN10: 039474621X
- Language: English
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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
$18.99 Add to cartA “gripping and poignant” (Wall Street Journal) account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico
The Underground Railroad to the North promise- Author: Baumgartner, Alice L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1541617762
- Language: English
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Meade: The Price of Command, 1863-1865
$24.95 Add to cart- Author: Selby, John G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1606354752
- Language: English
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The Civil War: V3 Red River to Appomattox
$34.00 Add to cartThis final volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and the tragic d?ouement of the war–the assassinatio… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Foote, Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1120
- Publish Date: November 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0394746228
- Language: English
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The Un-Civil War: Shattering the Historical Myths
$22.95 Add to cartThe book discusses honestly and frankly the real reasons for the Civil War, the way in which it was fought, and the major differences between the two sides. One of these was the strong views over the … [more below]
- Author: Scruggs, Leonard M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 20 2011
- ISBN10: 098343560X
- Language: English
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War In The Mountains: The Macbeth Light Artillery at Asheville, NC 1864-1865
$24.95 Add to cartDuring the War Between the States, the mountains of North Carolina were a hotbed of internecine strife where the phrase “brother against brother” truly applied. By late 1863, the Confederate governme
- Author: Askew, J. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 538
- Publish Date: December 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1644685760
- Language: English
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Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
$20.00 Add to cartA brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story–Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0802148751
- Language: English
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The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln’s Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby’s Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America’
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Indispensables, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America’s modern s
- Author: O’Donnell, Patrick K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 080216286X
- Language: English
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The Civil War
$24.99 Add to cart“Nothing in our time makes the Civil War as alive as the writings of Bruce Catton.” —Baltimore Sun
Infinitely readable and absorbing, Pulitzer Prize-winner Bruce Catton’s The Civil War is one of the m… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage Books
- Author: Catton, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: December 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0618001875
- Language: English
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction (Loa #350): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Whichblack Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstructdemocracy i
$45.00 Read moreA definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War’s aftermath and the legacy of racism in America
Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois’s now classi- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1097
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1598537032
- Language: English
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The South Was Right
$14.99 Add to cartNapoleon defined history as “fiction agreed upon”. It’s written by victors and often one-sided. This book tells a story from the other side. It shakes the foundation of everything you’ve been taught a
- Author: Steel, Samuel Augustus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1396321853
- Language: English
