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  • The Business of Bigotry

    John Van Evrie's Nineteenth-Century Racist Media Empire

    by Michael E. Woods ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Amid nineteenth-century America’s fierce battles over slavery and freedom, few proslavery partisans argued more vehemently for the supremacy of the white race than John Van Evrie (1814–96). A New York–based propagandist, writer, book publisher, and editor of the New York Day Book, Van Evrie leveraged the era’s rapidly expanding media and communications landscape to advance his cause. Throughout ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Newhall Shooting - A Tactical Analysis

    An inside look at the most tragic and influential police gunfight of the modern era.

    by Michael E. Wood ...
    Series series Concealed Carry Series
    As the son of a California Highway Patrolman who was a contemporary of the slain officers in the famed 1970 Newhall shooting, Michael E. Wood grew up hearing about the event and its influence on the CHP and law enforcement community. That experience led to his authoring Newhall Shooting: A Tactical Analysis, arguably the most thoroughly researched and documented account of the shooting to date. He ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Emotional and Sectional Conflict in the Antebellum United States

    by Michael E. Woods ...
    The sectional conflict over slavery in the United States was not only a clash between labour systems and political ideologies but also a viscerally felt part of the lives of antebellum Americans. This book contributes to the growing field of emotions history by exploring how specific emotions shaped Americans' perceptions of, and responses to, the sectional conflict in order to explain why it ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Arguing until Doomsday

    Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy

    by Michael E. Woods ...
    Series series Civil War America
    As the sectional crisis gripped the United States, the rancor increasingly spread to the halls of Congress. Preston Brooks’s frenzied assault on Charles Sumner was perhaps the most notorious evidence of the dangerous divide between proslavery Democrats and the new antislavery Republican Party. But as disunion loomed, rifts within the majority Democratic Party were every bit as consequential. And ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Until Justice Be Done

    America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

    by Kate Masur ...
    **Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in HistoryFinalist for the 2022 Lincoln PrizeWinner of the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold Prize • Winner of the John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History • Winner of the American Society for Legal History's John Phillip Reid Book AwardOne of NPR's Best Books of 2021 and a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2021A ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Democracy Reborn

    The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post–Civil War America

    by Garrett Epps ...
    A riveting narrative of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, an act which revolutionized the U.S. constitution and shaped the nation's destiny in the wake of the Civil WarThough the end of the Civil War and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation inspired optimism for a new, happier reality for blacks, in truth the battle for equal rights was just beginning. Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's successor, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Death of Reconstruction

    Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901

    by Heather Cox Richardson ...
    Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was critical to Reconstruction's end. Northern support for freed blacks and Reconstruction weakened in the wake of growing critiques of the economy and calls for a redistribution of wealth.Using newspapers, public speeches, popular ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Clash of Extremes

    The Economic Origins of the Civil War

    by Marc Egnal ...
    This provocative Civil War history offers "perceptive, fine-grained analysis" to show that the conflict was rooted in economics—not moral principles ( Publishers Weekly ).Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, historian Marc Egnal demonstrates that between 1820 and 1850, patterns of trade and production drew the North and South together and allowed sectional leaders to broker a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

  • Wolf by the Ears

    The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821

    by John R. Van Atta ...
    Series series Witness to History
    "In this engaging work, Van Atta . . . provides an in-depth analysis of the 1820 Missouri Compromise, a seminal event on the road to the Civil War." — ChoiceIn Wolf by the Ears, John R. Van Atta discusses how the question of slavery surfaced in the divisive fight over Missouri statehood. As Thomas Jefferson wrote at the time, a nation dealing with the politically implacable issue of slavery ... Read more

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  • Shmoop US History Guide: Causes of the Civil War

    by Shmoop ...
    Dive deep into the history of Causes of the Civil War anywhere you go: on a plane, on a mountain, in a canoe, under a tree. Or grab a flashlight and read Shmoop under the covers. Shmoop's award-winning US History Guides are now available on your eReader. Shmoop eBooks are like having a trusted, fun, chatty, expert history-tour-guide always by your side, no matter where you are (or how late it is ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 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

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