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  • The Northern Home Front during the Civil War

    by Paul A. Cimbala, Randall M. Miller ...
    Series series The North's Civil War
    With a new preface and updated historiographical essay.Based on recent scholarship and deep research in primary sources, especially the letters and diaries of “ordinary people,” The Northern Home Front during the Civil War is the first full narrative history and analysis of the northern home front in almost a quarter-century. It examines the mobilization, recruitment, management, politics, costs, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Veterans North and South

    The Transition from Soldier to Civilian after the American Civil War

    by Paul A. Cimbala ...
    Series series Reflections on the Civil War Era
    Based largely on Civil War veterans' own words, this book documents how many of these men survived the extraordinary horrors and hardships of war with surprising resilience and went on to become productive members of their communities in their post-war lives.Nothing transforms "dry, boring history" into fascinating and engaging stories like learning about long-ago events through the words of those ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Northern Home Front during the Civil War

    by Paul A. Cimbala, Randall M. Miller ...
    Series series Reflections on the Civil War Era
    This book comprehensively covers the wide geographical range of the northern home fronts during the Civil War, emphasizing the diverse ways people interpreted, responded to, and adapted to war by their ideas, interests, and actions.The Northern Home Front during the Civil War provides the first extensive treatment of the northern home front mobilizing for war in two decades. It collates a vast and ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Historian's Red Badge of Courage

    Reading Stephen Crane's Masterpiece as Social and Cultural History

    Edited by Paul A. Cimbala ...
    Series series The Historian's Annotated Classics
    For someone who did not actually fight in the American Civil War, Stephen Crane was extraordinarily accurate in his description of the psychological tension experienced by a youthful soldier grappling with his desire to act heroically, his fears, and redemption.Stephen Crane's novel The Red Badge of Courage provides an extraordinary take on the battlefield experiences of a young soldier coming of ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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  • Confederate Reckoning

    Power and Politics in the Civil War South

    by Stephanie McCurry ...
    Pulitzer Prize FinalistWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti Award“McCurry strips the Confederacy of myth and romance to reveal its doomed essence. Dedicated to the proposition that men were not created equal, the Confederacy had to fight a two-front war. Not only against Union armies, but also slaves and poor white women who rose in revolt across the South. Richly ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • The Rivers Ran Backward

    The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border

    by Christopher Phillips ...
    Most Americans imagine the Civil War in terms of clear and defined boundaries of freedom and slavery: a straightforward division between the slave states of Kentucky and Missouri and the free states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kansas. However, residents of these western border states, Abraham Lincoln's home region, had far more ambiguous identities-and contested political loyalties-than we ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Reconstruction Updated Edition

    America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18

    by Eric Foner ...
    From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Vineyard of Liberty, 1787–1863

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series Book 1 - The American Experiment
    A Pulitzer Prize winner looks at the course of American history from the birth of the Constitution to the dawn of the Civil War.The years between 1787 and 1863 witnessed the development of the American Nation—its society, politics, customs, culture, and, most important, the development of liberty. Burns explores the key events in the republic's early decades, as well as the roles of heroes from ... Read more

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  • For Cause and Comrades

    Why Men Fought in the Civil War

    by James M. McPherson ...
    General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Ecstatic Nation

    Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877

    by Brenda Wineapple ...
    "From the death of John Quincy Adams through the Civil War to the tragedy of Reconstruction, Wineapple tells the American story brilliantly." —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorA New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Kirkus Best Book of 2013A Bookpage Best Book of 2013Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous ... ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saving Savannah

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War, prize-winning historian Jacqueline Jones transports readers to the balmy, raucous streets of that fabled Southern port city. Here is a subtle and rich social history that weaves together stories of the everyday lives of blacks and whites, rich and poor, men and women from all walks of life confronting the ... Read more

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  • The Wars of Reconstruction

    The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era

    by Douglas R. Egerton ...
    A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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