W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's government threatened to fracture, this critical.....
Hill and Wang, January 2010. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861. Drawing on.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes's.....
Oxford University Press, 2015. Hardcover. Later printing. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 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.....
NYU Press, 2010. Trade Paperback. 240 pages. First paperback edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). At its core, the Civil War was a conflict over the meaning of citizenship. Most famously, it became a struggle over whether or not to grant rights to a group that stood.....
Vintage, February 2012. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). 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.....
Knopf, October 1991. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Da Capo Press, 2014. Trade Paperback. 354 pages. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In this riveting, character-driven history, one of our most respected historians traces the diseases in the public mind--the distortions of reality--that destroyed George Washington's vision of a united America and inflicted the tragedy that still divide's the.....
Twodot, Imprint of Globe Pequot, 2007. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 272 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
The Fairfax Press, n.d., ca. 1987. Hardcover. 836 pages. 11 x 15 inches. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Chartwell Books, Inc., 2011. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 256 pages. Oblong format, 10 x 14 inches. First edition thus. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Photography was still in its infancy when the Civil War broke out in 1861, yet one young man, Mathew B. Brady, had.....
Tess Sales, 2000. Hardcover. Later printing. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Wings Books, 1996. Hardcover. 249 pages. Later printing. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Prior owner name, date and place written on front free endpaper. Surveys technological inventions, prominent personalities, battles, and clandestine operations in addition to relating bizarre incidents, famous firsts, and unusual facts about the.....
Tess Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 630 pages. Copiously illustrated. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Black Dog & Leventhal, 2010. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. CD included. The Civil War as you've never experienced it before, through original, first-hand reportage of The New York Times, the country's newspaper of record. Available for the first time in a......
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1994. Hardcover. 1371 pages. Later printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Written and compiled by the nation's leading authorities, with nearly 2,000 photographs in each volume (many published only in these collections).
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. Hardcover.
1860s. First Edition. Ephemera. Single printed sheet, 7.8 x 4.8 inches, printed in black on laid paper with blanks to be completed for name, rank, Company, Regiment, dates of service, clothing allowance, and Bounty; deductions for clothing and transportation; and totals. On rear of page lines for Private Co,...Reg't...Vols. First.....
Lyons Press, 2008. Hardcover. 256 pages. Profusely illustrated. Later printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. What Edward S. Curtis did for the American West, Mathew Brady did for the Civil War, and a half century earlier. His more traditional photographic pursuits had already made him famous by.....
Pageant Books, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. 480 pages. 'The Campaigns, Battles, Charges and Skirmishes, described by Robert E. Lee, et al.; The Foundation and Formation of the Confederacy, described by Jefferson Davis, et al; The Confederate States Navy, described by Franklin Buchanan, et al. Extensive B/W illustrations. 16.25 x 11.75.....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Hardcover. The fascinating relationship between the two men who, at a pivotal moment during the Civil War, held the nation's destiny in their hands.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Hardcover. A riveting history of the battle that permanently turned the tide of the Civil War. While Gettysburg is better known, Winston Groom makes clear in this engrossing narrative that Vicksburg was the more important battle from a strategic point of view. Re-creating the epic campaign.....
HarperCollins. Smithsonian, 2009. Hardcover.
National Geographic, 2010. Hardcover. It's a poignant irony in American history that on Independence Day, 1863, not one but two pivotal Civil War battles ended in Union victory, marked the high tide of Confederate military fortune, and ultimately doomed the South's effort at secession. But on July 4, 1863, after.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Hardcover. As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and original account of how the Civil War began. 1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American.....