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  • Bitter Fruits of Bondage

    The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865

    by Armstead L. Robinson, Barbara J. Fields, Mildred W. Robinson ...
    Series series Carter G. Woodson Institute Series
    Bitter Fruits of Bondage is the late Armstead L. Robinson’s magnum opus, a controversial history that explodes orthodoxies on both sides of the historical debate over why the South lost the Civil War.Recent studies, while conceding the importance of social factors in the unraveling of the Confederacy, still conclude that the South was defeated as a result of its losses on the battlefield, which in ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • Battle Cry of Freedom

    The Civil War Era

    by James M. McPherson ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Fall of the House of Dixie

    The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

    by Bruce Levine ...
    In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended. Told through the words of the people who lived it, The Fall of the House of Dixie illuminates the way a war undertaken to preserve the status quo ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Revolutionary Summer

    The Birth of American Independence

    by Joseph J. Ellis ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian“Accessible and electric.... [Ellis] crisply covers the decisive and improbable events of 1776.... [A] dramatic slice of history.” —USA TodayThe summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Don’t Know Much About® the Civil War

    Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned

    by Kenneth C. Davis ...
    Series Book 10 - Don't Know Much About Series
    “Highly informative and entertaining…propels the reader light years beyond dull textbooks and Gone with the Wind.”—San Francisco ChronicleIt has been 150 years since the opening salvo of America’s War Between the States. New York Times bestselling author Ken Davis tells us everything we never knew about our nation’s bloodiest conflict in Don’t Know Much About ® the Civil War—another fascinating ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • What This Cruel War Was Over

    by Chandra Manning ...
    **Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (**The Philadelphia Inquirer).In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise ... Read more

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  • Lincoln's Peace

    The Struggle to End the American Civil War

    by Michael Vorenberg ...
    **One historian’s journey to find the end of the Civil War—and, along the way, to expand our understanding of the nature of war itself and how societies struggle to draw the line between war and peaceWINNER OF THE TOM WATSON BROWN BOOK AWARD • WINNER OF THE NAU BOOK PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN LINCOLN PRIZE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2025"Eye-opening, disturbing, moving and at times ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Civil War

    A Concise History

    by Louis P. Masur ...
    One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape. Louis P. Masur's The Civil War: A Concise History offers a masterful and eminently readable overview of the war's multiple causes and catastrophic effects. Masur begins by ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Fateful Lightning

    A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destruction (in modern dollars) of more than $700 billion in property. The war also sparked some of the most heroic moments in American history and enshrined a galaxy of American heroes. Above all, it ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The War That Forged a Nation

    Why the Civil War Still Matters

    by James M. McPherson ...
    More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations." In fact, five generations have passed, and Americans are still ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Look Away!

    A History of the Confederate States of America

    by William C. Davis ...
    William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of America not simply as a military saga (although it is that), but rather as a full portrait of a society and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Somewhere Toward Freedom

    Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation

    by Bennett Parten ...
    Considered one of “the most innovative studies of American emancipation in the Civil War” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass), Somewhere Toward Freedom is a groundbreaking account of Sherman’s March to the Sea—the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy—told for the first time from the perspective of the enslaved people who transformed it into ... Read more

    Was $20.99 CAD Now $13.99 CAD