History - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim CrowOne of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2019 - One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of the year - Finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Nonfiction Literature "Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . ....
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Such Troops as These: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall JacksonAcclaimed 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 been adopted. The Civil War pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains one...
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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's RightsAn LA Times Best Book of the Year, Christopher Award Winner, and Chautauqua Prize Finalist! "Engrossing... examines the major events of the mid 19th century through the lives of three key figures in the abolitionist and women's rights movements." --Smithsonian From the executive editor...
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The American Civil War: A Military HistoryThe greatest military historian of our time gives a peerless account of America's most bloody, wrenching, and eternally fascinating war. In this magesterial history and national bestseller, John Keegan shares his original and perceptive insights into the psychology, ideology, demographics, and economics of the...
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The American Revolution and America's Role in the WorldFeaturing original essays by William Anthony Hay, Jeremy Rabkin, Gary J. Schmitt, Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Eliga H. Gould, and Walter Russell Mead. The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been...
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The Ballad of the Fugitive William Parker: A True Tale of Love, Murder, Treason, and Ordinary Folks Who Saved AmericaA Best Book to Read this Fall According to The Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times For fans of Master Slave Husband Wife and Django Unchained comes the extraordinary forgotten story of an event known in its day as "the first shots of...
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The Battle for the Black MindA 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 historical account of the struggle for educational justice in America. Drawing on over a...
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The Belcourt Theatre: Nashville's Oldest Neighborhood CinemaSince opening in 1925 as the Hillsboro Theatre, the Belcourt has stood at the center of Nashville's changing cultural life. Over the course of a century, it has been a neighborhood movie house, a stage for live performance, a home for community theater, an...
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The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil WarHow do good people find the courage to resist and end the greatest evil in their country? An untold story of the Civil War Era: pacifists in Boston who led the fight to end slavery without violence and war. Has there ever been good...
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The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to PerryvilleThis 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 full, horrible scope of America's great war becomes clear. Exhaustively researched...
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The Civil War: A Visual HistoryA fully revised and updated guide to America's bloodiest and most divisive conflict - 165 years on. Comprehensive and packed with contemporary paintings, photographs, maps, and important artefacts, The American Civil War explores the history, causes, and consequences of the war - with eyewitness...
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The Civil War: V3 Red River to AppomattoxThis final volume of Shelby Foote's masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and the tragic dénouement of the war--the assassination of President Lincoln. Features maps throughout. "An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a...
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The Confederacy Myth: How an Insurrection of Slaveholders Tried to Destroy the United States"Exceptional...This is a much-needed reframing of what catalyzes civil strife." --Publishers Weekly, starred reviewWhat can Americans learn about our divided country today from the Civil War that divided us in the past? Connor Williams's The Confederacy Myth answers that question with a blistering historical...
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The Day Lincoln Was ShotThe Day Lincoln Was Shot is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of April 14, 1865: the day President Abraham Lincoln was tragically assassinated.It chronicles the movements of Lincoln and his assassin John Wilkes Booth during every movement of that fateful day. Author and journalist Jim...
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the 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 Civil War in this "riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult" (Los...
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the 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 Civil War in this "riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult" (Los...
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American SlaverySelected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader...
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The First Battle of ManassasUnmatched in its description of the battle's tactics and actual fighting.--Ethan Rafuse, author of McClellan's War On July 21, 1861, near a Virginia railroad junction twenty-five miles from Washington, DC, the Union and Confederate armies clashed in the first major battle of the Civil...
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The Gettysburg AddressOne of the Most Important Speeches in American History, in an Elegant Hardback Gift Edition The Gettysburg Address was delivered on the afternoon of November 19, 1863 by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the battlefield of the Civil War's bloodiest battle. Included in...
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The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American WestShortlisted for the Cundill History Prize A 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 government's treaty negotiations with the Lakota...
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