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  • From Blood to Ink

    How the Press Covered the Gettysburg Campaign

    by Matthew J. Larson ...
    Series series Print Culture in the South
    The first book ever on how the press covered the Gettysburg campaign, From Blood to Ink chronicles the rise of the press through the Civil War and how its coverage of Gettysburg not only misled the people of two warring factions but also misshaped the battle’s meaning for generations to come. As Matthew J. Larson reveals, newsmen on both sides transformed the battle into what they needed it to be ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War

    by David Fisher ...
    Series series Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies
    From The New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American history.From the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy’s first convention, the Underground Railroad to the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg to the assassination of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War

    The best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal top ten rankings of the Civil War

    by Thomas R. Flagel ...
    Series series History Buff's Guides
    Do You Think You Know the Civil War?The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War clears the powder smoke surrounding the war that changed America forever. The perfect guide for anyone looking for great history facts like:What were the best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal aspects of the conflict?What are the top ten causes?The bloodiest battles?With over thirty annotated top ten lists and ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Hymns of the Republic

    The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War

    by S. C. Gwynne ...
    From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, epic account of the last year of the Civil War.The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of the most compelling narratives and one of history’s great turning points. Now, Pulitzer Prize ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • What This Cruel War Was Over

    by Chandra Manning ...
    **Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (**The Philadelphia Inquirer).In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Fateful Lightning

    A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destruction (in modern dollars) of more than $700 billion in property. The war also sparked some of the most heroic moments in American history and enshrined a galaxy of American heroes. Above all, it ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Civil War Stories

    A 150th Anniversary Collection

    by The Washington Post ...
    This fascinating compendium examines the legacy of the War Between the States.At the Washington Post, the Civil War has held an enduring fascination for both readers and writers. Raging from 1861 to 1865, the War Between the States has left a lasting imprint on the United States's collective psyche for 150 years. Civil War Stories: A 150th Anniversary Collection aggregates historical data with ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Somewhere Toward Freedom

    Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation

    by Bennett Parten ...
    Considered one of “the most innovative studies of American emancipation in the Civil War” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass), Somewhere Toward Freedom is a groundbreaking account of Sherman’s March to the Sea—the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy—told for the first time from the perspective of the enslaved people who transformed it into ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Myth of the Lost Cause

    Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won

    by Edward H. Bonekemper III ...
    History isn't always written by the winners...Twenty-first-century controversies over Confederate monuments attest to the enduring significance of our nineteenth-century Civil War. As Lincoln knew, the meaning of America itself depends on how we understand that fratricidal struggle.As soon as the Army of Northern Virginia laid down its arms at Appomattox, a group of Confederate officers took up ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mr. Lincoln Goes to War

    by William Marvel ...
    An account of how America's greatest crisis began, by "the Civil War's master historical detective" (Stephen W. Sears, author of Chancellorsville).This groundbreaking book investigates the mystery of how the Civil War began, reconsidering the big question: Was it inevitable?The award-winning author of Andersonville and Lincoln's Autocrat vividly recreates President Abraham Lincoln's first year in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The South Vs. The South

    How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War

    by William W. Freehling ...
    Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, for example, or the North's greater industrial might. Now, in The South Vs. the South, one of America's leading authorities on the Civil War era offers an entirely new answer to this question. William Freehling argues that anti-Confederate Southerners--specifically, border state whites and ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The American Civil War: 1861-1865

    by History Nerds ...
    Series series Great Wars of the World
    Discover the dramatic story of the American Civil War, one of the most defining conflicts in the history of the United States. This concise and engaging history book explores the causes, major battles, and lasting consequences of the war that reshaped a nation and transformed the course of American society.Beginning with the secession crisis of 1860–1861, the book traces the growing tensions ... Read more

    $3.15 USD or Free with Kobo Plus