Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Sheridan’s Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War
$30.00 Read moreA deeply researched, narrative history recounting the little-known late-Reconstruction era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union Army hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War t
- Author: Cwiklik, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0062950649
- Language: English
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Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
$35.00 Add to cartThe familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America’s legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When l
- Author: Penningroth, Dylan C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324093102
- Language: English
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Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science
$32.50 Add to cartThe untold story of two sisters whose discoveries sped the growth of American science in the nineteenth century, combining “meticulous research and sensitive storytelling” (Janice P. Nimura, New York … [more below]
- Author: McNeur, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1541674170
- Language: English
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Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
$30.00 Add to cartAn intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today–by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincol… [more below]
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593534441
- Language: English
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Grant
$24.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: September 25, 2018
- ISBN10: 0143110632
- Language: English
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Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
$35.00 Add to cartFinalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography
A “compelling portrait” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) of the controversial C
American Battlefield Trust Prize for History Finalist- Author: Varon, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982148276
- Language: English
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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
$35.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil–when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to disma… [more below]
- Author: Bordewich, Fergus M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593317815
- Language: English
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On Juneteenth
$15.95 Add to cartWeaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth,
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 04, 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498835
- Language: English
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
$17.95 Add to cartAn authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstruction amendments from their origins in antebellum activis
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358526
- Language: English
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On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
$36.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War her… [more below]
- Author: White, Ronald C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0525510087
- Language: English
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
$19.99 Add to cartOne of The New York Times‘s 10 Best Books of 2023
The remarkable true story of E
New York Times Bestseller
Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, and Oprah Daily- Author: Woo, Ilyon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1501191063
- Language: English
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
$29.99 Add to cartOne of The New York Times‘s 10 Best Books of 2023
New York Times Bestseller
Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, Boston, Chicago Public Library, Oprah Daily, a- Author: Woo, Ilyon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1501191055
- Language: English
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
$28.99 Add to cartFilled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.
Jam- Series: Oxford History of the United States (Paperback)
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 936
- Publish Date: December 11 2003
- ISBN10: 019516895X
- Language: English
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The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America’s Soul
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington’s Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Abraham Lincoln- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 052554058X
- Language: English
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The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History
$30.00 Read moreThe vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in American history–Abraham Lincoln’s history-changing nomination to lead the Republican Party in the 1860 presid
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 080216062X
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation
$30.00 Read moreLincoln’s spiritual journey from spiritual skeptic to America’s first evangelical Christian presidentbeliever–a conversion that changed both the Civil War and the practice of religion itself.
Abraham- Author: Zeitz, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 198488221X
- Language: English
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Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army After Appomattox
$23.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1469674300
- Language: English
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
$21.00 Add to cart“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history–the spot under our country’s rug where the terrorism… [more below]
- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0525559558
- Language: English
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
$20.99 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked the
- Series: Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1865-69
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 06, 2001
- ISBN10: 0743203178
- Language: English
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Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
$19.00 Add to cart“Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency.” –Ron Chernow
In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history departm- Author: Seidule, Ty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250239281
- Language: English
