United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Twelve Days: How the Union Nearly Lost Washington in the First Days of the Civil War
$36.95 Add to cartIn the popular literature and scholarship of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the great battles and seismic changes in American life that foll… [more below]
- Author: Silber, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125485
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Round Tops: Longstreet’s Countermarch, Johnston’s Reconnaissance, and the Enduring Battles for the Memory of July 2, 1863
$24.00 Read moreExciting new research lifts much of the fog surrounding the Battle of Gettysburg and offers a glimpse into what happened on that fateful day–July 2, 1863.
James Longstreet’s countermarch and Samuel J- Author: Thompson, Allen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1637585233
- Language: English
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The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
$30.00 Add to cartThis first volume of Shelby Foote’s classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Foote, Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 856
- Publish Date: November 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0394746236
- Language: English
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Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army After Appomattox
$30.00 Add to cartThe Army of Northern Virginia’s chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands o… [more below]
- Author: Janney, Caroline E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1469663376
- Language: English
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Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command
$37.50 Add to cartAlthough he took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the first shots were fired at Gettysburg, Union general George G. Meade guided his forces to victory in the Civil War’s most … [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Brown, Kent Masterson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: June 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1469661993
- Language: English
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Bruce Catton: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy (Loa #359): Mr. Lincoln’s Army / Glory Road / A Stillness at Appomattox
$45.00 Read moreLibrary of America restores to print a masterpiece of Civil War history in a deluxe collector’s edition
Bruce Catton’s Army of the Potomac trilogy is a landmark of historical story-telling, one of the- Author: Catton, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1296
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537253
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Battle with God: A President’s Struggle with Faith and What It Meant for America
$19.99 Add to cartJoin New York Times bestselling author Stephen Mansfield as he dives into the incredible story of Abraham Lincoln’s spiritual life and draws from it a deeper meaning that’s sure to inspire us all.
Abra
- Author: Mansfield, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1400336910
- Language: English
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
$37.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War–a simmering crisis … [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0593861833
- Language: English
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A People’s History of the United States
$27.99 Add to cartTHE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A wonderful, splendid book–a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for
- Series: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0061965596
- Language: English
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Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea
$21.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
A gripping, definitive account of Sherman’s legendary and destructive march through Georgia.
“Mr. Trudeau’s narrative is peppered with trenchant observations from Sherman, one
- Author: Trudeau, Noah Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0060598689
- Language: English
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The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
$19.99 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
A dramatic, riveting, and “fresh look at a region typically obscured in accounts of the Civil War. American history buffs will relish this entertaining and e- Author: Nelson, Megan Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1501152556
- Language: English
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer: An Edgar Award Winner
$19.99 Add to cartNow an Apple TV+ Series
“A terrific narrative of the hunt for Lincoln’s killers that will mesmerize the reader from start to finish.”–Doris Kearns Goodwin
The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the grea
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Swanson, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 1, 2007
- ISBN10: 0060518502
- Language: English
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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
$19.99 Add to cart“The best account of the Battle of Antietam” from the award-winning, national bestselling author of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville (The New York Times Book Review).
The Civil War battle waged on Septe… [more below]- Author: Sears, Stephen W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 30, 2003
- ISBN10: 0618344195
- Language: English
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Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War
$34.95 Add to cart2024 Spur Award Finalist
John Newman Edwards was a soldier, a father, a husband, and a noted author. He was also a virulent alcoholic, a duelist, a culture warrior, and a man perpetually at war with- Author: Hulbert, Matthew Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496211871
- Language: English
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Reconstruction Updated Edition: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
$25.99 Add to cartFrom the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.
Eric Foner’s “masterful treatment
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: December 2, 2014
- ISBN10: 0062354515
- Language: English
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
$19.99 Add to cart“Not for nothing has Abbott been called a ‘pioneer of sizzle history.’ Here she creates a gripping page-turner that moves at a breathtaking clip through the dramatic events of the Civil War.” — Los A
- Author: Abbott, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0062092901
- Language: English
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To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
$19.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
Fox News Channel’s Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant
“To Rescue the Republic is narrative history at its absolute finest. A fast-paced,
- Author: Baier, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0063039567
- Language: English
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Stay and Fight It Out: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp’s Hill and the North End of the Battlefield
$16.95 Read moreRecounts the often-overlooked fight that secured the Union position and set the stage for the Gettysburg battle’s fateful final day.
July 1, 1863, was a disaster for the Union army’s XI Corps. Shattere… [more below]
- Series: Emerging Civil War
- Author: White, Kristopher D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1611213312
- Language: English
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For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
$22.99 Add to cartGeneral John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, sev… [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 05 1998
- ISBN10: 0195124995
- Language: English
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The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West
$39.95 Add to cartKilled in action at the bloody Battle of Shiloh, Confederate general Albert Sidney Johnston stands as the highest-ranking American military officer to die in combat. His unexpected demise had cascadin
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180483
- Language: English
