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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin  Publisher Comments Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become...
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American Abolitionists (01 Edition)
by Stanley Harrold Publisher Comments "This book, the latest in the Seminar Studies in History series, examines the movement to abolish slavery in the US, from the origins of the movement in the eighteenth century through to the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in 1865. Books in this...
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
by Drew Gilpin Faust Publisher Comments An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion...
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Oxford History of the United States #06: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James M Mcpherson Publisher Comments 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 of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates...
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Defend the Valley: A Shenandoah Family in the Civil War
by Margaretta Barton Colt Publisher Comments In Defend the Valley, the story of the war is told through the letters and private papers of the Bartons and Joneses. In gathering together her ancestors' papers, Margaretta Barton Colt has done far more than provide a record of the Civil War. She has...
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1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See
by Bruce Chadwick Publisher Comments 1858 explores the events and personalities of the year that would send the America's North and South on a collision course culminating in the slaughter of 630,000 of the nation's young men, a greater number than died in any other American conflict. The...
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Washington Burning: How a Frenchman's Vision for Our Nation's Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Ar
by Les Standiford Publisher Comments The Riveting Story of the Federal City and the Men Who Built It In 1814, British troops invaded Washington, consuming President Madison’s hastily abandoned dinner before setting his home and the rest of the city ablaze. The White House still bears...
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Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America
by Allen C. Guelzo Publisher Comments fill in...
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Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship
by Ron Powers Publisher Comments As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to...
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States)
by Daniel Walker Howe 
Publisher Comments The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes two Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in What Hath God...
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Co. Aytch : Confederate Memoir Civil War (62 Edition)
by Sam R. Watkins Publisher Comments Early in May 1861, twenty-one-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment, Company H, to fight for the Confederacy. Of the 120 original recruits in his company, Watkins was one of only seven to survive every one of...
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The Civil War (Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History)
by Paul A. Cimbala Publisher Comments From the initial enlistment and recruitment of men for the opposing armies, through their demobilization during the spring, summer, and fall of 1865, Paul A. Cimbala always places the solider at the center of the story. This book shows how the men who...
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Do You Know the Civil War?: A Brain-Stretching Quiz about the Historic Struggle Between the Blue and Gray (Do You Know?)
by Guy Robinson Publisher Comments For history buffs and trivia lovers Test your knowledge and pick up fascinating facts. --Daring military strategies and epic battles won and lost --Famous and infamous Yankees and Rebels, generals and politicians, soldiers and civilians --Heroic deeds...
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Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.)
by James L Swanson
Powells.com Staff Pick Many books have been published about the assassination of our 16th president, but it's hard to imagine a more rewarding book than this one. Swanson's dramatic account of the hunt for John Wilkes Booth is a fascinating drama; exceptional historical...
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Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869
by Stephen Ambrose Publisher Comments In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers a historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage, which recounted the explorations of the West by Lewis and Clark. Nothing Like...
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Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
by Nancy Isenberg Publisher Comments A controversial challenge to the works of Ron Chernow and David McCullough With Fallen Founder, Nancy Isenberg plumbs rare and obscure sources to shed new light on everyoneas favorite founding villain. The Aaron Burr whom we meet through Isenbergas eye...
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Army Life in a Black Regiment (Economy Editions)
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Publisher Comments "Army Life in a Black Regiment has some claim to be the best written narrative to come from the Union [side] during the Civil War," wrote historian Henry Steele Commager. "Higginson's picture of the battle which was the origin of 'praise the Lord and...
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Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
by Joshua Wolf Shenk
Publisher Comments Drawing on seven years of his own research and the work of other< BR> esteemed Lincoln scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth< BR> president harnessed his depression to fuel his astonishing success.< BR> Lincoln found the solace and...
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Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876
by Jerome A Greene Book News Annotation Greene, a retired research historian for the US National Park Service, explains how the Indian Memorial at Little Bighorn came to be after generations of debate, digging, and changing attitudes on the parts of the National Park Service and the nation...
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Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation
by Julie Roy Jeffrey Publisher Comments In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter the nation's growing inclination to forget why the war was fought, what slavery was really...
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