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  • Carolinian Crucible

    Reforging Class, Family, and Nation in Confederate South Carolina

    by Patrick J. Doyle ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Carolinian Crucible tells the story of South Carolina – particularly its upcountry region – at war. A state notorious for its political radicalism before the Civil War, this book avoids caricaturing the Palmetto State's inhabitants as unflinching Confederate zealots, and instead provides a more fine-grained appraisal of their relationship with the new nation that their state's political elite ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

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  • 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

    Was $12.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

  • Slavery and Public History

    The Tough Stuff of American Memory

    by Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, Gary B. Nash ...
    "A fascinating collection of essays" by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery ( Booklist Online).In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America's history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of ... Read more

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  • Race and Reunion

    The Civil War in American Memory

    by David W. Blight ...
    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti awardWinner of the Frederick Douglass PrizeNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • Birthright Citizens

    A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable opposition, most notoriously from the US Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott. Still, Martha S. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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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

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  • The U.S. Civil War

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Louis P. Masur ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape. Louis P. Masur's The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction offers a masterful and eminently readable overview of the war's multiple causes and catastrophic ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Six Encounters with Lincoln

    A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons

    by Elizabeth Brown Pryor ...
    **Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln Award from The Civil War Round Table of New York“Fascinating reading. . .this book eerily reflects some of today’s key issues.” – The New York Times Book Review**From an award-winning historian, an engrossing look at how Abraham Lincoln grappled with the challenges of leadership in an unruly democracyAn awkward first meeting with U.S. Army officers, on the eve of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

    The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY • A “sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive” portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from “a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban history” (Tiya Miles, National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried)Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation’s hub of radical ... Read more

    Was $19.99 USD Now $16.99 USD

  • Troubled Refuge

    Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War

    by Chandra Manning ...
    From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States.Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root of the war they knew was coming, and they began running to the Union army. By the war’s end, nearly half ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Drawn with the Sword

    Reflections on the American Civil War

    by James M. McPherson ...
    James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the highest order." Now, in Drawn With the Sword, McPherson offers a series of thoughtful and engaging ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Exploring Lincoln

    Great Historians Reappraise Our Greatest President

    Edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, Frank J. Williams ...
    In these 16 essays, Lincoln scholars offer fresh perspectives and revealing new research on the life and times of America's greatest president.Ubiquitous and enigmatic, the historical Lincoln, the literary Lincoln, even the cinematic Lincoln have all proved both fascinating and irresistible. Though some 16,000 books have been written about him, there is always more to say, new aspects of his life ... Read more

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