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A Castle in Wartime: One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis

Catherine Bailey · Viking
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

"I was gripped by A Castle in Wartime--it contained more tension, more plot in fact--than any thriller."--Kate Atkinson, author of Big Sky and Case Histories

An enthralling story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors...
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Mayflower Lives: Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience

Martyn Whittock · Pegasus Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A fresh and revealing history of one of the most seminal events in American history as seen through fourteen diverse and dynamic figures. Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the "saints" (members of the Separatist...
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Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection

Smithsonian Institution · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts illustrating women's participation in science, art, music, sports, fashion, business, religion, entertainment, military, politics, activism, and more.

This book offers a unique, panoramic...
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Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

Donald L. Miller · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war.

Vicksburg,...
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

Eric Foner · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize- winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation.

The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three...

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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home

Richard Bell · 37 Ink
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South - and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years A Slave and Never Caught.

Philadelphia, 1825:...
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