Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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A People’s History of the United States
$23.99 Add to cartTHE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A wonderful, splendid book–a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0062397346
- Language: English
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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever
$20.00 Add to cartA riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O’Reilly
The iconic ancho- Series: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1250012163
- Language: English
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Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
$20.00 Add to cart“Captivating . . . [Lowenstein] makes what subsequently occurred at Treasury and on Wall Street during the early 1860s seem as enthralling as what transpired on the battlefield or at the White House.”… [more below]
- Author: Lowenstein, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0735223572
- Language: English
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Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future
$35.00 Read moreThe grand spectacle that marked America’s first century–and a moment of reckoning for a nation in flux
“Those who were there felt that the wheel of history itself had turned before their eyes.” Held- Author: Bordewich, Fergus M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0593803361
- Language: English
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Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation
$19.00 Add to cartConsidered one of “the most innovative studies of American emancipation in the Civil War” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass), Somewhere Toward Freedom is a groundbr… [more below]
- Author: Parten, Bennett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1668034697
- Language: English
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Witness to War: The Story of the Civil War Told By Those Who Lived It
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the first shots at Fort Sumter to the mourning of Lincoln’s death–experience the Civil War as it happened, through the voices of those who were there.
History comes to life in the words of those- Author: Powell, J. Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0811777693
- Language: English
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Lincoln in New England: In Search of His Forgotten Tours
$24.95 Add to cart“Combining history, travelogue, and memoir, Kent’s engagingly written account is sure to find a receptive audience among Lincoln scholars and enthusiasts alike.” -John C. Rodrigue, PhD, author of Free… [more below]
- Author: Kent, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1493092227
- Language: English
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
$22.00 Add to cart- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0385348762
- Language: English
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On Democracy
$12.50 Read moreGathered together for the first time, Walt Whitman’s urgently needed prose writings on the democratic spirit and the soul of the nation.
12 short works encapsulate the American Bard’s fiery passions a- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 205
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1598538462
- Language: English
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George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries (Loa #396)
$45.00 Add to cartA CLASSIC OF CIVIL WAR HISTORY: The Civil War comes alive in this fully restored, 900-page selected edition of the diaries of one of its keenest observers.
Based on the original manuscripts, this new- Author: Strong, George Templeton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 159853825X
- Language: English
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John Fr?mont’s 100 Days: Clashes and Convictions in Civil War Missouri
$22.00 Read moreThe first book-length study of John Fr?mont’s time in Missouri written since the Civil War, revealing the story of the first enslaved person ever set free by military order of the United States and ex… [more below]
- Author: Wolk, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9798985571653
- Language: English
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Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero
$16.99 Add to cart“Michael Korda has delivered a jewel of a
short life of Ulysses S. Grant, a general deadly on the battlefield and
unprepossessing off it. As a biographer Korda is Grant-like himself:
unambiguous, decisi- Series: Eminent Lives
- Author: Korda, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0060755210
- Language: English
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Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War
$40.00 Add to cartFeaturing breathtaking panoramas and revelatory, unforgettable images, Battle Lines is an utterly original graphic history of the Civil War.
A collaboration between the award-winning historian Ari Kel- Author: Fetter-Vorm, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0809094746
- Language: English
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A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
$21.99 Add to cartThe Battle of Antietam, which took place on September 17, 1862, remains the single bloodiest day in America’s history: more than 3,600 men died in twelve hours of savage fighting, and more than 17,000
- Author: Budiansky, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116803
- Language: English
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John Brown
$11.99 Add to cartOne of the preeminent Black scholars of his era traces the life and bold aspirations of a man who devoted his life to opposing slavery at any cost.
W.E.B. Du Bois examines John Brown as a man as well a
- Series: Black Narratives
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1513266446
- Language: English
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A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War
$38.99 Add to cartIt is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. But less well-known than the war’s death toll are the roughly 400,000 Union and Confederate troops who were captured and imp
- Author: Brundage, W. Fitzhugh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0393541096
- Language: English
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Civil War Ghosts
$14.99 Add to cartWhile the War Between The States raged, the country’s spirits were restless… Civil War Ghosts takes a look inside real ghost stories reported at the time of the Civil War. Covering each year from 18
- Author: Hamilton, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 31 2019
- ISBN10: 0998164992
- Language: English
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The First Battle of Manassas
$19.95 Add to cartOn July 21, 1861, near a Virginia railroad junction twenty-five miles from Washington, DC, the Union and Confederate armies clashed in the first major battle of the Civil War. This revised edition of … [more below]
- Author: Hennessy, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0811715914
- Language: English
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America’s Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick
$28.00 Add to cartAn accessible and entertaining biography of our nation’s greatest public servant and original political maverick John Quincy Adams, from the bassist of the Grammy-nominated band the Avett Brothers.
Du- Author: Crawford, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1638932603
- Language: English
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The American Civil War: A Military History
$23.00 Add to cartThe greatest military historian of our time gives a peerless account of America’s most bloody, wrenching, and eternally fascinating war.
In this magesterial history and national bestseller, John Keega- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Keegan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0307274934
- Language: English
