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  • Our Onward March

    The Grand Army of the Republic in the Progressive Era

    by Jonathan D. Neu ...
    Series series Reconstructing America
    Provides vital new evidence that Union veterans remained stubbornly opposed to the nation’s reconciliationist tendencies and unwilling to surrender the causes for which they foughtUnion soldiers’ service to the nation did not end in 1865. Instead, it persisted well into the twentieth century as hundreds of thousands of veterans joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and directed the reform ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • The War Went On

    Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans

    by Rebecca Howard, Zachery Fry, Jonathan Neu, Sarah Handley-Cousins, Angela M. Riotto, Kurt Hackemer, Tyler Sperrazza, Steven E. Sodergren, Matthew Norman, Matthew Christopher Hulbert, Kelly Mezurek, Adam H. Domby, Jonathan A. Noyalas ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical obscurity. Inspired by recent interest in memory studies and energized by the ongoing neorevisionist turn, a vibrant new literature has given the lie to the once-obligatory lament that the postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were irretrievable. Despite this flood of historical scholarship, fundamental questions about the essential ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Staking Claims to a Continent

    John A. Macdonald, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the Making of North America

    by James Laxer ...
    Staking Claims to a Continent is a highly readable examination of how Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, and Sir John A. Macdonald took part in a daring game of nation building that has impacted the global order to the present day.Three political leaders presided over the reshaping of the North American continent during the fiery 1860s. Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were both born in Kentucky ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Republics

    A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

    by Alan Taylor ...
    **Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American HistoryA Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of the YearFrom a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent.**In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young ... Read more

    $20.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lincoln's Peace

    The Struggle to End the American Civil War

    by Michael Vorenberg ...
    **One historian’s journey to find the end of the Civil War—and, along the way, to expand our understanding of the nature of war itself and how societies struggle to draw the line between war and peaceWINNER OF THE TOM WATSON BROWN BOOK AWARD • WINNER OF THE NAU BOOK PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN LINCOLN PRIZE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2025"Eye-opening, disturbing, moving and at times ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • My Face Is Black Is True

    Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations

    by Mary Frances Berry ...
    Acclaimed historian Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House who, seventy years before the civil-rights movement, demanded reparations for ex-slaves. A widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five, House (1861-1928) went on to fight for African American pensions based on those offered to Union soldiers, brilliantly targeting $68 million in taxes on seized ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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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

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Civil War Memories

    Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865

    by Robert J. Cook ...
    "Cook makes clear the powerful ways that the reverberations of the Civil War still resonate within American political culture. A compelling story." —Joan Waugh, author of U. S. GrantWinner of the 2018 Book Prize in American Studies of the British Association of American StudiesAt a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Civil Wars

    A Continental History, 1850-1873

    by Alan Taylor ...
    **A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2024A masterful history of the Civil War and its reverberations across the continent by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.**In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America’s three largest countries—the United States, ... Read more

    $22.09 CAD

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  • Groundwork

    Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights

    by Genna Rae McNeil, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. ...
    "A classic. . . . [It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American legal process."—Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., from the ForewordCharles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) left an indelible mark on American law and society. A brilliant lawyer and educator, he laid much of the legal foundation for the landmark civil ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Deserter Country

    Civil War Opposition in the Pennsylvania Appalachians

    by Robert M. Sandow ...
    Series series The North's Civil War
    During the Civil War, there were throughout the Union explosions of resistance to the war -from the deadly Draft Riots in New York City to other, less well-known outbreaks. In Deserter Country, Robert Sandow explores one of these least known "inner civil wars", the widespread, sometimes violent opposition in the Appalachian lumber country of Pennsylvania.Sparsely settled, these mountains were home ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Confederate Reckoning

    Power and Politics in the Civil War South

    by Stephanie McCurry ...
    Pulitzer Prize FinalistWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti Award“McCurry strips the Confederacy of myth and romance to reveal its doomed essence. Dedicated to the proposition that men were not created equal, the Confederacy had to fight a two-front war. Not only against Union armies, but also slaves and poor white women who rose in revolt across the South. Richly ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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