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1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S.
A 2008 BookSense pick now in paperback, from an acclaimed historian of the Civil War and the American Revolution As 1858 dawned, the men who would become the iconic figures...
The Pig War: The Most Perfect War in History
With a plot to grace any comic opera, the 1859-72 'Pig War' broke out when an American living on a quietly disputed small island in the Gulf of Georgia shot...
Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution
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This definitive illustrated history of Abraham Lincoln's assassination follows the shocking events from the tragic scene at Ford's Theatre to the trial and execution of John Wilkes Booth's coconspirators. Few...
In the Shadow of the Alabama: The British Foreign Office and the
This book looks at an allegation of betrayal made against a young Foreign Office clerk, Victor Buckley, who, it was claimed, leaked privileged information to agents of the southern States...
Curiosities of the Civil War: Strange Stories, Infamous Characters and
Civil War buffs, be warned: Webb Garrison's Curiosities of the Civil War may catch you off guard. Packed with obscurities and bizarre anecdotes, it spills over with specifics you've likely...
Stealing the General
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If James J. Andrews' plan had worked, it could have dramatically altered the course of the war, but the General's young conductor had other ideas. At first, he gave chase...
Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the
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Look for Dan Abrams and David Fisher's new book, Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby . Instant New York Times bestseller! A Winner of the...
This Distracted and Anarchical People: New Answers for Old Questions
While most of the fighting took place in the South, the Civil War profoundly affected the North. As farm boys became soldiers and marched off to battle, social, economic, and...
Virginia at War, 1864
The fourth book in the Virginia at War series casts a special light on vital home front matters in Virginia during 1864. Following a year in which only one major...
Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War
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Revised Edition With a New Preface and Afterword In a revised edition, brought completely up to date with a new preface and afterword and an expanded bibliography, Bruce Levine's succinct...
The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the
How partisan politics lead to the Civil War What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this brilliant...
Gunsmoke Over the Atlantic: First Naval Actions of the Civil War
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On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began when shots were fired on an unfinished fort in Charleston Harbor. From that thunderous opening salvo, the naval battles to control the...
Raising the Hunley
The history of the Confederate submarine "H. L. Hunley" is as astonishing as its disappearance. On February 17, 1864, after a legendary encounter with a Union battleship, the iron "fish...
Little Women (Collins Classics)
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How can you forge your own path in times of war, uncertainty and hardship? Meg longs for marriage; Amy wants to be a painter; Beth is content to stay at...
This Other Eden
'A testament of love . . . so real it could make you weep' NEW YORK TIMES 'Masterful . . . has much to say to our times' Guardian 'Begs...
Gone with the Wind
Vintage Classics first publication of Mitchell's beloved American epic, full of action, drama and memorable characters 'My dear, I don't give a damn.' Margaret Mitchell's page-turning, sweeping American epic has...
Booth
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Best Book of the Year Real Simple * AARP * USA Today * NPR * Virginia Living Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling...
Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post-Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York...
Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
A timely groundbreaking book in the vein of Derrick Bell's Faces at the Bottom of the Well , one of the country's foremost voices on reparations, offers a radical and...
A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in the
Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894) ranked among the most important generals who fought with Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. A brigade and corps commander, he played principal roles...
The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee's Civil War and His
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The riveting true story of Robert E. Lee, the brilliant soldier bound by marriage to George Washington's family but turned by war against Washington's crowning achievement, the Union. On the...
Reflections on Lee: A Historian's Assessment
A sharply focused chronicle of Lee's life and a meditation on the general's career and his place in history, this biography is a thoughtful response to some of the more...
Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865
The generalship of Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy's greatest commander, has long fascinated students of the American Civil War. In assessing Lee and his military career, historians have faced the...
Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership
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General Robert E. Lee was a complicated man and military figure. In Robert E. Lee, the 11th book in the critically acclaimed Great Generals Series, Noah Andre Trudeau follows the...
Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post-Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York...
Amazing Women of the Civil War: Fascinating True Stories of Women Who
The Civil War is most often described as one in which brother fought against brother. But the most devastating war fought on American soil was also one in which women...
The Avenger Takes His Place: Andrew Johnson and the 45 Days That
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From the moment of Lincoln's death on April 15, 1865, until Andrew Johnson, his replacement, formally announced postwar plans on May 29, the fate of the country hung in the...
From Manassas To Appomattox: Memoirs Of The Civil War In America
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe...
Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship
... cuts squarely across the accepted tradition... Fuller examines these two great soldiers from a fresh viewpoint and refuses to let himself be bound by tradition." -New York Times Book...
The Sea King: The Life of James Iredell Waddell
As the rogue captain of the last Confederate commerce raider, the Shenandoah , James Waddell was a huge thorn in the side of the post-Civil War administration (they branded him...
Capital Dames
Cokie Roberts, the author of three New York Times bestsellers, including Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty , turns her attention to the Civil War in a riveting exploration of...
Paths to Victory: A History and Tour Guide of the Stone's River,
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The fourth volume in The Civil War Campaign Series covers every aspect of the campaigns in central and southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. Includes a tour guide. Illustrated and indexed....
The American Daughters
'Enthralling' TIME '[Has] the feel of something sacred and discovered' Elle 'An inspiring story of people who show a way forward with their perseverance, bravery and love' New York Times...
The American Daughters
'Enthralling' TIME '[Has] the feel of something sacred and discovered' Elle 'An inspiring story of people who show a way forward with their perseverance, bravery and love' New York Times...
Little Women
A classic tale to share with the next generation, Little Women is a coming of age story of virtue and true love in nineteenth century America. A true classic, Little...
Vital Rails: The Civil War History of the Charleston and Savannah
Completed in 1860 and spanning more than one hundred miles across rice fields, salt marshes, and seven rivers and creeks, the Charleston & Savannah Railroad was designed to revolutionize the...
No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYA "sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive" portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from "a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban...
The Wilderness Way
Inspired by the true events of the most notorious evictions in Irish history... 1861, Donegal, IrelandTen years ago Declan Conaghan's father died in the Great Famine, and since then, Declan...
Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South
As rancorous debates over Confederate symbols continue, Robert Bonner explores how the rebel flag gained its enormous power to inspire and repel. In the process, he shows how the Confederacy...
Promotion or the Bottom of the River: The Blue and Grey Naval Careers
South Carolinian Alexander F. Warley (1823'1895) was an exceptional naval officer who enjoyed a robust life of far-flung adventures at sea during several dramatic periods in American maritime history. Warley's...
Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early
The untold story of two sisters whose discoveries sped the growth of American science in the nineteenth centuryIn Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur uncovers the lives and work of Margaretta...
The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America's Road to Civil War
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of...
The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America's Road to Civil War
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of...
The Lost Outlaw (Jack Lark, Book 8): American Civil War, The Frontier,
The eighth action-packed Victorian military adventure featuring hero Jack Lark: soldier, leader, imposter. Expect hard fighting, dangerous bandoleros and double-crossing aplenty as Jack arrives in Mexico. A must-read military adventure...
Flags on the Bayou
A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana, as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters-enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers-are caught in...
The Lost Outlaw (Jack Lark, Book 8): American Civil War, The Frontier,
The eighth action-packed Victorian military adventure featuring hero Jack Lark: soldier, leader, imposter. Expect hard fighting, dangerous bandoleros and double-crossing aplenty as Jack arrives in Mexico. A must-read military adventure...
The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a [...]
"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president."-Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning...