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Decision in the Heartland: The Civil War in the West by Steven E. Woodworth 9780803236264
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.02The verdict is in: the Civil War was won in the West, that is, in the nation's heartland, between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. Contrary to much popular literature, serious... -
The Civil War: The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived It (LOA #234) by Brooks D. Simpson 9781598531978
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $29.81This third volume of the ground-breaking eyewitness narrative that has been called a "masterpiece" traces events from January 1863 to March 1864-a crucial period in the American Civil War Spanning... -
Unceasing Fury: Texans at the Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863 by Sr. Mingus 9781611215557
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $28.35Although it was the Civil War's second-largest battle, few books have been written about Chickamauga, and nothing like the thousands penned about the war's largest and bloodiest battle at Gettysburg... -
Blood and Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest by Donald S. Frazier 9780890967324
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.33For decades before the Civil War, Southern writers and warriors had been urging the occupation and development of the American Southwest. When the rift between North and South had been finalized in... -
Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law by Giuliana Perrone 9781009219198
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $60.10Nothing More than Freedom explores the long and complex legal history of Black freedom in the United States. From the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 until the end of Reconstruction... -
Gabriel Rains and the Confederate Torpedo Bureau by W. Davis Waters 9781611213508
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $16.40"Ironclads are said to master the world, but torpedoes master the ironclads." Gabriel J. Rains was a Confederate Brigadier General who was more than a military officer-he was a scientist. His Civil... -
Civil War Humor by Cameron C. Nickels 9781496814692
Booksplease Price: $41.14In Civil War Humor, author Cameron C. Nickels examines the various forms of comedic popular artifacts produced in America from 1861 to 1865, and looks at how wartime humor was created, disseminated,... -
The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861 by Stephen B. Oates 9780803269316
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $35.20Biographer and historian Stephen B. Oates tells the story of the coming of the American Civil War through the voices and perspectives of thirteen principal players in the drama, from Thomas Jefferson... -
Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law by Giuliana Perrone 9781009219174
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $32.29Nothing More than Freedom explores the long and complex legal history of Black freedom in the United States. From the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 until the end of Reconstruction... -
Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South Yael A. Sternhell 9780674088177
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $30.03The Civil War thrust millions of men and women-rich and poor, soldiers and civilians, enslaved and free-onto the roads of the South. During four years of war, Southerners lived on the move. In the... -
Race and Masculinity in Southern Memory: History of Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue, 1948-1996 by Matthew Mace Barbee 9781498564236
Booksplease Price: $57.74In Race and Masculinity in Southern Memory Matthew Mace Barbee explores the long history of Richmond, Virginia's iconic Monument Avenue. As a network of important memorials to Confederate leaders... -
The Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s by Eric H. Walther 9780842027991
Booksplease Price: $52.09The 1850s offered the last remotely feasible chance for the United States to steer clear of Civil War. Yet fundamental differences between North and South about slavery and the meaning of freedom... -
The Loyal, True, and Brave: America's Civil War Soldiers by Steven E. Woodworth 9780842029315
Booksplease Price: $52.09Courage, perseverance, and dedication were hallmarks of the Civil War soldier. These qualities, along with their disarming humanness, have lent an enduring attraction to their story. In The Loyal,... -
The Fight for the Old North State: The Civil War in North Carolina, January-May 1864 by Hampton Newsome 9780700630370
Booksplease Price: $38.67Winner: Richard Barksdale Harwell AwardOn a cold day in early January 1864, Robert E. Lee wrote to Confederate president Jefferson Davis "The time is at hand when, if an attempt can be made to... -
The Confederacy's Fighting Chaplain: Father John B. Bannon by Phillip Tucker 9780817312640
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94The Confederacy Fighting Chaplain is the remarkable story of the Irishman who brought the Bible and his own resourcefulness and daring to both the battlefield and the diplomatic field-a story that... -
Varina Charles Frazier 9781473686168
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35The new novel from the number one bestselling author of Cold Mountain - a stunning portrait of the devastation left by the American Civil War, as seen through the eyes of a woman who played a part at... -
A History of US: War, Terrible War: A History of US Book Six by Joy Hakim 9780195327205
RRP: $18.69Booksplease Price: $16.81Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. Riveting, moving, and impossible to put down, War, Terrible War takes us... -
Sometimes I Never Suffered: Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize 2020 Shane McCrae 9781472155801
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35SHORTLISTED FOR THE T S ELIOT PRIZE 2020'Out of personal history, out of the history of an enduringly fractured nation, and out of the deep history of language, Shane McCrae is writing the most... -
On the Brink of Civil War: The Compromise of 1850 and How It Changed the Course of American History by John C. Waugh 9780842029452
Booksplease Price: $58.04Years before the Civil War began, another dark conflict threatened to shatter the Union. It was December 1849. The U.S.-Mexican War had just ended, doubling the size of the country. A grave problem... -
Gettysburg Adam I. P. Smith 9780199671274
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.85How did Gettysburg become the most famous battle of the American Civil War and one of the most consequential in world history? Why is the most visited battlefield, the place where veterans came in... -
The First Sioux War: The Grattan Fight and Blue Water Creek 1854-1856 by Paul N. Beck 9780761828853
Booksplease Price: $66.05The First Sioux War was a vitally important conflict that helped define Lakota Sioux / white relations; created a closer national unity among the Sioux; and allowed the United States Army to develop... -
Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War by Robert Tracy McKenzie 9780195393934
Booksplease Price: $39.32At the start of the American Civil War, Knoxville, Tennessee, with a population of just over 4,000, was considered a prosperous metropolis little reliant on slavery. Although the surrounding... -
Prince John Magruder: His Life and Campaigns Paul D. Casdorph 9780471159414
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $24.39He was one of the most intriguing characters of the Civil War era.As famous for his courage as for his ornate uniforms and flamboyantstyle, he won intrepid victories on the peninsula of Virginia... -
Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War by Elizabeth R. Varon 9780190217860
RRP: $25.14Booksplease Price: $22.41Winner of the Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize of the Austin Civil War Round Table Finalist, Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the Confederacy Finalist, Library of Virginia Literary Award for... -
Lincoln's Jewish Spy: The Life and Times of Issachar Zacharie E. Lawrence Abel 9781476680460
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $25.27Born into a Sephardic Jewish immigrant family, Dr. Issachar Zacharie was the preeminent foot doctor for the American political elite before and during the Civil War. An expert in pain management,... -
Vicksburg Besieged by Steven E. Woodworth
Booksplease Price: $31.53A detailed analysis of the end of the Vicksburg Campaign and the forty-day siege Vicksburg, Mississippi, held strong through a bitter, hard-fought, months-long Civil War campaign, but General Ulysses... -
Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America by Micki McElya
RRP: $46.38Booksplease Price: $39.04When Aunt Jemima beamed at Americans from the pancake mix box on grocery shelves, many felt reassured by her broad smile that she and her product were dependable. She was everyone's mammy, the... -
The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James by Bob Deans 9780742551732
Booksplease Price: $18.37From the establishment of the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607 to the fall of Richmond in 1865, the James River has been instrumental in the formation of modern America. It was... -
Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation by Lorri Glover
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $23.54Between the generations of Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson Davis, the culture of white Southerners experienced significant changes, including the establishment of a normative male identity that exuded... -
Gone with the Glory: The Civil War in Cinema by Brian Steel Wills 9780742545267
Booksplease Price: $37.19From Birth of a Nation to Cold Mountain, hundreds of directors, actors, and screenwriters have used the Civil War to create compelling cinema. However, each generation of moviemakers has resolved the... -
Crisis in the Southwest: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas by Richard Bruce Winders 9780842028011
Booksplease Price: $66.05The war between the United States and Mexico was decades in the making. Although Texas was an independent republic from 1836 to 1845, Texans retained an affiliation with the United States that... -
A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America by James Tejani 9781324093558
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $29.94The 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... -
Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation by Lorri Glover 9780801884986
Booksplease Price: $65.52Between the generations of Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson Davis, the culture of white Southerners experienced significant changes, including the establishment of a normative male identity that exuded... -
The Spymistress: A Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini 9780142180884
Booksplease Price: $24.96New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini is back with another enthralling historical novel set during the Civil War era, this time inspired by the life of "a true Union woman as true as... -
The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War—An Oral History by Bruce Chadwick 9781639363391
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.00The first-ever oral history of the attack that started the Civil War that combines illuminating historical narrative with intense first-hand accounts. On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops began... -
Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives by Carol K. Bleser 9780195330854
Booksplease Price: $51.85From Robert E. and Mary Lee to Ulysses S. and Julia Grant, Intimate Strategies of the Civil War examines the marriages of twelve prominent military commanders, highlighting the impact wives had on... -
God Forgives, Brothers Don't: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood Jasper Craven 9781668087190
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38In the tradition of Sebastian Junger's Tribe and Chris Hedges's classic War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, a powerful investigation into the fraught history and ominous future of military... -
The Jewish Confederates by Robert N Rosen 9781643362472
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26In The Jewish Confederates, Robert N. Rosen introduces readers to the community of Southern Jews of the 1860s, revealing the remarkable breadth of Southern Jewry's participation in the war and their... -
Beyond Freedom's Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery by Adam Rothman 9780674368125
RRP: $46.38Booksplease Price: $39.04Born into slavery in rural Louisiana, Rose Herera was bought and sold several times before being purchased by the De Hart family of New Orleans. Still a slave, she married and had children, who also... -
Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies by Sanford Levinson
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Is it "Stalinist" for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capitol? Is it possible for America to...