Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Grant
$24.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017
“Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates, Th- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: September 25, 2018
- ISBN10: 0143110632
- Language: English
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Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
$35.00 Add to cartFinalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography
A “compelling portrait” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) of the controversial C
American Battlefield Trust Prize for History Finalist- Author: Varon, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982148276
- Language: English
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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
$35.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil–when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to disma… [more below]
- Author: Bordewich, Fergus M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593317815
- Language: English
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On Juneteenth
$15.95 Add to cartWeaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth,
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 04, 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498835
- Language: English
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
$17.95 Read moreAn authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstruction amendments from their origins in antebellum activis
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358526
- Language: English
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On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
$36.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War her… [more below]
- Author: White, Ronald C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0525510087
- Language: English
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
$19.99 Add to cartOne of The New York Times‘s 10 Best Books of 2023
The remarkable true story of E
New York Times Bestseller
Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, and Oprah Daily- Author: Woo, Ilyon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1501191063
- Language: English
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
$29.99 Add to cartOne of The New York Times‘s 10 Best Books of 2023
New York Times Bestseller
Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, Boston, Chicago Public Library, Oprah Daily, a- Author: Woo, Ilyon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1501191055
- Language: English
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
$29.99 Add to cartFilled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.
Jam- Series: Oxford History of the United States (Paperback)
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 936
- Publish Date: December 11 2003
- ISBN10: 019516895X
- Language: English
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The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America’s Soul
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington’s Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Abraham Lincoln- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 052554058X
- Language: English
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The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History
$30.00 Read moreThe vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in American history–Abraham Lincoln’s history-changing nomination to lead the Republican Party in the 1860 presid
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 080216062X
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation
$30.00 Read moreLincoln’s spiritual journey from spiritual skeptic to America’s first evangelical Christian presidentbeliever–a conversion that changed both the Civil War and the practice of religion itself.
Abraham- Author: Zeitz, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 198488221X
- Language: English
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Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army After Appomattox
$23.00 Add to cartThe Army of Northern Virginia’s chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands o… [more below]
- Author: Janney, Caroline E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1469674300
- Language: English
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
$21.00 Add to cart“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history–the spot under our country’s rug where the terrorism… [more below]
- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0525559558
- Language: English
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Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
$19.00 Add to cart“Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency.” –Ron Chernow
In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history departm- Author: Seidule, Ty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250239281
- Language: English
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Hell’s Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier
$18.00 Add to cartOne of NPR’s “Books We Love”
“Rich in historical perspective and graced by novelistic touches, grips the reader from first to last.”–Wall Str
New York Times Book Review’s “The Best True Crime of 2022”- Author: Jonusas, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1984879855
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
$17.99 Add to cartA thoughtful, nuanced portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Recipient of an Abraham Li… [more below]
- Author: Shenk, Joshua Wolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618773444
- Language: English
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
$24.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking history demonstrating that America’s economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people
Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians- Author: Baptist, Edward E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 25, 2016
- ISBN10: 0465049664
- Language: English
