An Environmental History of the Civil War
By: Judkin Browning
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a…
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1. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
By: Stephanie McCurry
3.99
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by wh… read more
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2. Celia, A Slave
By: Melton A. McLaurin
3.52
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Compelling. . . a shocking tale. . . a remarkable account. . . . McLaurin succeeds admirably in us… read more
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- civil war
- american civil war
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4. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.93
Format: 316 pages,
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5. Gettysburg--The First Day
By: Harry W. Pfanz
3.33
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
For good reason, the second and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg have received the lion's sha… read more
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6. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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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. Gettysburg
By: Stephen W. Sears
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A masterful, single-volume history of the Civil War's greatest campaign. Drawing on original sourc… read more
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9. The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War
By: None
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rall… read more
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10. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more
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11. War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865
By: James M. McPherson
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because the represented only a small per… read more
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12. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
By: Daniel James Brown
3.59
Format: 464 pages,
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more
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13. The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
By: Bruce Levine
3.53
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that confl… read more
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14. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
By: Douglas Brunt
4.23
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more
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- history
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"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
15. The Watchmaker’s Hand (Lincoln Rhyme, #16)
By: Jeffery Deaver
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
When a New York City construction crane mysteriously collapses, causing mass destruction and killin… read more
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16. It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
By: Mary Louise Kelly
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly… read more
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"In his book "Being Mortal", the surgeon Atul Gawande accurately describes the joy that flows from being good at your work. 'You become a doctor for what you imagine to be the satisfaction of the work…"-Mary Louise Kelly, It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
17. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
By: Claudio Saunt
4.23
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more
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18. The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
By: Thavolia Glymph
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war--the military fight, wartime struggle… read more
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19. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
20. 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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"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
21. The Wealth of Shadows
By: Graham Moore
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An ordinary man joins a secret mission to bring down the Nazi war machine by crashing their economy… read more
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22. 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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23. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
By: Eric Foner
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more
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24. Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
By: Tony Horwitz
3.98
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the A… read more
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"Bowlin was previously divorced and had learned a thing or two. "Set of titties or a college education-buy either of those for your old lady and she's done," he said, "She doesn't need you anymore."-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
"The only person of color in any of the photographs was a black waiter. Blacks were otherwise barred from the dance hall, as were locals of Mexican descent. In the Texas of that day, laws and customs …"-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
"There was another, much clearer survival of freethinking ways. Sisterdale had never had a church, and Joe said his family had rarely spoken of religion except to dismiss it. "Dad would tell us, 'Dat'…"-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
"the inscription at its base put San Jacinto on a par with Waterloo and other exalted fights. The defeat of Santa Anna, the "self-styled 'Napoleon of the West,"" led to the annexation of Texas, war wi…"-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
25. Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity
By: Donald Yacovone
4.09
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s … read more
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26. An Environmental History of the Civil War
By: Judkin Browning
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a… read more
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27. The Populist Vision
By: Charles Postel
3.63
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
In the late nineteenth century, monumental technological innovations like the telegraph and steam p… read more
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28. Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North
By: Sarah Handley-Cousins
4.46
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. But war a… read more
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29. Pickett's Charge: A New Look at Gettysburg's Final Attack
By: Phillip Thomas Tucker
3.65
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
*Main Selection of the History Book Club* The Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War’s turning point, … read more
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30. The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress
By: Eric Herschthal
3.88
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A revealing look at how antislavery scientists and Black and white abolitionists used scientific id… read more
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31. The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America (Volume 1)
By: Jenifer L. Barclay
4.49
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery… read more
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