Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Twelve Years a Slave
$15.95 Read moreThe basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie!
“A moving, vital testament to one of slavery’s ‘many thousand gone’ who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation.” — Saturday ReviewBorn a … [more below]- Series: African American
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 06 2000
- ISBN10: 0486411435
- Language: English
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The Hemingway Women
$33.99 Add to cartMany books have been written about Ernest Hemingway, but no book has focused on the women he knew and loved and sometimes hated — his mother, who was the lifelong recipient of his invective; his wive… [more below]
- Author: Kert, Bernice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: May 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0393318354
- Language: English
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Joseph E, Johnston: A Civil War Biography
$29.99 Add to cartGeneral Joseph E. Johnston was in command of Confederate forces at the South’s first victory–Manassas in July 1861–and at its last–Bentonville in April 1965. Many of his contemporaries considered h… [more below]
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: June 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0393311309
- Language: English
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
$20.00 Add to cart“An arresting piece of popular history.” –Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book Review
Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in C
- Author: Lemann, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530696
- Language: English
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The New York Times Disunion: A History of the Civil War
$42.99 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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Theodore Roosevelt (Re-Issue) P
$27.99 Add to cartPringle’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography not only chronicles the incidents that shaped Roosevelt’s career but also offers insight into the character and mind of this colorful american president. Ind… [more below]
- Author: Pringle, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: January 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0156028026
- Language: English
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The Music of the Primes
$17.99 Add to cartInthe tradition of Fermat’s Enigma and Pi, Marcus du Sautoy tells the illuminating, authoritative, and engagingstory of Bernhard Reimann and the ongoing quest tocapture the holy grail of mathematics–… [more below]
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Du Sautoy, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0062064010
- 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
$23.99 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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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
