Topical/Civil War
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Hindsight Bravo: Book 1 in the Dreams of Victory Series
$20.00 Add to cartOn an adrenaline-pumping journey, Master Sergeant Mike Mann and his elite team of soldiers paradrop into unknown territory over the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. Something feels different about this mi
- Author: Mosby, J. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1950544419
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
$39.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1631498444
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$10.99 Add to cartFirst appearing in 1845 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, with its painfully vivid depiction of life in bondage, was both a bestseller in its day and one of the most powerful, authorita
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 151313356X
- Language: English
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Night Wherever We Go
$27.99 Read moreA RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post – Atlanta Journal-Constitution – CrimeReads – Library Journal
A gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert re
- Author: Peyton, Tracey Rose
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0063249871
- Language: English
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On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
$44.95 Add to cartWith On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeaste
- Author: Rhea, Gordon C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: September 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0807167479
- Language: English
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Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography
$18.00 Add to cartAmid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest was untutored, all but unlettered, and regarded as no more than a guerrilla. His tactic was the headlong charge, mounted … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library #0000
- Author: Hurst, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 15 1994
- ISBN10: 067974830X
- Language: English
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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
$24.95 Add to cartThe Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we really know about those who experienced slavery?
In their p
- Author: Willis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1439909865
- Language: English
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
$23.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book for 2011
Bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring
A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011
A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0312429266
- 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 Add to cart“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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The Cassville Affairs: Johnston, Hood, and the Failed Confederate Strategy in the Atlanta Campaign, 19 May 1864
$39.00 Add to cartCivil War historians have remained baffled over the Cassville controversies for the past 150 plus years. There are two versions of events: Confederate commanding General Joseph E. Johnston’s story, an… [more below]
- Author: Jenkins Sr. Robert D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0881469319
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$15.00 Add to cartThe unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women–with an introduction by Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried and National… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593230361
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$14.95 Add to cart‘The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.’
Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordin- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198709870
- Language: English
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Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction
$24.99 Add to cartThe Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destr… [more below]
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0199843287
- Language: English
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Little Women
$21.99 Add to cartLittle Women is one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time, based on the author’s own youthful experiences.
- Series: Wordsworth Luxe Collection
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1840221941
- Language: English
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The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom
$7.99 Read moreThe images stitched into Hannah’s quilt lead to secret signposts on the Underground Railroad as she and her father take flight from slavery on a perilous path to freedom.
Now that Hannah’s papa has de- Author: Stroud, Bettye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 28 2007
- ISBN10: 0763635197
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
$9.99 Read moreBorn on a Maryland plantation, Frederick Douglass–born Frederick Bailey–doesn’t know the year of his birth. Separated from his mother in infancy, he sees her only a few times, always at night, befo
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1435171934
- Language: English
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A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek
$24.00 Add to cartIn the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Ch
- Author: Kelman, Ari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0674503783
- Language: English
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Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin
$24.95 Add to cartOn a November afternoon in 1864, the weary Gen. John Bell Hood surveyed the army waiting to attack the Federals at Franklin, Tennessee. He gave the signal almost at dusk, and the Confederates rushed f… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, James Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 30 1984
- ISBN10: 0870493973
- Language: English
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Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us about Our Greatest President
$18.00 Read more“An intimate character portrait and fascinating inquiry into the basis of Lincoln’s energetic, curious mind.”–The Wall Street Journal
WINNER OF THE BARONDESS/LINCOLN AWARD – From the New York Times b- Author: White, Ronald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1984855115
- Language: English
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Grant at 200: Reconsidering the Life and Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant
$32.95 Read moreProceeds from this volume will go to support the Ulysses S. Grant Association and the Grant Monument Association.
Ulysses S. Grant stood at the center of the American Civil War maelstrom. The Ohio nati… [more below]
- Author: Mackowski, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216141
- Language: English
