Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Songs for Walt
$16.00 Add to cart- Author: Robinson, Garrett Buhl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1957116102
- Language: English
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Warriors for Liberty: William Dollarson & Michigan’s Civil War African Americans
$24.95 Add to cartMichigan’s African Americans played critical roles in winning the Civil War and setting millions of fellow Americans forever free. The 1st Michigan Colored Infantry Regiment, more than 1,500 strong, h
- Author: Dempsey, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: October 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1961302780
- Language: English
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Civil War Stories: 40 of the Greatest Tales about the War Between the States
$19.95 Add to cartBetween the first shots fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, the nation was irrevocably changed, as were the lives of the soldiers and … [more below]
- Series: Jumbo Story Collections
- Author: Underwood, Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493060848
- Language: English
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – An “extraordinary … profoundly moving” history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on suc… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Faust, Drew Gilpin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0375703837
- Language: English
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, … [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1501116231
- Language: English
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Gettysburg
$21.99 Add to cartA comprehensive history of the Battle of Gettysburg by one of today’s leading historians.
The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s … [more below]
- Author: Sears, Stephen W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 623
- Publish Date: November 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0618485384
- Language: English
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Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War
$49.95 Add to cartFinalist for the American Battlefield Trust Book Prize
The fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so that many scholars rarely question the standard n- Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- Author: Rable, George C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179779
- Language: English
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Altogether Different: A Memoir About Identity, Inheritance, and the Raid That Started the Civil War
$17.00 Add to cartIf you could choose between being Black and being white, what would you do?
As a child, Brianna Wheeler, the mixed-race descendant of Dangerfield Newby-first of John Brown’s raiders to die at Harpers F
- Author: Wheeler, Brianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1957024054
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
$39.99 Add to cartWe are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant
- Author: Sinha, Manisha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1631498444
- Language: English
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Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
$24.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095644
- Language: English
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On Great Fields: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and His Fight to Save the Union
$25.00 Add to cartNATIONAL 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0525510109
- Language: English
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Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
$20.99 Add to cartWinner, American Battlefield Trust Prize for History
A “compelling portrait” (Jon Meacham
Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction
Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography- Author: Varon, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1982148284
- Language: English
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Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents
$38.00 Add to cartFrom renowned biographer Nigel Hamilton, author of the epic FDR at War trilogy and the bestselling JFK: Reckless Youth, comes the greatest untold story of the Civil War: how two America… [more below]
- Author: Hamilton, Nigel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 031656463X
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Conservative Advisor: Attorney General Edward Bates
$27.95 Read moreHow a traditionalist became part of Lincoln’s volatile team of rivals
Edward Bates, a founding father of Missouri and leader of the Missouri Whig Party, served as Abraham Lincoln’s attorney general d- Author: Neels, Mark A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: November 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0809339498
- Language: English
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Debunking the Yule Log Myth: The Disturbing History of a Plantation Legend
$42.75 Add to cartA powerful new book that corrects a false myth in African American history that Kirkus Reviews calls “a thoughtful antidote to white Southern propaganda.”
According to an oft repeated legend, during C- Author: May, Robert E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798881801786
- Language: English
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Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
$27.00 Add to cart“James M. McPherson’s Tried by War is a perfect primer . . . for anyone who wishes to understand the evolution of the president’s role as commander in chief. Few historians write as well as … [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0143116142
- Language: English
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It Took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom
$22.95 Read moreIn 1860, Eliza Winston escaped enslavement while traveling in Minnesota, where she secured her freedom through legal appeal. Her story adds powerful testimony to African American experiences and perse… [more below]
- Author: Lehman, Christopher P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1681342820
- Language: English
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The Ballad of Thomas Patrick Downing: A Memoir of one of General Custer’s Irish Cavalrymen
$19.99 Add to cartThe Ballad of Thomas Patrick Downing is a true story.
Downing was born into post famine Ireland. Living in the famous and picturesque village of Adare, his life started well but then at the age of thre
- Author: Ryan, Des A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1068672803
- Language: English
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On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
$44.95 Add to cartWith On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeaste
- Author: Rhea, Gordon C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: September 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0807167479
- Language: English
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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
$24.95 Add to cartThe Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we really know about those who experienced slavery?
In their p
- Author: Willis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1439909865
- Language: English
