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Civil War Period (1850-1877) eBooks

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  • Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

    **“[A] deeply researched and counterintuitive history . . . Penningroth reframes the conventional story of civil rights.” —Matthew F. Delmont, Washington PostA prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Rights Movement.**The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America’s legal system ... Read more

    $22.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • The Demon of Unrest

    A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

    by Erik Larson ...
    The #1 New York Times bestselling 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—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Time, Men’s Health, Lit HubOn November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • America's Great Debate

    Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union

    Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a “gripping, vigorous [history] featuring a large cast of unforgettable characters with fierce beliefs” (Publishers Weekly, starred Review).When gold was discovered in California in the great Gold Rush of 1849, the population swelled, and settlers petitioned for admission to the Union. But the US Senate was precariously balanced with fifteen free states ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Texas Rangers

    A Century of Frontier Defense

    Series series Texas Classics
    The renowned historian’s classic study of the Texas Ranger Division, presented with its original illustrations and a foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson.Texas Rangers tells the story of this unique law enforcement agency from its origin in 1823, when it was formed by “Father of Texas” Stephen F. Austin, to the 1930s, when legendary lawman Frank Hamer tracked down the infamous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde. ... Read more

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  • Late Outlaw Raids On Texas' Nueces Strip: The Mexican Raid Of 1875 On Corpus Christi, Texas And The Mexican & Indian Raid Of 1878 On Corpus Christi, Texas

    Texas History Tales, #7

    Series Book 7 - Texas History Tales
    "Late Outlaw Raids On Texas' Nueces Strip: The Mexican Raid Of 1875 On Corpus Christi, Texas And The Mexican & Indian Raid Of 1878 On Corpus Christi, Texas" by Leopold Morris & Joseph Fitzsimmons are rare looks at the hardships and dangers of frontier life in Texas even late into the 19th Century.Leopold Morris was a Texas local historian who wrote local historical works regarding south Texas. He ... Read more

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  • Civil War Blockade Running on the Texas Coast

    Series series Civil War Series
    In the last months of the American Civil War, the upper Texas coast became a hive of blockade running. Though Texas was often considered an isolated backwater in the conflict, the Union's pervasive and systematic seizure of Southern ports left Galveston as one of the only strongholds of foreign imports in the anemic supply chain to embattled Confederate forces. Long, fast steamships ran in and out ... Read more

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  • "Too Much for Human Endurance"

    The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg

    The stories of the doctors, nurses and patients at the Union Army’s hospital in Gettysburg come to life in this unique Civil War history.Those who toiled and suffered at the Army of the Potomac’s XI Corps hospital at the George Spangler Farm in Gettysburg have long since departed. But Ronald D. Kirkwood, a journalist and George Spangler Farm expert, shares their stories—many of which have never ... Read more

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  • Ecstatic Nation

    Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877

    “From the death of John Quincy Adams through the Civil War to the tragedy of Reconstruction, Wineapple tells the American story brilliantly.” —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorA New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Kirkus Best Book of 2013A Bookpage Best Book of 2013Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and moment... ... Read more

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  • An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America

    How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders’ oligarchy in the Civil War.This is a story about a dangerous idea—one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Manhunt

    The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer: An Edgar Award Winner

    Now an Apple TV+ Series“A terrific narrative of the hunt for Lincoln’s killers that will mesmerize the reader from start to finish.”—Doris Kearns GoodwinThe murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history--the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry troops on a wild, 12-day chase from the streets of ... Read more

    $15.49 USD $13.49 USD

  • Yankee Stranger

    by Elswyth Thane ...
    LOVE AND WARCabot Murray first came to Williamsburg, Virginia, in the tense autumn of 1860. He was looked upon with suspicion because he was a Yankee. Then Cabot met redheaded Eden Day.Theirs was a wild, blind young love at first sight. Whispering in her hair, what did it matter that he was a Northerner and she from the South…But then came the Civil War. With the tide of battle Cabot returned as ... Read more

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  • A Great Disorder

    National Myth and the Battle for America

    As culture wars pit us against each other, A Great Disorder looks to the myths that have shaped American identity and reveals how they have brought us to the brink of an existential crisis.Red America and Blue America are so divided they could be two different countries, with wildly diverging views of why government exists and who counts as American. Their ideologies are grounded in different ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A People's History of the United States

    by Howard Zinn ...
    THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." –Howard FastHistorian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools—with its ... Read more

    $16.49 USD $14.49 USD

  • The Underground Railroad Records

    Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom

    by William Still ...
    A riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.Featuring a powerful introduction by Ta-Nehisi CoatesAs a conductor for the Underground Railroad—the covert resistance network created to aid and protect slaves seeking freedom—William Still helped as many as eight hundred ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863

    pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. This narrative was originally written without the least idea of publication, but to gratify the oft-repeated requests of my children. During the work, the ubiquitous newspaper reporter learned of it, and persuaded me to permit its publication in a local paper, where it appeared in weekly instalments. Since ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Portable Frederick Douglass

    A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leaderThis compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as urgently as ever. Edited by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Pulitzer Prize–nominated ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Memoirs of a Monticello Slave

    As Dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840’s by Isaac, One of Thomas Jefferson’s Slaves

    This book, first published in its present form 1951, is a collection of reminiscences by Isaac Jefferson, a tinsmith, blacksmith, and nailer at Monticello, and valued, enslaved artisan of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. In the 1840 census he was recorded as Isaac Granger, a free man working in Petersburg, Virginia, and it was there that the Rev. Charles Campbell interviewed him and went on to ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bloody Spring

    Forty Days that Sealed the Confederacy's Fate

    For forty crucial days they fought a bloody struggle. When it was over, the Civil War's tide had turned.In the spring of 1864, Virginia remained unbroken, its armies having repelled Northern armies for more than two years. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had defeated the campaigns of four Union generals, and Lee's veterans were confident they could crush the Union offensive this spring, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders

    Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions

    This meticulously edited collection contains a Pulitzer Prize awarded History of Civil War, as well as the memoirs of the two most important military commanders of the Union, Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman, complete with biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. Finally, this collection is enriched with pivotal historical documents which provide an explicit ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

    Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

    by Karen Abbott ...
    Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and “pioneer of sizzle history” (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet little known aspects of the Civil War: the stories of four courageous women—a socialite, a farmgirl, an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

    by Manisha Sinha ...
    A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history.We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. That effort failed—and that failure serves as a warning ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story Of Baby Doe Tabor

    This is a fascinating autobiography of Baby Doe Tabor, the second wife of pioneer Colorado businessman Horace Tabor, whose rags-to-riches and back to rags again story made her a well-known figure in her own day, and at one time hailed as the “best dressed woman in the West.”It was during Baby Doe’s final years of her life living in a shack on the site of the Matchless Mine, enduring great poverty, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gone with the Wind

    Gone with the Wind takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia during the American Civil War (1861–1865) and the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) that followed the war. The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states, Georgia among them, have declared their secession from the United States (the "Union") and formed the Confederate States of ... Read more

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  • American Legends: The Life of Stephen Douglas

    *Explains the central issues of the 1850s, including the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott Decision,*Includes pictures of Douglas and other important people, places, and events in his life. . *Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents.“Now, I hold that Illinois had a right to abolish and prohibit slavery as she did, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD