Chronological Period/1851-1899
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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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Greetings from Los Angeles
$30.00 Read moreA fascinating tour of Los Angeles told through vintage images.
The City of Angels’ story is told through a fun and colorful collection of old photos, picture postcards, brochures, ads, and other vintag
- Author: Moruzzi, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1423647254
- Language: English
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Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy
$19.99 Add to cartHistorian and Constitution expert David O. Stewart recaps the landmark impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. “The fullest recounting we have of the high politics of that immediate post-Civil … [more below]
- Author: Stewart, David O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1416547509
- Language: English
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The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln’s Ghost
$18.99 Read moreIn the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America’s imagination. A “spirit photographer,” William Mumler, took portrait photographs that featured the
- Author: Manseau, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1328557065
- 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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Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West
$24.95 Add to cartThe Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most difficult wars against western Indians. Examining their
- Author: Schubert, Frank N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 16 2009
- ISBN10: 0826323103
- 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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The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China: A History
$21.99 Add to cartA concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powers.
The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The B- Author: Silbey, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0809030756
- 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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My Indian Boyhood
$16.95 Add to cartAlthough the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a respectful
- Author: Standing Bear, Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293348
- Language: English
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Lee
$23.00 Add to cartDouglas Southall Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert E. Lee was greeted with critical acclaim when it was first published in 1935. This reissue chronicles all the major aspects and hi… [more below]
- Author: Freeman, Douglas Southall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0684829533
- Language: English
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First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
$38.99 Add to cart“We were sure that we would win, that we should score the first great triumph in a mighty world-movement.”–Theodore Roosevelt, 1904
Americans like to think they have no imperial past. In fact, the Uni
- Author: Zimmermann, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: January 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0374528934
- Language: English
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Revolver
$11.99 Read moreA loaded gun. Stolen Gold. And a menacing stranger. A taut frontier survivor story, set at the time of the Alaska gold rush. A Printz Honor Book.
“A memorable tale, one that will appeal to fans of Gary- Author: Sedgwick, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0312547978
- Language: English
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition
$46.67 Add to cartCrisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry
- Author: Jaffa, Harry V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226391183
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Dictionary
$21.99 Add to cartHistory, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consis… [more below]
- Author: Bierce, Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0195126270
- Language: English
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History Lover’s Guide to Charleston
$43.99 Add to cartFounded in 1670, Charleston is among the oldest cities in the nation and site of some of the most pivotal events in American history. Explore the city and discover the Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Downey, Christopher Byrd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: May 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1540252027
- Language: English
