Topical/Civil War
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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
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
$23.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book for 2011
Bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring
A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011
A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0312429266
- Language: English
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A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded
$16.95 Read more“I highly recommend reading this supplement in conjunction with Ms. Stowe’s novel to gain a better understanding of the history of our nation.” — The Literary South
In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publi- Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0486794822
- Language: English
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The Cassville Affairs: Johnston, Hood, and the Failed Confederate Strategy in the Atlanta Campaign, 19 May 1864
$39.00 Add to cartCivil War historians have remained baffled over the Cassville controversies for the past 150 plus years. There are two versions of events: Confederate commanding General Joseph E. Johnston’s story, an… [more below]
- Author: Jenkins Sr. Robert D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0881469319
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$15.00 Add to cartThe unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women–with an introduction by Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried and National… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593230361
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$14.95 Add to cart‘The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.’
Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordin- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198709870
- Language: English
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Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction
$23.99 Add to cartThe Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destr… [more below]
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0199843287
- Language: English
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Little Women
$21.99 Add to cartLittle Women is one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time, based on the author’s own youthful experiences.
- Series: Wordsworth Luxe Collection
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1840221941
- Language: English
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The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom
$7.99 Read moreThe images stitched into Hannah’s quilt lead to secret signposts on the Underground Railroad as she and her father take flight from slavery on a perilous path to freedom.
Now that Hannah’s papa has de- Author: Stroud, Bettye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 28 2007
- ISBN10: 0763635197
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
$9.99 Read moreBorn on a Maryland plantation, Frederick Douglass–born Frederick Bailey–doesn’t know the year of his birth. Separated from his mother in infancy, he sees her only a few times, always at night, befo
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1435171934
- Language: English
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A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek
$24.00 Add to cartIn the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Ch
- Author: Kelman, Ari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0674503783
- Language: English
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Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin
$24.95 Add to cartOn a November afternoon in 1864, the weary Gen. John Bell Hood surveyed the army waiting to attack the Federals at Franklin, Tennessee. He gave the signal almost at dusk, and the Confederates rushed f… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, James Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 30 1984
- ISBN10: 0870493973
- Language: English
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Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us about Our Greatest President
$18.00 Read more“An intimate character portrait and fascinating inquiry into the basis of Lincoln’s energetic, curious mind.”–The Wall Street Journal
WINNER OF THE BARONDESS/LINCOLN AWARD – From the New York Times b- Author: White, Ronald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1984855115
- Language: English
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Grant at 200: Reconsidering the Life and Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant
$32.95 Read moreProceeds from this volume will go to support the Ulysses S. Grant Association and the Grant Monument Association.
Ulysses S. Grant stood at the center of the American Civil War maelstrom. The Ohio nati… [more below]
- Author: Mackowski, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216141
- Language: English
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The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac: Volume 2 – From the Gettysburg Retreat Through the Shenan
$34.95 Read more“Al Ovies combines an impressive array of source material and intricate analysis to craft a historical gem. This is a must-read for anyone interested in Civil War cavalry and later war actions in the … [more below]
- Author: Ovies, Adolfo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216176
- Language: English
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Camp William Penn: 1863-1865: 1863-1865
$29.99 Read moreLocated in Chelten Hills just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Camp William Penn was the largest and first Civil War facility to exclusively train Northern-based federal black soldiers during th… [more below]
- Author: Scott, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0764342533
- Language: English
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The US Marine Corps 1775-1859: Continental and United States Marines
$21.00 Read moreFeaturing specially commissioned artwork and archive illustrations, this engrossing study describes the US Marine Corps’ early operations and illustrates its evolving uniforms and personal equipment.
- Series: Elite #251
- Author: Field, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1472851544
- Language: English
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The Suppressed History of American Banking: How Big Banks Fought Jackson, Killed Lincoln, and Caused the Civil War
$16.00 Add to cartReveals how the Rothschild Banking Dynasty fomented war and assassination attempts on 4 presidents in order to create the Federal Reserve Bank
– Explains how the Rothschild family began the War of 181- Author: Haze, Xaviant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1591432332
- Language: English
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Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood
$19.00 Read moreA Christian Science Monitor best book of 2020
“Relentlessly accessible. . . . This is that rare history that tells what influential thinkers failed to think, what famous writers left unwritten.”
–Jill- Author: Woodard, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0525560173
- Language: English
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Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea
$28.00 Read moreHow the work and writings of Frederick Law Olmsted, the founder of American landscape architecture, inspired the creation of parks to benefit the public. During the turbulent decade the United States … [more below]
- Author: Diamant, Rolf
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1952620341
- Language: English
