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  • The Crossing

    El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin Story

    The Crossing has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Lincoln vs. Davis

    The War of the Presidents

    From renowned biographer Nigel Hamilton, author of the epic FDR at War trilogy and the bestselling JFK: Reckless Youth, comes the greatest untold story of the Civil War: how two American presidents faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the balance — and how Abraham Lincoln came to embrace emancipation as the last, best chance to save the Union.Of all the books written on Abraham Lincoln, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Union Army 1861–65 (3)

    Midwestern and Western States

    by Ron Field ...
    Series Book 559 - Men-at-Arms
    This book describes and illustrates the uniforms and personal equipment of the troops fielded by the Midwestern and Western states that fought for the Union during the Civil War.During the American Civil War, the United States Army, pitted against the forces of the fledgling Confederacy, fought to defend and preserve the Union during five long years of bitter conflict. As the war continued into ... Read more

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  • Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank

    A leading historian exposes how the rise and tragic failure of the Freedman’s Bank has shaped economic inequality in America.In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman’s Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad for economic growth and self-determination. But only nine years after it ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Load in Nine Times: Poems

    From former poet laureate of Kentucky and founder of the Affrilachian Poets, a collection of historical poetry that gives voice to Black Civil War soldiers.For decades, Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry: from Medgar Evers in Turn Me Loose, winner of the NAACP Award; to York, the enslaved explorer who joined the Lewis and Clark ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • A Hell of a Storm

    The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War

    From popular historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law—the Kansas-Nebraska Act—unexpectedly became the greatest miscalculation in American history, dividing North and South, creating the Republican party, and paving the way for the Civil War.The history of the United States includes a ... Read more

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  • A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind

    A panoramic account of the most devastating battle of the Civil War, and its far-reaching consequences for American society and culture.The Battle of Antietam, which took place on September 17, 1862, remains the single bloodiest day in America’s history. As a turning point in the Civil War, the narrow Union victory was the key catalyst for Lincoln to issue his Emancipation Proclamation.Yet ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (3)

    The Third Day

    by Timothy Orr ...
    Series Book 403 - Campaign
    An authoritative and superbly illustrated exploration of the events of July 3, 1863, incorporating new interpretations that have arisen in the past two decades.The third day of the Battle of Gettysburg was the most dramatic of the three. Among the iconic clashes that took place was the 12,500-man attack known as Pickett's Charge, General Lee's last assault at Gettysburg in which his soldiers ... Read more

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  • Decade of Disunion

    How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

    Exploring a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever, Decade of Disunion shows how the country came apart during the enveloping slavery crisis of the 1850s.The Mexican War brought vast new territories to the United States, which precipitated a growing crisis over slavery. The new territories seemed unsuitable for the type of agriculture that depended on slave labor, but ... Read more

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  • A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America

    by James Tejani ...
    A deeply researched narrative of the creation of the Port of Los Angeles, a central event in America’s territorial expansion and rise as a global economic power.The Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much more. The busiest container port in the Western hemisphere, it claims one-third of all US ... Read more

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  • Dark Frontier

    a thrilling historical adventure set in the American West

    A thrilling historical western set in 1890s Oregon, from the author of the critically acclaimed Bernicia Chronicles. An English soldier turned policeman escapes to the American West for a new future, but life on the frontier proves far harder than he ever imagined...A man can flee from everything but his own nature.Lieutenant Gabriel Stokes of the British Army left behind the horrors of war in ... Read more

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  • 'Tis Not Our War

    Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North

    by Paul Taylor ...
    James McPherson’s classic book For Cause & Comrades explained “why men fought in the Civil War”—and spurred countless other historians to ask and attempt to answer the same question. But few have explored why men did not fight. That’s the question Paul Taylor answers in this groundbreaking Civil War history that examines the reasons why at least 60 percent of service-eligible men in the North ... Read more

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  • The Age of Reconstruction

    How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World

    by Don H. Doyle ...
    Series Book 54 - America in the World
    A sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the AmericasThe Age of Reconstruction looks beyond post–Civil War America to tell the story of how Union victory and Lincoln’s assassination set off a dramatic international reaction that drove European empires out of the Americas, hastened the end of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Profiles in Freedom

    Heroes Who Shaped America with a Foreword by Senator Markwayne Mullin

    by Carl Higbie ...
    KEY SELLING POINTS >PROFILES IN FREEDOM: HEROES WHO SHAPED AMERICA by Carl HigbieSUMMER 202450,000 Announced 1st Print > 5,000 Laydown Goal w/ Chain, Independent, Mass Merch, Christian & Airport airport placementsA PERFECT GRADS &/OR DADS GIFT!CATEGORY: BIOGRAPHY / American History / Politics / Current Events / Inspirational / Motivational<... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Chorus of the Union

    How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation

    An impassioned and timely exploration of Abraham Lincoln's long-time rivalry—and eventual alliance—with Stephen Douglas.Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas are a misunderstood duo. History remembers them as antagonists, and for most of the years the two men knew each other, they were. In the 1830s, they debated politics around the stove in the back of Joshua Speed’s store in Springfield, Illinois. ... Read more

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  • The Union Army 1861–65 (2)

    Eastern and New England States

    by Ron Field ...
    Series Book 555 - Men-at-Arms
    This book describes and illustrates the uniforms and personal equipment of the troops fielded by the Eastern and New England states that fought for the Union during the American Civil War.During 1861–65, the United States Army, pitted against the forces of the fledgling Confederacy, fought to defend the Union during five long years of bitter conflict. This volume, the second in a three-part study, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873

    by Alan Taylor ...
    A masterful history of the Civil War and its reverberations across the continent by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America’s three largest countries—the United States, Mexico, and Canada—all transformed ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Voices from Gettysburg

    Letters, Papers, and Memoirs from the Greatest Battle of the Civil War

    The voices of those who witnessed the Battle of Gettysburg and its aftermath with their own eyes – who saw the bloodshed, heard its din, trembled in its crash, struggled with its aftermath – are collected for the first time by Allen C. Guelzo, America’s foremost Civil War scholar, in this moving and sobering oral history.This treasure trove of original documents – many never-before published – ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Wide Awake

    The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War

    by Jon Grinspan ...
    A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war.At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Fugitive Slave on Trial

    The Anthony Burns Case and Abolitionist Outrage

    by Earl M. Maltz ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    When runaway slave Anthony Burns was tracked to Boston by his owner Charles Suttle, the struggle over his fate became a focal point for national controversy. Boston, a hotbed of antislavery sentiment, provided the venue for the 1854 hearing that determined Burns’s legal status, one of the most dramatic and widely publicized events in the long-running conflict over the issue of fugitive slaves.Earl ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Double Exposure

    Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer

    **"Extraordinary . . . A transformative experience for the reader." —Lucy Sante"A large-hearted, wide-angled book . . . I couldn't put it down." —Ian Frazier**A personal exploration of the American West and the work of one of America’s greatest photographers.Timothy O’Sullivan is America’s most famous war photographer. You know his work even if you don’t know his name: A Harvest of Death, taken at ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Great Abolitionist

    Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union

    by Stephen Puleo ...
    The groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero.In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart–when the very future of the nation hung in the balance–Charles Sumner’s voice rang strongest, bravest, and most unwavering. Where others preached compromise and moderation, he denounced slavery’s evils to ... Read more

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  • "Lincoln's Humor" and Other Essays

    This volume gathers the best previously unpublished and uncollected writings on Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln scholarship by one of his great biographers, Benjamin P. Thomas.A skilled historian and a masterful storyteller himself, Thomas was widely regarded as the greatest Lincoln historian of his generation. With these essays, he combines historical depth with narrative grace in delineating Lincoln ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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