Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea
$21.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
A gripping, definitive account of Sherman’s legendary and destructive march through Georgia.
“Mr. Trudeau’s narrative is peppered with trenchant observations from Sherman, one
- Author: Trudeau, Noah Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0060598689
- Language: English
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A Year in the South: 1865: The True Story of Four Ordinary People Who Lived Through the Most Tumultuous Twelve Months in American History
$16.99 Add to cartA slave determined to gain freedom, a widow battling poverty and despair, a man of God grappling with spiritual and worldly troubles, and a former Confederate soldier seeking a new life. They lived in
- Author: Ash, Stephen V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 289
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0060582480
- Language: English
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Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington
$35.00 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 g- Author: Widmer, Ted
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 07, 2020
- ISBN10: 1476739439
- Language: English
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The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
$19.99 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
A dramatic, riveting, and “fresh look at a region typically obscured in accounts of the Civil War. American history buffs will relish this entertaining and e- Author: Nelson, Megan Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1501152556
- Language: English
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture
$60.00 Add to cartIn the decades leading up to the Civil War, abolitionists crafted a variety of visual messages about the plight of enslaved people, portraying the violence, familial separation, and dehumanization tha… [more below]
- Author: Stephens, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: September 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262332
- Language: English
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer: An Edgar Award Winner
$19.99 Add to cartNow an Apple TV+ Series
“A terrific narrative of the hunt for Lincoln’s killers that will mesmerize the reader from start to finish.”–Doris Kearns Goodwin
The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the grea
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Swanson, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 1, 2007
- ISBN10: 0060518502
- Language: English
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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
$19.99 Add to cart“The best account of the Battle of Antietam” from the award-winning, national bestselling author of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville (The New York Times Book Review).
The Civil War battle waged on Septe… [more below]- Author: Sears, Stephen W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 30, 2003
- ISBN10: 0618344195
- Language: English
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Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War
$34.95 Add to cart2024 Spur Award Finalist
John Newman Edwards was a soldier, a father, a husband, and a noted author. He was also a virulent alcoholic, a duelist, a culture warrior, and a man perpetually at war with- Author: Hulbert, Matthew Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496211871
- Language: English
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Reconstruction Updated Edition: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
$25.99 Add to cartFrom the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.
Eric Foner’s “masterful treatment
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: December 2, 2014
- ISBN10: 0062354515
- Language: English
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
$19.99 Add to cart“Not for nothing has Abbott been called a ‘pioneer of sizzle history.’ Here she creates a gripping page-turner that moves at a breathtaking clip through the dramatic events of the Civil War.” — Los A
- Author: Abbott, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0062092901
- Language: English
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To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
$19.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
Fox News Channel’s Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant
“To Rescue the Republic is narrative history at its absolute finest. A fast-paced,
- Author: Baier, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0063039567
- Language: English
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Jack Hinson’s One-Man War
$27.95 Add to cartThe true story of one man’s reluctant but relentless war against the invaders of his country.A quiet, wealthy plantation owner, Jack Hinson watched the start of the Civil War with disinterest. Opposed
- Author: McKenney, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 27 2009
- ISBN10: 1589806409
- Language: English
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Stay and Fight It Out: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp’s Hill and the North End of the Battlefield
$16.95 Read moreRecounts the often-overlooked fight that secured the Union position and set the stage for the Gettysburg battle’s fateful final day.
July 1, 1863, was a disaster for the Union army’s XI Corps. Shattere… [more below]
- Series: Emerging Civil War
- Author: White, Kristopher D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1611213312
- Language: English
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Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
$22.99 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson became a great and tragic national hero.
Stonewall- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 06, 2015
- ISBN10: 1451673299
- Language: English
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For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
$22.99 Add to cartGeneral John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, sev… [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 05 1998
- ISBN10: 0195124995
- Language: English
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Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant
$29.95 Read morePresenting an original, thought-provoking look at Ulysses S. Grant, Soldier of Destiny evokes the life of the general through his conflicted connection to slavery, allowing readers a clearer understan… [more below]
- Author: Reeves, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639365273
- Language: English
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The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West
$39.95 Add to cartKilled in action at the bloody Battle of Shiloh, Confederate general Albert Sidney Johnston stands as the highest-ranking American military officer to die in combat. His unexpected demise had cascadin
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180483
- Language: English
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A People’s History of the United States
$45.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0062693018
- Language: English
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Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
$39.99 Add to cartThe story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman’s most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants.
Publishers Weekly- Author: Fields-Black, Edda L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 776
- Publish Date: February 09 2024
- ISBN10: 019755279X
- Language: English
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I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
$30.00 Read moreLonglisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction
“Powerful and deeply moving.”–Los Angeles Times * Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History’s Stone Book Award * National Council on- Author: Williams, Kidada E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1635576636
- Language: English
