Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery
$21.95 Add to cartIn an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate.
- Author: Fogel, Robert William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0393312186
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$11.95 Add to cart‘It was said to me, “Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; ’tis not best that you seem too learned.”‘
Appearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiograp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198820712
- Language: English
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume II: A History of African Americans Since 1880
$23.99 Add to cartThe two volumes of Kelley and Lewis’s To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, f… [more below]
- Author: Kelley, Robin D. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181352
- Language: English
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Fifty-Nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had
$15.99 Add to cart“First-class narrative history that can stand with everything Steven Ambrose wrote. . . . Achorn’s description of the utter insanity that was barehanded baseball is vivid and alive.” —Boston Globe
“A
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061825875
- Language: English
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The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis
$29.95 Add to cartIn the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary W. Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as t
- Author: Gallagher, Gary W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: February 02, 2022
- ISBN10: 080717727X
- Language: English
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The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers’ Struggle for Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle
$39.95 Add to cartThe struggle over the fortified Confederate position known as Spotsylvania’s Mule Shoe was without parallel during the Civil War. A Union assault that began at 4:30 A.M. on May 12, 1864, sparked bruta… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Wert, Jeffry D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1469668424
- Language: English
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The Nra: The Unauthorized History
$21.99 Add to cartFor the first time, the definitive account of America’s most powerful, most secretive, and most controversial nonprofit, and how far it has strayed from its origins.
The National Rifle Association is- Author: Smyth, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1250210305
- Language: English
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Modigliani
$23.33 Add to cartIn endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His languid female subjects are as instantly recognizable as
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Krystof, Doris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 3836503670
- Language: English
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Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult
$24.95 Add to cartAleister Crowley is best known today as a founding father of modern occultism. His wide, hypnotic eyes peer at us from the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and his influenc
- Author: Spence, Richard B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1932595333
- Language: English
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Seward’s Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase
$30.95 Read moreThe Alaska Purchase–denounced at the time as “Seward’s Folly” but now seen as a masterstroke–is well known in American history. But few know the rest of the story.
This book aims to correct that. L… [more below]- Author: Farrow, Lee A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1602233039
- Language: English
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Lincoln and the Power of the Press
$42.99 Add to cart“Lincoln believed that ‘with public sentiment nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.’ Harold Holzer makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Lincoln’s leadership by showing
- Author: Holzer, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: September 29, 2015
- ISBN10: 1439192723
- Language: English
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Brigades of Antietam: The Union and Confederate Brigades during the 1862 Maryland Campaign: The Union and Confederate Brigades
$34.95 Add to cartThe first in a series of books about the Battle and the Maryland Campaign.
While the 1862 Maryland Campaign has been extensively studied, a comprehensive treatment of the part played by each unit has b
- Author: Gottfried, Bradley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 492
- Publish Date: August 06 2021
- ISBN10: 9798218179335
- Language: English
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
$25.99 Add to cartAbsorbing . . . Riveting . . . A legal thriller.–Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book Review
Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town like many where African Americans and whites mingle- Author: Lane, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0805089225
- Language: English
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The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command
$35.00 Add to cartThe Battle of Gettysburg remains one of the most controversial military actions in America’s history, and one of the most studied.Professor Coddington’s is an analysis not only of the battle proper, b… [more below]
- Author: Coddington, Edwin B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0684845695
- Language: English
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Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1963
$25.00 Add to cartA matchless account of the Battle of Gettysburg, drawn from Shelby Foote’s landmark history of the Civil War
Shelby Foote’s monumental three-part chronicle, The Civil War: A Narrative, was hailed by- Series: Modern Library of the World’s Best Books
- Author: Foote, Shelby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 28 1994
- ISBN10: 0679601120
- Language: English
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To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign
$29.99 Add to cartTo the Gates of Richmond charts the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, General George McClellan’s grand scheme to march up the Virginia Peninsula and take the Confederate capital. For three months McClellan
- Author: Sears, Stephen W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 21 2011
- ISBN10: 0618127135
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$4.50 Read moreThe basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie
A moving, vital testament to one of slavery’s ‘many thousand gone’ who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation. — Saturday Review Born a f- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 19 2014
- ISBN10: 0486789624
- Language: English
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With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln
$19.99 Add to cart“The standard one-volume biography of Lincoln.” —Washington Post
“Certainly the most objective biography of Lincoln ever written.” –David Herbert Donald, New York Times Book Review
The definitive life
- Author: Oates, Stephen B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0060924713
- Language: English
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Day by Day Through the Civil W
$37.00 Add to cartUntil now, a daily account (1,630 days) of Georgia’s social, political, economic, and military events during the Civil War did not exist. During the 160 years since the conflict’s termination, many fi… [more below]
- Author: Shaffer, Michael K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 088146824X
- Language: English
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George Washington Carver: A Life
$34.95 Add to cartNearly every American can cite at least one of the accomplishments of George Washington Carver. The many tributes honoring his contributions to scientific advancement and black history include a natio
- Series: Southern Biography
- Author: Vella, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: February 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177199
- Language: English
