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Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S.Grant
Faced with cancer and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future. In doing so …
Battle Cry of Freedom
Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history …
The Atlas of the Civil War
From the first shots fired at Fort Sumter in 1861 to the final clashes on the Road to Appomattox in 1864, The Atlas of the Civil War reconstructs the battles of America's bloodiest …
The Enigmatic South
The Enigmatic South brings together leading scholars of the Civil War period to challenge existing perceptions of the advance to secession, the Civil War, and its aftermath. The …
We Cannot Escape History
A classic collection examining Lincoln's commitment to preserving a union, free of slavery A who's who of Lincoln scholars explores why Lincoln considered the Union the "last best …
The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy
Gideon Welles’s 1861 appointment as secretary of the navy placed him at the hub of Union planning for the Civil War and in the midst of the powerful personalities vying for …
The War That Forged a Nation
More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of …
Paving Over the Past
In this exhaustively researched book, Georgie Boge and Margie Boge analyze the issues and controversies surrounding the preservation of Civil War battlefield sites, and offer a …
The American Civil War
The United States saw long-simmering sectional tensions erupt into fighting at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, in April 1861, beginning what would become the most cataclysmic military …
Writing the Civil War
Studies diverse topics on the writing of Civil War historyNo event has transformed the United States more fundamentally-or been studied more exhaustively-than the Civil War. In …
Embattled Rebel
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy“The best concise book we …
Liberty, Equality, Power
How did America transform itself, in a relatively short time, from a land inhabited by hunter-gatherer and agricultural Native American societies into the most powerful industrial …