The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon
By: John Reeves
3.89
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
History has been kind to Robert E. Lee. Woodrow Wilson believed General Lee was a “model to men who…
Want to Read $ 19.49"In the heated atmosphere after the Lincoln assassination, quite a few northerners compared Lee to the infamous John Brown, the abolitionist who was captured, tried, and hanged for the Harper's Ferry raid in 1859. Brown had been found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia after a jury deliberated for only forty-five minutes...Coincidentally, it had been Colonel Robert E. Lee of the US Army that eventually put down John Brown's short-lived rebellion at Harper's Ferry."-John Reeves, The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon
"In the heated atmosphere after the Lincoln assassination, quite a few northerners compared Lee to the infamous John Brown, the abolitionist who was captured, tried, and hanged for the Harper's Ferry raid in 1859. Brown had been found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia after a jury deliberated for only forty-five minutes...Coincidentally, it had been Colonel Robert E. Lee of the US Army that eventually put down John Brown's short-lived rebellion at Harper's Ferry."-John Reeves, The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon
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1. The Army of the Potomac, 3 Vols
By: Bruce Catton
4.47
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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2. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
By: Garry Wills
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence t… read more
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3. The Sunday Philosophy Club (Isabel Dalhousie, #1)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Filled with thorny characters and a Scottish atmosphere as thick as a highland mist, The Sunday Phi… read more
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4. The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
By: William W. Freehling
4.20
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civi… read more
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5. The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
By: William W. Freehling
3.74
Format: 646 pages,
It is one of the great questions of American history--why did the Southern states bolt from the Uni… read more
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6. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
By: Barbara F. Walter
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more
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"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
7. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
8. This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival
By: Robert Barron
4.35
Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition
A recent Pew Forum survey revealed the startling statistic that 69% of Catholics do not believe in … read more
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9. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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10. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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11. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.62
Format: 590 pages, Hardcover
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more
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12. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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13. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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14. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
By: Ronald C. White Jr.
4.45
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic an… read more
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15. Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
By: Ty Seidule
4.42
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty… read more
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"When we identify our history, we can change the narrative."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"Whenever Lee made a decision regarding enslaved people he chose profit over human decency."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"History is always changing. We link the past to our conception of the present and we always have."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"When people have no political outlet nor means of changing a racist society, rioting is their only voice."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
16. Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
By: Elizabeth Varon
4.15
Format: 516 pages, ebook
An authoritative biography of the controversial Confederate general, who later embraced Reconstruct… read more
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"I have some little reputation, but my men made it all for me. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Article in -Sumter Republican-, October 29, 1864."-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"...the power of battle is in generalship more than in the number of soldiers. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1876)"-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"[The] object of politics is to relieve the distress of the people and to provide for their future comfort. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Letter to the New Orleans Times, June 8, 1867."-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"It does not look like generalship to lose a battle and a cause and then lay the responsibility upon others. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1896)"-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
17. Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
By: Jennifer Raff
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story—and fascinating mystery—of how … read more
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18. The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
By: Michio Kaku
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning new vision of our future i… read more
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"The notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting. But boy, we were wrong."-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
"Thee notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting. But boy, we were wrong."-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
"Astronomers suspect that the Oort Cloud could extend as far as three light-years from our solar system. That is more than halfway to the nearest stars, the Centauri triple star system, which is sligh…"-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
19. Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
By: Fergus M. Bordewich
4.29
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil—when Ulysse… read more
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20. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War
By: Heather Cox Richardson
3.93
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. I… read more
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21. The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon
By: John Reeves
3.89
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
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"In the heated atmosphere after the Lincoln assassination, quite a few northerners compared Lee to the infamous John Brown, the abolitionist who was captured, tried, and hanged for the Harper's Ferry …"-John Reeves, The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon
