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  • Abraham Lincoln

    A Life

    by Michael Burlingame ...
    Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised.Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a surpassingly eloquent champion of national unity, freedom, and democracy, Abraham Lincoln is arguably the most studied and admired of all Americans. Michael ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Shipwrecked

    A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade

    by Jonathan W. White ...
    From the New York Times: "The astonishing stories in Shipwrecked ... [offer] a fresh perspective on the mess of pitched emotions and politics in a nation at war over slavery."Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • From Dakota to Dixie

    George Buswell's Civil War

    by George W Buswell ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    The remarkable account of a Union soldier whose service took him from Indian Country to the heart of the ConfederacyIn the summer of 1862, young Minnesotan George W. Buswell enlisted in the Union army, but his marching orders did not take him to the South to fight the Confederacy, as he had hoped, but to the US-Dakota War. Until the end of 1863, Buswell served with the 7th Minnesota Infantry, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Great and Good Man: Rare, First-Hand Accounts and Observations of Abraham Lincoln

    by Jonathan W. White, William J. Griffing ...
    One hundred sixty years after Abraham Lincoln’s death it can be difficult to find sources that shed new light on his life, but that is exactly what Jonathan W. White and William J. Griffing have done.A Great and Good Man provides excerpts from more than 200 previously unpublished accounts written by men and women who lived during the Civil War. Some sawLincoln deliver speeches, review the troops, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A House Built by Slaves

    African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House

    by Jonathan W. White ...
    Readers of American history and books on Abraham Lincoln will appreciate what Los Angeles Review of Books deems an "accessible book" that "puts a human face - many human faces - on the story of Lincoln's attitudes toward and engagement with African Americans" and Publishers Weekly calls "a rich and comprehensive account."Widely praised and winner of the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln ... ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Final Resting Places

    Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves

    by Edward L. Ayers, William Davis, Douglas R. Egerton, Barbara Gannon, Hilary Green, Anna Gibson Holloway, Caroline E. Janney, Michelle Krowl, Barton A. Myers, Terry Alford, Melodie Andrews, Danalisa DeAnne Blanton, Michael Burlingame, John M. Coski, Michael Gray, Allen Carl Guelzo, Vitor Izecksohn, Glenn W. LaFantasie, Jennifer M. Murray, Timothy J. Orr, Chris Phillips, Mark S. Schantz, Dana Shoaf, Walter B. Stahr, Michael Vorenberg, Ronald C. White, Katherine Reynolds Chaddock, Stephen D. Engle ...
    Series series UnCivil Wars
    Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation—and how those meanings still influence Americans today.In each essay, a noted historian explores a different type of gravesite—including large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift markers ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered

    by Richard Bell, Thomas G. Clemens, Robert J. Cook, Sharita Jacobs-Thompson, Martha Jones, Brian Matthew Jordan, Jessica Millward, Timothy J. Orr, Rob Schoeberlein, Frank Towers, Jonathan W. White, Frank J. Williams ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    CONTENTS:Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell“Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” Richard Bell“Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre–Civil War Maryland,” Jessica Millward“Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore,” Martha S. Jones“‘Maryland Is This Day . . . True to the American Union’: The Election of 1860 and ... Read more

    Was $44.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • My Work among the Freedmen

    The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss

    by Harriet M. Buss ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    Between 1863 and 1871, Harriet M. Buss of Sterling, Massachusetts, taught former slaves in three different regions of the South, in coastal South Carolina, Norfolk, Virginia, and Raleigh, North Carolina. A white, educated Baptist woman, she initially saw herself as on a mission to the freedpeople of the Confederacy but over time developed a shared mission with her students and devoted herself to ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • To Address You as My Friend

    African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln

    Edited by Jonathan W. White ...
    Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the White House seemed concerned about the welfare of their race. Indeed, despite the tremendous injustice and discrimination that they faced, African Americans now had confidence to write to the president and to seek redress of their grievances. Their ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered

    Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror

    Edited by Stewart L. Winger, Jonathan W. White ...
    At the very end of the Civil War, a military court convicted Lambdin P. Milligan and his coconspirators in Indiana of fomenting a general insurrection and sentenced them to hang. On appeal, in Ex parte Milligan the US Supreme Court sided with the conspirators, ruling that it was unconstitutional to try American citizens in military tribunals when civilian courts were open and functioning—as they ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln

    by Jonathan W. White ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    The Union army's overwhelming vote for Abraham Lincoln's reelection in 1864 has led many Civil War scholars to conclude that the soldiers supported the Republican Party and its effort to abolish slavery. In Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln Jonathan W. White challenges this reigning paradigm in Civil War historiography, arguing instead that the soldier vote in the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War

    The Trials of John Merryman

    by Jonathan W. White ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In the spring of 1861, Union military authorities arrested Maryland farmer John Merryman on charges of treason against the United States for burning railroad bridges around Baltimore in an effort to prevent northern soldiers from reaching the capital. From his prison cell at Fort McHenry, Merryman petitioned Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger B. Taney for release through a writ of habeas ... Read more

    $18.99 USD