29 Best Civil War Period (1850-1877) Books
Civil War Period (1850-1877) is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Civil War Period (1850-1877) audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Civil War Period (1850-1877) audiobooks below.
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The Battle of Little Bighorn
- By: Katy Duffield
- Narrator: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 13 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 22, 2018
- Language: English
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5(2 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.002.99 USDExplores the Battle of Little Bighorn of the Great Sioux War. Authoritative text, engaging discussion topics, and questions to prompt critical thinking make this an exciting and informative short audiobook. Short Audiobook Cover Image Copyright KurzExplores the Battle of Little Bighorn of the Great Sioux War. Authoritative text, engaging discussion topics, and questions to prompt critical thinking make this an exciting and informative short audiobook. Short Audiobook Cover Image Copyright Kurz & Allison/Library of Congress; Courtesy of the Library of Congress, 2003656850
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Rebels in the Making
- By: William L. Barney
- Length: 16 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 29, 2020
- Language: English
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4.47(17 ratings)
4.47(17 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDRegardless of whether they owned slaves, Southern whites lived in a world defined by slavery. They seceded from the Union to defend that world when they viewed the election of Abraham Lincoln as a threat to slavery. Rebels in the Making is aRegardless of whether they owned slaves, Southern whites lived in a world defined by slavery.
They seceded from the Union to defend that world when they viewed the election of Abraham Lincoln as a threat to slavery.
Rebels in the Making is a narrative-driven history of how and why secession occurred. In this work, eminent Civil War historian
William L. Barney narrates the explosion of the sectional conflict into secession and civil war. Carefully examining the events and
political circumstances in each of the fifteen slave states, he argues that this was not a mass democratic movement but one led
from above. The work focuses on the years of 1860-1861 when sectional conflict led to the break-up of the Union. Exploiting
fears of slave insurrections, anxieties over crops ravaged by a long drought, and the perceived moral degradation of submitting
to the rule of an antislavery Republican, secessionists launched a movement in South Carolina that spread across the South in a
frenzied atmosphere described as the great excitement. Secession swept over the Lower South in January of 1861 but stalled in the
Upper South. The driving forces behind it were the middling ranks of the slaveholders who saw their aspirations of planter status
blocked and denigrated by the Republicans. Pushed aside by moderates and former conservatives at the Montgomery Convention
in February 1861 that formed the Confederacy, the original secessionists achieved a final success when the crisis over Fort Sumter
precipitated a second wave of secession in the Upper South.Rebels in the Making shows that secession was not a unified movement, but had its own proponents and patterns in each of the
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slave states. Drawing together the voices of planters, non-slaveholders, women, the enslaved, journalists, and politicians, it is the
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The Civil War of Amos Abernathy
- By: Michael Leali
- Narrator: Mark Sanderlin
- Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: June 07, 2022
- Language: English
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4.41(410 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDA heartfelt debut novel about a boy’s attempt to find himself in the history he loves–perfect for fans of Dear Sweet Pea and From the Desk of Zoe Washington. Amos Abernathy lives for history. Literally. He’s been a historicalA heartfelt debut novel about a boy’s attempt to find himself in the history he loves–perfect for fans of Dear Sweet Pea and From the Desk of Zoe Washington.
Amos Abernathy lives for history. Literally. He’s been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if there’s something missing from history: someone like the two of them.
Amos is sure there must have been LGBTQ+ people in nineteenth-century Illinois. His search turns up Albert D. J. Cashier, a Civil War soldier who might have identified as a trans man if he’d lived today. Soon Amos starts confiding in his newfound friend by writing letters in his journal–and hatches a plan to share Albert’s story with his divided twenty-first century town. It may be an uphill battle, but it’s one that Amos is ready to fight.
Told in an earnest, hilarious voice, this love letter to history, first crushes, and LGBTQ+ community will delight readers of Ashley Herring Blake, Alex Gino, or Maulik Pancholy.
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Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Part Three
- By: Ulysses S. Grant
- Narrator: Ulysses S. Grant
- Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 10, 2008
- Language: English
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4.4(5 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDPart Three: The Wilderness Campaign; Surrender at Appomattox Grant’s assessments of Lincoln, Sherman, Sheridan and other military leaders are brilliant and engrossing. His style, like the man himself, was inimitable and couldn’t bePart Three: The Wilderness Campaign; Surrender at Appomattox Grant’s assessments of Lincoln, Sherman, Sheridan and other military leaders are brilliant and engrossing. His style, like the man himself, was inimitable and couldn’t be copied. In everyday life, Grant was a very funny man, who liked to listen to jokes and tell them himself. His sense of the absurd was acute. It’s no accident that he loved Mark Twain and the two hitched together very well. Twain and Grant shared a similar sense of humor, and Grant’s witicisms in the Memoirs are frequent, unexpected and welcome. There are portions where you will literally laugh out loud. Though Grant’s Memoirs were written 119 years ago, they remain fresh, vibrant and an intensely good read. I have read them many times in my life and I never weary of the style and language that Grant employed. He was a military genius to be sure, but he was also a writer of supreme gifts, and these gifts shine through on every page of this testament to his greatness. All Americans should read this book and realize what we owe to Grant: he preserved the union with his decisive brilliance. In his honor, we should be eternally grateful.
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Lee
- By: Charles Bracelen Flood
- Narrator: Michael Anthony
- Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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4.35(409 ratings)
4.35(409 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDRobert E. Lee, one of the most famous figures in American history, vanished after his dramatic surrender at Appomattox. In fact, he lived only another five years, during which time he did more than any other American to heal the wounds between NorthRobert E. Lee, one of the most famous figures in American history, vanished after his dramatic surrender at Appomattox. In fact, he lived only another five years, during which time he did more than any other American to heal the wounds between North and South during the tempestuous postwar period.
This is a moving and intimate account of those years filled with the warmth of family ties and enduring friendships set against the harsh realities of Reconstruction. Though Lee is best remembered for his military campaigns, this was his finest hour, the great forgotten chapter of an extraordinary life.
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
- By: Frederick Douglass
- Narrator: Richard Allen
- Length: 21 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Public Domain
- Publish date: February 07, 2012
- Language: English
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4.33(136 ratings)
4.33(136 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDThe Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass’ third autobiography. In it he was able to go into greater detail about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery, as he and his family were no longer in any danger from the receptionThe Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass’ third autobiography. In it he was able to go into greater detail about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery, as he and his family were no longer in any danger from the reception of his work. In this engrossing narrative he recounts early years of abuse; his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. It is also the only of Douglass’ autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American Presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield.
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The Lincoln Conspiracy
- By: Brad Meltzer
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 05, 2020
- Language: English
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4.32(3734 ratings)
4.32(3734 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Everyone knows that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, but how many know that there was a previous, unsuccessful attempt on his life? Let narrator Scott Brick tell you all about it…Brick can make a nursery rhyme sound exciting, and“Everyone knows that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, but how many know that there was a previous, unsuccessful attempt on his life? Let narrator Scott Brick tell you all about it…Brick can make a nursery rhyme sound exciting, and he’s on fire in this audiobook.” — AudioFile Magazine
The bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on President LincolnEveryone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration. The conspirators were part of a pro-Southern secret society that didn’t want an antislavery President in the White House. They planned an elaborate scheme to assassinate the brand new President in Baltimore as Lincoln’s inauguration train passed through en route to the Capitol. The plot was investigated by famed detective Allan Pinkerton, who infiltrated the group with undercover agents, including one of the first female private detectives in America. Had the assassination succeeded, there would have been no Lincoln Presidency, and the course of the Civil War and American history would have forever been altered.
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“The Lincoln Conspiracy is, despite its dark subject matter, relentlessly fun to read…It’s an expertly crafted book that seems sure to delight readers with an interest in lesser-known episodes of American history.” — NPR.org“Filled with amazing American history, secret societies, incredible research, and a shocking conspiracy to murder Abraham Lincoln at the dawn of his presidency. A brilliant combination of edge of your seat history and superb storytelling.”– James L. Swanson, bestselling author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer
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“Meltzer and Mensch maintain suspense despite the known outcome of the story, and convincingly counter claims that Pinkerton made the whole thing up for publicity purposes. Readers new to the “Baltimore Plot” will appreciate this comprehensive and well-written overview.” — Publishers Weekly -
Master Slave Husband Wife
- By: Ilyon Woo
- Narrator: Janina Edwards
- Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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4.28(61 ratings)
4.28(61 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDNew York Times Bestseller The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as “his” slave.InNew York Times Bestseller
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The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as “his” slave.
In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North.
Along the way, they dodged slave traders, military officers, and even friends of their enslavers, who might have revealed their true identities. The tale of their adventure soon made them celebrities, and generated headlines around the country. Americans could not get enough of this charismatic young couple, who traveled another 1,000 miles criss-crossing New England, drawing thunderous applause as they spoke alongside some of the greatest abolitionist luminaries of the day–among them Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown.
But even then, they were not out of danger. With the passage of an infamous new Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, all Americans became accountable for returning refugees like the Crafts to slavery. Then yet another adventure began, as slave hunters came up from Georgia, forcing the Crafts to flee once again–this time from the United States, their lives and thousands more on the line and the stakes never higher.
With three epic journeys compressed into one monumental bid for freedom, Master Slave Husband Wife is an American love story–one that would challenge the nation’s core precepts of life, liberty, and justice for all–one that challenges us even now. -
The Twentieth Maine
- By: John J. Pullen
- Narrator: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
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4.27(178 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.95 USDIt was at Little Round Top that the volunteer regiment, the Twentieth Maine, with Joshua Chamberlain in command, performed one of the miracles of the Civil War and saved the left flank of the Union battle line. Outnumbered two to one, their frontIt was at Little Round Top that the volunteer regiment, the Twentieth Maine, with Joshua Chamberlain in command, performed one of the miracles of the Civil War and saved the left flank of the Union battle line. Outnumbered two to one, their front doubled back to the shape of a horseshoe. And with ammunition gone, the men fixed bayonets, charged, and not only broke up the Confederate attack but took four hundred prisoners.
At Appomattox, the Twentieth Maine was one of the regiments chosen to receive the surrender of General Lee’s infantry, and Joshua Chamberlain, the Bowdoin professor who had become a general, was appointed to command the Union troops at the ceremony.
Considered by Civil War historians to be one of the best regimental histories ever written, this beloved standard of American history tells how Chamberlain and his men fought at Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville on their way to the pivotal battle of Gettysburg, where their heroism earned them a place in the history books.
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This Mighty Scourge
- By: James M. McPherson
- Narrator: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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4.26(734 ratings)
4.26(734 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom and many other award-winning books, James M. McPherson is America’s preeminent Civil War historian. Now, in this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPhersonThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom and many other award-winning books, James M. McPherson is America’s preeminent Civil War historian. Now, in this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the most enduring questions about one of the defining moments in our nation’s history. Readers will find insightful pieces on such intriguing figures as Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Jesse James, and William Tecumseh Sherman, and on such vital issues as Confederate military strategy, the failure of peace negotiations to end the war, and the realities and myths of the Confederacy. Combining the finest scholarship with luminous prose, and packed with new information and fresh ideas, this book brings together the most recent thinking by the nation’s leading authority on the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln
- By: Stephen B. Oates
- Narrator: Milton Bagby
- Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.26(7606 ratings)
4.26(7606 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDAn essential book for any student of Lincoln and American history, Abraham Lincoln: The Man behind the Myths is acclaimed Lincoln biographer Stephen B. Oates’s unique exploration of America’s sixteenth president in reality and memory. InAn essential book for any student of Lincoln and American history, Abraham Lincoln: The Man behind the Myths is acclaimed Lincoln biographer Stephen B. Oates’s unique exploration of America’s sixteenth president in reality and memory.
In this multifaceted portrait, Oates, “the most popular historical interpreter of Lincoln” (Gabor S. Boritt, New York Times Book Review), exposes the human side of the great and tragic president–including his depression, his difficulties with love, and his troubled and troubling attitudes about slavery–while also confronting the many legends that have arisen around “Honest Abe.” Oates throughout raises timely questions about what the Lincoln mythos reveals about the American people.
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The Cotton Kingdom
- By: Frederick Law Olmsted
- Narrator: John Lescault
- Length: 24 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.25(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDIn 1853, Frederick Law Olmsted was working for the New York Times when he journeyed to the southern slave states and wrote one of the most important pro-abolition discourses. The Cotton Kingdom recounts his daily observations of the curse ofIn 1853, Frederick Law Olmsted was working for the New York Times when he journeyed to the southern slave states and wrote one of the most important pro-abolition discourses.
The Cotton Kingdom recounts his daily observations of the curse of slavery: the poverty it brought to both black and white people, the inadequacies of the plantation system, and the economic consequences and problems associated with America’s most “peculiar institution.”
Disproving the opinion that “cotton is king,” Olmsted examined the huge differences between the economies of the northern and southern states, contrasting the more successful, wealthy, and progressive North with the South, which was stubbornly convinced of the necessity of slavery.
Hailed as one of the most convincing and influential antislavery arguments, Olmsted’s work was widely praised, with London’s Westminster Review declaring, “it is impossible to resist his accumulated evidence.”
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The Gift of Black Folk
- By: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Narrator: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.21(45 ratings)
4.21(45 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USD“The Negro worked as farm hand and peasant proprietor, as laborer, artisan, and inventor and as servant in the house, and without him, America as we know it, would have been impossible.”–W. E. B. Du Bois Although the Civil War“The Negro worked as farm hand and peasant proprietor, as laborer, artisan, and inventor and as servant in the house, and without him, America as we know it, would have been impossible.”–W. E. B. Du Bois
Although the Civil War marked an end to slavery in the United States, it would take another fifty years to establish the country’s civil rights movement. Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois was among the first generation of African American scholars to spearhead this movement towards equality. As cofounder of the NAACP, he sought to initiate equality through social change, and he wrote books and essays that provide a revealing glimpse into the black experience of the times.
Published in 1924 in response to growing racial tensions, W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Gift of Black Folk explores the contributions African Americans have made to American society, detailing the importance of racial diversity to the United States. He chronicles their role in the early exploration of America, their part in developing the country’s agricultural industry, their courage on the battlefields, and their creative genius in virtually every aspect of American culture. He also highlights the contributions of black women, proposing that their freedom could lead to freedom for all women.
The Gift of Black Folk provides a powerful picture of the many struggles that paved the way for freedom and equality in our nation.
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Conversations with Lincoln
- By: Gordon Leidner
- Narrator: Gordon Leidner
- Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 07, 2016
- Language: English
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4.19(52 ratings)
4.19(52 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.99 USDAn inspiring collection of stories from ordinary Americans who sought Lincoln’s help during the Civil War. What was it like to meet our 16th President? Was he really as kind and honest as we perceive him to be today? This astonishing new bookAn inspiring collection of stories from ordinary Americans who sought Lincoln’s help during the Civil War. What was it like to meet our 16th President? Was he really as kind and honest as we perceive him to be today? This astonishing new book is an inspiring and eye-opening collection of stories, anecdotes and quotes from people who sought out Lincoln for his wisdom, help or just his irresistible wit. He offered a patient ear to almost anyone who came to see him , and his compassion and understanding bettered the lives of hundreds who crossed his threshold. From the lips of those who knew and met him, Conversations with Lincoln offers new insight into one of the most famous men in the world, and shows not just how passionate he was about the political principles he fought for, but how generous he was for his people, as well.
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In the Hands of Providence
- By: Alice Rains Trulock
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 12 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
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4.17(965 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDJoshua Chamberlain of Maine forged an incredible career during the Civil War. An academic and theologian by training, this modest young professor left Bowdoin College to accept a commission as lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth Maine. He fought atJoshua Chamberlain of Maine forged an incredible career during the Civil War. An academic and theologian by training, this modest young professor left Bowdoin College to accept a commission as lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth Maine. He fought at Antietam and Fredericksburg, then led his regiment to glory at Gettysburg, where he ordered the brilliant charge that saved Little Round Top. Promoted to brigade command, Chamberlain won a battlefield promotion to brigadier general from Ulysses S. Grant for his distinguished conduct in the assaults against Petersburg. He was held in such high esteem by his superior officers that Grant accorded him the honor of receiving the formal Confederate surrender at Appomattox. There Chamberlain endeared himself to succeeding generations with his unforgettable salute to Robert E. Lee’s defeated army.
After the war, he went on to serve four terms as governor of his home state and later became president of Bowdoin College. He wrote prolifically about the war, including The Passing of the Armies, a classic account of the final campaign of the Army of the Potomac. This remarkable biography traces his life and times.
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It Wasn’t about Slavery
- By: Samuel W. Mitcham
- Narrator: John McLain
- Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.16(52 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDWas the Civil War really about slavery? Or was it a war fought over money? Civil War historian Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. (Vicksburg, Bust Hell Wide Open) opens his fascinating new book, It Wasn’t About Slavery, with Dr. Grady McWhiney’sWas the Civil War really about slavery? Or was it a war fought over money? Civil War historian Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. (Vicksburg, Bust Hell Wide Open) opens his fascinating new book, It Wasn’t About Slavery, with Dr. Grady McWhiney’s claim that “what passes as standard American history is really Yankee history written by New Englanders or their puppets to glorify Yankee heroes and ideals.” Relying on nineteenth-century sources, Mitcham lays out his case that slavery was not the primary cause of the Civil War and that the Civil War narrative taught in schools today is wildly misleading.
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Crucible of Command
- By: William C. Davis
- Narrator: Traber Burns
- Length: 21 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.16(476 ratings)
4.16(476 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA dual biography of two iconic leaders: how they fought a bloody, brutal war then forged a lasting peace that fundamentally changed our nation They met in person only four times, yet these two men determined the outcome of the Civil War and castA dual biography of two iconic leaders: how they fought a bloody, brutal war then forged a lasting peace that fundamentally changed our nation
They met in person only four times, yet these two men determined the outcome of the Civil War and cast competing styles for the reunited nation. Each the subject of innumerable biographies, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee have never before been paired as they are here.
Exploring their personalities, their character, and their ethical, moral, political, and military worlds, William C. Davis finds surprising similarities between the two men as well as new perspectives on how their lives prepared them for the war they fought and influenced how they fought it. Davis reveals Lee’s sense of failure before the war, Grant’s optimism during disaster, and the sophisticated social and political instincts that each had when waging a war between democracies.
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The Third Reconstruction
- By: Peniel E. Joseph
- Narrator: Peniel E. Joseph
- Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 06, 2022
- Language: English
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4.15(50 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDOne of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third ReconstructionIn The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful andOne of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third Reconstruction
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In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The racial reckoning that unfolded in 2020, he argues, marked the climax of a Third Reconstruction: a new struggle for citizenship and dignity for Black Americans, just as momentous as the movements that arose after the Civil War and during the civil rights era. Joseph draws revealing connections and insights across centuries as he traces this Third Reconstruction from the election of Barack Obama to the rise of Black Lives Matter to the failed assault on the Capitol.
America’s first and second Reconstructions fell tragically short of their grand aims. Our Third Reconstruction offers a new chance to achieve Black dignity and citizenship at last–an opportunity to choose hope over fear. -
Co. Aytch
- By: Sam R. Watkins
- Narrator: Pat Bottino
- Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4.15(2759 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDEarly in May 1861, twenty-one-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment. He fought in all of its major battles, from Shiloh to Nashville. Twenty years later, with a “house full of youngEarly in May 1861, twenty-one-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment. He fought in all of its major battles, from Shiloh to Nashville. Twenty years later, with a “house full of young ‘rebels’ clustering around my knees and bumping about my elbows,” he wrote the remarkable account of “Co. Aytch,” its common foot soldiers, its commanders, its Yankee enemies, its victories and defeats, and its ultimate surrender on April 26, 1865.
Co. Aytch is the work of a natural storyteller who balances the horror of war with his irrepressible sense of humor and his sharp eye for the lighter side of battle. Among Civil War memoirs, it stands as a living testament to one man’s enduring humanity, courage, and wisdom in the midst of death and destruction.
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April 1865
- By: Jay Winik
- Narrator: Jay Winik
- Length: 16 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 24, 2015
- Language: English
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4.15(11267 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDThis New York Times best-seller from noted historian and acclaimed author Jay Winik forever changes common perceptions of the final month of the American Civil War. April 1865 could have destroyed the nation. Instead, it saved it. As April begins,This New York Times best-seller from noted historian and acclaimed author Jay Winik forever changes common perceptions of the final month of the American Civil War. April 1865 could have destroyed the nation. Instead, it saved it. As April begins, the battered Confederate capital of Richmond falls to the Union Army. Robert E. Lee surrenders his forces to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox one week later. In good spirits and sensing the war’s end, President Abraham Lincoln attends a comedic play–and is assassinated. Simultaneously, Secretary of State William Seward is brutally attacked, but survives. Along with fears that remaining Confederate soldiers will break into guerrilla bands, these events threaten to plunge America into turmoil. But it is not to be. Winik’s engrossing narrative sweeps readers along from one incredible moment to the next until, remarkably, peace is reached. A provocative and deeply researched account, this modern classic is a major reassessment of the 30 most pivotal days in United States history.
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General Lee’s Army
- By: Joseph T. Glatthaar
- Narrator: Robertson Dean
- Length: 25 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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4.13(207 ratings)
4.13(207 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0034.95 USDThis sweeping history of the Civil War and the Confederacy is told through the lens of its most crucial army, the Army of Northern Virginia commanded by Robert E. Lee. General Lee’s Army takes listeners across the Rebel landscape, fromThis sweeping history of the Civil War and the Confederacy is told through the lens of its most crucial army, the Army of Northern Virginia commanded by Robert E. Lee.
General Lee’s Army takes listeners across the Rebel landscape, from campfires to battlefields to their homes, as it portrays a world of life, death, healing, and hardship. Detailing the feelings and conduct of officers and enlisted men throughout the course of the war, it demonstrates how effectively Lee’s men served their country and just how close the South came to winning the great war between the states—and why it ultimately lost. Glatthaar investigates the South’s commitment to the war and its gradual erosion, and he analyzes Lee’s army in triumph and defeat. Fourteen years in the making, this scholarly tour de force upends much of the conventional wisdom about the Civil War.
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The Other Side of War
- By: Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- Narrator: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDEvery memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. The Other Side of the War reveals the war as experienced by the thousands of women volunteered to work in hospitals and for theEvery memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. The Other Side of the War reveals the war as experienced by the thousands of women volunteered to work in hospitals and for the Sanitary Commission, the organization that advocated better practices and lobbied for increased supplies.
Katharine Prescott Wormeley was one of those volunteers, an American nurse in the Civil War, as well as author, editor, and and one of America’s best-known translators of French language literary works.
Her letters from the period of the Peninsular Campaign of 1862, collected here, provide a warm, witty, and at times heartbreaking view of the hardworking women to whom so much was owed by the soldiers and the nation.
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The Day Lincoln Was Shot
- By: Jim Bishop
- Narrator: Jim Bishop
- Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 14, 2014
- Language: English
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4.12(965 ratings)
4.12(965 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDIn a historical classic as enthralling as a novel, author Jim Bishop colorfully depicts the city of Washington as it is celebrating the end of the Civil War. With research carefully gathered over 25 years, he weaves details together so skillfully,In a historical classic as enthralling as a novel, author Jim Bishop colorfully depicts the city of Washington as it is celebrating the end of the Civil War. With research carefully gathered over 25 years, he weaves details together so skillfully, that even though you know the outcome, the suspense heightens with each unfolding event. It’s Good Friday, April 14, 1865. While all around him, people demand vengeance on the subdued southern states, the President plans to rebuild demolished cities and send captured Secessionist soldiers home to plant their crops. At the famous Ford’s Theatre across town, popular actor John Wilkes Booth furtively makes final preparations to destroy the man he blames for all the nation’s problems-President Lincoln. Jim Bishop dramatically describes crowds swarming the streets on that fateful day, while Lincoln meets with politicians, relaxes at the theatre, and finally, struggles for each agonizing breath. Veteran narrator Nelson Runger brings each political leader and infamous rogue vividly to life.
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Reveille in Washington
- By: Margaret Leech
- Narrator: Grace Conlin
- Length: 21 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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4.12(248 ratings)
4.12(248 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDMargaret Leech’s Pulitzer Prize-winning history paints a wonderfully vivid and lively picture of Washington, DC, during the Civil War. In addition to the major events and figures such as Lincoln, Leech uses telling anecdotes and draws uponMargaret Leech’s Pulitzer Prize-winning history paints a wonderfully vivid and lively picture of Washington, DC, during the Civil War. In addition to the major events and figures such as Lincoln, Leech uses telling anecdotes and draws upon cameo players such as Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, Andrew Carnegie, and a Confederate lady spy to create a living portrait of a sleepy, unfinished city as it struggles to become the strong capital of a united nation.
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Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer
- By: G. Moxley Sorrel
- Narrator: John Lescault
- Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.12(86 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDWritten by the officer who became General Longstreet’s most trusted associate, this collection of firsthand accounts, memoirs, and diaries grants the listener an inside view into the workings of the Confederate army staff–the unknownWritten by the officer who became General Longstreet’s most trusted associate, this collection of firsthand accounts, memoirs, and diaries grants the listener an inside view into the workings of the Confederate army staff–the unknown soldiers, the well-known commanders, politicians, nurses, and civilians–relating the events of the Civil War as Lt. Colonel Gilbert Moxley Sorrel experienced it.
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Women of the Blue & Gray
- By: Marianne Monson
- Narrator: Caroline Shaffer
- Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.11(341 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDHidden amongst the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroes–women. North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant–the women in theseHidden amongst the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroes–women.
North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant–the women in these micro-drama biographies are wives, mothers, sisters, and friends whose purposes ranged from supporting husbands and sons during wartime to counseling President Lincoln on strategy, from tending to the wounded on the battlefield to spiriting away slaves through the Underground Railroad, from donning a uniform and fighting unrecognized alongside the men to working as spies for either side.
This book brings to light the incredible stories of women from the Civil War that remain relevant to our nation today. Each woman’s experience helps us see a truer, fuller, richer version of what really happened in this country during this time period.
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The Problem with Lincoln
- By: Thomas J. Dilorenzo
- Narrator: John McLain
- Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.11(81 ratings)
4.11(81 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDSo many thousands of books deifying Abraham Lincoln have been published that it is nearly impossible for the average citizen to learn much of anything that is truthful about Lincoln’s presidency. This book should create doubt inSo many thousands of books deifying Abraham Lincoln have been published that it is nearly impossible for the average citizen to learn much of anything that is truthful about Lincoln’s presidency.
This book should create doubt in anyone’s mind over the designation of Abraham Lincoln as America’s greatest president. Some may even decide that he was the worst.
You’ll learn that Lincoln promised to protect slavery forever in his first inaugural address by endorsing the “Corwin Amendment” to the Constitution, which would have prohibited the federal government from ever interfering with Southern slavery. It should rightly be known as Lincoln’s “slavery forever” speech.
You’ll learn that the real reason why Lincoln launched an invasion of his own country (he never admitted that secession was legal or legitimate) was to destroy the voluntary union of the founders and replace it with a coerced union held together by violence and threats of violence, much more like the old Soviet Union than the original American union.
You were probably not taught in school that by waging total war on Southern civilians and bombing Southern cities into a smoldering ruin, Lincoln violated all moral codes and international law regarding waging war on civilians and opened the door to the horrific atrocities of twentieth-century warfare.
Finally, professor DiLorenzo introduces listeners to the real Abraham Lincoln.
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The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby
- By: John S. Mosby
- Narrator: Robertson Dean
- Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.11(251 ratings)
4.11(251 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIn the American Civil War, or the War between the States, three dashing cavalry leaders–Stuart, Forrest, and Mosby–so captured the public imagination that their exploits took on a glamour, which we associate–as did the writers ofIn the American Civil War, or the War between the States, three dashing cavalry leaders–Stuart, Forrest, and Mosby–so captured the public imagination that their exploits took on a glamour, which we associate–as did the writers of the time–with the deeds of the Waverley characters and the heroes of chivalry.
Of the three leaders, Colonel John S. Mosby (1833-1916), was, perhaps, the most romantic figure.
In the South his dashing exploits made him one of the great heroes of the “Lost Cause.”
In the North he was painted as the blackest of redoubtable scoundrels.
This is his story in his own words.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
- By: Frederick Douglass
- Narrator: Frederick Douglass
- Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 16, 1999
- Language: English
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4.09(1227 ratings)
4.09(1227 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0012.99 USDUncertain of his date of birth or the identity of his father, Frederick Douglass came into the world with one surety: he was born a slave, and would die a slave. But as he grew up, Douglass determined that he would teach himself to read and write,Uncertain of his date of birth or the identity of his father, Frederick Douglass came into the world with one surety: he was born a slave, and would die a slave. But as he grew up, Douglass determined that he would teach himself to read and write, and that one day he would be free from slavery. In 1832, Douglass was sent to a plantation in St. Michael’s, where he would live and work as a field hand for more than seven years. According to Douglass, this life was so dispiriting and exhausting, that at times thoughts of freedom all but disappeared from his mind. His journey out of bondage was mental, as well as physical. Douglass would go on to be one of the abolition movement’s most persuasive speakers, and would eventually become a strong proponent for women’s rights. His famous autobiography, the Narrative, reads like the impassioned plea of an abolitionist tract, compelling in its honest and forceful eloquence. Later Douglass would serve as minister to Haiti and would fight against the southern practice of lynching without benefit of trial by jury. After his first wife’s death, he would startle his associates and friends by marrying a white woman, one of the most publicized interracial marriages in America. Douglass died in 1895. He was buried in Rochester, New York.
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