United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Visual Antietam Vol. 2: Ezra Carman’s Antietam Through Maps and Pictures: The West Woods to Bloody Lane
$19.95 Add to cartEzra A. Carman is regarded as the father of Antietam historiography. Colonel of the 13th New Jersey Infantry during the battle, he spent the better part of his later life writing a comprehensive manus
- Series: Visual Antietam #2
- Author: Carman, Ezra a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1732597618
- Language: English
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War
$24.99 Add to cartThink you know the Civil War?
Bestselling author and former Conservative Book Club editor H. W. Crocker I
You don’t know the full story until you read The Politically Incorrect GuideTM to the Civil War- Series: Politically Incorrect Guides (Paperback)
- Author: Crocker, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1596985496
- Language: English
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The Worst President–The Story of James Buchanan
$16.95 Add to cartJust 24 hours after former President James Buchanan died on June 1, 1868, the Chicago Tribune rejoiced: “This desolate old man has gone to his grave. No son or daughter is doomed to acknowledge an anc
- Author: Boulard, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 23 2015
- ISBN10: 1491759615
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Generals
$17.95 Add to cartIn Lincoln’s Generals, Gabor S. Boritt and a team of distinguished historians examine the interaction between Abraham Lincoln and his five key Civil War generals: McClellan, Hooker, Meade, Sherman, an… [more below]
- Author: Boritt, Gabor S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803234546
- Language: English
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The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth
$24.99 Add to cartThe Civil War’s single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we’ve been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully challenges that claim, offering a new, clear-eyed, an… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Hess, Earl J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0700623833
- Language: English
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The New York Times Disunion: A History of the Civil War
$40.99 Add to cartBetween 2011 and 2015, the Opinion section of The New York Times published Disunion, a series marking the long string of anniversaries around the Civil War, the most destructive, and most defining, co… [more below]
- Author: Widmer, Edward L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0190621834
- Language: English
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Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Newman, Richard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0190213221
- Language: English
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Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson
$56.98 Add to cartWinner: Albert Castel Book Award
Winner: Tennessee History Book Award Winner: Emerging Civil War Book Award Winner: Douglas Southall Freeman History Award When General Ulysses S. Grant targeted Forts- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: October 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0700633162
- Language: English
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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
$22.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for History
The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman’s fight for justice–and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed i- Author: McDaniel, W. Caleb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0197564283
- Language: English
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Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War
$39.95 Add to cartBased on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David C. Keehn’s study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret southern society that initially sou
- Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- Author: Keehn, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179531
- Language: English
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Miserable Little Conglomeration: A Social History of the Port Hudson Campaign
$35.00 Add to cartWhile Vicksburg and Gettysburg tend to receive the most attention among Civil War battles, it is Port Hudson that holds the record for the longest-running siege in American history. During the summer … [more below]
- Series: Voices of the Civil War
- Author: Thrasher, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1621907910
- Language: English
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Old Cane Springs
$29.95 Add to cartJohn Cabell Chenault lived with his family in Madison County, Kentucky, during the Civil War. Later in his life he recounted his experiences in a manuscript, forming the basis of this book, which was,
- Author: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 07 2023
- ISBN10: 194898654X
- Language: English
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A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War
$21.99 Add to cartAn unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history
In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of rac- Author: Ash, V. Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0809068303
- Language: English
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Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher
$29.95 Add to cartP>The only comprehensive account of the Battle of Fort Fisher and the basis for the television documentary Confederate Goliath, Rod Gragg’s award-winning book chronicles in detail one of the most dram
- Author: Gragg, Rod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 15, 2006
- ISBN10: 0807131520
- Language: English
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To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13–25, 1864
$49.95 Add to cartWith his third book, To the North Anna River, Gordon Rhea resumes his spectacular narrative of the initial campaign between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in the spring of 1864. May 13 to 25, a p
- Series: Jules and Frances Landry Award
- Author: Rhea, Gordon C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0807125350
- Language: English
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On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
$34.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: February 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177288
- Language: English
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Visual Antietam Vol. 1: Ezra Carman’s Antietam Through Maps and Pictures: Dawn to Dunker Church
$19.95 Add to cartModern students of the Battle of Antietam owe a large debt to Ezra A. Carman. Colonel of the 13th New Jersey Infantry and then brigade commander, he devoted much of his later life to preserving the hi
- Author: Carman, Ezra a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: December 01 2018
- ISBN10: 173259760X
- Language: English
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Discovering the Civil War in Florida: A Reader and Guide, Second Edition
$30.00 Add to cartA chronicle of Civil War activity in Florida, both land and sea maneuvers. For each engagement the author includes excerpts from official government reports by officers on both sides of the battle lin
- Author: Taylor, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 156164529X
- Language: English
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, … [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1501116223
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$26.00 Add to cartFamilies trapped in poverty and systemic injustices. Children denied civil rights because of race. A nation with immense potential for freedom spiraling into prejudice, violence, and hate.
The countr- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1637631707
- Language: English
