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Guts & Glory: The American Civil War
$10.99 Add to cartHistory comes alive for kids like no textbook can in this epic account of the American Civil War that’s perfect for history buffs and reluctant readers
From courageous cavalry rides deep into enemy- Series: Guts & Glory #1
- Author: Thompson, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 031632051X
- Language: English
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Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War
$34.95 Add to cart2024 Spur Award Finalist
John Newman Edwards was a soldier, a father, a husband, and a noted author. He was also a virulent alcoholic, a duelist, a culture warrior, and a man perpetually at war with- Author: Hulbert, Matthew Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496211871
- Language: English
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
$19.99 Add to cart“Not for nothing has Abbott been called a ‘pioneer of sizzle history.’ Here she creates a gripping page-turner that moves at a breathtaking clip through the dramatic events of the Civil War.” — Los A
- Author: Abbott, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0062092901
- Language: English
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Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
$22.99 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson became a great and tragic national hero.
Stonewall- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 06, 2015
- ISBN10: 1451673299
- Language: English
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For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
$22.99 Add to cartGeneral John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, sev… [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 05 1998
- ISBN10: 0195124995
- Language: English
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The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations
$30.00 Add to cartPublishers Weekly’s “Top 10” Spring 2024
This groundbreaking book tracks the massive wealth amassed from slavery from pre-Civil War to today,
Amazon’s Best History Book of the Month for February 2024- Author: Montero, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 6, 2024
- ISBN10: 0306827174
- Language: English
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The Boys’ War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War
$14.99 Add to cartThis contemporary classic explores the role of boys who fought in the Civil War. No reader’s vision of America’s most brutal and bloody war will be the same after reading this book.
“This wrenching loo
- Author: Murphy, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: March 22 1993
- ISBN10: 0395664128
- Language: English
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The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West
$39.95 Add to cartKilled in action at the bloody Battle of Shiloh, Confederate general Albert Sidney Johnston stands as the highest-ranking American military officer to die in combat. His unexpected demise had cascadin
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180483
- Language: English
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Cold Mountain: 20th Anniversary Edition
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Award for Fiction
An instant, international bestseller, Charles Frazier’s debut novel of love and peril at the end of the Civil War was a publishing sensation, the inspira
- Author: Frazier, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 13, 2017
- ISBN10: 0802126758
- Language: English
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Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
$29.95 Read moreFrom the New York Times: “The astonishing stories in Shipwrecked … [offer] a fresh perspective on the mess of pitched emotions and politics in a nation at war over slavery.”
Historian Jonathan W. Whi
- Author: White, Jonathan W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1538175010
- Language: English
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History Smashers: The Underground Railroad
$9.99 Add to cartMyths! Lies! Secrets! Uncover the hidden truth about the Underground Railroad and Black Americans’ struggle for freedom. Perfect for fans of I Survived! and Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales.
Before the C- Series: History Smashers
- Author: Messner, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0593428935
- Language: English
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Eyewitness the Civil War
$16.99 Add to cartPacked with stunning photography, Eyewitness American Civil War explores the war that turned the nation against itself.
Become an eyewitness to one of the most important times in US history, in this p- Series: DK Eyewitness
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0744062519
- Language: English
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The Magnificent Mischief of Tad Lincoln
$18.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes a fun picture book biography of Tad Lincoln, his relationship with his father President Abraham Lincoln, and a story about a
- Series: Turnabout Tales
- Author: Arroyo, Raymond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 0310793823
- Language: English
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Grant
$24.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: September 25, 2018
- ISBN10: 0143110632
- Language: English
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On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
$36.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War her… [more below]
- Author: White, Ronald C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0525510087
- Language: English
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
$28.99 Add to cartFilled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.
Jam- Series: Oxford History of the United States (Paperback)
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 936
- Publish Date: December 11 2003
- ISBN10: 019516895X
- Language: English
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Soldier’s Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
$7.99 Read moreIn June 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers. He was 15. He didn’t know what a “shooting war” meant or what he was fighting for. But he didn’t wan… [more below]
- Author: Paulsen, Gary
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0440228387
- Language: English
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The Last Brother: A Civil War Tale
$17.95 Read moreIn July 1863 the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fought outside the sleepy Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. In The Last Brother the story of one small boy is told amidst the dramatic events of t… [more below]
- Series: Tales of Young Americans
- Author: Noble, Trinka Hakes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1585362530
- Language: English
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Susie King Taylor: Nurse, Teacher & Freedom Fighter
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Never Caught and She Came to Slay comes a vibrant middle grade biography of Susie King Taylor, one of the first Black Civil War nurses, in a ne… [more below]
- Series: Rise. Risk. Remember. Incredible Stories of Courageous Black Women
- Author: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1665919949
- Language: English
