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America Victorious: Lesser-Known Campaigns and Commanders That Helped Win American Independence, written by Tom Hand, shares engaging stories of some of the lesser-known men who fought our country’s...

America Victorious: Lesser-Known Campaigns and Commanders That Helped Win American Independence, written by Tom Hand, shares engaging stories of some of the lesser-known men who fought our country’s battles in countless places across our young nation.  From the Minutemen who fired the “shot heard round the world” at Lexington and Concord, to Nathanael Greene’s exploits in the southern theater, to George Rogers Clark’s conquest of the Illinois and Ohio Country, the book is filled with...

Tom Hand’s An American Triumph: America’s Founding Era Through the Lives of Ben Franklin, George Washington, and John Adams masterfully blends the personal experiences and historic milestones of...

Tom Hand’s An American Triumph: America’s Founding Era Through the Lives of Ben Franklin, George Washington, and John Adams masterfully blends the personal experiences and historic milestones of these three Founding Fathers into an engaging narrative written for the everyday American. Through a collection of captivating stories from Ben Franklin’s birth in 1706 to the passing of John Adams on July 4, 1826, An American Triumph focuses on the momentous events where...

This bundle is unavailable until a new edition of The Maps of the American Revolution (Vol. 3) is released. Please consider Battle Maps Bundle - Civil War Lovers in the interim if you'd like to...

This bundle is unavailable until a new edition of The Maps of the American Revolution (Vol. 3) is released. Please consider Battle Maps Bundle - Civil War Lovers in the interim if you'd like to bundle our other three map books. --> Get the complete collection of the American Battlefield Trust's map books. This four-volume set — featuring more than 250 expertly created and historian-reviewed maps — includes the following titles:Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Eastern Theater (Volume...

Now, in time for America’s 250th anniversary, we’ve updated our popular Revolutionary War volume to include even more maps. Follow the course of the war, from Lexington & Concord to the British...

Now, in time for America’s 250th anniversary, we’ve updated our popular Revolutionary War volume to include even more maps. Follow the course of the war, from Lexington & Concord to the British surrender at Yorktown, utilizing this unparalleled collection of maps of the major actions of the American Revolution. Featuring 150 pages with 80 full-color, highly detailed maps and expert battle commentary covering more than 50 pivotal sites, this volume makes a great addition any battlefield...

“I just love those maps that you guys send to me.” It is a sentiment that we hear often, referencing one of our cornerstone initiatives — a quest to accurately and dynamically map the battlefields...

“I just love those maps that you guys send to me.” It is a sentiment that we hear often, referencing one of our cornerstone initiatives — a quest to accurately and dynamically map the battlefields of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and the American Civil War. The American Battlefield Trust and its members have preserved nearly 61,000 acres of battlefield land across 160 battlefields, in 25 states. Other than physically walking across the hallowed ground that we have saved together, the best...

Battlefield Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater brings together the Trust's maps of iconic battles of the Civil War’s Western Theater into a single volume. Follow the major action of the "War...

Battlefield Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater brings together the Trust's maps of iconic battles of the Civil War’s Western Theater into a single volume. Follow the major action of the "War in the West" as it unfolded using this unparalleled collection of maps. Featuring 112 pages of 70+ full-color, highly detailed maps and expert battle commentary, this volume makes a great addition any battlefield enthusiast's bookshelf. Together, we've preserved nearly 61,000 acres of battlefield...

Some of the most compelling photographs of the Civil War were taken on battlefield land saved by the American Battlefield Trust. Discover the power of place that preservation work seeks to capture...

Some of the most compelling photographs of the Civil War were taken on battlefield land saved by the American Battlefield Trust. Discover the power of place that preservation work seeks to capture in Battlefields in Focus: Hallowed Ground Through the Camera Lens, written by Garry Adelman, the Trust’s Chief Historian, and Bob Zeller, the president of The Center for Civil War Photography. This volume features dozens of these vintage photos along with modern battlefield photographs taken by...

“Decisions at Stones River: The Sixteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle” introduces readers to critical decisions made by Confederate and Union commanders. Matt Spruill and Lee Spruill...

“Decisions at Stones River: The Sixteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle” introduces readers to critical decisions made by Confederate and Union commanders. Matt Spruill and Lee Spruill examine the decisions that shaped the way the campaign and battle unfolded. Rather than offering a history of the Battle of Stones River, the Spruills focus on the critical decisions, those decisions that had a major impact on both Federal and Confederate forces in shaping the progression of the...

Intended for a general readership, “Decisions of the 1862 Kentucky Campaign: The Twenty-Seven Critical Decisions That Defined the Operation” by Lawrence K. Peterson introduces readers to critical...

Intended for a general readership, “Decisions of the 1862 Kentucky Campaign: The Twenty-Seven Critical Decisions That Defined the Operation” by Lawrence K. Peterson introduces readers to critical decisions made by both Union and Confederate commanders who faced harrowing situations and attempted to achieve strategic and tactical victories. Like the other books in the University of Tennessee Press’s Command Decisions in America’s Civil War series, this manuscript contains maps, photographs, and...

Collected journals of soldier Erasmus Corwin Gilbreath kept during the American civil war. Straight from the family attic to your hands, Dignity of Duty contains the never before shared, presciently...

Collected journals of soldier Erasmus Corwin Gilbreath kept during the American civil war. Straight from the family attic to your hands, Dignity of Duty contains the never before shared, presciently detailed primary source accounts of Erasmus Corwin Gilbreath as he serves in and witnesses an unprecedent span of American history in the Civil War, Reconstruction period, building of the American west, and Spanish American War. With an introduction by military historian Carlo D'Este and...

The story of how private citizens headlined the efforts to preserve American Civil War Battlefields. Over the course of thirty years, a good idea and hard work of dedicated history lovers evolved...

The story of how private citizens headlined the efforts to preserve American Civil War Battlefields. Over the course of thirty years, a good idea and hard work of dedicated history lovers evolved into a movement that has saved more than 45,000 acres of historical land from developers — more than 70 square mile of American Revolutionary, War of 1812 and Civil War battlefields. Fighting the Second Civil War: A History of Battlefield Preservation and the Emergence of the Civil War Trust, by Bob...

Be prepared to record your thoughts whenever inspiration strikes — you won't want to put down this gorgeous leather book which cradles a replaceable bound journal. Custom-crafted by master craftsman...

Be prepared to record your thoughts whenever inspiration strikes — you won't want to put down this gorgeous leather book which cradles a replaceable bound journal. Custom-crafted by master craftsman Shawn Bettinger of Stickman Leather in Seattle, Washington, this leather blank book is constructed of materials made in the U.S.A. Debossed with American Battlefield Trust on the front and “Saving Hallowed Ground” on the backHandcrafted from American Bison tanned in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Features...