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Adams, Virginia M., ed. The 48 letters of Corp. James Henry Gooding while serving in the 54th Massachusetts from May 1863 to Feb. 1864, until he was captured and died in Andersonville, written for the New Bedford Mercury.
Alberts, Don E. The Battle of Glorieta: Union Victory in the West. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1998. 226. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. is an account of the Union victory of Col. John Slough's Coloradoans over William Scurry's Texans in March 1862 that ended Henry Sibley's Confederate invasion of New Mexico.
Alexander, Bevin. Lost Victories: The Military Genius of Stonewall Jackson. New York: Holt, 1992. 350 p. ; maps. ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Alotta, Robert I. Civil War Justice: Union Army Executions Under Lincoln. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Pub. Co., 1989. 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliography and index.
Aptheker, Herbert,. Abolitionism: A Revolutionary Movement. 1989 196 p.
Ayres, Thomas. Dark and Bloody Ground: The Battle of Mansfield and the Forgotten Civil War in Louisiana. Taylor Publishing Co., 2001. 288 p.
Bagley, Will. Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. 544 p. Note Includes bibliographical references and index. argues that the Mormons were responsible for the 1857 slaughter of an emigrant party from Arkansas headed for California, and that Brigham Young knew about it and participated in the coverup of silence.
Bailey, Anne J. Between the Enemy and Texas: Parsons's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1989. 357 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes index and bibliography.
Bak, Richard. The CSS Hunley: The Greatest Undersea Adventure of the Civil War. Taylor Publishing Co., 1999. 208 p.
Ballard, Michael B. Vicksburg: the Campaign that Opened the Mississippi. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 490 p. : ill., map, plans, ports. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bartlett, Irving H. John C. Calhoun: a Biography. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1993. 413 p. takes Calhoun's pro-slavery and anti-state ideas seriously.
Bauer, Craig A. A Leader Among Peers: the Life and Times of Duncan Farrar Kenner. Lafayette, La.: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1993. 359 p.: ill.; Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.), University of Southern Mississippi, 1989; Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-349) and index. pioneered modern sugar refining and promoted banks and railroads and public education in Louisiana.
Beringer, Richard E. Why the South Lost the Civil War. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986 582 p. emphasizes the inevitable collapse of the Confederacy due to internal contradictions and loss of will, rather than the battlefield.
Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. 363 p.
Blakey, Arch General John H. Winder, C.S.A. Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 1990. 275 p. Biography of an able but tragic Confederate prison-keeper unlike the infamous Henry Wirz.
Bordewich, Fergus M. Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America. New York: Amistad, 2005. 540 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [440]-519) and index.
Bradley, Mark L. This Astounding Close: the Road to Bennett Place. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 404 p. : ill., plans, ports. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Brandt, Nat. The Town That Started the Civil War. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1990. 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-306)
Bredbenner, Candice Lewis. A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 294 p. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-279) and index the law in 1855 gave citizenship to foreign women who married American men, and the law in 1907 expatriated American women married to foreign men.
Bridges, Herb and Terryl C. Boodman. Gone with the Wind: the Definitive Illustrated History of the Book, the Movie, and the Legend. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1989. 244 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Bridges, Herb. The Filming of Gone with the Wind. Macon GA: Mercer University Press, 1984. 283 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Brown, Kent Masterson. Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 534 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Brown, Russell K. To the Manner Born: the Life of General William H. T. Walker. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994. 411 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-392) and index.
Browning, Robert M. From Cape Charles to Cape Fea : the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993. 453 p.
Buckley, Gail L. American Patriots: the Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm. New York: Random House, 2001. 534 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Buel, Clarence and Robert Johnson, eds.,
Buker, George E. Blockaders, Refugees, & Contraband: Civil War on Florida's Gulf Coast, 1861-1865. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1993. 235 p. : ill., map ; Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bundy, Carol. The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 548 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Burton, Brian K. Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles. Indiana University Press, 2001. 528 p.
Bynum, Victoria E. The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 316 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm Series The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-304) and index
Carmichael, Peter S. Lee's Young Artillerist : William R.J. Pegram. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1995. 209 p. : ill., maps ; Includes bibliographical references and index.
Castel, Albert. Decision in the West: the Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. 665 p. is an excellent campaign history and winner of the Lincoln Prize.
Catton, Bruce. The Centennial History of the Civil War. New York: Pocket Books, 1961-65 3 v. : maps (some col.) ; 18 cm.
Catton, Bruce. Grant Moves South. Boston: Little, Brown, 1960. 564 p. with GRANT TAKES COMMAND (1969) is the classic military biography of U.S. Grant.
Chaffin, Tom. Fatal Glory: Narciso Lopez and the the First Clandestine U.S. War Against Cuba. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1996. 282 p., [10] p. of plates: ill., map; Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index.
Chaffin, Tom. Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. 448 p.
Cisco, Walter B. Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2004. 401 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Claxton, Melvin and Mark Puls. Uncommon Valor: a Story of Race, Patriotism, and Glory in the Final Battles of the Civil War. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2005. 240 p. ; about the Union attack on New Market Heights at Richmond in 1864.
Collison, Gary L. Shadrach Minkins : from fugitive slave to citizen. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997. 294 p. : ill. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-277) and index.
Colton, Ray Charles. The Civil War in the Western Territories: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press,1959. 230 p. illus., ports., maps. 24 cm. Bibliography: p. 210-216
Connelly, Thomas L. God and General Longstreet: The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1982. 158 p.; Includes index. Bibliography: p. [149]-155.
Connelly, Thomas L. The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and his image in American society. New York: Knopf, 1977. 249 p., [4] leaves of plates: ill.; Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cooper, William J., Jr. Jefferson Davis, American: A Biography. Knopf, 2000. 672 p.
Cornelius, Steven. Music of the Civil War Era. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. 295 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Series: American history through music. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Cornish, Dudley Taylor. The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865. Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 1956, 1987 342 p. is a classic study.
Coryell, Janet. Neither Heroine Nor Fool: Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1990. 177 p. A good biography of the myth of "Lincoln's secret weapon" and female war strategist.
Cottrell, Steve. Civil War in the Indian Territory. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 1995
Cottrell, Steve. Civil War in Texas and New Mexico Territory. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 1998 141 p., [no index or notes], paperback sold at Glorietta Pass Battlefield Park
Cozzens, Peter. Darkest Days of the Wa : the Battles of Iuka & Corinth. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 390 p. : ill., maps ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-377) and index. is the fourth part of his study of the war in the west by Cozzens that also include NO BETTER PLACE TO DIE: THE BATTLE OF STONES RIVER (1990) 281 p., and THIS TERRIBLE SOUND: THE BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA (1992) 675 p., and THE SHIPWRECK OF THEIR HOPES: THE BATTLES FOR CHATTANOOGA (1994) 515 p.
Cozzens, Peter. The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1994. 515 p. : ill., maps ; Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-496) and index.
Cozzens, Peter. This Terrible Sound: the battle of Chickamauga. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1992. 675 p. : ill., maps ; Includes bibliographical references (p. [621]-645) and index.
Cozzens, Peter. No Better Place to Die: the Battle of Stones River. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1990. 281 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; Includes index. Bibliography: p. [252]-264.
Cripps, Thomas. Slow Fade to Black: the Negro in American Film, 1900-1942. New York : Oxford University Press, 1977. 447 p.: ill.; Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Cullen, Jim. The Civil War in Popular Culture: a Reusable Past. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. 253 p.: ill.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-244) and index.
Current, Richard. Those Terrible Carpetbaggers: A Reinterpretation. 1988 475 p.
Daniel, Larry J. Days of Glory: the Army of the Cumberland, 1861-1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. 490 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Daniel, Larry J. The Battle That Changed the Civil War. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 430 p. no heroes emerge in this negative story of poor leadership on both sides, Halleck was devious, Grant on crutches was absent, Johnston was "pathetically insecure," Beauregard "authored the horrendous battle plan" and "lost his nerve"
Davis, Edwin Adams. Fallen Guidom. The Saga of Confederate General Jo Shelby's March to Mexico. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1995.
Davis, William C. The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1996. 224 p.: ill.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-218) and index.
Davis, William C. Jefferson Davis: the Man and His Hour. New York: HarperCollins, 1991. 784 p. is the best biography of a complex man beset with many imperfections. His A GOVERNMENT OF OUR OWN: THE MAKING OF THE CONFEDERACY (1994) is a study of 6 founders of the Confederacy that focuses on their personal conflicts.
Davis, William C. Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation. New York, NY: Free Press, 1999. 315 p. ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-307) and index.
Davis, William C. Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America. New York : Free Press, 2002. 484 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 468-478) and index.
Davis, William C. An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government. Harcourt Brace, 2001. 512 p.
DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. 277 p. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index.
deKay, James Tertius. Monitor: The Story of the Legendary Civil War Ironclad and the Man Whose Invention Changed the Course of History. New York: Walker & Co., 1997. 247 p. when John Ericsson's ship prevented the CSA from breaking the union blockade on March 9, 1862, " the Confederacy lost its last real opportunity for European intervention, and with it, the war."
Denton, Sally. American Massacre: the Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 11, 1857. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. 306 p. : map ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-292) and index; blames the greed of Brigham Young for the attack on the gold-filled wagon train, not the Mormon religion.
Detzer, David. Donnybrook: the Battle of Bull Run, 1861. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2004. 490 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
DiLorenzo, Thomas J. The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War. Roseville, Calif. : Prima, 2002. 333 p. ; 22 cm. Note Includes index.
Donald, David. Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. 714 p. emphasizes Lincoln's own words but downplays the slavery issue.
Doyle, Julie A., John David Smith, and Richard M. McMurry, eds. This Wilderness of War: The Civil War Letters of George W. Squier, Hoosier Volunteer. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. 130 pp. Notes, maps, bibliography, photos. Squier stands as almost an ideal prototype for Bell Irwin Wiley's LIFE OF BILLY YANK, an individual who in many ways seems to have been the typical Union soldier.
Duffy, James P. Lincoln's Admiral: the Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut. New York : Wiley, 1997. 276 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-266) and index
Duncan, Russell, ed. Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: the Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. 421 p.
Eicher, David J. The Civil War in Books: an Analytical Bibliography. Urbana: University Of Illinois Press, 1997. 407 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Note Includes index. lists with annotations the 1,100 most important books on the war by scholars including James M. McPherson, Gary Gallagher, Ralph Newman
Eicher, David J. et al. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. Simon & Schuster, 2001. 990 p.
Elliott, Robert Garrison. Ironclad of the Roanoke : Gilbert Elliott's Albemarle. Shippensburg, PA : White Mane Pub. Co., 1994. 372 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-307) and index.
Evans, Eli N. Judah P. Benjamin, the Jewish Confederate New York: Free Press, 1988. 469 p., [16] p. of plates: ill.; Includes index. Bibliography: p. 445-453.
Farwell, Byron. Stonewall: a Biography of General Thomas J. Jackson. New York : W.W. Norton, 1992. 560 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-540) and index. This is a readable and accurate biography warts and all.
Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. 326 p.: ill.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-312) and index.
Faust, Drew Gilpin. Creation of Confederate Nationalism. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1988. 110 p.
Fellman, Michael. Citizen Sherman: a Life of William Tecumseh Sherman. New York : Random House, 1995. 486 p. : ill. ; Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fellman, Michael. Inside War: the Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri during the American Civil War. New York : Oxford University Press, 1989 331 p. A good study of the understudied upper South border state region, critical of the guerilla bands such as Quantrill's and of the Yankee anti-guerilla campaign against all "Pukes".
Fisher, Noel C. War at Every Door: Partisan Politics and Guerrilla Violence in East Tennessee, 1860-1869. University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 250 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Series Civil War America . Includes bibliographical references (p.[225]-239) and index
Flood, Charles B. Grant and Sherman: the Friendship That Won the Civil War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. 460 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foerster , Stig and Jorg Nagler, eds. On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Reunification, 1861-1871. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Foner, Eric Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. 310 p. An excellent modern synthesis that starts at 1863 and emphasizes the central role of the freedmen.
Foner, Eric. Forever Free: the Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. New York: Knopf, 2005. 268 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foote, Shelby. The Civil War, a Narrative. New York : Vintage Books, 1958-1974 3 v. The best narrative military history from the southern viewpoint, although by a novelist rather than historian, in 3000 pages.
Formisano, Ronald P. The Transformation of Political cCulture: Massachusetts Parties, 1790s-1840s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. 496 p. : ill. ; Includes bibliographical references and index. argues the persistence of antipartyism despite modernization.
Frazier, Donald S. Blood & Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 1995. 361p. : ill., maps ; Includes bibliographical references (p. [336]-347) and index. blames the failure of the Confederate Territory of Arizona on the poor performance of Gen. Henry Sibley and the Texan soldiers.
Furgurson, Ernest B. Chancellorsville, 1863: the Souls of the Brave. New York: Knopf, 1992 405 p. is the best study of this battle since John Bigelow's 1910 classic.
Furgurson, Ernest B. Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 463 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gallagher, Gary W. Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. 298 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references, and index. this book by the author of The Confederate War (1997) defends Lee against the critiques of Connelly and Nolan, argues Lee was "the idol" of his soldiers and Jubal Early was importatn in creating the Lost Cause in memory
Gallagher, Gary, ed.,
Gaston, Paul M. The New South Creed; a Study in Southern Mythmaking. New York, Knopf, 1970. 298 p. 22 cm. Bibliography: p. [279]-298
Genovese, Eugene. Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism. New York : Oxford University Press, 1983 469 p. The most complete presentation of the thesis that the South was the pre-capitalist "bastard child of merchant capitalism" and was paternalistic toward slavery, as developed earlier in ROLL, JORDAN, ROLL (1974) 823 p. and restated recently in THE SLAVEHOLDERS' DILEMMA (1992) 116 p.
Gienapp, William. The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856. New York : Oxford University Press, 1987. 564 p.
Goldfield, David R. Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-347) and index.
Goodrich, Thomas. Bloody Dawn: the Story of the Lawrence Massacre. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991. 207 p.: ill.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-202) and index. is the best interpretation of William C. Quantrill and the young guerillas that Roger Lane MURDER IN AMERICA (1997) says were examples of the young violent males typical of the era.
Gossett, Thomas F. Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1985 484 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm Note Includes index Bibliography: p. 449-471
Gottfried , Bradley M. Kearny's Own: The History of the First New Jersey Brigade in the Civil War. Rutgers University Press, 2005. 301 p. about the only infantry brigade to fight the whole war as a cohesive unit, led by General Philip Kearny.
Gower, Herschel. Charles Dahlgren of Natchez: the Civil War and Dynastic Decline. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2002. 293 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Greenberg, Kenneth S. Honor & Slavery: lies, duels, noses, masks, dressing as a woman, gifts, strangers, humanitarianism, death, slave rebellions, the proslavery argument, baseball, hunting, and gambling in the Old South. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996. 176 p.: ill.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-169) and index.
Grimsley, Mark. The Hard Hand of War : Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995. 244 p. : ill., maps ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-239) and index. replaces "total war" with "harsh war" concept that argues Grant and Sherman did not use unrestrained force on civilians; the war was not the inevitable result of social and geographic and logistical forces, but the result of conscious policies by leaders such as Grant.
Hall, Martin H. Sibley's New Mexico Campaign. Austin TX: University of Texas Press, 1960. 366 p. illus., ports., maps., facsiims. 24 cm. Includes bibliography; a revision of the author's Ph.D. thesis "The Army of New Mexico : Sibley's campaign of 1862," Louisiana State University, 1957.
Hallock, Judith L. Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. 298 p. argues that Bragg, like most southern commanders, was incompetent.
Hanchett, William. The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. 303 p. Debunks the "junk" history of assasination theories of Otto Eisenshimel and others.
Harmetz, Aljean. On the Road to Tara: the Making of Gone with the Wind. New York : H.N. Abrams, 1996. 224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 219) and index.
Harrold, Stanley and John R. McKivigan, ed. Antislavery Violence: sectional, racial, and cultural conflict in antebellum America. University of Tennessee Press, 1999. 322 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-306) and index.
Harrold, Stanley. The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861. Lexington, KY : University of Kentucky Press, 1995. 245 p. : ill., map ; Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-236) and index. argues the need to view abolitionists such as Cassius Clay and Salmon P. Chase and Gamaliel Bailey as radicals, not "normal" for their times.
Harsh, Joseph L. Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the making of Southern strategy, 1861-1862. Kent State University Press, 1998. 278 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-265) and index.
Harwell, Richard, ed. Gone with the Wind as Book and Film. Columbia, S.C. University of South Carolina Press, 1983. 274 p. [22] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [254]-260.
Haydon, Frederick Stansbury. Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate armies, with a survey of military aeronautics prior to 1861. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1941. v. plates (part fold.) ports., facsims., diagrs. 24 cm. Note: "Awarded the Mrs. Simon Baruch university prize, 1940, offered by the United daughters of the Confederacy." Bibliographical foot-notes
Hearn, Chester G. Admiral David Dixon Porter: the Civil War years. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, 1996. 376 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-364) and index
Hearn, Chester G. Admiral David Glasgow Farragut: the Civil War years. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1998. 382 p. : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-371) and index
Hearn, Chester G. When the Devil Came Down to Dixie: Ben Butler in New Orleans. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1997. 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-251) and index
Hearn, Chester G. Gray Raiders of the Sea: how eight Confederate warships destroyed the Union's high seas commerce. Camden, ME: International Marine Pub., 1992. 320 p. focuses on 8 CSA raiders and is critical of Welles' emphasis on the coastal blockade and his neglect of the open sea
Heller, Charles E. Portrait of an Abolitionist: a Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809-1867. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996. 248 p. : ill. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-226) and index. was the lead pipe manufacturer from Bedford MA in the "Secret Six" and wanted returned the Sharps rifles taken from John Brown.
Hennessy, John J. Return to Bull Run: the Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. 607 p. is one of the best campaign histories.
Hicks, Brian, and Schuyler Kropf. Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine. New York : Ballantine Books, 2002. 301 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-287) and index.
Hinze, David C. and Karen Farnham. The Battle of Carthage: Border War in Southwest Missouri, July 5, 1861. Campbell, CA: Savas Publishing Co., 1997. 314 pp. Notes, maps, bibliography, author interview.
Hollandsworth, James G. An Absolute Massacre: the New Orleans race riot of July 30, 1866. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. 168 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm. NoteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [157]-163) and index.
Holzer, Harold, Gabor S. Boritt, and Mark E. Neely, Jr. The Lincoln image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print. New York: Scribner Press, 1984 233 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Note: Based on an exhibit of engravings and lithographs at Gettysburg College. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Holzer, Harold. Lincoln at Cooper Union: the Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Horigan, Michael. Elmira: Death Camp of the North. Stackpole Books. 2002.
Horton, James Oliver and Lois E. Horton. Slavery and the Making of America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 254 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Horwitz, Tony. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War. New York : Pantheon Books, 1998. 406 p. : 1 map ; 25 cm Note Includes index
Hughes, Nathaniel C. The Battle of Belmont: Grant strikes South. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1991. 310 p. tells the story of one of Grant's early attempts at river war.
Hughes, Nathaniel C. and Gordon D. Whitney. Jefferson Davis in Blue: the Life of Sherman's Relentless Warrior. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. 475 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. tries to explain the complex behavior of Jefferson Columbus Davis who murdered his former commanding officer in 1862 and abandoned black refugees at Ebenezer Creek who were killed by Confederate cavalry in 1864.
Jacob, Kathryn Allamong. Testament to Union: Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 192 p. : ill. ; photographs by Edwin Harlan Remsberg; Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-188) and index
Jeffrey, Julie Roy. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: ordinary women in the antislavery movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 311 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-295) and index.
Johnson, Curt and Richard C. Anderson, Jr. Artillery Hell: The Employment of Artillery at Antietam. Texas A&M University Press, 1993 and pap. 152 p. : ill., map ; uses unpublished reports to examine the effect of artillery on America's bloodiest day.
Johnson, Timothy D. Winfield Scott: the Quest for Military Glory. University Press of Kansas, 1998. 315 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm Series Modern war studies Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-306) and index. is a well-researched biography of the proponent of professionalism and training after 1812 and the Anaconda Plan in 1861.
Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black women, work, and the family from slavery to the present. New York : Basic Books, 1985. 432 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.: Includes index and Bibliography: p. 406-415
Jordan, David M. "Happiness is not my companion" : the life of General G.K. Warren. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2001. 401 p. : ill., plans ; 25 cm. NoteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 377-387) and index.
Jordan, Winthrop D. Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1993. 391 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index..
Josephy, Alvin M. The Civil War in the American West. New York: Knopf, 1961, and Random House, 1991. 448 p., maps, includes bibliographical references (p. 415-437) and index.
Josephy, Alvin M., Jr., The Civil War in the American West. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1991. 448 p. emphasizes the importance of this neglected theater of the war, especially the Indian war.
Joslyn, Mauriel Phillips, ed. A Meteor Shining Brightly: Essays on Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne. Milledgeville, Georgia: Terrell House Publishing, 1997. 299 pp. Notes, index. "But the real tragedy goes far beyond Cleburne's failure to gain the promotion many felt he deserved and his untimely death. Cleburne gave his life in a useless battle, following orders he knew to be wrongheaded, from a commander whose competence he questioned, dying for a cause that he never fully understood. "
Joslyn, Mauriel. Immortal Captives: the Story of 600 Confederate Officers and the United States Prisoner of War Policy. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Pub. Co., 1996. 344 p.: ill.; Includes bibliographical references and index. follows the "harsh war" interpretation like Marvel's ANDERSONVILLE (1994), emphasizing suffering a mistreatment of the 600 CSA prisoners chosen for the policy of retaliation by the North
Keneally, Thomas. American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2002. 397 p. ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-380) and index.
Kennett, Lee B. Sherman: A Soldier's Life. HarperCollins, 2001. 448 p.
Kenny, Kevin. Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. 336 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-328) and index repudiates the myth of marauding Irish killers
Kerby, Robert Lee. The Confederate invasion of New Mexico and Arizona, 1861-1862. Tucson, Ariz., Westernlore Press, 1958, 1981. 59 p. illus., ports., maps, facsims. 21 cm, Bibliography: p. 147-149. Series: Great West and Indian series, 13.
Klement, Frank L. Dark Lanterns: secret political societies, conspiracies, and treason trials in the Civil War. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1984. 263 p. : ill. ; Includes index. Bibliography: p. 245-253.
Krick, Robert K., Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1990. 472 p. s a good, detailed micro-history of a battle.
Laderman, Gary. The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1996. 227 p. : ill. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-218) and index. describes how embalmers followed the armies.
Lambert, Gavin. GWTW; the Making of Gone with the Wind. Boston: Little, Brown,1973. 238 p. illus. 22 cm. Bibliography: p. [227]-230. "An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
Lang, Robert, ed. The Birth of a Nation: D.W. Griffith, Director. Rutgers University Press, 1994. 310 p.: ill.; filmography (p. 295-304); bibliographical references (p. 305-310). Series: Rutgers films in print ; v. 21. has reviews and newspaper accounts up to 1990s, similar to Fred Silva in Focus on The Birth of a Nation (1971)
Larabee, Ann. The Dynamite Fiend: the Chilling Tale of a Confederate Spy, Con Artist, and Mass Murderer. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 234 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index; about Confederate blockade runner Alexander Keith, the Scottish-Canadian bomber who killed 81 on a German ship in 1875.
Lash, Jeffrey. Destroyer of the Iron Horse: General Joseph E. Johnston and confederate rail transport, 1861-1865. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1991. 228 p. is more critical than most historians of Lee's West Point classmate Joseph Johnston.
Leech, Margaret. Reveille in Washington. 2nd ed. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1941, 1969, 1991. 483 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-466) and index. a classic Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War in Washington DC, 1860-1865.
Leonard, Elizabeth D. Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994. 308 p. : ill. ; Includes bibliographical references and index. examines nurse Sophronia Bucklin, hospital diet kitchen pioneer Annie Wittenmeyer, trousered surgeon Mary Walker; avoids "angel of mercy" interpretation.
Leonard, Elizabeth D. All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. 368 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Leslie, Kent Anderson. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995. 225 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-211) and index. The book is the biography of the daughter of a white planter and an unconsenting slave in antebellum Georgia, born 1849, died 1893. "Amanda America Dickson confounded and ultimately triumphed over the harsh racial strictures that ordered her world. Legally a slave well into her adolescence, Dickson inherited most of her father's half-million-dollar estate after his death in 1885, making her the largest landowner in her county and the wealthiest black woman in the post-Civil War South."
Levy, Andrew. The First Emancipator: the Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves. New York: Random House, 2005. 310 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. In 1791 Robert Carter III freed his 500 slaves in Virginia, the largest single emancipation before the Civil War.
Liddell Hart, Basil. Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1929. 456 p. front. (port.) maps (part fold.) 25 cm. Sources: p. 432-441. "a controversial look at America's most misunderstood warmaker. For Liddell Hart, the slugfest of Grant against Lee, not Sherman's marches, was the real tragedy of war, while the presence of overwhelming force, brought to the very hearth of the enemy, in the end saves Ñ not takes Ñ lives."
Lowry, Thomas P. The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War. 1994 240 P. confirms the Victorian morality of most soldiers and rarity of homosexuality.
Mabee, Carleton, and Susan Mabee Newhouse. Lion of the South: General Thomas C. Hindman. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1993. 319 p.: ill., maps; Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-263) and index. is the study of a radical southern politician-general who was the first to advocate using slaves in the CSA army in Dec. 1863, not Gen. Patrick Cleburne in Jan. 1864.
Mabee, Carleton, and Susan Mabee Newhouse. Sojourner Truth--Slave, Prophet, Legend. New York: New York University Press, 1993. 293 p.: ill.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-281) and index. is the first authoritative study of the black evangelical abolitionist who did not say "Ar'n't I a Woman?" in 1851 Akron.
MacKay, James A. Allan Pinkerton: The First Private Eye. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997. 256 p.
Mahar, William J. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 444 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Series:: Music in American life. Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-430) and index.
Mahin, Dean B. The Blessed Place of Freedom: Europeans in Civil War America. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2002. 299 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mahin, Dean B. One War at a Time: the International Dimensions of the American Civil War. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1999. 343 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Marszalek, John F. Commander of all Lincoln's Armies: a Life of General Henry W. Halleck. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 324 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Marszalek, John F. Sherman: a Soldier's Passion for Order. New York: Free Press, 1993. ill.; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 587-611) and index. is the best biography of the northern general whose life was a quest for order.
Marvel, William. The Alabama & the Kearsarge : the sailor's Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. 337 p. : ill., maps ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-323) and index. is about voyage of the northern ship Kearsarge and its victory over the southern raider Alabama off Cherbourg, the only battle between two steam sloops in the war.
Marvel, William. Andersonville: the Last Depot. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 337 p.: ill., map; Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-321) and index.
McAfee, Ward M. Religion, Race, and Reconstruction: the public school in the politics of the 1870s. State University of New York Press, 1998 317 p. ; 24 cm Series SUNY series, religion and American public life Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-304) and index "Up until 1870, Reconstruction had been about race. After that date, it was about religion as well."
McCurry, Stephanie. Masters of Small Worlds: yeoman households, gender relations, and the political culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country New York Oxford University Press, 1995. 320 p.: map; Includes bibliographical references and index. rejects the idea of "herrenvolk democracy" of white men and describes a "republican democracy" of great inequality between planters and yeomen.
McDonough, James L. War in Kentucky : from Shiloh to Perryville.. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1994. 386 p. : ill., maps ; Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-372) and index. explains the failure of Bragg to take Kentucky, a key goal of the CSA strategy in the west.
McFeely, William. Frederick Douglass. New York: Norton, 1991. 465 p. Tries to explain the complexity of the whole man, emphasizing the "social geography of the multipositional self".
McMurry, Richard. Two Great Rebel Armies : an essay in Confederate military history Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1989. 204 p. Challenges Thomas Connelly's MARBLE MAN (1977)
McPherson, James M. For Cause and Comrades: why men fought in the Civil War. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. 237 p. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-232) and index. emphasizes soldiers fought for a "cause" such as religion, country, family, idealism and not for the pragmatic reasons described by Bell Wiley; but the sample of 562 northerners and 374 southerners is biased toward the articulate.
McPherson, James M. What They Fought For, 1861-1865. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1994. 88 p. ; Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-85) and index. argues they fought for ideological reasons (also argued by Charles Royster and Joseph Glatthaar and Reid Mitchell), but the sample of 562 northerners and 374 southerners is biased toward the articulate.
McPherson, James M. Drawn with the Sword: reflections on the American Civil War. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. 258 p. are essays from 1983-1995, emphasizing leadership and external causes for the CSA defeat rather than "lack of will" and inevitability.
McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom: the Civil War Era. New York : Oxford University Press, 1988, 904 p. Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative that emphasizes slavery, idealism, contingency.
Miller, Richard F. Harvard's Civil War: a History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2005. 530 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mindell, David A. War, Technology, and Experience Aboard the USS Monitor. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 187 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references and index. this book won the Sally Hacker Prize from SHOT.
Mitchell, Reid. The Vacant Chair: the Northern Soldier Leaves Home. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 201 p.: ill.; Includes bibliographical references and index. focuses on the northern soldier more closely than his CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS (1988) that looked at north and south.
Molt, Cynthia Marylee; with a foreword by Butterfly McQueen.. Gone with the Wind on Film: a Complete Reference. Jefferson NC: McFarland & Co., 1990. 512 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references.
Mulkern, John. The Know-Nothing Party in Massachusetts : the rise and fall of a people's movement. Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1990. 236 p. emphasizes the real influence of the short-lived party and antipartyism despite modernization, as does Ronald Formisano The transformation of political culture: Massachusetts parties, 1790s-1840s (1983)
Mushkat, Jerome. Fernando Wood: a Political Biography. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1990. 323 p. is a balanced treatment of the prototype corrupt city boss of New York.
Neal, Diane, and Thomas W. Kremm. Lion of the South: General Thomas C. Hindman. 1993 319 p. is the study of a radical southern politician-general who was the first to advocate using slaves in the CSA army in Dec. 1863, not Gen. Patrick Cleburne in Jan. 1864.
Niven, John. Salmon P. Chase: a Biography. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. 546 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-528) and index. is the best biography of the abolitionist treasury secretary and chief justice, by the editor of the Chase papers.
Noe, Kenneth W. Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle. University Press of Kentucky, 2001. 512 p.
Nolan, Alan T. Lee Considered : General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1991. 231 p. is a refinement of Thomas Connelly's critique of Lee.
O'Brien, Sean Michael. Mobile, 1865: Last Stand of the Confederacy. Praeger, 2001. 304 p.
O'Connor, Thomas H. Civil War Boston: home front and battlefield. Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1997. 313 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-296) and index
Oakes, James. Slavery and Freedom : an Interpretation of the Old South. New York : Norton, 1990, 1998. 246 p. Along with Oakes' earlier THE RULING RACE (1982) 307 p., his books are the most important refutation of the Genovese thesis.
Oates, Stephen B. The Approaching Fury, Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861. New York: HarperCollins, 1997. 495 p. a series of subjective monologues, spoken in the first person by 13 individuals who lived during the period and significantly influenced the course of events.
Oates, Stephen B. To Purge This Land With Blood: a Biography of John Brown. Amherst : University of Mass. Press, 1984. 434 p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; Bibliography: p. 417-420.
Oates, Stephen B. Abraham Lincoln, the Man behind the Myths. New York: Harper & Row, 1984. 24 p. and his biography WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE: THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1977) are two of the best books on Lincoln.
Oates, Stephen B. With Malice Toward None: the Life of Abraham Lincoln. New York : Harper & Row, 1977. 492 p. is the best biography of Lincoln.
Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth : a life, a symbol. New York : W.W. Norton, 1996. 370 p. : ill. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-343) and index. emphasizes her Christian mysticism.
Palladino, Grace. Another Civil War: labor, capital, and the state in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-68. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1990. 195 p. is a social history emphasizing class consciousness of the miners rather than the war's impact.
Paludan, Philip S.. "A People's Contest" : the Union and Civil War, 1861-1865. New York : Harper & Row, 1988. 486 p. A modern social history that emphasizes communities and common people rather than nation and politicians.
Paludan, Phillip S. The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 1994. 384 p. ; American presidency series. Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-378) and index. is the best one-volume biography that balances Lincoln's successes with his mistakes
Parrish, William E. Frank Blair: Lincoln's Conservative. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1998. 318 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-310) and index
Perry, Mark. Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and the American Civil War. New York: Viking, 1997. 500 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-477) and index focuses on the 2 soldiers who fought each other at Little Round Top on the second day at Gettysburg
Peskin, Allan. Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2003. 328 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. biography of "The Father of the U.S. Military"
Pfanz, Donald. Richard S. Ewell: a soldier's life. University of North Carolina Press, 1998 655 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm Series Civil War America Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 615-640) and index is a good biography of "Old Baldy" who failed to attack on the CSA left at Gettysburg.
Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg: The First Day. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2001. 528 p.
Phillips, Kevin P. The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America. New York : Basic Books, 1999. 707 p. : maps ; 25 cm.: Includes bibliographical references (p. 669-682) and index.
Piston, William. Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and his place in southern history. Athens : University of Georgia Press, 1987. 252 p. is one of the best revisionist studies.
Power, J. Tracy. Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 463 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index.
Priest, John M. Before Antietam: the Battle for South Mountain. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Pub. Co., 1992. 433 p.: ill., maps; Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-417) and index.
Prokopowicz, Gerald J. All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio,1861-1862. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2001. 265 p.
Pullen, John J. Joshua Chamberlain: A Hero's Life and Legacy. Stackpole Books, 1999. 256 p.
Pyron, Darden A., ed. Recasting: "Gone with the Wind" in American Culture. Miami: University Presses of Florida, 1983. 232 p. ; 23 cm. Bibliography: p. 203-224 and index.
Rable, George. Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1989. 391 p. Best on southern women since Bell Wiley and a good example of modern social history.
Rafuse, Ethan Sepp. McClellan's War: the Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 525 p. : ill., maps ; cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reardon, Carol. Pickett's Charge in history and memory. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 285 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm Series Civil War America Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-274) and index
Remini, Robert. Daniel Webster: The Man and His Times. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997. 796 pp., Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index.
Renehan, Edward. The Secret Six: the true tale of the men who conspired with John Brown. New York: Crown Publishers, 1995. 308 p.: ill.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-302) and index. is well-told, but lacks an explanation of context found in Jeffrey Rossbach AMBIVALENT CONSPIRATORS (1982).
Reston, James. Sherman's March and Vietnam. New York : Macmillan, 1984. 323 p. is an interesting analysis of Sherman using comparative history.
Reynolds, David S. John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. New York: Knopf, 2005. 578 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rhea, Gordon C. Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26 - June 3, 1864. Louisiana State University Press. September 2002.
Roarke, James and Michael Johnson. Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South. 1990. 422 p. about the black Ellison family of Sumter, South Carolina.
Roberts, William H. USS New Ironsides in the Civil War. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, 1999. 188 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-181) and index.
Robertson, James I, Jr. Stonewall Jackson: the Man, the Soldier, the Legend. New York : Macmillan, 1997. 950 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 763-924) and index.. argues he was not eccentric nor suck lemons, but religious and disciplined, replaces Frank Vandiver's MIGHTY STONEWALL (1957) as the standard biography, but is a traditional "dead white male" account.
Rose, Anne. Victorian America and the Civil War. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992. 304 p.
Rose, Willie Lee Rehersal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment. 1964. 442 p. A classic local study of a key aspect of Reconstruction.
Rosenberg, Jonathan. How Far the Promised Land? : World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rossbach, Jeffery S. Ambivalent Conspirators : John Brown, the secret six, and a theory of slave violence. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. 298 p. ; Includes index. Bibliography: p. [275]-287. is good on the radicalism of the abolitionists.
Rothman, Adam. Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 296 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Royster, Charles. The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans. New York : Knopf, 1991. 523 p.
Sauers, Richard Allen. Gettysburg: the Meade-Sickles Controversy. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2003. 207 p., [4] p. of plates : maps, plans, ports. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Savage, Kirk. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: race, war, and monument in nineteenth-century America. Princeton University Press, 1997. 270 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-257) and index.
Schecter, Barnet. The Devil's Own Work: the Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America. New York: Walker & Company, 2005. 320 p.
Schneller, Robert John. A Quest for Glory: a biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1996. 452 p. : ill., maps ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-436) and index. about the head of the Bureau of Ordnance that developed systematic R&D; commander of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron after June 1863; failed to capture Charleston and opposed rifled guns.
Schott, Thomas Edwin Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, a biography. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. 552 p., [8] p. of plates: ill.; Southern biography series. Includes index and Bibliography: p. [521]-537.
Sears, Stephen W. To the Gates of Richmond: the Peninsula Campaign. New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1992. 468 p. is his third study of George McClellan, by the same author of LANDSCAPE TURNED RED (1983) 431 p. about the battle of Antietam.
Shackelford, George Green. George Wythe Randolph and the Confederate elite Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988. 235 p.: ill.; Includes index.Bibliography: p. 215-225.
Shannon, Fred A. The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865. Cleveland: A.H. Clark, 1928.
Shaw, David W. Sea Wolf of the Confederacy: the Daring Civil War Raids of Naval Lt. Charles W. Read. New York : Free Press, 2004. 235 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., plans, ports. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-223) and index.
Shea, William L. and Earl J. Hess. Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. ill., maps; Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-409) and index. praises Union Gen. Samuel Curtis for his 1862 victory in Ky.
Shenk, Joshua W. Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled his Greatness. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005. 350 p.
Ê Simpson, Brooks D. The Reconstruction Presidents. University Press of Kansas, 1998. 276 p. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-259) and index covers the policies of the moderate pragmatist Lincoln, the white supremacist Johnson, the weak Grant, and lukewarm Hayes
Simpson, Lewis. Mind and the American Civil War : a meditation on lost causes. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1989. 110 p. Short, prize-winning study by a literary scholar that argues that two nationalisms met defeat in the Civil War: southern and New England.
Singer, Jane. The Confederate Dirty War: Arson, Bombings, Assassination and Plots for Chemical and Germ Attacks on the Union. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2005. 174 p. : ill., ports., facsim ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-168) and index.
Smith, Jean Edward. Grant. Simon & Schuster, 2001. 781 p.
Smith, Timothy B. Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg. New York: Savas Beatie, 2004. 528 p. ; index and bibliography. about Grant's defeat of Pemberton in the Vicksburg campaign of 1863.
Smith, Timothy Lawrence. Revivalism and Social Reform: American Protestantism on the eve of the Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. 269 p. ; 20 cm. Note: Originally published in 1957 by Abingdon Press, New York, under title: Revivalism and social reform in mid-nineteenth-century America. Includes index, Bibliography: p. 263-264.
Stampp, Kenneth M. America in 1857: a Nation on the Brink. New York : Oxford University Press, 1990. 388 p.: ports. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-376) and index.
Stampp, Kenneth. The Peculiar Institution : slavery in the ante-bellum South. New York : Vintage, 1956. 435 p. The classic study of slavery that refutes Phillips' "magnolia and moonshine" thesis.
Stuckey, Sterling. Slave Culture : nationalist theory and the foundations of Black America. New York : Oxford University Press, 1987. 425 p. ; Includes index. Bibliography: p. 359-413.
Summers, Mark W. The Press Gang : newspapers and politics, 1865-1878. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 405 p. : ill. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-393) and index.
Summers, Mark W. The Era of Good Stealings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 390 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 309-377) and index.
Symonds, Craig L. Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997.
Tap, Bruce. Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War. University Press of Kansas, 1998. 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Series Modern war studies Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-301) and index
Taylor, Helen. Scarlett's Women: Gone with the Wind and its Female Fans. London Virago, 1989. 275 p. ; 20 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Taylor, John Confederate Raider : Raphael Semmes of the Alabama. Washington : Brassey's Inc., 1994. 317 p.
Thomas, Emory. The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1971. 150 p.
Toplin, Robert Brent, ed. Ken Burns's The Civil War: historians respond. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. 197 p. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-194) is only mildly critical.
Trudeau, Noah Andre. Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage. New York : HarperCollins, 2002. 694 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [643]-678) and index.
Trulock, Alice R. In the Hands of Providence : Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1992. 569 p.
Tunnell, Ted. Edge of the Sword: the Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2001. 326 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. NoteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [308]-318) and index.
Vandiver, Frank E., Blood Brothers: a short history of the Civil War. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1992.
Vertrees, Alan David. Selznick's Vision: Gone with the Wind and Hollywood Filmmaking. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1997. 242 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-231) and index. Texas film studies series.
Walker, Marianne. Margaret Mitchell & John Marsh: the Love Story behind Gone with the Wind. Atlanta, Ga.: Peachtree, 1993. 554 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-544) and index.
Ward, Andrew. River Run Red: the Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War. New York: Viking, 2005. 531 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Watkins, Sam. Co. Aytch. 1882. 255 P. is a classic first-person memoir by a Confederate soldier who was one of 65 survivors of the 1st Tennessee regiment that lost 3200 men during its battles in the war, mostly in the West.
Waugh, John C. The Class of 1846: from West Point to Appomattox : Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and their brothers. New York : Warner Books, 1994. 635 p. : ill. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 586-606) and index. including Gerge Derby.
Weisenburger, Steven. Modern Medea: a Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. 352 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-340) and index.
Weitz, Mark. A Higher Duty: Desertion Among Georgia Troops During the Civil War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. 227 p., [6] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Werlich, David. Admiral of the Amazon : John Randolph Tucker, his Confederate Colleagues, and Peru. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1990. 353 p. The first modern biography of Tucker emphasizing his activities after the war.
Wert, Jeffrey. Mosby's Rangers. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1990. 384 p. is a balanced study of why guerillas like Mosby succeeded at times but ultimately failed to shape the outcome of the war.
Wert, Jeffry D. The Sword of Lincoln: the Army of the Potomac. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005. 559 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Wert, Jeffry D. General James Longstreet : the Confederacy's most controversial soldier: a biography. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1993. 527 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-511) and index. follows the revisionist interpretation of William Piston but focuses on military campaigns.
Wert, Jeffry D. Gettysburg, Day Three. Simon & Schuster, 2001. 320 p.
Wiley, Bell. Confederate Women. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1975. 204 p. Focuses on Mary Chestnut, Virginia Clay, Varina Davis.
Wilkinson, Warren. A Scythe of Fire: A Civil War Story of the Eighth Georgia Infantry Regiment. Morrow, William & Co. March 2002.
Williams, Eric E., with a new introduction by Colin A. Palmer. Capitalism & Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 285 p. ; 22 cm. : Originally published: 1944. Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-270) and index. "the most influential and the most contentious book written on slavery in the last half century" that argues that the slave trade made possible capital that caused the industrial revolution.
Wills, Brian S. A Battle from the Start : the life of Nathan Bedford Forrest New York : HarperCollins, 1992. 457 p. is the best biography of one of the most controversial southerners.
Wills, Garry. Lincoln at Gettysburg : the Words that Remade America. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1992. 317 p. overstates the "swindle" thesis and neglects Lincoln's consistent conservatism.
Wilson, Clyde. Carolina Cavalier: The Life and Mind of James Johnston Pettigrew. 1990. 303 p. Well-written biography of a Confederate general at Gettysburg.
Wilson, Dennis K. Justice Under Pressure : the Saint Albans raid and its aftermath. Lanham : University Press of America, 1992. 203 p. emphasizes the diplomacy surrounding the 1864 Confederate raid from Canada into Vermont.
Winik, Jay. April 1865: The Month That Saved America. New York: HarperCollins, 2001. 461 p. ill., maps ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-448) and index.
Wise, Stephen R. Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1994. 312 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-297) and index. explains the long and failed campaign of the North, especially by Gen. Quincy Gillmore and Adm. Dahlgren in 1863, in which the assault on Ft. Wagner by the black 54th was a dramatic but small part.
Wittenberg, Eric J. Little Phil: a Reassessment of the Civil War Leadership of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2002. 250 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-241) and index.
Wittenberg, Eric J. The Union Cavalry Comes of Age: Hartwood Church to Brandy Station, 1863. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2003. 390 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Woodworth, Steven E. Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861Ð1865. New York: Knopf, 2005. 784 p. ; index and bibliography.
Woodworth, Steven E. Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 263 pp. Maps, notes, engravings, and index. defends Bragg against the attacks by Thomas Connelly and blames insubordination of his officers Leonidas Polk, D.H. Hill, William Hardee, Thomas Hindman, John Breckinridge, and James Longstreet.
Zeller, Bob. The Blue and Gray in Black and White: a History of Civil War Photography. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005. 224 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-213) and index.