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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
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The Demon of Unrest

By Erik Larson ,

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Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington
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Lincoln on the Verge

By Ted Widmer ,

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The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
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The Women's Fight

By Thavolia Glymph ,

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Murder in the Crypt
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Murder in the Crypt

By Irina Shapiro ,

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The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
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The Zealot and the Emancipator

By H.W. Brands ,

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A Book of Tongues
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A Book of Tongues

By Gemma Files ,

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Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
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Robert E. Lee and Me

By Ty Seidule ,

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Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
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Civil War by Other Means

By Jeremi Suri ,

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Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
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Chenneville

By Paulette Jiles ,

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American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal
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American Ramble

By Neil King ,

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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic

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Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy
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Rebels in the Making

By William L. Barney ,

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Revenge
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Revenge

By J. L. Weil ,

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A Freedom Such as Heaven Intended
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A Freedom Such as Heaven Intended

By Amanda Lauer ,

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Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
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Louisa May Alcott

By Louisa May Alcott , Roberta Bordone (illustrator) ,

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Through the Waters and the Wild
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Through the Waters and the Wild

By Greg Fields ,

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The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America
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The Broken Constitution

By Noah Feldman ,

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Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North
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Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood

By Crystal Lynn Webster ,

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A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
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A Worse Place Than Hell

By John Matteson ,

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Beyond These War-Torn Lands
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Beyond These War-Torn Lands

By Cynthia Roemer ,

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The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War
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The Howling Storm

By Kenneth W. Noe ,

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A Thousand Moons
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A Thousand Moons

By Sebastian Barry ,

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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
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South to Freedom

By Alice L. Baumgartner ,

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End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
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End Times

By Peter Turchin ,

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The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861
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The Democratic Collapse

By Lauren N. Haumesser ,

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Little Nothing
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Little Nothing

By Dee Holloway ,

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Natural History: Stories
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Natural History

By Andrea Barrett ,

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A Low Diving Bird
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A Low Diving Bird

By Libby Copa ,

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The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln
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The North Star

By Julian Sher ,

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When the Jessamine Grows
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When the Jessamine Grows

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The Year of Peril: America in 1942
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The Year of Peril

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Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire
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Habsburgs on the Rio Grande

By Raymond Jonas ,

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The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War
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The Saddest Words

By Michael Gorra ,

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Comrade Kerensky
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Comrade Kerensky

By Boris Kolonitskii , Arch Tait (translator) ,

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A Day for Rememberin': Inspired by the True Events of the First Memorial Day
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A Day for Rememberin'

By Leah Henderson , Floyd Cooper (illustrator) ,

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A Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac
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A Republic in the Ranks

By Zachery A. Fry ,

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Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic
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Grassroots Leviathan

By Ariel Ron ,

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Blake; Or, The Huts of America
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Blake; Or, The Huts of America

By Martin R. Delany ,

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Kidnapped at Sea
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Kidnapped at Sea

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The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War
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The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War

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I Dread the Thought of the Place
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I Dread the Thought of the Place

By D. Scott Hartwig ,

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