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The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /In 'The Confederate Cherokees', W. Craig Gaines provides an absorbing account of the Cherokees' involvement in the early years of the Civil War, ...
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The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction The image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among...
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Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban...
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Over The Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising Of 1862
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /December 26, 1862. On the day after Christmas, in Mankato, Minnesota, thirty-eight Indians were hanged on the order of President Lincoln. This ev...
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Fallen Guidon: The Saga of Confederate General Jo Shelby's March to Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Although Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in April, 1865, some Confederates refused to abandon their cause. Fallen Guidon, originally pu...
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The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History A dramatic, riveting, and “fresh look at a region typically obscured in accounts of the Civil War. Ame...
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Massacre in Minnesota: The Dakota War of 1862, the Most Violent Ethnic Conflict in American History
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the m...
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Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American tribe's encounter with citizenship. In 1837, elev...
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A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /An award-winning look at Lincoln and Race Widely praised and winner of the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, this book illuminates why Lincoln’s...
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Driven to the Field: Sharecropping and Southern Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Driven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping--crucial to understanding life in the southern United States--from Emancipation to the twen...
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Private No More: The Civil War Letters of John Lovejoy Murray, 102nd United States Colored Infantry
HardcoverOriginal price $114.95 - Original price $114.95Original price $114.95$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /The John Lovejoy Murray collection of letters contains insights into the experiences of an African American soldier and his regiment during the Civ...
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In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In the midst of calls for the removal of Confederate monuments across the South, tens of thousands of museums, buildings, and other historical site...
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Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we writ...
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
HardcoverOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A rousing abolitionist speech with themes that still resonate today, from equality under the Constitution and God to a vision of America that defen...
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Lincoln's Lost Colony: The Black Emigration Scheme of Bernard Kock
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Abraham Lincoln is renowned for his stance on the emancipation of enslaved people in a period when America was sorely divided. At the same time, t...
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Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Originally published in 1998, Like Men of War was a groundbreaking early study of Black troops in the Civil War that is still considered a major co...
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Altogether Different: A Memoir About Identity, Inheritance, and the Raid That Started the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /If you could choose between being Black and being white, what would you do?As a child, Brianna Wheeler, the mixed-race descendant of Dangerfield Ne...
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The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The astonishing transformation of the abolitionist movement during the Civil War proved enormously consequential both for the cause of abolitionism...
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Pink and Say
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /When Sheldon Russell Curtis told this story to his daughter, Rosa, she kept every word in her heart and was to retell it many times. I will t...
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The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /With colorful illustrations and a timeline, this introductory history of Juneteenth for kids details the evolution of the holiday commemorating t...
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A Flag for Juneteenth
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Expert quilter Kim Taylor shares a unique and powerful story of the celebration of the first Juneteenth, from the perspective of a young girl.On ...
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Ann Fights for Freedom: An Underground Railroad Survival Story
PaperbackOriginal price $7.95 - Original price $7.95Original price $7.95$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /Twelve-year-old Ann understands there is only one thing to be grateful for as a slave: having her family together. But when the master falls into...
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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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Juneteenth
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Daylen (one of the characters from the Beautiful Me Series) is excited and ready to share everything he knows about Juneteenth. Juneteenth is an en...
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