Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861
$35.00 Add to cartWith “characteristic wisdom and grace” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) Robert W. Merry explores a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever demonstrating how the co… [more below]
- Author: Merry, Robert W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1982176490
- Language: English
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Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation
$32.00 Add to cartAn impassioned and timely exploration of Abraham Lincoln’s long-time rivalry–and eventual alliance–with Stephen Douglas.
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas are a misunderstood duo. History remembe- Author: McClelland, Edward Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366377
- Language: English
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Voices from Gettysburg: Letters, Papers, and Memoirs from the Greatest Battle of the Civil War
$30.00 Add to cartThe voices of those who witnessed the Battle of Gettysburg and its aftermath with their own eyes – who saw the bloodshed, heard its din, trembled in its crash, struggled with its aftermath – are colle… [more below]
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0806543388
- Language: English
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
$39.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035285
- Language: English
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Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer
$32.00 Read moreOne of The New Yorker‘s best books of the year so far A Kirkus Reviews Best Nature Book of 2024
“Singular . . . Virtuosic . . . Double Exposure is the best book I’ve read about America . . . in many, m- Author: Sullivan, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0374151164
- Language: English
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Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
$32.00 Add to cartWinner of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians * Winner of the Lincoln Forum Book Prize * Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
A propulsive account of our history- Author: Grinspan, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1639730648
- Language: English
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Rebel Falls
$28.95 Add to cartWinner of the W.Y. Boyd Literary Novel Award for Excellence in Military Fiction by the Academic Council of the United Nations System.
With Rebel Falls, Tim Wendel takes us to late summer of 1864. The C
- Author: Wendel, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1501774883
- Language: English
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The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History
$20.00 Add to cartThe 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0802162681
- Language: English
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Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer
$22.00 Add to cartOne of The New Yorker‘s best books of the year so far A Kirkus Reviews Best Nature Book of 2024
“Singular . . . Virtuosic . . . Double Exposure is the best book I’ve read about America . . . in many, m- Author: Sullivan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1250371759
- Language: English
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John Brown: A Biography
$18.95 Add to cartIn the preface to his biography of John Brown, W. E. B. Du Bois writes that the book “is at once a record of and a tribute to the man who of all Americans has perhaps come nearest to touching the real… [more below]
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1594164339
- Language: English
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I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
$19.99 Read moreLonglisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction
A “power
Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History’s Stone Book Award * National Council on Public History Book Award Honorable Mention- Series: Wolf Brother
- Author: Williams, Kidada E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1639734090
- Language: English
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Gettysburg: The Tide Turns: An Oral History
$32.00 Add to cartThe definitive oral history of the battle that turned the tide of the Civil War that combines vivid first-hand accounts with rich historical narrative.
In late June of 1863, one month after his victor- Author: Chadwick, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368256
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War
$35.00 Add to cartOne historian’s journey to find the end of the Civil War–and, along the way, to expand our understanding of the nature of war itself and how societies struggle to draw the line between war and peace … [more below]
- Author: Vorenberg, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1524733172
- Language: English
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Battles of the Civil War: A Captivating Guide to the Battle of Fort Sumter, First and Second Manassas, Pea Ridge, Shiloh, Antietam, Chancellorsv
$37.99 Add to cartEleven manuscripts in one book:
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- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 586
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1637169868
- Language: English
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Bust Hell Wide Open
$19.99 Add to cartAt fourteen he became the head of his impoverished family, responsible for feeding eleven on the rough American frontier. By thirty-nine he had established himself as a successful plantation owner wor… [more below]
- Series: Civil War Collection
- Author: Mitcham, Samuel W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 31 2019
- ISBN10: 1684510309
- Language: English
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The Big Book of Civil War Sites: From Fort Sumter to Appomattox, a Visitor’s Guide to the History, Personalities, and Places of America’s Battlefields
$34.95 Add to cartThe definitive travel reference for America’s most famous–and infamous–Civil War battle sites!
With The Big Book of Civil War Sites, history-focused travelers finally have ready access to in-depth an
- Author: Bradford, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072021
- Language: English
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The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story
$19.00 Add to cartOur idea of the Founders’ America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders, but we can be the heirs of Reconstruction and its vision for equality.
There’s a common story we te- Author: Roosevelt III, Kermit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829510
- Language: English
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The Maps of Gettysburg: An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 – July 13, 1863
$39.95 Read moreAfter multiple editions and printings in just two years, the bestselling ‘The Maps of Gettysburg’ is available for the first time in a full-color, hardcover edition!
Thousands of books and articles ha- Series: Savas Beatie Military Atlas
- Author: Gottfried, Bradley M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1932714820
- Language: English
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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
$20.00 Add to cartA 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 dismantle the KKK
The Ku Klux Klan, which- Author: Bordewich, Fergus M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593310829
- Language: English
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Faith of the Fathers: The Comprehensive History of Catholic Chaplains in the Civil War
$45.00 Add to cartFaith of the Fathers provides a captivating collective biography of the Catholic priests who served in America’s most deadly war.
Faith of the Fathers brings to light the forgotten stories of courageou
- Author: Miller, Robert J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0268209340
- Language: English
