Topical/Civil War
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The Civil War (a True Book: The Civil War)
$6.95 Read moreAn introduction the civil war for young readers.
This book introduces readers (Grades 3-5) to the American Civil War, detailing the war’s causes, key battles, notable generals and other persons involve… [more below]
- Series: True Books: Civil War (Paperback)
- Author: Benoit, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0531266222
- Language: English
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Unto a Good Land: The Emigrant Novels: Book II
$27.95 Add to cartConsidered one of Sweden’s greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigr… [more below]
- Series: Emigrant Novels #02
- Author: Moberg, Vilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0873513207
- Language: English
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A History of Us: War, Terrible War: 1855-1865a History of Us Book Six
$19.98 Add to cartRecommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.
Riveting, moving, and impossible to put down, War, Terrible War takes us into- Series: History of Us
- Author: Hakim, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0195327209
- Language: English
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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
$18.00 Read moreFrom one of our most distinguished historians comes a groundbreaking new examination of the myths and realities of the period after the Civil War.
Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents,- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 375702741
- Language: English
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Sharpe’s Fortress: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803
$18.99 Add to cart“The greatest writer of historical adventures today.”
—Washington PostCritically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt, The Fort, the Saxon Tales) makes r
- Series: Sharpe #3
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0061098639
- Language: English
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Carolina Built
$17.99 Add to cartThis “exuberant celebration of Black women’s joy as well as their achievements” (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author) novelizes the life of real estate magnate Josephine N. Leary in a previo… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Kianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1982163690
- Language: English
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A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond
$31.95 Add to cartJoin author John Banks on a captivating journey through America’s rich history as he explores famous battlefields, historic homes, and forts across the country.
Over more than a year, John Banks crissc… [more below]
- Author: Banks, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1734627670
- Language: English
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The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War
$28.00 Add to cartAfter more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print, Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels, remains as vivid and powerful as the day it was … [more below]
- Series: Civil War Trilogy #2
- Author: Shaara, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 29 2001
- ISBN10: 0345444124
- Language: English
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The Atlas of the Civil War
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the first shots fired at Fort Sumter in 1861 to the final clashes on the Road to Appomattox in 1864, The Atlas of the Civil War reconstructs the battles of America’s bloodiest war with unparallel… [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 151075640X
- Language: English
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Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy
$9.99 Add to cartSeymour Reit, the creator of Casper the friendly ghost, blends fact with fiction in this captivating tale about one woman who dared to go behind enemy lines as a spy for the Union Army.
Canadian-bor- Series: Great Episodes
- Author: Reit, Seymour
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0152164278
- Language: English
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
$19.99 Add to cartNamed “One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada” (Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Spring is a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed schol… [more below]
- Author: Eksteins, Modris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0395937582
- Language: English
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Women of the Silk
$17.99 Add to cartIn Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk fact
- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0312099436
- Language: English
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Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice
$19.99 Add to cartA “powerful” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century’s greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice t… [more below]
- Author: Levine, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1476793387
- Language: English
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The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories
$10.00 Add to cartHenry Fleming, a raw Union Army recruit in the American Civil War, is anxious to confirm his patriotism and manhood–to earn his “badge of courage.” But his dreams of heroism and invulnerability are s… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Crane, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0143039350
- Language: English
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Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
$20.99 Add to cartThe image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abo
- Author: Oakes, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351211
- Language: English
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Lincoln and California: The President, the War, and the Golden State
$34.95 Add to cartThe ties that bound Abraham Lincoln to California, and California to Lincoln, have long been overlooked by historians. Although the great Civil War president has been the subject of thousands of books… [more below]
- Author: McGinty, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640126066
- Language: English
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Dactyl Hill Squad (Dactyl Hill Squad #1): Volume 1
$6.99 Read more“An unforgettable historical, high-octane adventure.” — Dav Pilkey, author-illustrator of the Dog Man series
It’s 1863 and dinosaurs roam the streets of New York as the Civil War rages between raptor-… [more below]
- Series: Dactyl Hill Squad #1
- Author: Older, Daniel José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1338268821
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
$8.99 Read moreFresh off of his escapades with Tom Sawyer and with six thousand dollars in the bank, Huck Finn faces a new challenge: his father, Pap, who wants Huck’s fortune and will stop at nothing to get his ha
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1435171837
- Language: English
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Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War
$32.95 Add to cartBy the time Abraham Lincoln asserted in 1858 that the nation could not “endure permanently half slave and half free,” the rift that would split the country in civil war was well defined. The origins a… [more below]
- Author: Hyslop, Stephen G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0806192739
- Language: English
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The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War–An Oral History
$29.95 Read moreThe first-ever oral history of the attack that started the Civil War that combines illuminating historical narrative with intense first-hand accounts.
On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops began firi- Author: Chadwick, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363394
- Language: English
