Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School
$25.00 Add to cartIn Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School uncovers the untold stories of individuals who risked their lives to fight enslavement, serving as a compelling call for justice and the p… [more below]
- Author: Weiner, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1623716616
- Language: English
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Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
$18.00 Add to cartAn intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today–by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincol… [more below]
- Author: Guelzo, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 059346768X
- Language: English
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Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Ground Breaking, longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a riveting saga of the last year of the Civil War–and a revealing new account of the assassination of Abraham Li… [more below]
- Author: Ellsworth, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0593475615
- Language: English
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The Pathfinder and the President: John C. Fr?mont, Abraham Lincoln, and the Battle for Emancipation
$32.95 Add to cartTwo towering figures of American history collide in this riveting account of how the struggle between Lincoln and his defiant general John C. Fr?mont shaped the Civil War and emancipation.
“… a mas- Author: Bicknell, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0811776654
- Language: English
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Such Troops as These: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson
$27.00 Add to cartAcclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a provocative analysis of Stonewall Jackson’s military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson’s strategies had… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Bevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0425271307
- Language: English
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The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment
$35.00 Add to cartReimagining one of the oldest genres of Civil War history, this book engagingly presents the story of the war and its aftermath through the lens of a single regiment, the Sixth Wisconsin. One of the c… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Marten, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1469684233
- Language: English
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The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West
$32.00 Add to cartA haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American West
In 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner traveled to Fort Laramie to document the federal gov- Author: Sandweiss, Martha A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0691238413
- Language: English
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A Campaign of Giants–The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 2: From the Crater’s Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill
$45.00 Add to cartGrinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War’s longest and among its most complex. A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg offers a gripping, comprehens… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Greene, A. Wilson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 712
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1469684810
- Language: English
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Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation
$38.99 Add to cartA landmark biography of Charles Sumner, the unsung hero of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist statesman who suffered a brutal caning on the Se- Author: Tameez, Zaakir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1250362555
- Language: English
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The Battle for the Black Mind
$30.00 Add to cartA gripping chronicle of the relentless fight for Black educational freedom–and the bold strategies to protect, nourish, and empower Black minds.
The Battle for the Black Mind is an explosive historic- Author: Brown, Karida L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1538768437
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War
$28.99 Add to cartWealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew had it all. Money, charm, wit–the most elegant mansion in Richmond. So why risk everything to become a Union spy?
The answer was simple: freedom. In this grip
- Author: Willis, Gerri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0063333651
- Language: English
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The Red Badge of Courage: A Graphic Novel Adaptation of Stephen Crane’s Classic
$25.99 Add to cartA powerful graphic novel adaptation of the classic and genre-defining war novel The Red Badge of Courage, which has been continuously in print since 1894, available simultaneously in hardcover and pap… [more below]
- Author: Crane, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1419779893
- Language: English
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1861: The Lost Peace
$35.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning historian and New York Times bestselling author of April 1865: The Month That Saved America Jay Winik, a gripping account of the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s decision to go… [more below]
- Author: Winik, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1538735121
- Language: English
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The Other Civil War: Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America
$12.99 Add to cartDrawn from his New York Times bestseller A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn’s The Other Civil War offers the historian and activist’s view of the social and civil background of the A
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 006207900X
- Language: English
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The Rialto in Richmond: The Money War Between the States & Other Mysteries of the Civil War
$19.95 Add to cartJoin revisionist author Joseph P. Farrell for a look at the money war between the Union government and the Confederacy. A rialto is a market or place of exchange, and in The Rialto in Richmond: the Mo… [more below]
- Author: Farrell, Joseph P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1948803739
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Civil War South Carolina
$24.99 Read moreUntold Stories of the War Between the States
All of South Carolina’s history during the Civil War isn’t well known. Author D. Michael Thomas has uncovered fifty accounts of lost history pertaining to t
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Thomas, D. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158070
- Language: English
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Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
$20.00 Add to cartAn instant New York Times bestseller
A nuanced exploration of Abraham Lincoln’s political acumen, illuminating a great politician’s strategy in a country divided–and lessons for our own disorderly pr- Author: Inskeep, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593297881
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
$19.99 Add to cartWe are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant
- Author: Sinha, Manisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096284
- Language: English
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Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery
$32.00 Add to cartA dramatic history of how American Jews reckoned with slavery–and fought the Civil War.
Since ancient times, the Jewish people have recalled the story of Exodus and reflected on the implications of h- Author: Kreitner, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0374608458
- Language: English
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Songs for Walt
$21.33 Add to cart- Author: Robinson, Garrett Buhl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1957116102
- Language: English
