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The Dogs of War: 1861
HardcoverOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizon would be brief. None foresaw that they were embarking on our nation's worst cala...
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The Election of 1860: A Campaign Fraught with Consequences
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Because of its extraordinary consequences and because of Abraham Lincoln’s place in the American pantheon, the presidential election of 1860 is p...
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The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In The Emancipation Circuit Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from ...
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The Escape of Robert Smalls: A Daring Voyage Out of Slavery
HardcoverOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The mist in Charleston Inner Harbor was heavy, but not heavy enough to disguise the stolen Confederate steamship, the Planter, from Confederate s...
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The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /If Abraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, he was also the only president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Indeed, Lincoln's rec...
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"One of the best history books I've read in the last few years." —Chris HayesThe Field of Blood recounts the previously untold story of the viole...
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"One of the best history books I've read in the last few years." —Chris HayesThe Field of Blood recounts the previously untold story of the viole...
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book...
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The Fight for Freedom: Ending Slavery in America
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /This engaging and enlightening book allows readers to discover the history of slavery in America and the long fight for freedom before and during t...
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The Fighting Infantryman: The Story of Albert D. J. Cashier, Transgender Civil War Soldier
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This beautifully written and timely story shows a transgender soldier's personal bravery as he faced daring challenges on the battlefield and priva...
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The Flag Never Touched the Ground: America's Brave Black Regiment in Battle
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /The story of an all-black regiment's assault on the impregnable Fort Wagner in the Civil War, an act of extraordinary courage that changed hearts a...
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The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the...
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The Gray Fox: George Crook and the Indian Wars
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /George Crook was one of the most prominent military figures of the late-nineteenth-century Indian Wars. Yet today his name is largely unrecognize...
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The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The story of the unique relationship between Lee and Jackson, two leaders who chiseled a strategic path forward against the odds and almost triumph...
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The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /“The Grimkes is family history at its finest. Kerri Greenidge’s rich historical text and deeply researched genealogy reads like a novel. For the ...
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The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Sarah and Angelina Grimke--the Grimke sisters--are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation...
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleWinner of the 2015 Avery O. Cra...
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The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /On the eve of the Civil War, the Irish were one of America's largest ethnic groups, and approximately 150,000 fought for the Union. Analyzing let...
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The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50Original price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The struggle over the fortified Confederate position known as Spotsylvania's Mule Shoe was without parallel during the Civil War. A Union assault...
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The History of Juneteenth: A History Book for New Readers
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /An introduction to the history of Juneteenth for kids ages 6 to 9 On June 19, 1865, a Union soldier traveled to Texas to tell the enslaved people ...
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The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller." —Harlan Coben Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award–winning author of The ...
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The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Finalist for the Lincoln Prize!Traditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth W. Noe sugg...
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The Impending Crisis: America before the Civil War, 1848-1861
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History David ...
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The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /Few brigades of the Civil War can boast of a record as distinguished as that of New York's 69th, yet it has never fully received the attention wa...
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