Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent takes us on an explosive adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where Civil War reenactors, battlefield visitors, and fans … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 22 1999
- ISBN10: 067975833X
- Language: English
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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
$18.95 Add to cartAfter the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued… [more below]
- Author: Sharfstein, Daniel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355659
- Language: English
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
$28.00 Add to cartIn this now classic biography, reissued in a new edition for the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of t
- Author: Lear, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1250094194
- Language: English
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Fredericksburg to Meridian
$34.00 Add to cartFocused on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history brings to life the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant’s Vicksburg campaign and covers some of the most … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Foote, Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 988
- Publish Date: November 12 1986
- ISBN10: 039474621X
- Language: English
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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
$21.00 Add to cartWinner of the TCU-Texas Book Award for Best Book on Texas
On New Year’s Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nom- Author: Zesch, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0312317891
- Language: English
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Edison
$39.00 Add to cartEin Bestseller jetzt neu als Broschurausgabe! Die gebundene Ausgabe erzielte hervorragende Kritiken im Daily Telegraph, New Scientist, The Independent und in der Sunday Times – um nur einige zu nennen… [more below]
- Author: Israel, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0471362700
- Language: English
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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
$18.99 Add to cartA “gripping and poignant” (Wall Street Journal) account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico
The Underground Railroad to the North promise- Author: Baumgartner, Alice L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1541617762
- Language: English
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The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said: Son of an African General, Slave of the Ottomans, Free Man Under the Tsars, Hero
$29.95 Read moreFrom his noble childhood in the kingdom of Borno to being kidnapped into slavery, the inspiring life-story of Nicholas Said is an epic journey that takes him from Africa and the Ottoman Empire through… [more below]
- Author: Calbreath, Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363246
- Language: English
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Artillery of Antietam
$44.95 Add to cartThe Artillery of Antietam provides for the first time ever, a comprehensive examination of every Federal and Confederate artillery battery (135 in all), and their commanders, that participated in the … [more below]
- Author: Rosebrock, James A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218180997
- Language: English
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Meade: The Price of Command, 1863-1865
$24.95 Add to cart- Author: Selby, John G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1606354752
- Language: English
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The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival
$21.95 Add to cartThe Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath
- Author: McGinty, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0806137703
- Language: English
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The Civil War: V3 Red River to Appomattox
$34.00 Add to cartThis final volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and the tragic d?ouement of the war–the assassinatio… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Foote, Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1120
- Publish Date: November 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0394746228
- Language: English
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Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg
$34.95 Add to cartGen. David McMurtrie Gregg (1833-1917) was one of the ablest and most successful commanders of cavalry in any Civil War army. Pennsylvania-born, West Point-educated, and deeply experienced in cavalry … [more below]
- Author: Longacre, Edward G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640124292
- Language: English
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Colonel Hans Christian Heg and the Norwegian American Experience
$24.95 Add to cartThis first full-length biography of Colonel Heg examines the life of a Civil War hero while illuminating the experiences of Norwegian American immigrants who found both hardship and success in a new h… [more below]
- Author: Lovoll, Odd S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1681342502
- Language: English
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The Un-Civil War: Shattering the Historical Myths
$22.95 Add to cartThe book discusses honestly and frankly the real reasons for the Civil War, the way in which it was fought, and the major differences between the two sides. One of these was the strong views over the … [more below]
- Author: Scruggs, Leonard M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 20 2011
- ISBN10: 098343560X
- Language: English
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War In The Mountains: The Macbeth Light Artillery at Asheville, NC 1864-1865
$24.95 Add to cartDuring the War Between the States, the mountains of North Carolina were a hotbed of internecine strife where the phrase “brother against brother” truly applied. By late 1863, the Confederate governme
- Author: Askew, J. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 538
- Publish Date: December 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1644685760
- Language: English
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Modoc: The Tribe That Wouldn’t Die
$29.95 Add to cartIn Modoc: The Tribe That Wouldn’t Die, Cheewa James, a direct descendent Modoc War hero Shkeitko, aka “Shacknasty Jim”, recounts the explosive and personal story of her ancestors in a richly documente
- Author: James, Cheewa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0879612754
- Language: English
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
$12.95 Read moreOne of the most memorable speeches in American history, Frederick Douglass’s What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? is now available in an elegant hardcover edition. Douglass first delivered the fam… [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1429095636
- Language: English
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Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter: The Remarkable True Story Of American Heroine Ida Lewis
$14.95 Add to cartThe amazing story of a heroic woman-the keeper of Lime Rock Lighthouse in Newport, Rhode Island.
- Author: Skomal, Lenore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0762758805
- Language: English
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The American Century and Beyond: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1893-2014
$26.99 Add to cartIn his last years as president of the United States, an embattled George Washington yearned for a time when his nation would have “the strength of a Giant and there will be none who can make us afraid… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States
- Author: Herring, George C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: February 20 2017
- ISBN10: 0190212470
- Language: English
