Comprehensive Bibliography
The individual bibliographies for each section may also be found in the Student Resources area of this website.
Section 1 – Origins
Ashworth, John. Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: Volume I, Commerce and Compromise, 1820–1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Ayers, Edward L. What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History.New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.
Boritt, Gabor S., ed. Why the Civil War Came. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Bowman, Shearer D. At the Precipice: Americans North and South During the Secession Crisis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Calore, Paul. The Causes of the Civil War: The Political, Cultural, Economic, and Territorial Disputes between North and South. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2008.
Clavin, Matthew J. Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
Dew, Charles B. Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001.
Egerton, Douglas R. Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
Egnal, Marc. Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009.
Faust, Drew Gilpin. The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Freehling, William W. The Road to Disunion: The Secessionists at Bay. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Freehling, William W. The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Gallagher, Gary W. The Union War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Goodheart, Adam. 1861: The Civil War Awakening. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Harrold, Stanley. Border War: Fighting Over Slavery Before the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Hoffer, William James. The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Holt, Michael F. The Political Crisis of the 1850s. New York: Wiley, 1978.
Holzer, Harold. Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860–1861. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
Horwitz, Tony. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War. New York: Henry Holt, 2011.
Huston, James. Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Lankford, Nelson D. Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861. New York: Penguin Books, 2008.
Lightner, David L. Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Lockwood, John, and Charles Lockwood. The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Loewen, James W., and Edward H. Sebesta, eds. The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The “Great Truth” about the “Lost Cause.” Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010.
McClintock, Russell. Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
McPherson, James M. What They Fought For, 1861–1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994
—. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Neely, Mark E. Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Onuf, Nicholas, and Peter S. Onuf. Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006.
Potter, David M. The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
Potter, David M, and Don E. Fehrenbacher. The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War: 1848–1861. New York: Harper Perennial, 2011.
Ratner, Lorman A., and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr. Fanatics and Fire-Eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
Reid, Brian Holden. The Origins of the American Civil War. London: Longman, 1996.
Richards, Leonard L. The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Rugemer, Edward B. The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009.
Schoen, Brian. The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Stewart, James B. Abolitionist Politics and the Coming of the Civil War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.
Thomas, Emory M. The Dogs of War, 1861. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Varon, Elizabeth R. Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789–§1859. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Waugh, John C. One Man Great Enough: Abraham Lincoln’s Road to Civil War. Orlando: Harcourt, 2007.
Woodworth, Steven E. Manifest Destinies: America’s Westward Expansion and the Road to the Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Section 2 – Battlefields
Bacon, Benjamin W. Sinews of War: How Technology, Industry, and Transportation Won the Civil War. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1997.
Bearss, Edwin C. Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2006.
Bearss, Edwin C., and Parker Hills. Receding Tide: Vicksburg and Gettysburg: The Campaigns That Changed the Civil War. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2010.
Blair, Jayne E. The Essential Civil War: A Handbook to the Battles, Armies, Navies and Commanders. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2006.
Blanton, De Anne and Lauren M. Cook. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
Bleser, Carol K. R., and Lesley J. Gordon. Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Castel, Albert, with Brooks D. Simpson. Victors in Blue: How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War. Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 2011.
Coddington, Ronald S. Faces of the Confederacy: An Album of Southern Soldiers and Their Stories. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Costa, Dora L., and Matthew E. Kahn. Heroes & Cowards: The Social Face of War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
Creighton, Margaret S. The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle. New York: Basic Books, 2005.
Daniel, Larry J. Shiloh: The Battle that Changed the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Dougherty, Kevin. Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
Dreese, Michael A. Torn Families: Death and Kinship at the Battle of Gettysburg. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2007.
Farina, William. Ulysses S. Grant, 1861–1864: His Rise from Obscurity to Military Greatness. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2007.
Faust, Drew G. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Foote, Lorien. The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Manhood, Honor, and Violence in the Union Army. New York: New York University Press, 2010.
Gillispie, James M. Andersonvilles of the North: The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2008.
Gramm, Kent, ed. Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008.
Hagerman, Edward. The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare: Ideas, Organization, and Field Command. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.
Hall, Richard. Patriots in Disguise: Women Warriors of the Civil War. New York: Paragon, 1993.
Hall, Richard. Women on the Civil War Battlefront. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.
Hess, Earl J. Trench Warfare Under Grant & Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Hess, Earl J. The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1997.
Hewitt, Lawrence L., and Arthur W. Bergeron. Confederate Generals in the Western Theater. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2010.
Holzer, Harold, James M. McPherson, James I. Robertson, Stephen W. Sears, and Craig L. Symonds. Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York: Modern Library, 2011.
Hsieh, Wayne W. West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Kagan, Norman, Stephen G. Hyslop, and Harris J. Andrews. Atlas of the Civil War: A Comprehensive Guide to the Tactics and Terrain of Battle. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2009.
Keegan, John. The American Civil War: A Military History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
LaFantasie, Glenn W. Gettysburg Heroes: Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed Ground. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.
Leonard, Elizabeth D. All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies. New York. W. W. Norton, 1999.
Linderman, Gerald F. Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War. New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan, 1987.
Lowry, Thomas P. The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell: Sex in the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1994.
Makely, Wesley, and David R. Bush. I Fear I Shall Never Leave This Island: Life in a Civil War Prison. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011.
Manning, Chandra. What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Marvel, William. The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln’s War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Mountcastle, Clay. Punitive War: Confederate Guerrillas and Union Reprisals. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
Noe, Kenneth W. Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army After 1861. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Nosworthy, Brent. The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003.
Pickenpaugh, Roger. Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009.
Pierson, Michael D. Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Ramold, Steven J. Baring the Iron Hand: Discipline in the Union Army. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010.
Roberts, William H. Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Rolfs, David. No Peace for the Wicked: Northern Protestant Soldiers and the American Civil War. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009.
Sheehan-Dean, Aaron C., ed. The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
Silverstone, Paul H. Civil War Navies, 1855–1883. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Speer, Lonnie R. Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Spruill, Matt. Summer Thunder: A Battlefield Guide to the Artillery at Gettysburg. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2010.
Starr, Stephen Z. Union Cavalry in the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007.
Stoker, Donald J. The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Sutherland, Daniel E. A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Sword, Wiley. Courage Under Fire: Profiles in Bravery from the Battlefields of the Civil War. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007.
Symonds, Craig L. Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Wert, Jeffry D. A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee’s Triumph, 1862–1863. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Wert, Jeffry D. The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
Wiley, Bell I. The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union. Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
—The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Williams, T. H. Lincoln and His Generals. New York: Vintage Books, 2011.
Woodworth, Steven E. Decision in the Heartland: The Civil War in the West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
Section 3 – African American Experience
Adair, Lyle, and Glenn Robins. They Have Left Us Here to Die: The Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2011.
Ash, Stephen V. Firebrand of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments That Changed the Course of the Civil War. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.
Bailey, Anne J. Invisible Southerners: Ethnicity in the Civil War. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006.
Blight, David W. A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom: Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation. Orlando: Harcourt, 2007.
Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass’ Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Boritt, Gabor S. and Scott Hancock, eds. Slavery, Resistance, Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Brewer, James H. The Confederate Negro: Virginia’s Craftsmen and Military Laborers, 1861–1865. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007.
Cornish, Dudley T. The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1861–1865. New York: W. W. Norton, 1966.
Downs, Jim. Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Durden, Robert F. The Gray and the Black: The Confederate Debate on Emancipation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972, 2000.
Franklin, John Hope. The Emancipation Proclamation. New York: Anchor, 1965.
Glatthaar, Joseph T. Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers. New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan, 1990.
Greenwood, Janette T. First Fruits of Freedom: The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862–1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Hollandsworth, James G., Jr. The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.
Holzer, Harold, Edna Greene Medford, and Frank J. Williams. The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
Humphreys, Margaret. Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Hunter, Tera W. To ’Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Inscoe, John C. Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
James, Jennifer C. A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Lause, Mark A. Race and Radicalism in the Union Army. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
Levine, Bruce C. Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
McPherson, James. The Negro’s Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union. 1965. New York: Ballantine Books, 1991.
Miller, Edward A., Jr. The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois: The Story of the Twenty-ninth U.S. Colored Infantry. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
Oakes, James. The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007.
Ochs, Stephen J. A Black Patriot and a White Priest: André Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
O’Donovan, Susan E. Becoming Free in the Cotton South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Redkey, Edwin S. A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army 1861–1865. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Regosin, Elizabeth A., and Donald R. Shaffer. Voices of Emancipation: Understanding Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction Through the U.S. Pension Bureau Files. New York: New York University Press, 2008.
Reid, Richard M. Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina’s Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Rose, Willie Lee. Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964.
Samito, Christian G. Becoming American Under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship During the Civil War Era. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.
Shaffer, Donald R. After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2004.
Smith, John David, ed. Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Tomblin, Barbara. Bluejackets and Contrabands: African Americans and the Union Navy. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
Trudeau, Noah Andre. Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862–1865. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998.
Urwin, Gregory J. W., ed. Black Flag Over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.
Ward, Andrew. The Slaves’ War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Westwood, Howard C. Black Troops, White Commanders, and Freedmen During the Civil War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.
Wilder, Burt G., and Richard M. Reid. Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
Wise, Stephen R. Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
Zinn, Howard. The Other Civil War: Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America. New York: Harper Perennial, 2011.
Section 4 – The Home Front
Cashin, Joan E., ed. The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Cimbala, Paul A., and Randall M. Miller, eds. Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002.
Clinton, Catherine, and Nina Silber, eds. Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
—Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Drago, Edmund L. Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.
Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Gallman, J. Matthew. Northerners at War: Reflections on the Civil War Home Front. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2010.
Giesberg, Judith A. Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000.
—Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Jabour, Anya. Scarlett’s Sisters: Young Women in the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
—. Topsy-Turvy: How the Civil War Turned the World Upside Down for Southern Children. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2010.
Leonard, Elizabeth D. Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994. Lowry, Thomas P. Confederate Heroines: 120 Southern Women Convicted by Union Military Justice. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
Marten, James. The Children’s Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
—. Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007.
—. ed. Children and Youth During the Civil War Era. New York: New York University Press, 2012.
Mobley, Joe A. Weary of War: Life on the Confederate Home Front. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2008.
Ott, Victoria E. Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age During the Civil War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
Rable, George C. Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Rhoades, Nancy L., Lucy E. Bailey, and Edwin L. Lybarger. Wanted—Correspondence: Women’s Letters to a Union Soldier. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009.
Richards, Samuel P., and Wendy H. Venet. Sam Richards’s Civil War Diary: A Chronicle of the Atlanta Home Front. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009.
Robertson, James I., and Neil Kagan. The Untold Civil War: Exploring the Human Side of War. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2011.
Scott, Sean A. A Visitation of God: Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Vinovskis, Maris, ed. Toward a Social History of the American Civil War: Exploratory Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Volo, Dorothy Denneen, and James M. Volo. Daily Life in Civil War America. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Weber, Jennifer L. Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln’s Opponents in the North. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Werner, Emmy. Reluctant Witnesses: Children’s Voices from the Civil War. New York: Basic Books, 1998.
Whites, LeeAnn, and Alecia P. Long, eds. Occupied Women: Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009.
Section 5 – Reconstructing
Blair, William Alan. Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865–1914. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.
—. Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory and the American Civil War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
—American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Boritt, Gabor S. The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Brown, Thomas J. Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Carwardine, Richard, and Jay Sexton. The Global Lincoln. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Censer, Jane Turner. The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003.
Clarke, Frances M. War Stories: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Cloyd, Benjamin G. Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
Foner, Eric, and Joshua Brown. Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Foster, Gaines M. Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865–1913. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Gallagher, Gary W. Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood & Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Gannon, Barbara A. The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Goldfield, David R. America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2011.
Griffin, Martin. Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865–1900. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.
Hahn, Steven. A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
Hunt, Robert E. The Good Men Who Won the War: Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010.
Janney, Caroline E. Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Jeffrey, Julie R. Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies & the Unfinished Work of Emancipation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Lee, Anthony W., and Elizabeth Young. On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Leonard, Elizabeth D. Lincoln’s Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion After the Civil War. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.
Logue, Larry M., and Michael Barton. The Civil War Veteran: A Historical Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2007.
Logue, Larry M., and Peter D. Blanck. Race, Ethnicity, and the Treatment of Disability in Post- Civil War America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Marshall, Anne E. Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Marten, James A. Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
McConnell, Stuart. Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865–1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Mills, Cynthia and Pamela H. Simpson, eds. Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003.
Neff, John R. Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.
Roland, Charles P., and John D. Smith. History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
Sachsman, David B., S. K. Rushing, and Roy Morris. Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Cold Mountain. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2007.
Shackel, Paul A. Memory in Black and White: Race, Commemoration, and the Post-Bellum Landscape. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2003.
Silber, Nina. The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865–1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Slap, Andrew L. Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War’s Aftermath. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
Smith, Timothy B. This Great Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
Summers, Mark Wahlgren. A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Wachtell, Cynthia. War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861–1914. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Waldrep, Christopher. Vicksburg’s Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
Warren, Craig A. Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2009.
Waugh, Joan. U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Weeks, Jim. Gettysburg: Memory, Market, and an American Shrine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Wilson, Charles Reagan. Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865–1920. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.
General Studies
Aaron, Daniel. The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.
Bynum, Victoria E. The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Cullen, Jim. The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
Dawes, James. The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Diffley, Kathleen. Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
Duquette, Elizabeth. Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Eiselein, Gregory. Literature and Humanitarian Reform in the Civil War Era. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Fahs, Alice. The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861–1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Fahs, Alice and Joan Waugh, eds. The Memory of The Civil War in American Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Foreman, Amanda. A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War. London: Allen Lane, 2010; New York: Random House, 2010.
Frederickson, George. The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union. New York: Harper and Row, 1965.
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