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Eminent historian C. Vann Woodward's Mary Chesnut’s Civil War presents a full and reliable edition of the incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut's journals, restoring her to her rightful place in American history and literature.

With this audio, you will hear the original Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln in less than 60 minutes, plus much more....

Civil wars are the most common form of large-scale political violence. In the past thirty years, the study of civil wars has been one of the largest growing segments of the international relations field.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. “Meacham has given us the Lincoln for...

Award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents....

The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights....

Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. David Blight's sweeping narrative of triumph and tragedy, romance and realism, is a compelling tale....

Amid all the printer's ink and historical speculation, the antebellum period (approx. 1820-1860) has largely been ignored until recently....

The fascinating, true origin story of baseball - how America’s first great sport developed and how it conquered a nation....

Texas Brigade presents military history at its best, revealing a microcosm of the Confederate war effort and aiding our understanding of the reasons men felt compelled to fight....

One of the many controversial issues to emerge from the Civil War was the treatment of prisoners of war. At two stockades, the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, and the Union prison at Elmira, New York, suffering was acute and mortality was high....

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of a Civil War battlefield every American should visit: Shiloh. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and...

The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought in December 1862 in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia....

By the early 19th century, several European nations had banned slavery, but while the United States had banned the international slave trade, slavery was still legal in the country itself....

Gettysburg explains the battle's place in the Civil War, why two vast armies clashed there, and how, in the century and a half since, it has been re-imagined, re-created, and re-enacted.

The Life of Lincoln depicts an amazing man's triumphs, insecurities, and crushing defeats with uncanny insight....

A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises -- not unlike those of the present day -- have determined our nation's course from the start In A Nation Forged by Crisis, historian Jay Sexton contends that our national narrative is not one of halting yet inevitable progress, but...

Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. The Other Side of the War reveals the war as experienced by the thousands of women volunteered to work in hospitals and for the Sanitary Commission....

In this provocative book, acclaimed historian and award-winning author Stephen W. Sears takes a fascinating look at some of the intriguing Union generals and the controversies that swirled around them....

“Lee’s army is really whipped,” Federal commander Ulysses S. Grant believed. May 1864 had witnessed near-constant combat between his Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Grant, unlike his predecessors, had not relented in his pounding of the Confederates.