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Keith Valley Middle School Library: US Civil War

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KV eBooks

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African Americans During the Civil War by Deborah H. DeFord; Philip Schwarz
ISBN: 1438106505
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Causes of the Civil War a Nation Divided by Jeff Putnam
ISBN: 9781427199454
Publication Date: 2012-02-01
Final Campaigns of the Civil War by Cinci Stowell
ISBN: 9781427199478
Publication Date: 2012-02-01
Life on a Civil War Battlefield by J. Matteson Claus
ISBN: 9781427199485
Publication Date: 2012-02-01
Life on the Homefront During the Civil War by Melissa J. Doak
ISBN: 9781427199522
Publication Date: 2012-02-01
Reconstruction and the Aftermath of the Civil War by Lisa Colozza Cocca
ISBN: 9781427199492
Publication Date: 2012-02-01
Turning Point Battles of the Civil War by Sandra J. Hiller
ISBN: 9781427199515
Publication Date: 2012-02-01

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American Civil War Reference Library by Kevin Hillstrom; Laurie Collier Hillstrom; Lawrence W. Baker
ISBN: 9780787691417
Publication Date: 2003-12-01
American Civil War Reference Library offers comprehensive and wide ranging research options on this compelling era of American history.
Civil War by Lisa Tendrich Frank
ISBN: 9781598840360
Publication Date: 2009-08-01
Offers a social historian's view of the Civil War, shifting the focus away from political and military leaders to look at how the war affected, and was affected by, ordinary citizens of all kinds.

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