Martha Hall Kelly

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A Novel

1859. When war ignites the nation, Georgeanne "Georgey" Woolsey follows her passion for nursing. She and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort. In the South, Jemma is enslaved on the Peeler Plantation in Maryland; her sister, Patience, is enslaved on the plantation next door

Sunflower Sisters

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

History

The Civil War

Experience the first shot fired and the Battle of Bull Run, fight to survive at Gettysburg, hide a group of run away slaves along the underground railroad. The Civil War Experience brings you to history. Choose from 51 possible endings while exploring one of the most important eras of American history

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California

An Interactive History Adventure

The Civil War Experience 

North Carolina

The Story of a Confederate Warrior

A Confederate general who ranks with Lee, Jeb Stuart, and Stonewall Jackson but whose achievements have been unfairly neglected until now, finally receives his due in this invaluable biography by a noted historian of the Civil War. Drawing extensively on newly unearthed documents, this work provides a gripping battle-by-battle assessment of Hill's role in Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and other battles. 8 pages of photographs. From the Trade Paperback edition.

General A. P. Hill

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Irene Hunt

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Kentucky

Each succeeding spring brings a young Illinois boy closer to manhood as he faces the harsh realities of the American Civil War.

Across Five Aprils

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Three book BUNDLE:

The Rebel Raiders - The Astonishing History of the Confederacy’s Secret Navy by deKay (paperback)

General Bennett H. Young - Confederate Raider and a Man of Many Adventures by Kinchen (hardcover)

Confederate Agent by Horan (hardcover)

Three great real life adventure stories. 



Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Tennessee

Confederate Adventure BUNDLE

Jeff Shaara

Trade paperback size. Sign by author. Pages are clean and tight with no spine creasing

Wisconsin

Discovering America's Hallowed Ground

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORYJeff Shaara, America's premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the ten Civil War battlefields every American should visit- Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, New Market, Chickamauga, the Wilderness/Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg/Appomattox. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and provides- engaging narratives of the war's crucial battles- intriguing historical footnotes about each site- photographs of the locations'then and now- detailed maps of the battle scenes- fascinating sidebars with related points of interestFrom Antietam to Gettysburg to Vicksburg, and to the many poignant destinations in between, Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields is the ideal guide for casual tourists and Civil War enthusiasts alike.

Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

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Stephanie McCurry

Used textbook in good condition. Nonfiction/history. Required reading in certain college US history classes. Contains few highlights and notes. 

Indiana

Power and Politics in the Civil War South

Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Winner of the Merle Curti Award

"McCurry strips the Confederacy of myth and romance to reveal its doomed essence. Dedicated to the proposition that men were not created equal, the Confederacy had to fight a two-front war. Not only against Union armies, but also slaves and poor white women who rose in revolt across the South. Richly detailed and lucidly told, Confederate Reckoning is a fresh, bold take on the Civil War that every student of the conflict should read."
--Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic

"McCurry challenges us to expand our definition of politics to encompass not simply government but the entire public sphere. The struggle for Southern independence, she shows, opened the door for the mobilization of two groups previously outside the political nation--white women of the nonslaveholding class and slaves...Confederate Reckoning offers a powerful new paradigm for understanding events on the Confederate home front."
--Eric Foner, The Nation

"Perhaps the highest praise one can offer McCurry's work is to say that once we look through her eyes, it will become almost impossible to believe that we ever saw or thought otherwise...At the outset of the book, McCurry insists that she is not going to ask or answer the timeworn question of why the South lost the Civil War. Yet in her vivid and richly textured portrait of what she calls the Confederacy's 'undoing,' she has in fact accomplished exactly that."
--Drew Gilpin Faust, New Republic

"A brilliant, eye-opening account of how Southern white women and black slaves fatally undermined the Confederacy from within."
--Edward Bonekemper, Civil War News

The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and martial narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. When the grandiosity of Southerners' national ambitions met the harsh realities of wartime crises, unintended consequences ensued. Although Southern statesmen and generals had built the most powerful slave regime in the Western world, they had excluded the majority of their own people--white women and slaves--and thereby sowed the seeds of their demise.

Wartime scarcity of food, labor, and soldiers tested the Confederate vision at every point and created domestic crises to match those found on the battlefields. Women and slaves became critical political actors as they contested government enlistment and tax and welfare policies, and struggled for their freedom. The attempt to repress a majority of its own population backfired on the Confederate States of America as the disenfranchised demanded to be counted and considered in the great struggle over slavery, emancipation, democracy, and nationhood. That Confederate struggle played out in a highly charged international arena.

The political project of the Confederacy was tried by its own people and failed. The government was forced to become accountable to women and slaves, provoking an astounding transformation of the slaveholders' state. Confederate Reckoning is the startling story of this epic political battle in which women and slaves helped to decide the fate of the Confederacy and the outcome of the Civil War.

Confederate Reckoning

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Margaret Mitchell

Pat Conroy

Cover Corners a bit bent but otherwise in Excellent condition.

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

75th Anniversary Edition

Gone with the Wind

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Damage to the interior, pages coming off the spine. Otherwise in good condition

Vermont

Vermont Civil War Letters

A War of the People

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Jeffrey R. Hummel

A provocative libertarian history of the Civil War and Reconstruction, examining the long-term effects of the war on American government and society. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A History of the American Civil War

This book combines a sweeping narrative history of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war's significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America's turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution. A unique feature of the book is the bibliographical essays which follow every chapter. Here the author surveys the literature and points out where his own interpretation fits into the continuing clash of viewpoints which informs historical debate on the Civil War.

Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men

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Civil War Series 

The Battle of Chancellorville

Why Men Fought in the Civil War

General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, over and over again, through countless bloody battles and four long, awful years ? Why did the conventional wisdom -- that soldiers become increasingly cynical and disillusioned as war progresses -- not hold true in the Civil War?

It is to this question--why did they fight--that James McPherson, America's preeminent Civil War historian, now turns his attention. He shows that, contrary to what many scholars believe, the soldiers of the Civil War remained powerfully convinced of the ideals for which they fought throughout the conflict. Motivated by duty and honor, and often by religious faith, these men wrote frequently of their firm belief in the cause for which they fought: the principles of liberty, freedom, justice, and patriotism. Soldiers on both sides harkened back to the Founding Fathers, and the ideals of the American Revolution. They fought to defend their country, either the Union--"the best Government ever made"--or the Confederate states, where their very homes and families were under siege. And they fought to defend their honor and manhood. "I should not lik to go home with the name of a couhard," one Massachusetts private wrote, and another private from Ohio said, "My wife would sooner hear of my
death than my disgrace." Even after three years of bloody battles, more than half of the Union soldiers reenlisted voluntarily. "While duty calls me here and my country demands my services I should be willing to make the sacrifice," one man wrote to his protesting parents. And another soldier said simply, "I still love my country."

McPherson draws on more than 25,000 letters and nearly 250 private diaries from men on both sides. Civil War soldiers were among the most literate soldiers in history, and most of them wrote home frequently, as it was the only way for them to keep in touch with homes that many of them had left for the first time in their lives. Significantly, their letters were also uncensored by military authorities, and are uniquely frank in their criticism and detailed in their reports of marches and battles, relations between officers and men, political debates, and morale. For Cause and Comrades lets these soldiers tell their own stories in their own words to create an account that is both deeply moving and far truer than most books on war.

Battle Cry of Freedom, McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the highest order." For Cause and Comrades deserves similar accolades, as McPherson's masterful prose and the soldiers' own words combine to create both an important book on an often-overlooked aspect of our bloody Civil War, and a powerfully moving account of the men who fought it.


For Cause and Comrades

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75th Anniversary edition from 2011. Great classic for your shelves. I love that they reissued it with the original looking dust jacket. 

Florida

Elizabeth Raum

7 books. Excellent condition transcontinental railroad, the Great Depression, and  the titanic are not included. Will update photo when home. 

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

"2 story paths, 54 choices, 14 endings"--Cover.

American history bundle 7 books

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Amanda Foreman

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

New York

Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

10 BEST BOOKS * THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * 2011
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post * The New Yorker * Chicago Tribune * The Economist * Nancy Pearl, NPR * Bloomberg.com * Library Journal * Publishers Weekly

Acclaimed historian Amanda Foreman follows the phenomenal success of her New York Times bestseller Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire with her long-awaited second work of nonfiction: the fascinating story of the American Civil War and the major role played by Britain and its citizens in that epic struggle.

Even before the first rumblings of secession shook the halls of Congress, British involvement in the coming schism was inevitable. Britain was dependent on the South for cotton, and in turn the Confederacy relied almost exclusively on Britain for guns, bullets, and ships. The Union sought to block any diplomacy between the two and consistently teetered on the brink of war with Britain. For four years the complex web of relationships between the countries led to defeats and victories both minute and history-making. In A World on Fire, Amanda Foreman examines the fraught relations from multiple angles while she introduces characters both humble and grand, bringing them to vivid life over the course of her sweeping and brilliant narrative.

Between 1861 and 1865, thousands of British citizens volunteered for service on both sides of the Civil War. From the first cannon blasts on Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox, they served as officers and infantrymen, sailors and nurses, blockade runners and spies. Through personal letters, diaries, and journals, Foreman has woven together their experiences to form a panoramic yet intimate view of the war on the front lines, in the prison camps, and in the great cities of both the Union and the Confederacy. Through the eyes of these brave volunteers we see the details of the struggle for life and the great and powerful forces that threatened to demolish a nation.

In the drawing rooms of London and the offices of Washington, on muddy fields and aboard packed ships, Foreman reveals the decisions made, the beliefs held and contested, and the personal triumphs and sacrifices that ultimately led to the reunification of America. A World on Fire is a complex and groundbreaking work that will surely cement Amanda Foreman's position as one of the most influential historians of our time.

A World on Fire

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Anna Quindlen

Out of print cover (1994) has seen shelf wear on the tops and bottom of the spine and corners but the pages themselves are very good. The dustjacket of the spine is faded from the sun. There is a personalization written on the inside.

Michigan

This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868-69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a wealth of archival materials, among them previously unpublished correspondence with Thomas Niles and Alcott's own precursors to Little Women. "Criticism" reprints twenty nineteenth-century reviews. Seven modern essays represent a variety of critical theories used to read and study the novel, including feminist (Catharine R. Stimpson, Elizabeth Keyser), new historicist (Richard H. Brodhead), psychoanalytic (Angela M. Estes and Kathleen Margaret Lant), and reader-response (Barbara Sicherman). A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Little Women

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Massachusetts

Novel by Margaret Mitchell, published in 1936. Gone With the Wind is a sweeping, romantic story about the American Civil War from the point of view of the Confederacy. In particular it is the story of Scarlett O'Hara, a headstrong Southern belle who survives the hardships of the war and afterwards manages to establish a successful business by capitalizing on the struggle to rebuild the South. Throughout the book she is motivated by her unfulfilled love for Ashley Wilkes, an honorable man who is happily married. After a series of marriages and failed relationships with other men, notably the dashing Rhett Butler, she has a change of heart and determines to win Rhett back.

Arguing the Case for Southern Secession

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect of the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." With these words, thirteen of the British colonies in North America unanimously declared independence from British rule. Eighty-five years later, adhering to principles articulated by their revolutionary forebears, the 11 Confederate States of America seceded from the United States, plunging the country into the bloodiest war of its history. Until the publication of this highly original book, most attempts to explain the origins of the American Civil War relied heavily on regional sympathies and mythology--that the South abandoned the Union to maintain slavery while President Lincoln's primary goal was to preserve the nation. Prominent scholar Charles Adams challenges this traditional wisdom. Using primary documents from both foreign and domestic observers, Adams makes a powerful and convincing case that the Southern states were legitimately exercising their political rights as expressed in the Declaration of Independence. Although conventional histories have taught generations of Americans that this was a war fought for lofty moral principles, Adams' eloquent history transcends simple Southern partisanship to show how the Civil War was primarily a battle over competing commercial interests, opposing interpretations of constitutional rights, and what English novelist Charles Dickens described as "a fiscal quarrel." Working from the premise that "wars have seldom been justified," Adams argues that the Civil War was an avoidable humanitarian disaster that nearly destroyed American democracy. This bold and controversial book will not only change how historians think about the causes of the Civil War bu

When in the Course of Human Events

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Jay Luvaas

Harold W. Nelson

Virginia

The U. S. Army War College Guide to the Battles of Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg

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Edward A. Pollard

A monumental and detailed work, first published in 1866. A history of the Confederate cause including the events leading to the war, major occurrences of the war, and the text of the Confederate Constitution.

Southern History of the War

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#paperback #civilwar #Americahistory #history 

Mammoth Paperback (8 to 10 lbs)

Charts the war's strategic aims, diplomatic and political movements, key military actions, important figures, social and financial costs, and developments in military science, in a volume complemented by primary source documents. 10,000 first printing.

Encyclopedia of the American Civil War - A Political Social and Military History

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Mark Millar

Maryland

An accident on a reality show leads the government to issue a directive that all superheroes must register, a requirement that pits Captain America and his Underground Avengers against the Iron Man and Mr. Fantastic, who want to comply.

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