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Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln are the recollections of F.B. Carpenter, a painter. He published these memoirs in 1866. 続きを見る

Gettysburg, A Complete Historical Narrative of the Battle of Gettysburg, and the Campaign Preceding It, is a history of Gettysburg written by a Confederate Artillery Colonel. 続きを見る

Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade are the recollections of notorious Confederate soldier John O. Casler. Casler was arrested five times during the Civil War, and infamous for robbery during the Ba……続きを見る

Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer , published in 1905 after General Sorrel's death, is considered one of the most interesting Civil War memoirs as it describes many of the famous Confeder……続きを見る

The 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers infantry regiment was formed in 1861--its ranks filled by nearly 1,200 Irish and German immigrants from Schuylkill County responding to Lincoln's call for troops. Th……続きを見る

History has been kind to Robert E. Lee. Woodrow Wilson believed General Lee was a “model to men who would be morally great.” Douglas Southall Freeman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his four-volume bi……続きを見る

Please note: The gold stamping on the front was only available on the limited "John McElroy special edition" that is sold out. The current printing has gold stamping on the spine only. The National ……続きを見る

Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of religious skepticism and faith shaped struggles over the place of religion in politics. It produced different visions of knowledge ……続きを見る

Please note: The gold stamping on the front was only available on the limited "John McElroy special edition" that is sold out. The current printing has gold stamping on the spine only. The National ……続きを見る

Please note: The gold stamping on the front was only available on the limited "John McElroy special edition" that is sold out. The current printing has gold stamping on the spine only. The National ……続きを見る

A portrait of a pivotal chapter in the Civil War, "featuring scheming politicians, bumbling generals, and an increasingly disheartened Northern public" (Brooks Simpson, author of Ulysses S. Grant: T……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

A new look at the Civil War battle that led to Stonewall Jackson's death: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and "tour de force in military history" ( Library Journal). From the award-winning……続きを見る

"Sears has finally unraveled the mystique of this complex, brilliant Civil War general . . . A fascinating story" (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom). "Commander of the Northern ar……続きを見る

"No one working on Douglass should leave home without a copy of this book."ーfrom the foreword by David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Drawing on ……続きを見る

One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry: His Experience and What He Saw during the War 1861-1865 is the memoirs of John Worsham's experiences during the Civil War, fighting for the C.S.A. He fought at Frederi……続きを見る

Most observers and historians rarely acknowledge the history of civil rights predating the twentieth-century. The book Black Rights in the Reconstruction Era pays significant scholarly attention to ……続きを見る

Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33D United States Colored Troops, Late 1St S. C. Volunteers is the amazing story of Susie Taylor, a woman born into slavery in Georgia. She married Edward K……続きを見る

An examination of the understudied, yet significant role of Florida and its populace during the Civil War. In many respects Florida remains the forgotten state of the Confederacy. Journalist Horace ……続きを見る

Lincoln’s Planner follows our sixteenth president through the Civil War, showing what he did and wrote each day, as reflected in surviving records. You will experience the bombshell events much as L……続きを見る

Known most prominently as a daring anti-lynching crusader, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) worked tirelessly throughout her life as a political advocate for the rights of women, minorities, and mem……続きを見る

Two Years on the Alabama is an account of the CSS Alabama, the famous Confederate raider. 続きを見る

Extrait: Par une chaude journée d’août, les promeneurs qui circulaient au milieu de ces gracieuses villas échelonnées sur les coteaux de Montmorency, et à demi perdues sous les bosquets, remarquaien……続きを見る

Here, from Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Catton, is the dramatic story of the most important battle of the American Civil War: Gettysburg. For three days, from the first shots by Union soldiers to Con……続きを見る

My Bondage and My Freedom is the classic autobiographical slave narrative of Frederick Douglass. The book was published in 1855 and expands on Douglass' book The Narrative of the Life of Frederick D……続きを見る

The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth : Assassin of President Lincoln is an amazing account by Finis Bates in which he suggests Booth did not die as most historians thinks. Bates believes Boot……続きを見る

Nearly two million people visit Gettysburg National Military Park annually, but most of those visitors possess only a rudimentary knowledge of the battle and restrict their travel to the well-establ……続きを見る

From Slavery to Wealth, the Life of Scott Bond is the biography of emancipated slave Scott Bond. Born in the 1850s, he went on to become incredibly successful, owning over 12,000 acres of land and o……続きを見る

Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman is the story of a former slave who was reunited with his family after the Civil War. 続きを見る

Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison: All Volumes is the complete autobiography of the infamous Confederate spy. 続きを見る