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  • Cassius Marcellus Clay

    The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform

    by Anne E. Marshall ...
    Series series Civil War America
    The nineteenth-century Kentucky antislavery reformer Cassius Marcellus Clay is generally remembered as a knife-wielding rabble-rouser who both inspired and enraged his contemporaries. Clay brawled with opponents while stumping for state constitutional changes to curtail the slave trade. He famously deployed cannons to protect the office of the antislavery newspaper he founded in Lexington. Despite ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Creating a Confederate Kentucky

    The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State

    by Anne E. Marshall ...
    Series series Civil War America
    In Creating a Confederate Kentucky, Anne E. Marshall traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925, belying the fact that Kentucky never left the Union. After the Civil War, the people of Kentucky appeared to forget their Union loyalties and embraced the Democratic politics, racial violence, and Jim Crow laws associated with former Confederate states. Marshall ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Look Away!

    A History of the Confederate States of America

    by William C. Davis ...
    William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of America not simply as a military saga (although it is that), but rather as a full portrait of a society and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The U.S. Civil War

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Louis P. Masur ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape. Louis P. Masur's The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction offers a masterful and eminently readable overview of the war's multiple causes and catastrophic ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Wars of Reconstruction

    The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era

    by Douglas R. Egerton ...
    A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Road to Disunion

    Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861

    by William W. Freehling ...
    Here is history in the grand manner, a powerful narrative peopled with dozens of memorable portraits, telling this important story with skill and relish. Freehling highlights all the key moments on the road to war, including the violence in Bleeding Kansas, Preston Brooks's beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate chambers, the Dred Scott Decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and much more ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Exploring Lincoln

    Great Historians Reappraise Our Greatest President

    Edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, Frank J. Williams ...
    In these 16 essays, Lincoln scholars offer fresh perspectives and revealing new research on the life and times of America's greatest president.Ubiquitous and enigmatic, the historical Lincoln, the literary Lincoln, even the cinematic Lincoln have all proved both fascinating and irresistible. Though some 16,000 books have been written about him, there is always more to say, new aspects of his life ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Connecticut in the American Civil War

    Slavery, Sacrifice, and Survival

    by Matthew Warshauer ...
    "Serves as a model of what a state-level survey of the Civil War can achieve . . . a potent combination of description and analysis." — The Civil War MonitorConnecticut in the American Civil War offers a remarkable window into the state's involvement in a conflict that challenged and defined the unity of a nation. The arc of the war is traced through the many facets and stories of battlefield, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shattering of the Union

    America in the 1850s

    by Eric H. Walther ...
    Series series The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era
    The 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 caused political conflicts to erupt again and again throughout the decade as the country lurched toward secession and war. With their grudging acceptance of the Compromise of 1850 and the election of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Roots of Secession

    Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia

    by William A. Link ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Offering a provocative new look at the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia, William Link places African Americans at the center of events and argues that their acts of defiance and rebellion had powerful political repercussions throughout the turbulent period leading up to the Civil War.An upper South state with nearly half a million slaves — more than any other state in the nation — and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Indivisible

    Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism

    by Joel Richard Paul ...
    The story of how Daniel Webster popularized the ideals of American nationalism that helped forge our nation’s identity and inspire Abraham Lincoln to preserve the UnionWhen the United States was founded in 1776, its citizens didn’t think of themselves as “Americans.” They were New Yorkers or Virginians or Pennsylvanians. It was decades later that the seeds of American nationalism—identifying with ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Reconstruction Updated Edition

    America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18

    by Eric Foner ...
    From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white ... Read more

    $18.99 USD