Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Walt Whitman’s Civil War
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1863 Walt Whitman first proposed to the publisher John Redpath a book about his Civil War experiences. It was never published. But in a draft prospectus Whitman described “a new book . . . with its… [more below]
- Author: Lowenfels, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306803550
- Language: English
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Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America
$26.99 Add to cartIn this wide-ranging, brilliantly researched work, David S. Reynolds traces the factors that made Uncle Tom’s Cabin the most influential novel ever written by an American. Upon its 1852 publication, t
- Author: Reynolds, David S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0393342352
- Language: English
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
$44.99 Add to cartCritical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes p… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 850
- Publish Date: August 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0393312569
- Language: English
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
$21.00 Add to cart“One of the best history books I’ve read in the last few years.” –Chris Hayes
The Field of Blood recounts the previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War.
A NEW- Author: Freeman, Joanne B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234581
- Language: English
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Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
$30.00 Read moreThe remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia–the free state directly … [more below]
- Author: Diemer, Andrew K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593534387
- Language: English
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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
$18.00 Read moreFrom one of our most distinguished historians comes a groundbreaking new examination of the myths and realities of the period after the Civil War.
Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents,- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 375702741
- Language: English
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A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond
$31.95 Add to cartJoin author John Banks on a captivating journey through America’s rich history as he explores famous battlefields, historic homes, and forts across the country.
Over more than a year, John Banks crissc… [more below]
- Author: Banks, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1734627670
- Language: English
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The Atlas of the Civil War
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the first shots fired at Fort Sumter in 1861 to the final clashes on the Road to Appomattox in 1864, The Atlas of the Civil War reconstructs the battles of America’s bloodiest war with unparallel… [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 151075640X
- Language: English
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
$19.99 Add to cartNamed “One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada” (Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Spring is a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed schol… [more below]
- Author: Eksteins, Modris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0395937582
- Language: English
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Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
$20.99 Add to cartThe image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abo
- Author: Oakes, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351211
- Language: English
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Lincoln and California: The President, the War, and the Golden State
$34.95 Add to cartThe ties that bound Abraham Lincoln to California, and California to Lincoln, have long been overlooked by historians. Although the great Civil War president has been the subject of thousands of books… [more below]
- Author: McGinty, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640126066
- Language: English
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Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War
$32.95 Add to cartBy the time Abraham Lincoln asserted in 1858 that the nation could not “endure permanently half slave and half free,” the rift that would split the country in civil war was well defined. The origins a… [more below]
- Author: Hyslop, Stephen G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0806192739
- Language: English
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The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War–An Oral History
$29.95 Read moreThe first-ever oral history of the attack that started the Civil War that combines illuminating historical narrative with intense first-hand accounts.
On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops began firi- Author: Chadwick, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363394
- Language: English
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Sun Tzu at Gettysburg: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World
$25.99 Add to cartImagine if Robert E. Lee had withdrawn to higher ground at Gettysburg instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line. Or if Napol?n, at Waterloo, had avoided mistakes he’d never m
- Author: Alexander, Bevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: June 04 2012
- ISBN10: 039334245X
- Language: English
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The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President–And Why It Failed
$19.99 Add to cartBrad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, the bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1250805899
- Language: English
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Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington
$21.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE LINCOLN FORUM BOOK PRIZE “A Lincoln classic…superb.” —The Washington Post “A book for our time.”–Doris Kearns Goodwin Lincoln on the Verge tells the dramatic story of America’s grea… [more below]
- Author: Widmer, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1476739447
- Language: English
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A Gettysburg Photo Tour: Then & Now Photos with Map Locations and GPS Coordinates
$18.95 Add to cartCome back in time with me as we tour the exact locations on the Gettysburg battlefield where events happened – both momentous and mundane – during the battle that changed American history. We know for
- Author: Kunkel, Jack L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1087870666
- Language: English
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Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
$30.00 Read moreThe Civil War may have ended on the battlefield, but the fight for equality never did
In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its economy shattered, its leaders in exile or in jail. Ye- Author: Suri, Jeremi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541758544
- Language: English
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An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
$32.50 Add to cartThis is a story about a dangerous idea–one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intelle
- Author: Stewart, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1324003626
- Language: English
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President Without a Party: The Life of John Tyler
$44.95 Read moreHistorians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation’s least effective heads of state. In President without a Party–the first full–scale biography of Tyler in more than fifty years
- Author: Leahy, Christopher J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0807172545
- Language: English
