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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.

This book attempts to show that the Civil War was more than a succession of battles; it was a struggle between two civilizations...

In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts....

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

In this wide-ranging, brilliantly researched work, David S. Reynolds traces the factors that made Uncle Tom’s Cabin the most influential novel ever written by an American....

John Brown was fiercely committed to the militant abolitionist cause, a crusade that culminated in Brown’s raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859 and his subsequent execution. Less well known is his devotion to his family, and they to him....

You might know Ulysses S. Grant as a Civil War hero and as the 18th president of the United States....

The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in American history, lasting four years and inflicting over a million casualties. Historians have studied the biggest battles ever since....

Newly Updated From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated abridged edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America. “[A] smart book of enormous strengths.”--Boston Globe In this updated...

This groundbreaking study of agriculture's role in the war defies long-held notions that Northern industrialization and urbanization led to clashes between North and South....

El 17 de septiembre de 1862, el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Abraham Lincoln, obtuvo la gran victoria que deseaba desde el estallido de la guerra civil estadounidense, un año antes....

Civil War Battles is an informative introduction to the subject....

When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond....

The Underground Railroad is one of the most taught topics to young schoolchildren, and every American is familiar with the idea of fugitive slaves escaping to Canada and the North with the help of determined abolitionists and even former escaped slaves like Harriet Tubman....

The Battle of Ezra Church was one of the deadliest engagements in the Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War and continues to be one of the least understood....

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History A dramatic, riveting, and “fresh look at a region typically obscured in accounts of the Civil War. American history buffs will relish this entertaining and eye-opening portrait” (Publishers Weekly). Megan Kate Nelson “expands our understanding of...

Union Bound is the story of how Sergeant Hoover came to join the Union army only to be captured and taken to the dreaded Andersonville prison....

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

From July 1 to 3, Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia tried everything in its power to decisively defeat George Meade’s Union Army of the Potomac, unleashing ferocious assaults that inflicted nearly 50,000 casualties in all....

Antietam: The Bloodiest Day outlines the battle and explains how it came about....