United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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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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The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World
$37.00 Add to cartA sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the Americas
The Age of Reconstruction looks beyond- Series: America in the World #54
- Author: Doyle, Don H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0691256098
- Language: English
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My Dearest Lilla: Letters Home from Civil War General Jacob D. Cox
$29.95 Add to cartJacob D. Cox experienced more facets of the Civil War than most officers: by land and sea, in both Western and Eastern Theaters, among the inner political circles of Ohio and Washington, DC, in territ… [more below]
- Series: Voices of the Civil War
- Author: Schmiel, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 162190797X
- Language: English
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The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913
$32.95 Add to cart“In this groundbreaking study, author John L. Hopkins deftly examines the reunion through the lens of the veterans within the context of society, politics, and the national mood at the time.” — Scott… [more below]
- Author: Hopkins, John L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216842
- Language: English
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The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer. When Abraham Lincoln assumed the presidency in 1861, the United States’ constitu- Author: Feldman, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 125085878X
- Language: English
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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive history of the First Minnesota Volunteers in the Civil War.
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Moe, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 367
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0873514068
- Language: English
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When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession
$46.58 Add to cartUsing primary documents from both foreign and domestic observers, prominent scholar Charles Adams makes a powerful and convincing case that the Southern states were legitimately exercising their polit… [more below]
- Author: Adams, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0847697231
- Language: English
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The Western Confederacy’s Final Gamble: From Atlanta to Franklin to Nashville
$29.95 Add to cartAfter Major General William Tecumseh Sherman’s forces ravaged Atlanta in 1864, Ulysses S. Grant urged him to complete the primary mission Grant had given him: to destroy the Confederate Army in Georgi… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, James Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 162190010X
- Language: English
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Michigan and the Civil War: A Great and Bloody Sacrifice
$21.99 Add to cartMichigan undertook a rapid and robust response to Lincoln’s call to arms during the Civil War and in many of its great battles. Read the much overlooked history in this volume.
With lively narration, t
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Dempsey, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 02 2011
- ISBN10: 1609491734
- Language: English
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Our Suffering Brave: Waitsfield Boys and Men in the Civil War
$29.99 Add to cart163 boys and men from Waitsfield, Vermont joined the Union Army and fought in the Civil War. Their individual stories of bravery as well as suffering-from wounds, sickness, and/or deprivation during i
- Author: Evans, Alice May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1937667332
- Language: English
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The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union
$39.95 Add to cartIn this companion to The Life of Johnny Reb, Bell Irvin Wiley explores the daily lives of the men in blue who fought to save the Union. With the help of many soldiers’ letters and diaries, Wiley expla
- Series: Political Traditions in Foreign Policy
- Author: Wiley, Bell Irvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0807133752
- Language: English
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Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures wa… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0190454792
- Language: English
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To Die Game: The Story of the Lowry Band, Indian Guerillas of Reconstruction
$19.95 Add to cartDuring the Civil War many young Lumbee Indians of North Carolina hid in the swamps to avoid conscription into Confederate labor battalions and carried on a running guerilla war. To Die Game is the sto… [more below]
- Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors
- Author: Evans, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0815603592
- Language: English
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The Confederacy’s Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
$32.99 Add to cartFollowing the fall of Atlanta, rebel commander John Bell Hood rallied his demoralized troops and marched them off the Tennessee, desperately hoping to draw Sherman after him and forestall the Confeder… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Sword, Wiley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 18 1993
- ISBN10: 0700606505
- Language: English
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The Town That Started the Civil War
$19.00 Add to cartBefore the War Between the States, there was the war between the U.S. government and Oberlin, Ohio. . . .
“A fascinating, gripping narrative.”–James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
On a- Author: Brandt, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: July 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0440503965
- Language: English
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
$41.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Rich… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States
- Author: White, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0199735816
- Language: English
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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam
$19.98 Add to cartThe Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed–four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number … [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0195173309
- Language: English
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Lions of the Dan: The Untold Story of Armistead’s Brigade
$18.95 Add to cartA presentation of never-before-published information and overlooked details of Pickett’s Charge drawn from primary sources.
- Author: Brandau, J. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1642793086
- Language: English
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The Dreaded 13th Tennessee Union Cavalry: Marauding Mountain Men
$21.99 Add to cartTennessee’s Thirteenth Union Cavalry was a unit composed mostly of amateur soldiers that eventually turned undisciplined boys into seasoned fighters. At the outbreak of the Civil War, East Tennessee w… [more below]
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Storie, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 159
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 1626191123
- Language: English
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A History of the Civil War: The Conflict That Defined the United States
$12.99 Read moreIn this illustrated account of the bloodiest war fought on American soil, civil war expert Brooks Simpson recounts the events of the war from the opening salvo at Fort Sumter through the battlefields
- Series: Sirius Military History
- Author: Simpson, Brooks
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1398826146
- Language: English
