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  • The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory

    Reconsidering Virginia's Most Notorious Civil War Battlefield

    by Adam Petty ...
    In this highly revisionist study, historian Adam H. Petty tracks how veterans and historians of the Civil War created and perpetuated myths about the Wilderness, a forest in Virginia that served as the backdrop for three of the war’s most interesting campaigns. This forest had a fearsome reputation among soldiers, especially those from Union armies; many believed it to be an exceptional landscape ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Volume 15: 16 May28 June 1844

    Edited by Brett D. Dowdle, Adam H. Petty, J. Chase Kirkham; Elizabeth A. Kuehn; David W. Grua; Matthew C. Godfrey ...
    Series Book 15 - Joseph Smith Papers
    The fifteenth and last volume in the Documents series covers the tumultuous final six weeks of Joseph Smith’s life, illuminating especially the events that led to his death. It features one hundred and five documents, representing the core of his documentary output during this period, including his correspondence, accounts of his discourses, administrative minutes, municipal documents, military ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • American Discord

    The Republic and Its People in the Civil War Era

    by Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr., T. Michael Parrish, Adam Petty, Charity Rakestraw, Glenn Brasher, Daniel Burge, Katie Deale, Will Greene, Rob Hart, Kevin Hughes, John F. Marszalek, Lindsey Privette, Chris Teeters, Christian McWhirter ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    A panoramic collection of essays written by both established and emerging scholars, American Discord examines critical aspects of the Civil War era, including rhetoric and nationalism, politics and violence, gender, race, and religion. Beginning with an overview of the political culture of the 1860s, the collection reveals that most Americans entered the decade opposed to political compromise. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Bale After Bale

    How Cotton Defined the Twentieth-Century South

    by Professor Robert Jackson, James C. Giesen, Jarod Roll, Jarvis C. McInnis, Margaret Ronda, Adam Gussow, Adrienne Petty, Mark Smith ...
    Series series The American South Series
    From the cotton boll to the Cotton Bowl in modern American cultureThere are few places on earth as thoroughly identified with a crop as the American South is with cotton. Burgundy is known for wine, and Java has coffee. In the South, for most of its history, cotton was king. Through much of the twentieth century, cotton cultivation determined nearly every aspect of life in the region. In Bale ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Joseph Smith

    Rough Stone Rolling

    by Richard Lyman Bushman ...
    Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a practicing Mormon, moves beyond the popular stereotype of Smith as a ... Read more

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  • American Crucifixion

    The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church

    by Alex Beam ...
    A gripping account of the mob killing of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism“American Crucifixion paints a brilliant picture of religious experimentation, public intolerance, and the making of a martyr.”—Chicago TribuneOn June 27, 1844, in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois, Joseph Smith and three of his associates waited anxiously in a jail cell. The dynamic founding prophet of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Abraham Lincoln

    A Life

    by Michael Burlingame ...
    In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America’s greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce our ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • A House Full of Females

    Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

    by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ...
    From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History,and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and determination.A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two ... Read more

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  • Massacre at Mountain Meadows

    by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Glen M. Leonard ...
    On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter. Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Brigham Young

    by John G. Turner ...
    Brigham Young was a rough-hewn New York craftsman whose impoverished life was electrified by the Mormon faith. Turner provides a fully realized portrait of this spiritual prophet, viewed by followers as a protector and by opponents as a heretic. His pioneering faith made a deep imprint on tens of thousands of lives in the American Mountain West. ... Read more

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  • Lincoln in Private

    What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President

    by Ronald C. White ...
    **“An intimate character portrait and fascinating inquiry into the basis of Lincoln’s energetic, curious mind.”—The Wall Street JournalWINNER OF THE BARONDESS/LINCOLN AWARD • From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses, a revelatory glimpse into the intellectual journey of our sixteenth president through his private notes to himself, explored together here for the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Lincoln's Greatest Speech

    The Second Inaugural

    by Ronald C. White Jr. ...
    After four years of unspeakable horror and sacrifice on both sides, the Civil War was about to end. On March 4, 1865, at his Second Inaugural, President Lincoln did not offer the North the victory speech it yearned for, nor did he blame the South solely for the sin of slavery. Calling the whole nation to account, Lincoln offered a moral framework for peace and reconciliation. The speech was ... Read more

    $13.99 USD