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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 — 8,974 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 — 2,590 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 — 7,815 ratings — published 2008
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,004 ratings — published 2008
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,805 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 — 376 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 — 2,550 ratings — published 2018
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.23 — 127,711 ratings — published 1853
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.14 — 140,252 ratings — published 1845
Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life: And Also, Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Indigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,868 ratings — published 1996
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,607 ratings — published 2021
While Passion Sleeps (Louisiana #8)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.06 — 970 ratings — published 1983
Comanche Sunset (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.41 — 800 ratings — published 1991
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.21 — 958 ratings — published 2021
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.57 — 81,899 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 — 2,274 ratings — published 1946
The Night Before Christmas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.40 — 129,175 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 4.16 — 91 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 — 6,849 ratings — published 2011
Calhoun: American Heretic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.22 — 460 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 — 11,457 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 — 1,396 ratings — published 2015
Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.07 — 575 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 — 1,424 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 4.08 — 475 ratings — published 2020
All Different Kinds of Free (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,457 ratings — published 2011
Jubilee (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,310 ratings — published 1966
Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.94 — 170 ratings — published
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.72 — 719 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 — 1,912 ratings — published 2012
Zachary Taylor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,349 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 — 1,695 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 — 5,766 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 — 51 ratings — published
Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.03 — 429 ratings — published 2013
Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.77 — 453 ratings — published 2008
Grant (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,099 ratings — published 2001
Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 4.20 — 49,583 ratings — published 1995
The First Populist: A Life of Andrew Jackson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as antebellum-era)
avg rating 3.88 — 310 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 3.67 — 158 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 — 1,195 ratings — published 2018
