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Antebellum Era Books
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,945 ratings — published 2007
The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,571 ratings — published 1976
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,789 ratings — published 2008
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,946 ratings — published 2008
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,741 ratings — published 2005
The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.01 — 374 ratings — published 2017
Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants (Audio CD)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,534 ratings — published 2018
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.23 — 127,203 ratings — published 1853
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,862 ratings — published 1845
While Passion Sleeps (Louisiana #8)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.06 — 966 ratings — published 1983
Comanche Sunset (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.40 — 789 ratings — published 1991
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.22 — 948 ratings — published 2021
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.57 — 81,267 ratings — published 1922
A Horse for Hannah: The Story of a Boston Girl and Her Journey to England, Where She Meets Her Dream Horse, a Gentle Hackney (Treasured Horses)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.21 — 14 ratings — published 1999
Louisiana Blue: The Story of an Impassioned Girl Who Stops at Nothing When Her American Saddlebred Is in Danger (Treasured Horses)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.60 — 15 ratings — published 1999
The Age of Jackson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,269 ratings — published 1946
The Night Before Christmas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.40 — 129,060 ratings — published 1823
The Last Adieu: Lafayette’s Triumphant Return, the Echoes of Revolution, and the Gratitude of the Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.18 — 84 ratings — published 2025
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,806 ratings — published 2011
Calhoun: American Heretic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.21 — 456 ratings — published 2021
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.84 — 11,246 ratings — published 2017
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,390 ratings — published 2015
Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.08 — 544 ratings — published 2024
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,419 ratings — published 1971
Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.22 — 149 ratings — published 2024
The Rise of American Democracy: Democracy Ascendant, 1815-1840: College Edition, Volume II (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 2.00 — 4 ratings — published
The Rise of American Democracy: Slavery and the Crisis of American Democracy, 1840-1860: College Edition, Volume III (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published
President without a Party: The Life of John Tyler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.07 — 462 ratings — published 2020
All Different Kinds of Free (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,449 ratings — published 2011
Jubilee (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,275 ratings — published 1966
Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.96 — 168 ratings — published
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.73 — 707 ratings — published 2022
On the Brink of Civil War: The Compromise of 1850 and How It Changed the Course of American History (The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.41 — 17 ratings — published 2003
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,901 ratings — published 2012
Zachary Taylor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,332 ratings — published 2008
The Presidents' War: Six American Presidents And The Civil War That Divided Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.12 — 484 ratings — published 2014
James Monroe: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,649 ratings — published 2020
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,737 ratings — published 2013
The Fires of Philadelphia: Citizen-Soldiers, Nativists, and the 1844 Riots Over the Soul of a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.96 — 49 ratings — published
Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.03 — 423 ratings — published 2013
Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.77 — 449 ratings — published 2008
Grant (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,050 ratings — published 2001
Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.20 — 49,419 ratings — published 1995
The First Populist: A Life of Andrew Jackson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.88 — 307 ratings — published
Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.68 — 157 ratings — published 2019
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.96 — 423 ratings — published 2007
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,185 ratings — published 2018
The Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s (The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.93 — 59 ratings — published 2003
1812: The War That Forged a Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,568 ratings — published 2004
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,635 ratings — published 2009
