United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign
$24.99 Add to cartSearing Heat and Torrents of Rain
As the nation’s future hung in the balance, the Weather Gods delivered a wrath of fury on Union and Confederate forces throughout the Gettysburg Campaign. First, recor
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Harding, Jeffrey J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158461
- Language: English
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Confronting Bad History — How a Lost Cause and Fraudulent Book Caused the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation Trial
$35.50 Add to cartJohn Wilkes Booth’s assassination of President Abraham Lincoln is the most infamous political assassination in United States history. The assassination of Lincoln suddenly ended the prospect of a peac
- Author: Gorman, Francis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 548
- Publish Date: January 23 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218516628
- Language: English
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Gettysburg Surgeons: Facing a Common Enemy in the Civil War’s Deadliest Battle
$34.95 Add to cartIn the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, a thousand surgeons faced an unprecedented medical catastrophe: 25,000 wounded soldiers needing immediate care with only primitive tools and their own determi
- Author: Franco, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0811776484
- Language: English
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Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union
$35.00 Add to cartThe first major account of the American Civil War to give full weight to the central role played by religion, reframing the conflict through Abraham Lincoln’s contentious appeals to faith-based nation… [more below]
- Author: Carwardine, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 140004457X
- Language: English
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Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White
$32.95 Add to cartThe true story of David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor enslaved on the high seas during the Civil War, whose life story was falsely and intentionally appropriated to advance the Lost Cause t
- Author: Sillen, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 142144951X
- Language: English
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Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation
$29.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking account of Sherman’s March to the Sea–the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy–told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslave… [more below]
- Author: Parten, Bennett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1668034689
- Language: English
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A Southern View of the Invasion of the Southern States and War of 1861-65
$19.99 Add to cartSamuel A’Court Ashe was a Confederate infantry captain in the War Between the States and celebrated editor, historian, and North Carolina legislator.
He was the last surviving commissioned officer of t
- Author: A’Court Ashe, Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: March 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9798869228383
- Language: English
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Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory
$44.95 Add to cartCourt Carney’s Reckoning with the Devil grapples with the troubled, complex legacy of Nathan Bedford Forrest–a slave trader, Confederate general, and prominent Klansman. More than a century after his
- Author: Carney, Court
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0807171530
- Language: English
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Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861
$35.00 Add to cartWith “characteristic wisdom and grace” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) Robert W. Merry explores a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever demonstrating how the co… [more below]
- Author: Merry, Robert W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1982176490
- Language: English
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Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation
$32.00 Add to cartAn impassioned and timely exploration of Abraham Lincoln’s long-time rivalry–and eventual alliance–with Stephen Douglas.
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas are a misunderstood duo. History remembe- Author: McClelland, Edward Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366377
- Language: English
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Voices from Gettysburg: Letters, Papers, and Memoirs from the Greatest Battle of the Civil War
$30.00 Add to cartThe voices of those who witnessed the Battle of Gettysburg and its aftermath with their own eyes – who saw the bloodshed, heard its din, trembled in its crash, struggled with its aftermath – are colle… [more below]
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0806543388
- Language: English
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
$39.99 Add to cartIn a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035285
- Language: English
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Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
$32.00 Add to cartWinner of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians * Winner of the Lincoln Forum Book Prize * Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
A propulsive account of our history- Author: Grinspan, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1639730648
- Language: English
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Rebel Falls
$28.95 Add to cartWinner of the W.Y. Boyd Literary Novel Award for Excellence in Military Fiction by the Academic Council of the United Nations System.
With Rebel Falls, Tim Wendel takes us to late summer of 1864. The C
- Author: Wendel, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1501774883
- Language: English
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The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History
$20.00 Add to cartThe vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in American history–Abraham Lincoln’s history-changing nomination to lead the Republican Party in the 1860 presid
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0802162681
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War
$35.00 Add to cartOne historian’s journey to find the end of the Civil War–and, along the way, to expand our understanding of the nature of war itself and how societies struggle to draw the line between war and peace … [more below]
- Author: Vorenberg, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1524733172
- Language: English
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Battles of the Civil War: A Captivating Guide to the Battle of Fort Sumter, First and Second Manassas, Pea Ridge, Shiloh, Antietam, Chancellorsv
$37.99 Add to cartEleven manuscripts in one book:
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- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 586
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1637169868
- Language: English
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The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War
$20.99 Add to cartHistorical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Mark M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190658525
- Language: English
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The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story
$19.00 Add to cartOur idea of the Founders’ America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders, but we can be the heirs of Reconstruction and its vision for equality.
There’s a common story we te- Author: Roosevelt III, Kermit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829510
- Language: English
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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
$20.00 Add to cartA stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil–when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to dismantle the KKK
The Ku Klux Klan, which- Author: Bordewich, Fergus M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593310829
- Language: English
