United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War
$49.95 Add to cartFinalist for the American Battlefield Trust Book Prize
The fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so that many scholars rarely question the standard n- Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- Author: Rable, George C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179779
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
$39.99 Add to cartWe are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant
- Author: Sinha, Manisha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1631498444
- Language: English
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Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
$27.00 Add to cart“James M. McPherson’s Tried by War is a perfect primer . . . for anyone who wishes to understand the evolution of the president’s role as commander in chief. Few historians write as well as … [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0143116142
- Language: English
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It Took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom
$22.95 Read moreIn 1860, Eliza Winston escaped enslavement while traveling in Minnesota, where she secured her freedom through legal appeal. Her story adds powerful testimony to African American experiences and perse… [more below]
- Author: Lehman, Christopher P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1681342820
- Language: English
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On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
$44.95 Add to cartWith On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeaste
- Author: Rhea, Gordon C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: September 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0807167479
- Language: English
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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
$24.95 Add to cartThe Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we really know about those who experienced slavery?
In their p
- Author: Willis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1439909865
- Language: English
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The Cassville Affairs: Johnston, Hood, and the Failed Confederate Strategy in the Atlanta Campaign, 19 May 1864
$39.00 Add to cartCivil War historians have remained baffled over the Cassville controversies for the past 150 plus years. There are two versions of events: Confederate commanding General Joseph E. Johnston’s story, an… [more below]
- Author: Jenkins Sr. Robert D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0881469319
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$15.00 Add to cartThe unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women–with an introduction by Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried and National… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593230361
- Language: English
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Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction
$23.99 Add to cartThe Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destr… [more below]
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0199843287
- Language: English
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Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin
$24.95 Add to cartOn a November afternoon in 1864, the weary Gen. John Bell Hood surveyed the army waiting to attack the Federals at Franklin, Tennessee. He gave the signal almost at dusk, and the Confederates rushed f… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, James Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 30 1984
- ISBN10: 0870493973
- Language: English
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Camp William Penn: 1863-1865: 1863-1865
$29.99 Read moreLocated in Chelten Hills just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Camp William Penn was the largest and first Civil War facility to exclusively train Northern-based federal black soldiers during th… [more below]
- Author: Scott, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0764342533
- Language: English
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Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood
$19.00 Read moreA Christian Science Monitor best book of 2020
“Relentlessly accessible. . . . This is that rare history that tells what influential thinkers failed to think, what famous writers left unwritten.”
–Jill- Author: Woodard, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0525560173
- Language: English
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Horse Soldiers at Gettysburg: The Cavalryman’s View of the Civil War’s Pivotal Campaign
$32.95 Read moreCavalry operations during the Gettysburg campaign have been well covered, but never like this. Most cavalry treatments of the campaign and battle have focused on strategy, operations, and tactics and
- Author: Murphy, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0811772713
- Language: English
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Decisions at Shiloh: The Twenty-Two Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle
$24.95 Add to cartThe Battle of Shiloh took place April 6-7, 1862, between the Union Army of the Tennessee under General Ulysses S. Grant and the Confederate Army of Mississippi under General Albert Sidney Johnston. Jo
- Series: Command Decisions in America’s Civil War
- Author: Powell, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 162190752X
- Language: English
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Maine Roads to Gettysburg: How Joshua Chamberlain, Oliver Howard, and 4,000 Men from the Pine Tree State Helped Win the Civil War’s Bloodiest Bat
$39.95 Read moreEveryone knows about Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and his 20th Maine Regiment, but there’s much more to the story of Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg. Soldiers from Maine made their presence felt all … [more below]
- Author: Huntington, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0811718409
- Language: English
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Work for Giants: The Campaign and Battle of Tupelo/Harrisburg, Mississippi, June-July 1864
$29.95 Add to cart- Series: Civil War Soldiers and Strategies
- Author: Parson, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1606354760
- Language: English
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The Petersburg Campaign: Volume 1 – The Eastern Front Battles, June – August 1864
$22.95 Read moreThe wide-ranging and largely misunderstood series of operations around Petersburg, Virginia, were the longest and most extensive of the entire Civil War. The fighting that began in early June 1864 whe… [more below]
- Author: Bearss, Edwin C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1611215323
- Language: English
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The Gettysburg Address
$12.95 Add to cartThe Gettysburg Address was delivered on the afternoon of November 19, 1863 by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the battlefield of the Civil War’s bloodiest battle. Included in this edition is the … [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Lincoln, Abraham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1557090734
- Language: English
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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
$17.95 Read moreThe long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s b
- Author: Oakes, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020199
- Language: English
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Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History
$39.95 Add to cartThe Sultana was a sidewheel Mississippi steamboat carrying almost two thousand recently-released Union prisoners-of-war back north at the end of the Civil War. At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, when the… [more below]
- Author: Salecker, Gene E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1682477436
- Language: English
