United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Reconstruction Updated Edition: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
$25.99 Add to cartFrom the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.
Eric Foner’s “masterful treatment
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: December 2, 2014
- ISBN10: 0062354515
- 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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To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
$19.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
Fox News Channel’s Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant
“To Rescue the Republic is narrative history at its absolute finest. A fast-paced,
- Author: Baier, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0063039567
- Language: English
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Stay and Fight It Out: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp’s Hill and the North End of the Battlefield
$16.95 Read moreRecounts the often-overlooked fight that secured the Union position and set the stage for the Gettysburg battle’s fateful final day.
July 1, 1863, was a disaster for the Union army’s XI Corps. Shattere… [more below]
- Series: Emerging Civil War
- Author: White, Kristopher D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1611213312
- 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 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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A People’s History of the United States
$45.00 Add to cartTHE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A wonderful, splendid book–a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0062693018
- Language: English
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Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
$41.99 Add to cartThe story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman’s most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants.
Publishers Weekly- Author: Fields-Black, Edda L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 776
- Publish Date: February 09 2024
- ISBN10: 019755279X
- Language: English
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Sheridan’s Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War
$30.00 Read moreA deeply researched, narrative history recounting the little-known late-Reconstruction era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union Army hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War t
- Author: Cwiklik, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0062950649
- Language: English
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Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science
$32.50 Add to cartThe untold story of two sisters whose discoveries sped the growth of American science in the nineteenth century, combining “meticulous research and sensitive storytelling” (Janice P. Nimura, New York … [more below]
- Author: McNeur, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1541674170
- Language: English
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Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
$30.00 Add to cartAn intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today–by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincol… [more below]
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593534441
- Language: English
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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
$35.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil–when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to disma… [more below]
- Author: Bordewich, Fergus M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593317815
- Language: English
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
$17.95 Read moreAn authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstruction amendments from their origins in antebellum activis
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358526
- Language: English
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
$29.99 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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The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America’s Soul
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington’s Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Abraham Lincoln- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 052554058X
- Language: English
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The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History
$30.00 Read moreThe vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in American history–Abraham Lincoln’s history-changing nomination to lead the Republican Party in the 1860 presid
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 080216062X
- Language: English
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Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army After Appomattox
$23.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1469674300
- Language: English
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
$21.00 Add to cart“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history–the spot under our country’s rug where the terrorism… [more below]
- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0525559558
- Language: English
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Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
$19.00 Add to cart“Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency.” –Ron Chernow
In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history departm- Author: Seidule, Ty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250239281
- Language: English
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
$24.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking history demonstrating that America’s economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people
Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians- Author: Baptist, Edward E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 25, 2016
- ISBN10: 0465049664
- Language: English
