United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Hidden History of Civil War South Carolina
$24.99 Read moreUntold Stories of the War Between the States
All of South Carolina’s history during the Civil War isn’t well known. Author D. Michael Thomas has uncovered fifty accounts of lost history pertaining to t
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Thomas, D. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158070
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
$19.99 Add to cartWe are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant
- Author: Sinha, Manisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096284
- Language: English
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Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery
$32.00 Add to cartA dramatic history of how American Jews reckoned with slavery–and fought the Civil War.
Since ancient times, the Jewish people have recalled the story of Exodus and reflected on the implications of h- Author: Kreitner, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0374608458
- Language: English
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Warriors for Liberty: William Dollarson & Michigan’s Civil War African Americans
$24.95 Add to cartMichigan’s African Americans played critical roles in winning the Civil War and setting millions of fellow Americans forever free. The 1st Michigan Colored Infantry Regiment, more than 1,500 strong, h
- Author: Dempsey, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: October 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1961302780
- Language: English
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Civil War Stories: 40 of the Greatest Tales about the War Between the States
$19.95 Add to cartBetween the first shots fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, the nation was irrevocably changed, as were the lives of the soldiers and … [more below]
- Series: Jumbo Story Collections
- Author: Underwood, Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493060848
- Language: English
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – An “extraordinary … profoundly moving” history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on suc… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Faust, Drew Gilpin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0375703837
- Language: English
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, … [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1501116231
- Language: English
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Gettysburg
$21.99 Add to cartA comprehensive history of the Battle of Gettysburg by one of today’s leading historians.
The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s … [more below]
- Author: Sears, Stephen W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 623
- Publish Date: November 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0618485384
- Language: English
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Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War
$49.95 Add to cartFinalist for the American Battlefield Trust Book Prize
The fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so that many scholars rarely question the standard n- Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- Author: Rable, George C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179779
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
$39.99 Add to cartWe are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant
- Author: Sinha, Manisha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1631498444
- Language: English
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Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
$30.00 Add to cart“James M. McPherson’s Tried by War is a perfect primer . . . for anyone who wishes to understand the evolution of the president’s role as commander in chief. Few historians write as well as … [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0143116142
- Language: English
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It Took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom
$22.95 Read moreIn 1860, Eliza Winston escaped enslavement while traveling in Minnesota, where she secured her freedom through legal appeal. Her story adds powerful testimony to African American experiences and perse… [more below]
- Author: Lehman, Christopher P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1681342820
- Language: English
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On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
$44.95 Add to cartWith On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeaste
- Author: Rhea, Gordon C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: September 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0807167479
- Language: English
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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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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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Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction
$24.99 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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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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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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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
