Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor
$29.95 Read moreSelected by Civil War Interactive as One of the Top Civil War Books of All Time
On April 12, 1862–one year to the day after Confederate guns opened on Fort Sumter and started the Civil War–a tall,- Author: Bonds, Russell S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1594160783
- Language: English
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The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy
$28.95 Read moreThe story of the unique relationship between Lee and Jackson, two leaders who chiseled a strategic path forward against the odds and almost triumphed.
Why were Generals Lee and Jackson so successful i- Author: Keller, Christian B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1643131346
- Language: English
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Hidden Cargo
$27.95 Read moreFive months after the end of the Civil War, Acting Navy Lieutenant Everett Townsend is awaiting discharge in Key West. The end of the war has left him uncertain about his future and full of regret abo
- Author: Lloyd, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072315
- Language: English
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Tennessee Rose
$7.99 Read moreAlabama, 1856. Tennessee Rose is a dark bay Tennessee Walking Horse with a rose-shaped marking on her forehead. She loves dashing around the plantation in the running walk that her breed is famous for… [more below]
- Series: Horse Diaries (Quality) #9
- Author: Kendall, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0375870067
- Language: English
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Great Speeches
$8.00 Read moreFor someone who claimed he had been educated by littles — a little now and a little then — Abraham Lincoln displayed a remarkable facility in his use of the written word. The simple yet memorable el… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Lincoln, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 20 1991
- ISBN10: 0486268721
- Language: English
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Marie Curie
$8.99 Read moreNow in paperback! In this international bestseller from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist.
When Marie was- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #6
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0711284067
- Language: English
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House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
$14.95 Read moreOn September 11, 1857, some 120 men, women, and children from the Arkansas hills were murdered in the remote desert valley of Mountain Meadows, Utah. This notorious massacre was, in fact, a mass execu
- Author: Novak, Shannon A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 27 2008
- ISBN10: 1607811693
- Language: English
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All about Julia Morgan
$7.99 Read moreAll About Julia Morgan was a finalist for the 2019 Foreword Magazine INDIE Awards for juvenile non-fiction.
- Series: All about
- Author: Perry, Phyllis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1681570955
- Language: English
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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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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
$8.99 Read moreAn ancient book is opened by the eccentric Professor Lidenbrock and his life – and the life of his nephew Axel – is changed for ever. An old piece of paper has tumbled from the book, a priceless parch… [more below]
- Series: Puffin Classics
- Author: Verne, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0141321040
- Language: English
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Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors
$8.99 Read moreKeesia and Henri Matisse have the same birthday–New Year’s Eve That’s why she picks him for her artist report. She finds out that over his long career Matisse made paintings, sculpture, books, costu… [more below]
- Series: Smart about Art
- Author: O’Connor, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 18 2002
- ISBN10: 044842519X
- Language: English
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River Master: John Wesley Powell’s Legendary Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1869, Civil War veteran and amputee Major John Powell led an expedition down the uncharted Colorado River through the then-nameless Grand Canyon. This is the story of what started as a geological s… [more below]
- Author: Kuhne, Cecil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1682685187
- Language: English
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Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
$32.00 Read moreThe half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling w
- Author: Masur, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1324005939
- Language: English
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The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
$30.00 Add to cartA penetrating, character-filled history “in the manner of David McCullough” (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics.
Democracy was broken. Or that was what many American- Author: Grinspan, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1635574625
- Language: English
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Ten Days in a Mad-House: A Story of the Intrepid Reporter
$7.95 Read moreAt the age of 23, pioneering reporter Nellie Bly faked dementia in order to expose abuses of patients in Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum in New York City. Such investigative journalism was unusual in… [more below]
- Author: Bly, Nellie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0486835448
- Language: English
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Nimitz
$33.95 Read moreCalled a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, first published in 1976 and now available in paperback for the firs… [more below]
- Author: Potter, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 15 2008
- ISBN10: 1591145805
- Language: English
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Knots Untied
$29.00 Read moreKnots Untied is J. C. Ryle’s leading work in defence of the evangelicalism of the Church of England. When first published in 1874 it proved immensely popular, and by 1885 it was reprinted in a tenth e… [more below]
- Author: Ryle, John Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1848716826
- Language: English
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The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France
$42.00 Read moreIn fin-de-si cle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a strikin… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Hustvedt, Asti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1096
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1890951072
- Language: English
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Mrs. Lincoln’s Sisters
$16.99 Read more“A fascinating glimpse into the women of an influential family on the front lines of some of the most important moments of that indelible time.”–Booklist
The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs.
- Author: Chiaverini, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0062975986
- Language: English
