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  • An Autobiography of George Washington

    by Edith Ellis ...
    "George Washington’s Autobiography is a fascinating example of channeled literature, adding a very human personality to the stiff figure of the portraits. Here we encounter a three-dimensional Washington with his loves, fears, philosophy, and repeated encounters with the spirit world. This is an unforgettable, intimate view of the Father of our Country."— Steven Fanning, Ph.D., the author of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • Washington

    A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Ron Chernow ...
    **From the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United States.Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography“Truly magnificent . . . [a] well-researched, well-written and absolutely definitive biography” —Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal“Until recently, I’d never believed ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • 1861

    The Civil War Awakening

    by Adam Goodheart ...
    A gripping and original account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to freedom.An epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields, 1861 introduces us to a heretofore little-known cast of Civil War heroes—among them an acrobatic militia colonel, an explorer’s wife, an idealistic ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Reveille in Washington

    1860-1865

    by Margaret Leech ...
    **Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeFeaturing a foreword by Battle Cry of Freedom author James McPhersonA vibrant portrait of Civil War-era Washington, D.C. that is “packed and running over with the anecdotes, scandals, personalities, and tragi-comedies of the day”—from the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for History (The New Yorker)**1860: The American capital is sprawling, fractured, squalid, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • George Washington's Expense Account

    by Marvin Kitman, George Washington ...
    A journalist takes a close look at the Founding Father's creative accounting skills in "a very funny book" ( The New York Times Book Review).George Washington made a noble gesture of refusing payment for his services as commander in chief of the Continental Army—but as this book reveals, he also took it as an opportunity to indulge his insatiable lust for fine food and drink, extravagant clothing, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The American Revolution

    1763–1783

    by Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier ...
    Series Book 1997 - The Drama of American History Series
    History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes and ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mark Twain's Civil War

    by Mark Twain ...
    This collection of Twain's fiction and nonfiction on the subject "provides insight into the war's influence on this great American writer" ( The Post and Courier, Charleston).Had there been no Civil War, the eminent American author known as Mark Twain would likely have spent his life as Sam Clemens, the Mississippi River steamboat pilot. When the war came and the steamboats stopped running, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • George Washington's War

    The Saga of the American Revolution

    by Robert Leckie ...
    "Exciting accounts of the major campaigns [of the American Revolution] . . . a reminder of what history can be when written by a master." —Publishers Weekly"Beginning with a recapitulation of the French and Indian War—which, though ending in British victory, represented the beginning of the end of the British empire in America—[Robert] Leckie briskly recounts the well-known events leading to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Army Life in a Black Regiment

    and Other Writings

    by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, R. D. Madison ...
    A stirring account of wartime experiences from the leader of the first regiment of emancipated slavesThomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of new England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied material aid to John Brown before his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War broke out, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Slave Narrative Six Pack 7 (Illustrated)

    My Life in the South, The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Army Life in a Black Regiment, John Brown, An Anti-Slavery Crusade and Henry Ward Beecher

    by Various Artists ...
    Slave Narrative Six Pack 7 presents six more essential texts:My Life in the South by Jacob Stroyer.The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. by Lunsford Lane.Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau.An Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm by Jesse Macy.Henry Ward Beec... ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gentlemen's Blood

    A History of Dueling From Swords at Dawn to Pistols at Dusk

    by Barbara Holland ...
    "Never, never, did I imagine that dueling could be so enthralling, outrageous, gruesome, tragic, and, yes, ridiculous...Lively humor and sparkling prose." -Wall Street JournalThe medieval justice of trial by combat evolved into the private duel by sword and pistol, with thousands of honorable men-and not-so-honorable women-giving lives and limbs to wipe out an insult or prove a point. The duel was ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Man in Grey

    by Thomas Dixon ...
    Now that my story is done I see that it is the strangest fiction that I have ever written. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD