United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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War In The Mountains: The Macbeth Light Artillery at Asheville, NC 1864-1865
$24.95 Add to cartDuring the War Between the States, the mountains of North Carolina were a hotbed of internecine strife where the phrase “brother against brother” truly applied. By late 1863, the Confederate governme
- Author: Askew, J. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 538
- Publish Date: December 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1644685760
- Language: English
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Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
$20.00 Add to cartA brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story–Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0802148751
- Language: English
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The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln’s Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby’s Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America’
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Indispensables, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America’s modern s
- Author: O’Donnell, Patrick K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 080216286X
- Language: English
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The Civil War
$24.99 Add to cart“Nothing in our time makes the Civil War as alive as the writings of Bruce Catton.” —Baltimore Sun
Infinitely readable and absorbing, Pulitzer Prize-winner Bruce Catton’s The Civil War is one of the m… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage Books
- Author: Catton, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: December 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0618001875
- Language: English
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction (Loa #350): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Whichblack Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstructdemocracy i
$45.00 Add to cartA definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War’s aftermath and the legacy of racism in America
Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois’s now classi- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1097
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1598537032
- Language: English
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The South Was Right
$14.99 Add to cartNapoleon defined history as “fiction agreed upon”. It’s written by victors and often one-sided. This book tells a story from the other side. It shakes the foundation of everything you’ve been taught a
- Author: Steel, Samuel Augustus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1396321853
- Language: English
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Jim Bridger, Mountain Man: A Biography
$21.95 Add to cartEven among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He couldn’t write his name, but at eighteen he had brav
- Author: Vestal, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 333
- Publish Date: March 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0803257201
- Language: English
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Mud, Blood and Cold Steel: The Retreat from Nashville, December 1864
$19.95 Add to cartMud, Blood & Cold Steel: The Retreat from Nashville, December 1864 takes a fresh look, for the first time with campaign and battle maps, at the unprecedented and brutal pursuit of the Army of Tennesse
- Author: Zimmerman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0985869267
- Language: English
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Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
$18.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking and “affecting and powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Abraham Lincoln’s plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War–a vision that inspired future p… [more below]
- Author: Avlon, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1982108134
- Language: English
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A Soldiers Cookbook 1863 – The Battle of Gettysburg 150th Anniversity Edition
$10.00 Add to cartAn army marches on its stomach – Napoleon Bonaparte As far back in history as Napoleon, officers knew that to be effective an army needs good and plentiful food. Without good food a soldier loses thei… [more below]
- Author: Drawbaugh, Dean C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0989268012
- Language: English
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An Environmental History of the Civil War
$34.50 Add to cartThis sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans’ relationship to the natural world. To be sure, envir… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Browning, Judkin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1469655381
- Language: English
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Sins of My Brothers: Suffering an Uncivil War
$38.95 Add to cartSins of My Brothers is the historic account of a harrowing and gritty tale of survival, a true story fueled by greed, corruption, and incompetence. The confluence of disastrous decisions result in hea
- Author: Perry, Phillip Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988975908
- Language: English
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
$18.95 Add to cartSelected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln’s lifelong engagement with the nation’s critical issue: American s… [more below]
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 26 2011
- ISBN10: 039334066X
- Language: English
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The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy
$18.99 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Washington’s Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War–and the Union agent resolved to stop
- Author: Rose, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0063277891
- Language: English
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Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
$22.99 Add to cartWinner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award
Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize
Winner of an Army Historical Founda… [more below]- Author: Miller, Donald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1451641397
- Language: English
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Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
$30.00 Read moreThe remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia–the free state directly … [more below]
- Author: Diemer, Andrew K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593534387
- Language: English
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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
$20.00 Add to cartFrom 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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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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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
