United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings (Loa #358)
$40.00 Read moreLibrary of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published
Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of A- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 969
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537229
- Language: English
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The Civil War: A Concise History
$20.99 Add to cartOne hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America’s social… [more below]
- Author: Masur, Louis P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0199740488
- Language: English
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The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Volume II – Antietam
$26.95 Read moreAntietam is the eagerly awaited second volume of Ezra Carman’s magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862.
Many authors have written about the climactic September 17 battle of the 1862 invasio… [more below]
- Author: Carman, Ezra A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1611216060
- Language: English
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Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862
$16.95 Read more“Attack at daylight and whip them” –that was the Confederate plan on the morning of April 6, 1862. The unsuspecting Union Army of the Tennessee, commanded by Major General Ulysses S. Grant, had gathe… [more below]
- Series: Emerging Civil War
- Author: Mertz, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1611213134
- Language: English
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Wilderness of Destruction
$39.00 Read moreModern historians have consistently treated Florida as a military backwater. Despite that assessment, Rebel guerrillas blocked repeated Union attempts to establish a stronghold in the Florida’s interi… [more below]
- Author: Waters, Zack C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0881468819
- Language: English
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The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMore than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout Americ… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Masur, Louis P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0197513662
- Language: English
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Contrasts in Command: The Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 – June 1, 1862
$34.95 Read more“The author’s new and important study concentrates on the Fair Oaks part of the battle. His research is thorough, he has walked the ground, and his narrative brings the battle to life.” — Doug Crensh… [more below]
- Author: Vignola, Victor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216826
- Language: English
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Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons
$29.95 Read moreAdvancing the cause of racial equality while saving lives
Of some twelve thousand Union Civil War surgeons, only fourteen were Black men. This book is the first-ever comprehensive exploration of thei- Series: Engaging the Civil War
- Author: Newmark, Jill L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0809339048
- Language: English
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Abraham Lincoln, His Speeches and Writings
$39.99 Add to cartThis volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln’s most important speeches, state papers, and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces–the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, … [more below]
- Author: Basler, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 888
- Publish Date: December 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0306810751
- Language: English
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‘Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North
$34.95 Add to cartJames McPherson’s classic book For Cause & Comrades explained “why men fought in the Civil War”–and spurred countless other historians to ask and attempt to answer the same question. But few have exp
- Author: Taylor, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0811775380
- Language: English
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A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War
$32.00 Add to cartFrom popular historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law–the Kansas-Nebraska Act–unexp… [more below]
- Author: Brown, David S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1668022818
- Language: English
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A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
$32.50 Read moreThe Battle of Antietam, which took place on September 17, 1862, remains the single bloodiest day in America’s history: more than 3,600 men died in twelve hours of savage fighting, and more than 17,000
- Author: Budiansky, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035757
- Language: English
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A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin
$28.99 Add to cartThe remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story
In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher
- Author: Ashton, Susanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978199
- 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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The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the Americas
The Age of Reconstruction looks beyond- Series: America in the World #54
- Author: Doyle, Don H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0691256098
- Language: English
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My Dearest Lilla: Letters Home from Civil War General Jacob D. Cox
$29.95 Add to cartJacob D. Cox experienced more facets of the Civil War than most officers: by land and sea, in both Western and Eastern Theaters, among the inner political circles of Ohio and Washington, DC, in territ… [more below]
- Series: Voices of the Civil War
- Author: Schmiel, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 162190797X
- Language: English
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The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913
$32.95 Read more“In this groundbreaking study, author John L. Hopkins deftly examines the reunion through the lens of the veterans within the context of society, politics, and the national mood at the time.” — Scott… [more below]
- Author: Hopkins, John L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216842
- Language: English
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The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer. When Abraham Lincoln assumed the presidency in 1861, the United States’ constitu- Author: Feldman, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 125085878X
- Language: English
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Treasure Diaries: The Secret of Sarah’s Creek
$34.95 Add to cartA treasure hunt through the centuries…
Before you is a real life odyssey depicting lost riches and forgotten American history in Gloucester, Virginia, and the communities across the dividing river,
- Author: Owens, M. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954163754
- Language: English
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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive history of the First Minnesota Volunteers in the Civil War.
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Moe, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 367
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0873514068
- Language: English
