United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
$39.99 Add to cartIn a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035285
- Language: English
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Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
$32.00 Read moreWinner of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians * Winner of the Lincoln Forum Book Prize * Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
A propulsive account of our history- Author: Grinspan, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1639730648
- Language: English
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Rebel Falls
$28.95 Add to cartWinner of the W.Y. Boyd Literary Novel Award for Excellence in Military Fiction by the Academic Council of the United Nations System.
With Rebel Falls, Tim Wendel takes us to late summer of 1864. The C
- Author: Wendel, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1501774883
- Language: English
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The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History
$20.00 Add to cartThe 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0802162681
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War
$35.00 Add to cartOne historian’s journey to find the end of the Civil War–and, along the way, to expand our understanding of the nature of war itself and how societies struggle to draw the line between war and peace … [more below]
- Author: Vorenberg, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1524733172
- Language: English
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Battles of the Civil War: A Captivating Guide to the Battle of Fort Sumter, First and Second Manassas, Pea Ridge, Shiloh, Antietam, Chancellorsv
$37.99 Add to cartEleven manuscripts in one book:
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- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 586
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1637169868
- Language: English
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The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War
$21.99 Add to cartHistorical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Mark M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190658525
- Language: English
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The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story
$19.00 Read moreOur idea of the Founders’ America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders, but we can be the heirs of Reconstruction and its vision for equality.
There’s a common story we te- Author: Roosevelt III, Kermit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829510
- Language: English
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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
$20.00 Add to cartA 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 dismantle the KKK
The Ku Klux Klan, which- Author: Bordewich, Fergus M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593310829
- Language: English
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Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
$18.00 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
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 059346768X
- Language: English
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Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Ground Breaking, longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a riveting saga of the last year of the Civil War–and a revealing new account of the assassination of Abraham Li… [more below]
- Author: Ellsworth, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0593475615
- Language: English
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The Pathfinder and the President: John C. Fr?mont, Abraham Lincoln, and the Battle for Emancipation
$32.95 Add to cartTwo towering figures of American history collide in this riveting account of how the struggle between Lincoln and his defiant general John C. Fr?mont shaped the Civil War and emancipation.
“… a mas- Author: Bicknell, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0811776654
- Language: English
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Such Troops as These: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson
$27.00 Add to cartAcclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a provocative analysis of Stonewall Jackson’s military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson’s strategies had… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Bevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0425271307
- Language: English
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The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment
$35.00 Add to cartReimagining one of the oldest genres of Civil War history, this book engagingly presents the story of the war and its aftermath through the lens of a single regiment, the Sixth Wisconsin. One of the c… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Marten, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1469684233
- Language: English
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A Campaign of Giants–The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 2: From the Crater’s Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill
$45.00 Add to cartGrinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War’s longest and among its most complex. A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg offers a gripping, comprehens… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Greene, A. Wilson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 712
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1469684810
- Language: English
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The Battle for the Black Mind
$30.00 Add to cartA gripping chronicle of the relentless fight for Black educational freedom–and the bold strategies to protect, nourish, and empower Black minds.
The Battle for the Black Mind is an explosive historic- Author: Brown, Karida L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1538768437
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War
$28.99 Add to cartWealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew had it all. Money, charm, wit–the most elegant mansion in Richmond. So why risk everything to become a Union spy?
The answer was simple: freedom. In this grip
- Author: Willis, Gerri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0063333651
- Language: English
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1861: The Lost Peace
$35.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning historian and New York Times bestselling author of April 1865: The Month That Saved America Jay Winik, a gripping account of the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s decision to go… [more below]
- Author: Winik, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1538735121
- Language: English
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The Other Civil War: Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America
$12.99 Add to cartDrawn from his New York Times bestseller A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn’s The Other Civil War offers the historian and activist’s view of the social and civil background of the A
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 006207900X
- Language: English
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The Rialto in Richmond: The Money War Between the States & Other Mysteries of the Civil War
$19.95 Add to cartJoin revisionist author Joseph P. Farrell for a look at the money war between the Union government and the Confederacy. A rialto is a market or place of exchange, and in The Rialto in Richmond: the Mo… [more below]
- Author: Farrell, Joseph P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1948803739
- Language: English
