Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Lincoln’s Unfinished Work: The New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation
$49.95 Add to cartIn his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation’s sacrifices during the Civil War would lead to a “new birth of freedom.” Lincoln’s Unfinished Work analyzes how the United States h
- Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- Author: Burton, Orville Vernon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0807176761
- Language: English
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Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
$18.99 Read moreAlice + Freda Forever is a gut-wrenching story of love, death, and the dangers of intolerance.“–Bustle
In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn’t her crime that shocked th
- Author: Coe, Alexis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1936976609
- Language: English
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The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War
$34.95 Add to cartIn this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European e… [more below]
- Series: Verso World History (Paperback)
- Author: Mayer, Arno J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1844676358
- Language: English
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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 Read moreThink 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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Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota
$23.99 Add to cartThis “powerful and chilling” (Publishers Weekly) account of a young girl taken from her native land in South Dakota after the 1890 massacre of Lakota men, women, and children describes the story of Lo… [more below]
- Author: Flood, Renee Sansom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1476790752
- Language: English
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President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
$23.00 Add to cartAcclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a “measured, insightful biography that seeks to set the record straight…a deft character study of a pre
- Author: Merry, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 06, 2018
- ISBN10: 1451625456
- Language: English
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William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia
$32.00 Add to cartThe first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad.
William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first major
- Author: Kashatus, William C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0268200394
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency
$17.99 Add to cartLook for Dan Abrams and David Fisher’s new book, Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby.
Instant New York Times bestseller
A Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln … [more below]
- Author: Fisher, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1335461604
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy
$20.00 Add to cartAmong the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men during the Civil War, only Sarah Edmonds is known to have written a memoir recounting her experiences. As “Franklin Thompson,” sh
- Author: Edmonds, Sarah Emma Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: September 22 1999
- ISBN10: 0875805841
- Language: English
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Tejano Tiger: Jose de Los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891
$29.95 Add to cartRiding the rough and sometimes bloody peaks and canyons of border politics, Santos Benavides’s rise to prominence was largely the result of the careful mentoring of his well-known uncle, Basilio Benav… [more below]
- Series: Texas Biography
- Author: Thompson, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: February 24 2017
- ISBN10: 087565407X
- Language: English
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Dakota Prisoner of War Letters: Dakota Kaskapi Okicize Wowapi
$27.95 Add to cartIn April 1863–after the Dakota War of 1862, after the hanging of thirty-eight Dakota men in the largest mass execution in U.S. history– some 270 Dakota men were moved from Mankato, Minnesota, to a p… [more below]
- Author: Canku, Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 087351873X
- Language: English
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Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877
$21.95 Add to cartThe Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 is memorable to most Americans because of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer’s last stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. But to the Lakotas (Western Sioux) and… [more below]
- Author: Greene, Jerome a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0806132450
- Language: English
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Cheyenne Autumn
$21.95 Add to cartNot only in American history but in all history it is hard to find stories as moving, noble and dramatic as this one. The highest praise one could give any book about it would be to say that it was wo
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293410
- 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 Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
$22.00 Add to cartFrom before the dawn of the twentieth century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were … [more below]
- Author: Green, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0802124658
- 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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A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
$21.00 Add to cartEdith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir.
With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York s- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: July 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0684847558
- Language: English
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
$27.00 Add to cartA “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, The Roman… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0679645616
- Language: English
