United States - History - Civil War
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Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance
$16.95 Read moreCentering Black voices and the narratives of enslaved people, this young adult history offers a thoroughly researched account with first-hand testimonies of how people in bondage were themselves a dri
- Author: Katz, William Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 164421265X
- Language: English
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The Civil War Visual Encyclopedia
$19.99 Add to cartDiscover the people, battles, and politics of America’s bloodiest conflict, and explore its causes, chapters, characters, and consequences
With a topic on every page, Civil War Visual Encyclopedia tell… [more below]- Series: DK Children’s Visual Encyclopedias
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0744028450
- Language: English
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The Atlas of the Civil War
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the first shots fired at Fort Sumter in 1861 to the final clashes on the Road to Appomattox in 1864, The Atlas of the Civil War reconstructs the battles of America’s bloodiest war with unparallel… [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 151075640X
- Language: English
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Susie King Taylor: Nurse, Teacher & Freedom Fighter
$8.99 Read moreFrom the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Never Caught and She Came to Slay comes a vibrant middle grade biography of Susie King Taylor, one of the first Black Civil War nurses, in a ne… [more below]
- Series: Rise. Risk. Remember. Incredible Stories of Courageous Black Women
- Author: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1665919930
- Language: English
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Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
$20.99 Add to cartThe image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abo
- Author: Oakes, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351211
- Language: English
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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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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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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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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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I Could Not Do Otherwise: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
$16.99 Read moreGrateful American Book Prize Book of Honorable Mention
As a teenager, Mary Edwards Walker determined she would no longer wear the confining corsets and long skirts society dictated women wear at the
- Author: Latta, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1728413923
- Language: English
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Rifles for Watie
$15.99 Add to cartWinner of the Newbery Medal * An ALA Notable Children’s Book * Winner of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
A captivating and richly detailed novel about one young soldier who saw the Civil War from both si
- Author: Keith, Harold
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 25 1987
- ISBN10: 006447030X
- Language: English
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Turn Homeward, Hannalee
$9.99 Add to cartAs the Civil War comes to a close, resourceful Hannalee must find her way home.
In this classic historical fiction for young readers, plucky twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, sent north to work in a Yanke
- Author: Beatty, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 21 1999
- ISBN10: 688166768
- Language: English
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Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
$18.99 Read moreWinner of the Pura Belpr Illustrator Award
In soaring words and stunning illustrations, Margarita Engle and Rafael L pez tell the story of Teresa Carre o, a child p
A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book- Author: Engle, Margarita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 148148740X
- Language: English
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The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
$30.00 Add to cartThis first volume of Shelby Foote’s classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Foote, Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 856
- Publish Date: November 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0394746236
- Language: English
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Personal Memoirs
$19.00 Add to cart“The foremost military memoir in the English language, written in a clear, supple style . . . a masterpiece.” –Ron Chernow, in Grant
Faced with cancer and financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his p- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Grant, Ulysses S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140437010
- Language: English
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The South Was Right!: A New Edition for the 21st Century
$45.00 Add to cartThe South Was Right
A New Edition for the 2ast Century
IN 1991, THE KENNEDY BROTHERS first published The South Was Right , launching the modern movement of Southern awareness and activism. To date the
- Author: Kennedy, James Ronald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: December 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1947660454
- Language: English
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I Am Abraham Lincoln
$16.99 Read moreEach picture book in this series is a biography of an American hero, told in a simple, conversational, vivacious way, and always focusing on a character trait that made the person heroic. (Cover may v… [more below]
- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0803740832
- Language: English
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I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife: African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era
$35.00 Read moreThis book honors the voices of African Americans of the Civil War era through their letters, inviting readers to engage personally with the Black historical experience.
Amidst bloody battles and polit- Author: Roberts, Rita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1797213725
- Language: English
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Bruce Catton: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy (Loa #359): Mr. Lincoln’s Army / Glory Road / A Stillness at Appomattox
$45.00 Read moreLibrary of America restores to print a masterpiece of Civil War history in a deluxe collector’s edition
Bruce Catton’s Army of the Potomac trilogy is a landmark of historical story-telling, one of the- Author: Catton, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1296
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537253
- Language: English
