Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies
$26.99 Add to cartHistorian Elizabeth Leonard has combed archives, memoirs, and histories to unearth the stories of the hidden and forgotten women who risked their lives for the blue or the gray. These women spied for … [more below]
- Author: Leonard, Elizabeth D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 039333547X
- Language: English
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If I Can Get Home This Fall: A Story of Love, Loss, and a Cause in the Civil War
$36.95 Add to cartIf I Can Get Home This Fall chronicles the epic story of Dan Mason, a white man who served in the Civil War as a soldier in the Sixth Vermont Infantry and as an officer in the Nineteenth U.S. Colored … [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 164012666X
- Language: English
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The Day Lincoln Was Shot
$18.99 Add to cartThe Day Lincoln Was Shot is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of April 14, 1865: the day President Abraham Lincoln was tragically assassinated.
It chronicles the movements of Lincoln and his assassi
- Author: Bishop, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0062290606
- Language: English
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What They Fought for 1861-1865
$21.00 Read moreFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom–an impressive scholarly tour de force and a lively, highly accessible account of the sentiments of both Northern and Southern soldiers … [more below]
- Series: Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History, Louisia
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0385476345
- Language: English
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The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War
$28.95 Add to cartHow do good people find the courage to resist and end the greatest evil in their country? An untold story of the Civil War Era: pacifists in Boston who led the fight to end slavery without violence an
- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1567927653
- Language: English
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Devil at My Heels
$21.99 Add to cartThe bestselling autobiography of the legendary Louis Zamperini, hero of the blockbuster Unbroken.
A modern classic by an American legend, Devil at My Heels is the riveting and deeply personal memoir b
- Author: Zamperini, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0062118854
- Language: English
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Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840-1920
$40.00 Add to cartFrom “one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars” (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over sla
- Author: Amar, Akhil Reed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605195
- Language: English
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
$21.99 Add to cartIn a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 132411049X
- Language: English
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In the Footsteps of Daniel Lobdell
$22.99 Add to cart- Author: Lobdell, Kayla F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1645385914
- Language: English
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Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan
$32.95 Add to cartGrant’s Enforcer offers a gripping story of the early years after the Civil War and the campaign led by President Grant’s attorney general Amos T. Akerman to destroy the Ku Klux Klan. Akerman, a forme
- Author: Gugliotta, Guy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0820373362
- Language: English
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Hope Never to See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence During the American Civil War
$19.95 Add to cartHope Never to See It illustrates two exceptional incidents of occupational and guerrilla violence in Missouri during the American Civil War. The first is a Union spy’s two-week-long murder spree targe
- Author: Fialka, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820369551
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Battles of the Chancellorsville Campaign: Fredericksburg, Salem Church, and Banks’ Ford in Spring 1863
$39.95 Add to cart- Series: Civil War Soldiers & Strategies
- Author: Nelson, Erik F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1606354809
- Language: English
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The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign
$24.99 Add to cartSearing Heat and Torrents of Rain
As the nation’s future hung in the balance, the Weather Gods delivered a wrath of fury on Union and Confederate forces throughout the Gettysburg Campaign. First, recor
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Harding, Jeffrey J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158461
- Language: English
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Confronting Bad History — How a Lost Cause and Fraudulent Book Caused the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation Trial
$35.50 Add to cartJohn Wilkes Booth’s assassination of President Abraham Lincoln is the most infamous political assassination in United States history. The assassination of Lincoln suddenly ended the prospect of a peac
- Author: Gorman, Francis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 548
- Publish Date: January 23 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218516628
- Language: English
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Gettysburg Surgeons: Facing a Common Enemy in the Civil War’s Deadliest Battle
$34.95 Add to cartIn the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, a thousand surgeons faced an unprecedented medical catastrophe: 25,000 wounded soldiers needing immediate care with only primitive tools and their own determi
- Author: Franco, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0811776484
- Language: English
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Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union
$35.00 Add to cartThe first major account of the American Civil War to give full weight to the central role played by religion, reframing the conflict through Abraham Lincoln’s contentious appeals to faith-based nation… [more below]
- Author: Carwardine, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 140004457X
- Language: English
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Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White
$32.95 Add to cartThe true story of David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor enslaved on the high seas during the Civil War, whose life story was falsely and intentionally appropriated to advance the Lost Cause t
- Author: Sillen, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 142144951X
- Language: English
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Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation
$29.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking account of Sherman’s March to the Sea–the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy–told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslave… [more below]
- Author: Parten, Bennett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1668034689
- Language: English
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A Southern View of the Invasion of the Southern States and War of 1861-65
$19.99 Add to cartSamuel A’Court Ashe was a Confederate infantry captain in the War Between the States and celebrated editor, historian, and North Carolina legislator.
He was the last surviving commissioned officer of t
- Author: A’Court Ashe, Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: March 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9798869228383
- Language: English
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Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory
$44.95 Add to cartCourt Carney’s Reckoning with the Devil grapples with the troubled, complex legacy of Nathan Bedford Forrest–a slave trader, Confederate general, and prominent Klansman. More than a century after his
- Author: Carney, Court
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0807171530
- Language: English
