Topical/Civil War
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With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln
$19.99 Add to cart“The standard one-volume biography of Lincoln.” —Washington Post
“Certainly the most objective biography of Lincoln ever written.” –David Herbert Donald, New York Times Book Review
The definitive life
- Author: Oates, Stephen B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0060924713
- Language: English
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Day by Day Through the Civil W
$37.00 Add to cartUntil now, a daily account (1,630 days) of Georgia’s social, political, economic, and military events during the Civil War did not exist. During the 160 years since the conflict’s termination, many fi… [more below]
- Author: Shaffer, Michael K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 088146824X
- Language: English
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Iron Maidens and the Devil’s Daughters: US Navy Gunboats versus Confederate Gunners and Cavalry on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, 1861-65
$24.95 Add to cartGunboats versus cavalry? Preposterous Not so fast. This unique form of Civil War combat is covered extensively for the first time in Iron Maidens and the Devil’s Daughters by Mark Zimmerman, author o
- Author: Zimmerman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: September 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0985869259
- Language: English
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The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom
$18.00 Read moreA riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: these are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.
- Author: Still, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1984855050
- Language: English
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Sophie’s War: The Journal of Anna Sophie Franziska Guenther
$19.95 Add to cartDear Reader, I am afraid for us. So begins Sophie’s journal on Christmas Eve, 1861. And no wonder. She lives in Comfort, Texas, during the Civil War, and her father makes no secret of being a Unionist… [more below]
- Author: Shefelman, Janice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1571688803
- Language: English
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Fortress Nashville: Pioneers, Engineers, Mechanics, Contrabands & U.S. Colored Troops
$29.95 Add to cartFortress Nashville: Pioneers, Engineers, Mechanics, Contrabands & U.S. Colored Troops tells the story of how the heavily fortified logistics and transportation hub became the key to victory in the Wes
- Author: Zimmerman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0578379368
- Language: English
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself
$12.95 Add to cart‘It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0198835329
- Language: English
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Sit-Ins, Drive-Ins and Uncle Sam
$20.99 Add to cartREV UP YOUR ENGINE, TURN UP YOUR AM RADIO, AND TAKE A SPIN INTO THE 1960s. CRUISE DRIVE-IN RESTAURANTS, PARK ON THE LAST ROW OF DRIVE-IN THEATERS, AND ENJOY POP MUSIC ALONG THE WAY. GRAB A FRONT-ROW S
- Author: Slawter, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: January 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1639881859
- Language: English
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The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23-July 4, 1863
$44.99 Add to cartIn The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23-July 4, 1863, noted Civil War scholar Timothy B. Smith offers the first comprehensive account of the siege that … [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: June 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0700632255
- Language: English
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The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock
$29.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1974, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock grew out of a magazine article coauthored by Jan Reid. His first book was a sensation in Texas. It portrayed an Austin-based live music exp… [more below]
- Author: Reid, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0875657761
- Language: English
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The Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17-22, 1863
$116.65 Read moreIt was the third week of May 1863, and after seven months and six attempts, Ulysses S. Grant was finally at the doorstep of Vicksburg. What followed was a series of attacks and maneuvers against the l… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: January 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0700629068
- Language: English
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The Battle of Brandy Station: North America’s Largest Cavalry Battle
$33.99 Add to cartJust before dawn on June 9, 1863, Union soldiers materialized from a thick fog near the banks of Virginia’s Rappahannock River to ambush sleeping Confederates. The ensuing struggle, which lasted throu… [more below]
- Author: Wittenberg, Eric J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: March 22 2010
- ISBN10: 1540220605
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Antietam: Experiencing the Battlefield Through Its History, Places, and People
$25.00 Add to cartThe Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and still stands as the bloodiest single day in American military history. Additionally, in its aftermath, President Abraham Lincoln issued his… [more below]
- Author: Reardon, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1469630206
- Language: English
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The History of Florida
$29.95 Add to cartThis is the heralded “definitive history” of Florida. No other book so fully or accurately captures the highs and lows, the grandeur and the craziness, the horrors and the glories of the past 500 year… [more below]
- Author: Gannon, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: August 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0813064015
- Language: English
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Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns
$21.95 Add to cartWhen Vicksburg fell to Union forces under General Grant in July 1863, the balance turned against the Confederacy in the trans-Appalachian theater. The Federal success along the river opened the way fo… [more below]
- Series: Great Campaigns of the Civil War
- Author: Woodworth, Steven E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803298137
- Language: English
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Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War
$63.32 Add to cartTo Jefferson Davis, he was the “Stonewall of the West”; to Robert E. Lee, he was “a meteor shining from a clouded sky”; and to Braxton Bragg, he was an officer “ever alive to a success.” He was Patric… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: April 08 1997
- ISBN10: 0700609342
- Language: English
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Mosby’s Rangers
$23.99 Add to cartA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
- Author: Wert, Jeffry D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 15 1991
- ISBN10: 0671747452
- Language: English
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Reconstruction: A Concise History
$20.99 Add to cartThe era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the b… [more below]
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0190865695
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$15.99 Add to cart“This may be the most important story ever written by a slave woman, capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtler social arrangements of the time.”-Kirkus Review
“Of female slave
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1513221140
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$14.95 Add to cartThis powerful and unflinching memoir by young mother and fugitive slave, Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813 -1897), remains among the few remaining slave narratives written by a woman.
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1722503025
- Language: English
