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To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing pivotal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an A……続きを見る

Loreta Janeta Velazquez was the daughter of a Spanish official living in Cuba. As a young girl she was sent to school in New Orleans, where she ran away and married a U.S. Army officer. After the ou……続きを見る

When the Civil War began, the U.S. pharmaceutical industry was concentrated almost exclusively in Philadelphia and was dominated by just a few major firms; when the war ended, it was poised to expan……続きを見る

Alan Nolan's 1961 Iron Brigade, the classic study of Brigadier General John Gibbon's Black Hat Brigade composed of the 19th Indiana, the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin and the 24th Michigan, drew publi……続きを見る

Trailblazing essays on the home front from Civil War History For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest st……続きを見る

This meticulously edited seven-volume edition explores in full detail the life and work of Abraham Lincoln. The collection contains complete writings of Abraham Lincoln from 1832 to 1865, as well as……続きを見る

For five days in July 1863, at the height of the Civil War, New York City was under siege. Angry rioters burned draft offices, closed factories, destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines, and hu……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

A Scottish immigrant to Illinois, Joseph Brown made his pre-Civil War fortune as a miller and steamboat captain who dabbled in riverboat design and the politics of small towns. When war erupted, he ……続きを見る

For five days in July 1863, at the height of the Civil War, New York City was under siege. Angry rioters burned draft offices, closed factories, destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines, and hu……続きを見る

"Soldier mortals would not survive if they were not blessed with the gift of imagination and the pictures of hope," wrote Confederate Private Henry Graves in the trenches outside Petersburg, Virgini……続きを見る

Grant Rising is an inspired, one-volume summary in maps and text of Ulysses S. Grant's famous battles in 1862 - including Donelson and Shiloh - and also his early life, including his frontier and Me……続きを見る

In Henty's words, "The Great War between the Northern and Southern States of America possesses a peculiar interest for us, not only because it was a struggle between two sections of a people akin to……続きを見る

'Lincoln' is een biografie door Frans Verhagen van Abraham Lincoln, misschien wel de beste president ooit. In deze biografie vertelt Amerikakenner Frans Verhagen het fascinerende levensverhaal van A……続きを見る

There is only one New York. It didn't make America, but it made possible the America we've come to know. Here - from American Heritage magazine and such historians as Nathaniel Benchley, David McCul……続きを見る

1861-1865: La cruenta guerra de secesión y sangrienta batalla contra la esclavitud que significó el fin de una época. Lincoln, Custer, Grant, Sherman, Whitman. La Unión contra los Estados Confederad……続きを見る

During the Civil War, Charles Curtis served in the 5th United States Infantry on the New Mexico and Arizona frontier. He spent his years from 1862 to 1865 on garrison duty, interacting with Native A……続きを見る

Es esta una obra que se aproxima a la Guerra Civil estadounidense a través de la mirada de los fotógrafos que plasmaron el conflicto que enfrentó a Norte y Sur de Estados Unidos en el siglo XIX. Y t……続きを見る

Ghosts, a mysterious diary and a harrowing of a family split by the American Civil War sit at the heart of The Walker in the Shadows, a haunting Gothic romance by New York Times bestseller Barbara M……続きを見る

MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville GLORY FOR ME A Novel in Verse By MacKinlay Kantor BASIS FOR THE MOVIE THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES It is seldom in time of war that an ……続きを見る

This book is a collection of personal vignettes, a mystery detective novel that turns oral legend into history. Montgomery County, Indiana’s history of the Underground Railroad focuses on the people……続きを見る

In the spring of 1844, a fiery political conflict erupted over the admission of Texas into the Union. This hard-fought and bitter controversy profoundly changed the course of American history. Indee……続きを見る

***Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize*** Henry Louis Gates, Jr: "A stunning tale of a little-known figure in history." Candice Millard: “Be Free or Die makes you want to stand up and chee……続きを見る

There is a huge difference between the world then and today. Learn what makes the difference and who was responsible for the change. Learning about the past has never been this exciting! This histor……続きを見る

The true story of Frederick Douglass, who was a American slave. This is a great companion volume to Fifty Years in Chains. 続きを見る

Where was there a civil war? What were the events that led to bloodshed? In this 5th grader American history, we're going to visit all those facts hoping that we won’t commit the same mistakes as ou……続きを見る

What did the battle of Gettysburg look like? Despite the vast number of photographs associated with the Civil War, we have no photos of the battles themselves. The state of photography at that time ……続きを見る

The Union stood in danger of losing an entire army at Chattanooga, Tennessee. Then Ulysses S. Grant arrived and directed the most dramatic battle of the American Civil War. Here, in this short-form ……続きを見る

This tome is the second volume of Holman Hamilton’s landmark biography of Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), the 12th President of the United States. It examines Taylor’s brief but important political care……続きを見る

THE UNDISPUTED CLASSIC OF EQUINE ADVENTURE In the early 1920s, a peaceful Swiss schoolteacher accomplished one of the most extraordinary equestrian journeys in history: Aimé Tschiffely and his two t……続きを見る