United States History Books

Part of the National Park Civil War Series. In the sleepy hamlet of Dover, Tennessee, the Confederate Fort Donelson, commanding the Cumberland Rive...

Kennesaw was the “one last mountain” between General William T. Sherman and Atlanta, Georgia. When Union troops arrived in Marietta, the “Gibraltar...

During the first six months of 1862, the Union army marched over seven hundred miles from Rolla, Missouri to Helena, Arkansas, and, despite crossin...

In April 1863, the 60,000 Confederate men marching under the orders of the Army of Northern Virginia were but a fraction of the size of General Jos...

In the late spring of 1864, the American Civil War reached a new level of brutality. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant launched the Overland Campaign, a re...

The Battles of Chattanooga were a series of skirmishes and larger battles fought from September to November of 1863 that largely centered on a sect...

The Battles for Richmond, sometimes called the Seven Days Battles, were six major battles around Richmond, Virginia during the beginning of the Ame...

Part of the National Park Civil War Series. The Wilderness and Spotsylvania operations stand among the most fascinating episodes in American milita...

"Surrender did not stop the guns, nor did it solve any profound social and emotional issues that had ignited the war," writes author Trudeau. "Yet ...

''The South Carolina officers left the fort at 3:20, warning Anderson that the bombardment --and, inevitably, civil war-- would begin in one hour.'...

In mid-1864, to circumnavigate a direct assault on the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant set his...

The Confederate prison camp at Andersonville recorded 12,290 deaths within its 26-acre confines at the conclusion of the American Civil War. During...

The Second Battle of Manassas, also called The Second Battle of Bull Run, was a Confederate victory—and a blow to Union morale—fought on the same g...

After a series of trial-and-error attempts, Union soldiers finally gained control of the crucial city of Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1863. Brigadier ...

Part of the National Park Civil War Series. For Missouri, the years immediately preceding the Civil War personified its status as a border state. A...

Powerful stories of influential Native Americans — for kids ages 8 to 12From every background and tribal nation, native people are a vital part of ...

By the end of the 18th century, over 15,000 enslaved African men, women, and children had arrived, labored, and died in what is now known as New Yo...

The fascinating series of events which made Ninety-Six a well-known South Carolina name continues to delight both casual and serious readers of ear...

Joseph Plum Martin - Private Yankee Doodle - recreates the daily life of the Revolutionary soldier as no one else has ever done! He withholds nothi...

Late into the 19th century, the Pullman Palace Car Company transformed basic railroad travel into a luxurious, personalized excursion. The resultin...

During a hot summer in 1848, a convention was held by the Women of Seneca County, NY to discuss the social, civil, and religious conditions of wome...

The name Mark Thrash lives on as legend for good reason. He was a folklore institution even during Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Pa...

“Simply ‘Father’...is a wonderful book about my great-grandfather, Theodore Roosevelt, as seen ‘through the eyes of his children.’ It shows why his...

Slavery in the United States: A Brief Narrative History is a primer that introduces chattel slavery as one of the ugliest institutions in American ...