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Out of the House of Bondage
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 22.00Glymph challenges popular depictions of mistresses as 'friends' and 'allies' of slaves in the plantation household. more...
American Lion
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 18.00Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy.... more...
A Stillness at Appomattox
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.95When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. This final volume of The Army of the Potomac trilogy relates the final year of the Civil War. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic, Volume 1
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 40.00This is the first of a two-volume treatment of slavery, capitalism and politics in the forty years before the Civil War. It is also a Marxist interpretation of the origins of the Civil War. more...
Washington
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 9.99George Washington influenced every phase of the Revolutionary war. His offenses were as brilliant as they were unpredictable, and it is this fearless but not reckless, spontaneous but calculated, offensive approach that Carbonne argues Washington should be remembered for - as a leader not of infallibility but of greatness. more...
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 5.99Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery in Georgia in the United States. Well publicized at the time, the married couple became celebrities in the abolitionist struggle. Their daring and risky plan meant passing the light-skinned Ellen off as a white male traveling with 'his' slave, William,... more...
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
The Floating Press 2010; US$ 3.99Despite the fact that Abraham Lincoln is widely regarded as one of the most historically significant figures in American politics, many details about his personal life remain shrouded in mystery. In this probing biography, author Henry Ketcham provides a detailed look at Lincoln's life and rise to prominence. more...
The Second War With England, Volume I
The Floating Press 2012; US$ 4.99Settle in for nonstop wartime action in this encyclopedic account of the War of 1812. The first of two volumes penned by esteemed author and journalist Joel T. Headley on the topic, this book takes you right onto the battlefield and then zooms out for an analytical take on tactics and strategy. more...
Fort McHenry
Infobase Publishing 2009; US$ 36.00As American troops in Fort McHenry successfully fended off attacks from the British navy during the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key was inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner," a poem that eventually formed the lyrics of the American national anthem. Fort McHenry's vibrant presentation and highlighted primary sources illustrate the... more...
Civil War
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 54.00America's bloodiest war was fought, not against a foreign enemy, but family against family, brother against brother, North versus South. After five long years of battlefield carnage, the institution of slavery was finally abolished and the Union preserved. In the process, many of America's now legendary figures rose to prominence President... more...









