Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! the True Story Revealed
$18.95 Add to cartThe fascinating, true, story of baseball’s amateur origins. “Explores the conditions and factors that begat the game in the 19th century and turned it into the national pastime….A delightful look at
- Author: Gilbert, Thomas W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1567927238
- Language: English
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
$28.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Rich… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States
- Author: White, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0190053763
- Language: English
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Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls’ Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
$20.00 Add to cart“A stunning tale of a little-known figure in history. Robert Smalls’ astounding heroism during the Civil War helped convince Lincoln and the country that African Americans were extraordinarily capable
- Author: Lineberry, Cate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1250183898
- Language: English
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Twelve Days: How the Union Nearly Lost Washington in the First Days of the Civil War
$36.95 Add to cartIn the popular literature and scholarship of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the great battles and seismic changes in American life that foll… [more below]
- Author: Silber, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125485
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Round Tops: Longstreet’s Countermarch, Johnston’s Reconnaissance, and the Enduring Battles for the Memory of July 2, 1863
$24.00 Read moreExciting new research lifts much of the fog surrounding the Battle of Gettysburg and offers a glimpse into what happened on that fateful day–July 2, 1863.
James Longstreet’s countermarch and Samuel J- Author: Thompson, Allen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1637585233
- Language: English
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The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
$19.99 Add to cart“David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History
David M. Potter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis
- Author: Potter, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0061319295
- Language: English
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Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
$18.99 Add to cartA classic Civil War memoir, Co. Aytch is the work of a natural storyteller who balances the horror of war with an irrepressible sense of humor and a sharp eye for the lighter side of battle. It is a
- Author: Watkins, Sam R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01, 2003
- ISBN10: 0743255410
- Language: English
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Slavery and the Making of America
$28.99 Add to cartThe history of slavery is central to understanding the history of the United States. Slavery and the Making of America offers a richly illustrated, vividly written history that illuminates the human s… [more below]
- Author: Horton, James Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0195304519
- Language: English
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The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
$30.00 Add to cartThis first volume of Shelby Foote’s classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Foote, Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 856
- Publish Date: November 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0394746236
- Language: English
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Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army After Appomattox
$30.00 Add to cartThe Army of Northern Virginia’s chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands o… [more below]
- Author: Janney, Caroline E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1469663376
- Language: English
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Grant
$41.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017
“Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates, Th- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 159420487X
- Language: English
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I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife: African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era
$35.00 Read moreThis book honors the voices of African Americans of the Civil War era through their letters, inviting readers to engage personally with the Black historical experience.
Amidst bloody battles and polit- Author: Roberts, Rita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1797213725
- Language: English
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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights
$21.00 Add to cartAn LA Times Best Book of the Year, Christopher Award Winner, and Chautauqua Prize Finalist!
“Engrossing… examines the major events of the mid 19th century through the lives of three key figures in- Author: Wickenden, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1476760748
- Language: English
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Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command
$37.50 Add to cartAlthough he took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the first shots were fired at Gettysburg, Union general George G. Meade guided his forces to victory in the Civil War’s most … [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Brown, Kent Masterson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: June 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1469661993
- Language: English
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Wisconsin and the Civil War
$32.99 Add to cartWisconsin troops fought and died for the Union on Civil War battlefields across the continent, from Shiloh to Gettysburg. Wisconsin lumberjacks built a dam that saved a stranded Union fleet. The Secon… [more below]
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Larson, Ronald Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: November 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1540227596
- Language: English
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A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), an updated abridged edition of Reconstruction, the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0062370863
- Language: English
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Bruce Catton: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy (Loa #359): Mr. Lincoln’s Army / Glory Road / A Stillness at Appomattox
$45.00 Read moreLibrary of America restores to print a masterpiece of Civil War history in a deluxe collector’s edition
Bruce Catton’s Army of the Potomac trilogy is a landmark of historical story-telling, one of the- Author: Catton, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1296
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537253
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Battle with God: A President’s Struggle with Faith and What It Meant for America
$19.99 Add to cartJoin New York Times bestselling author Stephen Mansfield as he dives into the incredible story of Abraham Lincoln’s spiritual life and draws from it a deeper meaning that’s sure to inspire us all.
Abra
- Author: Mansfield, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1400336910
- Language: English
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
$37.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War–a simmering crisis … [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0593861833
- Language: English
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A People’s History of the United States
$27.99 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
- Series: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0061965596
- Language: English
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