Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War
$18.00 Read moreHow partisan politics lead to the Civil War
What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this bril- Author: Holt, Michael F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0809044390
- 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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Champagne Charlie: The Frenchman Who Taught Americans to Love Champagne
$32.95 Add to cartA New York Times Best Wine Book of 2021
Champagne Charlie tells the story of a dashing young Frenchman, Charles Heidsieck, who introduced hard-drinking Americans to champagne in the mid-nineteenth cen- Author: Kladstrup, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640123946
- 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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Load in Nine Times: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartFor decades, Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry: from Medgar Evers in Turn Me Loose, winner of the NAACP Award; to York, the enslaved expl
- Author: Walker, Frank X.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324094931
- Language: English
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Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America’s Legendary Racehorse
$22.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “A vivid portrait of America’s greatest stallion, the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, and the dramatic times in which they lived.”–Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse… [more below]
- Author: Wickens, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0593496728
- Language: English
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Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region
$24.00 Add to cartThe Reconstruction era was born from the tumult and violence of the Civil War and delivered the most powerful changes the United States had seen since its founding. Black Americans in Washington, D.C…. [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Masur, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1469680181
- Language: English
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Deluxe Hardbound Edition
$16.99 Read moreIn light of accumulating significant debts, Arthur Shelby, a farmer from Kentucky, finds himself on the verge of losing his entire estate. Despite his and his wife’s compassionate treatment of their s… [more below]
- Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: August 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9358565713
- 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
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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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A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded
$16.95 Read more“I highly recommend reading this supplement in conjunction with Ms. Stowe’s novel to gain a better understanding of the history of our nation.” — The Literary South
In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publi- Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0486794822
- Language: English
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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War
$19.99 Add to cartThey were both prewar failures–Grant, forced to resign from the Regular Army because of his drinking, and Sherman, holding four different jobs, including a much-loved position at a southern military
- Author: Flood, Charles Bracelen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0061148717
- 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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Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln’s Vital Rival
$36.00 Read moreAn NPR Best Book of 2022
From an acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer, an “eloquently written, impeccably researched, and intensely moving” (The Wall Street Journal) reassessment of Abraham- Author: Stahr, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1501199234
- Language: English
