United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom
$17.95 Read moreFrom the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln–two men moved to radically different acts t… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0525563458
- Language: English
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All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War’s Pivotal Battle
$29.95 Read moreIt has long been a trope of Civil War history that Gettysburg was an accidental battlefield. General Lee, the old story goes, marched blindly into Pennsylvania while his chief cavalryman Jeb Stuart ro
- Author: Harman, Troy D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 081177063X
- Language: English
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If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg. Volume 2: June 22-30, 1863
$34.95 Read moreAward-winning authors Scott L. Mingus Sr. and Eric J. Wittenberg are back with the second and final installment of “If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania” The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of t… [more below]
- Author: Mingus, Scott L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216117
- Language: English
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Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
$35.00 Read moreAn intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War
Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abol- Author: Egerton, Douglas R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0465096646
- Language: English
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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater
$19.95 Read moreFrom the American Battlefield Trust, the collection of their popular battle maps of the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
“I just love those maps that you guys send to me.” It is a phrase tha- Series: Maps from the American Battlefield Trust #2
- Author: American Battlefield Trust
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1682619931
- Language: English
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The Petersburg Campaign: Volume 2 – The Western Front Battles, September 1864 – April 1865
$22.95 Read moreWinner, 2014, The Douglas Southall Freeman Award
The wide-ranging and largely ignored operations around Petersburg, Virginia, were the longest and most extensive of the entire Civil War. The fighting b… [more below]- Author: Bearss, Edwin C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1611215331
- Language: English
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A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
$20.00 Read moreDecember 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this
- Author: Matteson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 039388242X
- Language: English
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Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings (Loa #358)
$40.00 Read moreLibrary of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published
Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of A- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 969
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537229
- Language: English
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The Civil War: A Concise History
$21.99 Add to cartOne hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America’s social… [more below]
- Author: Masur, Louis P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0199740488
- Language: English
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The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Volume II – Antietam
$26.95 Read moreAntietam is the eagerly awaited second volume of Ezra Carman’s magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862.
Many authors have written about the climactic September 17 battle of the 1862 invasio… [more below]
- Author: Carman, Ezra A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1611216060
- Language: English
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Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862
$16.95 Read more“Attack at daylight and whip them” –that was the Confederate plan on the morning of April 6, 1862. The unsuspecting Union Army of the Tennessee, commanded by Major General Ulysses S. Grant, had gathe… [more below]
- Series: Emerging Civil War
- Author: Mertz, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1611213134
- Language: English
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Wilderness of Destruction
$39.00 Read moreModern historians have consistently treated Florida as a military backwater. Despite that assessment, Rebel guerrillas blocked repeated Union attempts to establish a stronghold in the Florida’s interi… [more below]
- Author: Waters, Zack C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0881468819
- Language: English
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The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
$13.99 Add to cartMore than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout Americ… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Masur, Louis P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0197513662
- Language: English
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Contrasts in Command: The Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 – June 1, 1862
$34.95 Read more“The author’s new and important study concentrates on the Fair Oaks part of the battle. His research is thorough, he has walked the ground, and his narrative brings the battle to life.” — Doug Crensh… [more below]
- Author: Vignola, Victor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216826
- Language: English
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Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons
$29.95 Read moreAdvancing the cause of racial equality while saving lives
Of some twelve thousand Union Civil War surgeons, only fourteen were Black men. This book is the first-ever comprehensive exploration of thei- Series: Engaging the Civil War
- Author: Newmark, Jill L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0809339048
- Language: English
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Abraham Lincoln, His Speeches and Writings
$39.99 Add to cartThis volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln’s most important speeches, state papers, and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces–the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, … [more below]
- Author: Basler, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 888
- Publish Date: December 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0306810751
- Language: English
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‘Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North
$34.95 Add to cartJames McPherson’s classic book For Cause & Comrades explained “why men fought in the Civil War”–and spurred countless other historians to ask and attempt to answer the same question. But few have exp
- Author: Taylor, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0811775380
- Language: English
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A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War
$32.00 Add to cartFrom popular historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law–the Kansas-Nebraska Act–unexp… [more below]
- Author: Brown, David S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1668022818
- Language: English
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A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
$32.50 Add to cartThe Battle of Antietam, which took place on September 17, 1862, remains the single bloodiest day in America’s history: more than 3,600 men died in twelve hours of savage fighting, and more than 17,000
- Author: Budiansky, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035757
- Language: English
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A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin
$28.99 Add to cartThe remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story
In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher
- Author: Ashton, Susanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978199
- Language: English
