Topical/Civil War
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Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition
$19.95 Read moreKatherine Franke makes a powerful case for reparations for Black Americans by amplifying the stories of formerly enslaved people and calling for repair of the damage caused by the legacy of American s
- Author: Franke, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1642594709
- Language: English
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A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution
$26.95 Add to cart2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglass’s fight for an antislavery Constitution helped to shape the course of American hi- Author: Root, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1640122354
- Language: English
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When the Southern Lights Went Dark: The Lighthouse Establishment During the Civil War
$24.95 Add to cartThe Confederacy extinguished the lights in all the lighthouses it controlled long before any shots were fired at Fort Sumter. When the Southern Lights Went Dark: The Lighthouse Establishment During th… [more below]
- Author: Clifford, Mary Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149304706X
- Language: English
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The Irish at Gettysburg
$24.99 Add to cartAt the outbreak of the Civil War, Irish citizens on both sides of the Mason-Dixon answered the call to arms. This was most evident at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Louisiana Irish Rebels charged with the c
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Tucker Phd, Phillip Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1467138525
- Language: English
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Two Miserable Presidents: The Amazing, Terrible, and Totally True Story of the Civil War
$12.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin gives young readers the causes and curses that divided America into Union and Confederate nations in Two Miserable Presiden
- Author: Sheinkin, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1250075785
- Language: English
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Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
$23.00 Read moreNow an Apple TV+ documentary, Lincoln’s Dilemma.
One of the Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book A Christian Science Monitor and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of- Author: Reynolds, David S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0143110764
- Language: English
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1,417 Days in Rebellion: A History of the 19th Georgia Regiment
$16.95 Add to cartThe Civil War is the greatest tragedy ever experienced by our nation. The repercussions of the war are still alive today, almost 160 years after the final shots were fired in April 1865. Many books ha
- Author: Payton, Allan C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Cartoon History of the United States
$23.99 Add to cartWhat? You don’t know what a Burgess is? — You can’t outline the Monroe Doctrine? — Recall the 14th Amendment? — Explain the difference between a sputnik and a beatnik?
Then you need The Cartoon Hist… [more below]
- Series: Cartoon Guide
- Author: Gonick, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 1991
- ISBN10: 0062730983
- Language: English
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The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won
$24.99 Read moreHistory isn’t always written by the winners…
Twenty-first-century controversies over Confederate monuments attest to the enduring significance of our nineteenth-century Civil War. As Lincoln knew, t- Series: Civil War Collection
- Author: Bonekemper, Edward H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 168451360X
- Language: English
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Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life
$36.00 Add to cartBenjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Remembered most often for his uncompromising administr… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Leonard, Elizabeth D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1469668041
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail
$32.00 Add to cartThe inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUs
In The Devil’s Half Acre, New York Times bestsell
- Author: Green, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675630
- Language: English
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Small But Important Riots: The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville
$36.95 Add to cartNamed a Top Ten Book of 2023 by Civil War Books and Authors
June 1863. The American Civil War was two years old, and the U.S. Army in Virginia was in chaos. Reeling after the recent defeat at Chancel- Author: O’Neill, Robert F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125477
- Language: English
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Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
$29.99 Read moreThe companion volume to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021
With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric
- Author: Conwill, Kinshasha Holman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0063160641
- Language: English
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America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United States
$36.40 Add to cart“The best one-volume history of the United States ever written” (Joseph J. Ellis), now updated to cover the Obama and Trump presidencies
In America, Empire of Liberty, prizewinning historian David Reyn… [more below]- Author: Reynolds, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 154167569X
- Language: English
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War as I Knew It
$19.99 Add to cartA classic of American military history first published in 1947, War as I Knew It is the captivating memoir of George S. Patton, Jr., the legendary general, incendiary warrior, and unparalled tactician
- Author: Patton, George S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 08 1995
- ISBN10: 0395735297
- Language: English
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Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom’s Mail
$36.95 Add to cartDuring the Civil War his movements from battlefield to battlefield were followed in the North and in the South nearly as closely as those of generals, though he was not in the military. After the war,… [more below]
- Author: Hooper, Candice Shy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640124489
- Language: English
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The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
$37.00 Add to cartA major literary moment: after being lost to history for more than a century, The Road to Dawn uncovers the incredible story of the real-life slave who inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
-He rescued 118 ens- Author: Brock, Jared A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1541773926
- Language: English
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First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery
$19.95 Read moreA vividly told tale of a forgotten American hero–an impassioned newsman who fought for the right to speak out against slavery.
The history of the fight for free press has never been more vital in ou- Author: Ellingwood, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364617
- Language: English
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Pale Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg
$18.95 Add to cartThis stirring narrative reconstructs in amazing detail the story of a remarkable band of soldiers at this seminal Civil War battle.
- Author: Leehan, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: July 19 2004
- ISBN10: 0873515110
- Language: English
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Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War
$40.99 Add to cartLoyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new inte… [more below]
- Author: Varon, Elizabeth R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 13 2019
- ISBN10: 019086060X
- Language: English
