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One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political...

In Lincoln and California Brian McGinty explains the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and the Golden State, describing important events that took place in California and elsewhere during Lincoln's lifetime....

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 compelling biography, McPherson follows Abraham Lincoln from his early frontier days to his turbulent years in the White House....

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.

In No Right to an Honest Living, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small—a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive.

The current volume completes the march to Gettysburg and details the actions and whereabout of each of the armies....

This text provides an understanding of the complex relationship between the Continental army and the state militias during the Revolutionary War in America....

In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked their lives to the workers who signed on for the dangerous job. Nothing Like It in the World gives...

This famous memoir by John McCorkle is the best published account by a scout who "rode with Quantrill"....

To possess and develop western North America became a high priority for the United States government even before its Constitution had been complete....

The Underground Railroad was the passage to freedom for many slaves, but it was rife with dangers....

Award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau has written a gripping, definitive new account that will stand as the last word on General William Tecumseh Sherman's epic march—a targeted strategy aimed to break not only the Confederate army but an entire society as well. With Lincoln's...

In this poignant and thought-provoking book, Samuel A'Court Ashe, a Confederate infantry captain and respected historian, offers a firsthand account of the Civil War from the Southern perspective....

On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House. This is the story of that killing and its repercussions....

Shiloh: Two Days in Hell outlines the battle and explains how it came about. You will meet the main participants, understand Union and Confederate troop movements, and learn more about the rise of Sherman and Grant....

The Great Partnership has the power to change how we think about Confederate strategic decision-making and the value of personal relationships among senior leaders responsible for organizational survival....

One hundred and fifty years after the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln is still thought of as one of the best presidents of the United States....

During the summer of 1864 a Union column, commanded by Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson Smith, set out from Tennessee with a goal that had proven impossible in all prior attempts - to find and defeat the cavalry under the command of Confederate major general Nathan Bedford Forrest....

In late September 1863, the Confederates began laying siege to the Union Army of the Cumberland around Chattanooga....