Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer. When Abraham Lincoln assumed the presidency in 1861, the United States’ constitu- Author: Feldman, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 125085878X
- Language: English
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Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln’s Vital Rival
$36.00 Read moreAn NPR Best Book of 2022
From an acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer, an “eloquently written, impeccably researched, and intensely moving” (The Wall Street Journal) reassessment of Abraham- Author: Stahr, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1501199234
- Language: English
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The Day Dixie Died: The Occupied South, 1865-1866
$21.95 Add to cartAn unflinching look at the grim years of Southern reconstruction.
- Author: Goodrich, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0811770257
- Language: English
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Vaqueros in Blue and Gray
$28.95 Add to cartAs many as 9,500 men of Hispanic heritage fought in the United States’ Civil War. In Texas, the bitter conflict deeply divided the Tejanos-Texans of Mexican heritage. An estimated 2,500 fought in the … [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: February 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1880510723
- Language: English
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Quantrill of Missouri: The Making of a Guerilla Warrior
$33.99 Add to cartOne will not find the name of William Clarke Quantrill in the pantheon of noble Civil War personalities but rather listed near the top of the list of its notorious scoundrels. He has been demonized as
- Author: Petersen, Paul R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: September 01, 2003
- ISBN10: 1630269867
- Language: English
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Treasure Diaries: The Secret of Sarah’s Creek
$34.95 Add to cartA treasure hunt through the centuries…
Before you is a real life odyssey depicting lost riches and forgotten American history in Gloucester, Virginia, and the communities across the dividing river,
- Author: Owens, M. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954163754
- Language: English
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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive history of the First Minnesota Volunteers in the Civil War.
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Moe, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 367
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0873514068
- Language: English
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When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession
$46.58 Add to cartUsing primary documents from both foreign and domestic observers, prominent scholar Charles Adams makes a powerful and convincing case that the Southern states were legitimately exercising their polit… [more below]
- Author: Adams, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0847697231
- Language: English
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The Western Confederacy’s Final Gamble: From Atlanta to Franklin to Nashville
$29.95 Add to cartAfter Major General William Tecumseh Sherman’s forces ravaged Atlanta in 1864, Ulysses S. Grant urged him to complete the primary mission Grant had given him: to destroy the Confederate Army in Georgi… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, James Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 162190010X
- Language: English
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Michigan and the Civil War: A Great and Bloody Sacrifice
$21.99 Add to cartMichigan undertook a rapid and robust response to Lincoln’s call to arms during the Civil War and in many of its great battles. Read the much overlooked history in this volume.
With lively narration, t
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Dempsey, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 02 2011
- ISBN10: 1609491734
- Language: English
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The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln’s General, Master Builder of the Union Army
$18.99 Add to cart“The lively story of the Civil War’s most unlikely–and most uncelebrated–genius” (The Wall Street Journal)–General Montgomery C. Meigs, who built the Union Army and was judged by Abraham Lincoln, W… [more below]
- Author: O’Harrow, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1451671938
- Language: English
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The Antietam Battlefield Atlas
$49.95 Add to cartThe Battle of Antietam was fought on September 17th, 1862. It was the worst day of the war, with almost 23,000 killed, wounded and missing. Of those, almost 4,000 were killed, making it the bloodiest
- Author: Butkovich, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1732597650
- Language: English
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Our Suffering Brave: Waitsfield Boys and Men in the Civil War
$29.99 Add to cart163 boys and men from Waitsfield, Vermont joined the Union Army and fought in the Civil War. Their individual stories of bravery as well as suffering-from wounds, sickness, and/or deprivation during i
- Author: Evans, Alice May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1937667332
- Language: English
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The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union
$39.95 Add to cartIn this companion to The Life of Johnny Reb, Bell Irvin Wiley explores the daily lives of the men in blue who fought to save the Union. With the help of many soldiers’ letters and diaries, Wiley expla
- Series: Political Traditions in Foreign Policy
- Author: Wiley, Bell Irvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0807133752
- Language: English
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Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman
$22.00 Add to cartBorn into one of the best families of Baton Rouge, Sarah Morgan was not yet twenty when she began her diary in January 1862, nine months after the start of the Civil War. She was soon to experience a … [more below]
- Author: East, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0671785036
- Language: English
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Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures wa… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0190454792
- Language: English
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Moonlit Mayhem: Quantrill’s Raid of Olathe, Kansas
$23.99 Add to cartWould you turn your back on your family and friends if the local authorities asked you to do so? Residents were asked to do just that during the Missouri/Kansas Border War prior to and during the Civi
- Author: Jones, Jonathan a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1736463306
- Language: English
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Rise to Greatness
$32.99 Add to cartAuthor of Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death’s door. The government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke,
New York Times Bestseller- Author: Von Drehle, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037808
- Language: English
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To Die Game: The Story of the Lowry Band, Indian Guerillas of Reconstruction
$19.95 Add to cartDuring the Civil War many young Lumbee Indians of North Carolina hid in the swamps to avoid conscription into Confederate labor battalions and carried on a running guerilla war. To Die Game is the sto… [more below]
- Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors
- Author: Evans, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0815603592
- Language: English
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The Confederacy’s Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
$32.99 Add to cartFollowing the fall of Atlanta, rebel commander John Bell Hood rallied his demoralized troops and marched them off the Tennessee, desperately hoping to draw Sherman after him and forestall the Confeder… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Sword, Wiley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 18 1993
- ISBN10: 0700606505
- Language: English
