Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
$25.00 Add to cartWhen it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove … [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Cox, Karen L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1469662671
- Language: English
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Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union
$30.00 Read moreFrom journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a “powerful revisionist account”of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner).
The n- Author: Kreitner, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 18, 2020
- ISBN10: 0316510602
- Language: English
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Visual Antietam Vol. 1: Ezra Carman’s Antietam Through Maps and Pictures: Dawn to Dunker Church
$19.95 Add to cartModern students of the Battle of Antietam owe a large debt to Ezra A. Carman. Colonel of the 13th New Jersey Infantry and then brigade commander, he devoted much of his later life to preserving the hi
- Author: Carman, Ezra a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: December 01 2018
- ISBN10: 173259760X
- Language: English
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Freemasons at Gettysburg
$14.95 Add to cartAlthough it has been traced to the 10th Century, BC, history indicates that the fraternity of Freemasons was introduced into England in 926 AD. As an association that continues to thrive today, the br
- Author: Munn, Sheldon a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: April 21 2014
- ISBN10: 1620064022
- Language: English
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Discovering the Civil War in Florida: A Reader and Guide, Second Edition
$30.00 Add to cartA chronicle of Civil War activity in Florida, both land and sea maneuvers. For each engagement the author includes excerpts from official government reports by officers on both sides of the battle lin
- Author: Taylor, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 156164529X
- Language: English
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West Virginia and the Civil War: Mountaineers Are Always Free
$32.99 Add to cartThe only state born as a result of the Civil War, West Virginia was the most divided state in the nation. About forty thousand of its residents served in the combatant forces about twenty thousand on … [more below]
- Author: Snell, Mark A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: August 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1540223957
- Language: English
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
$32.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, … [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1501116223
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$26.00 Add to cartFamilies trapped in poverty and systemic injustices. Children denied civil rights because of race. A nation with immense potential for freedom spiraling into prejudice, violence, and hate.
The countr- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1637631707
- Language: English
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Commanding Lincoln’s Navy: Union Naval Leadership During the Civil War
$24.95 Add to cartThe Union Navy played a vital role in winning the Civil War by blockading Confederate ports, cooperating with the Union Army in amphibious assaults, and operating on the Mississippi River and its trib
- Author: Taaffe, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1682479277
- Language: English
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Rebel Gold: One Man’s Quest to Crack the Code Behind the Secret Treasure of the Confederacy
$19.99 Add to cartWhat if a secret society, founded during the Civil War, accumulated a fortune in gold coins in the hopes of someday funding a second war between the states? What if they buried their treasure in a vas… [more below]
- Author: Brewer, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0743219694
- Language: English
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Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation
$27.99 Add to cartFletcher Pratt Award
McLemore Prize In the spring of 1862, there was no more important place in the western Confederacy–perhaps in all the South–than the tiny town of Corinth, Mississippi. Major Gen- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0700623450
- Language: English
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Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBeneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamen… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0195367804
- Language: English
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Upton and the Army
$24.95 Add to cartEmory Upton (1839-1881) was “the epitome of a professional soldier,” according to Stephen E. Ambrose. Indeed, his entire adult life was devoted to the single-minded pursuit of a military career. Upton
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0807118508
- Language: English
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Brigades of Antietam: The Union and Confederate Brigades during the 1862 Maryland Campaign: The Union and Confederate Brigades
$44.95 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 492
- Publish Date: August 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0578964287
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Gettysburg, Second Edition: Experiencing the Battlefield Through Its History, Places, and People
$28.00 Add to cartThis second, updated edition of the acclaimed A Field Guide to Gettysburg will lead visitors to every important site across the battlefield and also give them ways to envision the action and empathize… [more below]
- Author: Reardon, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: May 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1469633361
- Language: English
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Robert E. Lee on Leadership: Lessons in Character, Courage, and Vision
$19.99 Read more“A masterpiece–the best work of its kind I have ever read. Crocker’s Lee is a Lee for all leaders to study; and to work, quite deliberately, to emulate.” — Major General Josiah Bunting III, superint… [more below]
- Author: Crocker, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1684514916
- Language: English
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An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, Alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1
$17.98 Add to cart“I don’t know how long before i shall have to go into the field of battle. For my part i don’t care. I don’t feel afraid to go. I don’t believe there are any Rebel’s bullet made for me yet.”–Pvt. Lyo… [more below]
- Author: Wakeman, Sarah Rosetta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 29 1996
- ISBN10: 0195102436
- Language: English
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America
$19.99 Add to cartOne month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee’s harrowing retreat, and then, Appomattox. It saw Lincoln’s assassination just f
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winik, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0060899689
- Language: English
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Union General: Samuel Ryan Curtis and Victory in the West
$34.95 Add to cart2023 A. M. Pate, Jr. Award in Civil War History
Union General is the first biography of Samuel Ryan Curtis, the most important and most successful general on either side in the Civil War west of the M- Author: Shea, William L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125183
- Language: English
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My Dearest Julia: The Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife
$19.95 Read moreThe Civil War’s greatest general as you’ve never seen him before: A revealing collection of letters written by Ulysses S. Grant to his wife, Julia, perfect for American history buffs.
Grant’s intima… [more below]- Author: Grant, Ulysses S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 183
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1598535897
- Language: English
