Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War (The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era)
By: Lorien Foote
4.41
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, an…
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1. South Carolina Scalawags
By: None , Hyman Rubin III
3.38
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the efforts and fates of white Republicans during Reconstruction South Caroli… read more
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- civil war
- history
2. To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
By: Tera W. Hunter
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end… read more
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- american history
- history
3. Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
By: Stephen W. Sears
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Combining brilliant military analysis with rich narrative history, Landscape Turned Red is the defi… read more
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- american history
- history
- civil war
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"Even as McClellan conferred with his superiors, sounds of renewed battle came from the direction of Chantilly, a country estate a few miles north of Centreville and on the flank of Pope’s army."-Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
4. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
By: Steven Hahn
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed … read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
5. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
By: None , Marisa J. Fuentes
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free wo… read more
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- history
6. To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862
By: D. Scott Hartwig
4.00
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
In September 1862 the Federal army huddled within the defenses of Washington, disorganized and disc… read more
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- american history
- history
- civil war
7. Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
By: Brian Matthew Jordan
4.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly wo… read more
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8. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In… read more
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9. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
By: Thavolia Glymph
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender … read more
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10. Battle Royal (Palace Insiders, #1)
By: Lucy Parker
3.77
Format: 397 pages, Paperback
Beloved author Lucy Parker pens a delicious new romantic comedy that is a battle of whisks and wits… read more
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"Death is not the end of love. In any and all of its forms."-Lucy Parker, Battle Royal (Palace Insiders, #1)
"You're an entertainer at best. Not a baker." -- Dominic De Vere, maker of cakes, eater of crow"-Lucy Parker, Battle Royal (Palace Insiders, #1)
"If you were just irredeemably shit, he plastered on the haughty android stare and mentally went to sleep."-Lucy Parker, Battle Royal (Palace Insiders, #1)
"I'm equal parts terrified and aroused." "What an excellent relationship motto for us. I think I'll embroider it on a cushion."-Lucy Parker, Battle Royal (Palace Insiders, #1)
11. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- history
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
12. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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- american history
- history
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
13. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- american history
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
14. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
By: Jon Meacham
4.46
Format: 676 pages, Hardcover
The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- civil war
15. The Ivies
By: Alexa Donne
3.69
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Enroll in this boarding school thriller about a group of prep school elites who would kill to get i… read more
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16. In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning
By: Grace Elizabeth Hale
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Courageous and compelling…essential and critically important.” —Bryan Stevenson An award-winnin… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
17. I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign
By: D. Scott Hartwig
4.79
Format: 984 pages, Hardcover
The definitive account of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War. The memory… read more
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- civil war
- history
18. Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival
By: Walter Stahr
4.13
Format: 832 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of 2022 From an acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer, an “eloquently w… read more
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- american history
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- civil war
19. Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War (The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era)
By: Lorien Foote
4.41
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, an… read more
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- american history
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- war
20. The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction (Civil War America)
By: William A. Blair
4.28
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
After the Civil War's end, reports surged of violence by Southern whites against Union troops and B… read more
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- american history
- civil war
21. Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
By: Kate Masur
4.20
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beg… read more
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- american history
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22. Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
By: Ethan J. Kytle
4.39
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, a deeply researched book that uncovers … read more
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- american history
- history
- civil war
23. A Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac
By: Zachery A. Fry
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Army of the Potomac was a hotbed of political activity during the Civil War. As a source of dis… read more
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- history
24. A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond
By: John Banks
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Join author John Banks on a captivating journey through America's rich history as he explores famou… read more
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25. To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
By: Carole Emberton
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the d… read more
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- history
- civil war
26. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been … read more
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27. Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America
By: Megan Kate Nelson
3.70
Format: None pages, Audiobook
From historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the captivating stor… read more
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28. Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two Friends at the Turning Point of the Civil War
By: Tom McMillan
4.40
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
In a war of brother versus brother, theirs has become the most famous broken Union general Winfiel… read more
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- civil war
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29. Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
By: Felicity M. Turner
4.00
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth ce… read more
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30. Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
By: John Cimprich
4.33
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
When thousands of African Americans freed themselves from slavery during the American Civil War and… read more
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31. The Impulse of Victory: Ulysses S. Grant at Chattanooga (World of Ulysses S. Grant)
By: David A. Powell
4.57
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
How Grant secured a Tennessee victory and a promotion Union soldiers in the Army of the Cumberla… read more
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