Topical/Civil War
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The Emigrants: The Emigrant Novels: Book I
$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 #01
- Author: Moberg, Vilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0873513193
- Language: English
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A Story of Durham: Told the Wright Way
$29.95 Add to cartRichard Harvey Wright came to Durham in the late 1870’s with a dream to build a tobacco empire. An orphan at the age of fourteen and no money for higher education, Richard pursues the business world f
- Author: Darrah, Cora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0998651451
- Language: English
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Escape Into the Night: Volume 1
$10.99 Add to cartOne choice will change Libby’s life forever.
Libby Norstad’s life has changed to anything but ordinary. In 1857, when she comes to live on the Christina, her father’s steamboat, Libby’s curiosity ensna
- Series: Freedom Seekers #01
- Author: Johnson, Lois Walfrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0802407161
- Language: English
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Twelve Days: How the Union Nearly Lost Washington in the First Days of the Civil War
$36.95 Add to cartIn the popular literature and scholarship of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the great battles and seismic changes in American life that foll… [more below]
- Author: Silber, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125485
- Language: English
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Libertie
$16.95 Read moreA New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021 and Best Historical Fiction Pick
“A stunning look at what
A Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, TIME, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor- Author: Greenidge, Kaitlyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1643752588
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Round Tops: Longstreet’s Countermarch, Johnston’s Reconnaissance, and the Enduring Battles for the Memory of July 2, 1863
$24.00 Read moreExciting new research lifts much of the fog surrounding the Battle of Gettysburg and offers a glimpse into what happened on that fateful day–July 2, 1863.
James Longstreet’s countermarch and Samuel J- Author: Thompson, Allen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1637585233
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
$9.94 Add to cart“I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539073
- Language: English
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What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?
$7.99 Read more“Four score and seven years ago…” begins Abraham Lincoln’s beautiful speech commemorating the three-day battle that turned the tide of the Civil War. The South had been winning up to this point. So … [more below]
- Series: What Was…
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0448462869
- Language: English
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
$25.00 Add to cartChiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World’s finest literature.
Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautif
- Series: Chiltern Classic
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 191271468X
- Language: English
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Rifles for Watie
$15.99 Add to cartWinner of the Newbery Medal * An ALA Notable Children’s Book * Winner of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
A captivating and richly detailed novel about one young soldier who saw the Civil War from both si
- Author: Keith, Harold
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 25 1987
- ISBN10: 006447030X
- Language: English
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The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
$19.99 Add to cart“David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History
David M. Potter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis
- Author: Potter, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0061319295
- Language: English
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Turn Homeward, Hannalee
$9.99 Add to cartAs the Civil War comes to a close, resourceful Hannalee must find her way home.
In this classic historical fiction for young readers, plucky twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, sent north to work in a Yanke
- Author: Beatty, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 21 1999
- ISBN10: 688166768
- Language: English
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Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
$18.99 Add to cartA classic Civil War memoir, Co. Aytch is the work of a natural storyteller who balances the horror of war with an irrepressible sense of humor and a sharp eye for the lighter side of battle. It is a
- Author: Watkins, Sam R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01, 2003
- ISBN10: 0743255410
- Language: English
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Last of the Name
$9.99 Read moreTwelve-year-old Danny O’Carolan and his sister, Kathleen, arrive in New York City in 1863, at the height of the Civil War. Kathleen finds a job in domestic service for herself and Danny, hoping to kee
- Author: Parry, Rosanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1728467667
- Language: English
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Slavery and the Making of America
$28.99 Add to cartThe history of slavery is central to understanding the history of the United States. Slavery and the Making of America offers a richly illustrated, vividly written history that illuminates the human s… [more below]
- Author: Horton, James Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0195304519
- Language: English
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The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
$30.00 Add to cartThis first volume of Shelby Foote’s classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Foote, Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 856
- Publish Date: November 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0394746236
- Language: English
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The Little Women Collection (Boxed Set): Little Women; Good Wives; Little Men; Jo’s Boys
$31.99 Add to cart- Series: The Little Women Collection
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 1472
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1534462295
- Language: English
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Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army After Appomattox
$30.00 Add to cartThe Army of Northern Virginia’s chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands o… [more below]
- Author: Janney, Caroline E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1469663376
- Language: English
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Personal Memoirs
$19.00 Add to cart“The foremost military memoir in the English language, written in a clear, supple style . . . a masterpiece.” –Ron Chernow, in Grant
Faced with cancer and financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his p- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Grant, Ulysses S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140437010
- Language: English
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Grant
$41.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017
“Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates, Th- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 159420487X
- Language: English
