Topical/Civil War
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Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War
$32.95 Add to cartBy the time Abraham Lincoln asserted in 1858 that the nation could not “endure permanently half slave and half free,” the rift that would split the country in civil war was well defined. The origins a… [more below]
- Author: Hyslop, Stephen G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0806192739
- Language: English
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The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War–An Oral History
$29.95 Read moreThe first-ever oral history of the attack that started the Civil War that combines illuminating historical narrative with intense first-hand accounts.
On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops began firi- Author: Chadwick, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363394
- Language: English
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Sun Tzu at Gettysburg: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World
$25.99 Add to cartImagine if Robert E. Lee had withdrawn to higher ground at Gettysburg instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line. Or if Napol?n, at Waterloo, had avoided mistakes he’d never m
- Author: Alexander, Bevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: June 04 2012
- ISBN10: 039334245X
- Language: English
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Who Was Ulysses S. Grant?
$6.99 Add to cartUlysses S. Grant certainly does not have the typical war hero “back story.” Although a graduate of West Point, he never wanted to be a soldier and was terrified when he first saw battle. However, duri… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Stine, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 26 2014
- ISBN10: 448478943
- Language: English
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The Civil War of Amos Abernathy
$16.99 Add to cartAn ALA Rainbow Book List Top 10 Selection * Golden Kite Award Winner * New York Public Library Best Books for Kids * ALA Booklist Top 10 First Novels for Youth * Jane Addams Award finalist * Lambda Li
- Author: Leali, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0063119862
- Language: English
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The Rice Birds
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1849, twin sisters fleeing Ireland’s famine arrive at New York’s seaport. Only one – Nora – is allowed to get on the boat to South Carolina to fulfill her work contract. On her master’s vast rice p
- Author: Keane Carter, Lindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: February 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1929647689
- Language: English
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The Split History of the Civil War
$9.99 Read moreIn 1861 the United States was at a crossroads. People in the Southern states believed that Northerners were trying to change their way of life. People in the North were upset that Southerners wanted t… [more below]
- Series: Perspectives Flip Books
- Author: Fitzgerald, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0756545943
- Language: English
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Abraham Lincoln
$5.99 Add to cartThe most effective method used to influence children to read is to incorporate the information that interests them the most. National Geographic Readers are educational, high-interest, and comprehensi… [more below]
- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Gilpin, Caroline Crosson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1426310854
- Language: English
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The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President–And Why It Failed
$19.99 Add to cartBrad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, the bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1250805899
- Language: English
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Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington
$21.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE LINCOLN FORUM BOOK PRIZE “A Lincoln classic…superb.” —The Washington Post “A book for our time.”–Doris Kearns Goodwin Lincoln on the Verge tells the dramatic story of America’s grea… [more below]
- Author: Widmer, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1476739447
- Language: English
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A Gettysburg Photo Tour: Then & Now Photos with Map Locations and GPS Coordinates
$18.95 Add to cartCome back in time with me as we tour the exact locations on the Gettysburg battlefield where events happened – both momentous and mundane – during the battle that changed American history. We know for
- Author: Kunkel, Jack L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1087870666
- Language: English
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Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
$30.00 Read moreThe Civil War may have ended on the battlefield, but the fight for equality never did
In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its economy shattered, its leaders in exile or in jail. Ye- Author: Suri, Jeremi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541758544
- Language: English
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An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
$32.50 Add to cartThis is a story about a dangerous idea–one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intelle
- Author: Stewart, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1324003626
- Language: English
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President Without a Party: The Life of John Tyler
$44.95 Add to cartHistorians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation’s least effective heads of state. In President without a Party–the first full–scale biography of Tyler in more than fifty years
- Author: Leahy, Christopher J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0807172545
- Language: English
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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
$19.99 Add to cartAn astonishing untold story from the nineteenth century–a “riveting…engrossing…’American Epic'” (The Wall Street Journal) and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the … [more below]
- Author: Sedgwick, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1501128698
- Language: English
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How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! the True Story Revealed
$18.95 Add to cartThe fascinating, true, story of baseball’s amateur origins. “Explores the conditions and factors that begat the game in the 19th century and turned it into the national pastime….A delightful look at
- Author: Gilbert, Thomas W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1567927238
- Language: English
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Black Cloud Rising
$17.00 Add to cartAlready excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bon… [more below]
- Author: Falade, David Wright
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160395
- Language: English
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
$29.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Rich… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States
- Author: White, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0190053763
- Language: English
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Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls’ Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
$20.00 Add to cart“A stunning tale of a little-known figure in history. Robert Smalls’ astounding heroism during the Civil War helped convince Lincoln and the country that African Americans were extraordinarily capable
- Author: Lineberry, Cate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1250183898
- Language: English
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A Day for Rememberin’: Inspired by the True Events of the First Memorial Day
$18.99 Read moreLeah Henderson’s picture book A Day for Rememberin’ is a moving tribute to the little-known history behind the first Memorial Day, illustrated by Coretta Scott King Award winner Floyd Cooper.
Today i- Author: Henderson, Leah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 11, 2021
- ISBN10: 1419736302
- Language: English
