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1 Civil War Bibliography Military and General History Cook, Robert. Civil Civil War Bibliography Military and General History Cook, Robert. Civil War America: Making a Nation 1848-1877. 2003. Eicher, David J., The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War (2001) Goss, Thomas J. The War within the Union High Command: Politics and Generalship during the Civil War. 2003. Hess, Earl J. The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth. 2008. McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. 1989. McPherson, James. Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction. 2000. Charles Royster. Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the American Civil War (1992) Williams, T. Harry. Lincoln and His Generals (1967). Gallagher, Gary W. Lee & His Army in Confederate History 2001 Griffith, Paddy. Battle Tactics of the Civil War, 1989 Turner, George Edgar. Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War (1953) Causes of the War and the Secession Movement Anbinder, Tyler. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s (1992) Ashworth, John. Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. (1995) Ayers, Edward L. What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History. 2005. Freehling, William. The Road to Disunion: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861 (2007). Holt, Michael F. The Political Crisis of the 1850s. (1978) Jaffa, Harry. New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000). 1 Link, William A. Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. 2003. Majewski, John. A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War (2000) Potter, David The Impending Crisis 1848-1861. (1976) Richards, Leonard L. The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War 2007. Silbey, Joel H. Storm Over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War (2005) Stampp, Kenneth M. America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink (1990) Walther, Eric. The Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s. 2004. International affairs and comparative perspectives Crook, D. P. Diplomacy During the American Civil War. New York: Wiley, 1975. Ferris, Norman B. Desperate Diplomacy: William H. Seward's Foreign Policy, 1861. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976. Foner, Eric. Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy. 2007. Hauptmann, Laurence. Between Two Fires: American Indians in the Civil War (1995) Hubbard, Charles M. The Burden of Confederate Diplomacy (1998) Jones, Howard. Union in Peril: The Crisis over British Intervention in the Civil War (1992) Jones, Howard. Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: the Union and slavery in the diplomacy of the Civil War (1999) Kolchin, Peter A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective (2003) Kolchin, Peter, Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (1987) Levine, Bruce. Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War (1992). Owsley, Frank Lawrence. King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign relations of the Confederate States of America (1931) 2 Military leaders and soldiers Ashdown, Paul and Caudill, Edward. The Myth of Nathan Bedford Forrest. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. Bennett, Michael J. Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War. 2004. Carmichael, Peter S., ed. Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee. Louisiana State U. Press, 2004. Catton, Bruce. Grant Takes Command, 1968 Fellman, Michael. The Making of Robert E. Lee. (2000) Glatthaar, Joseph T. and Aaron Charles Sheehan. The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers (2006) Hess, Earl J. The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat (1997) Linderman, Gerald. Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War (1987). Manning, Chandra. What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War. 2007. McFeely, William S. Grant: A Biography (1981) McPherson, James. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1998) Nosworthy, Brent. Roll Call to Destiny: The Soldier's Eye View of Civil War Battles. 2008. Rafuse, Ethan S. McClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union. 2005. Reid, Brian Holden. Robert E. Lee: Icon for a Nation. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. Robertson, James. Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend (1997) Sanders, Charles W., Jr. While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War. 2005. Wert, Jeffry D. General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier (1994) Weitz, Mark A. More Damning than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army. 2005. Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy (1962) Wiley, Bell Irvin. Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union (1952) 3 Northern Wartime Politics and Economy Bensel, Richard. Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 (1991) Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War (1991). Gienapp, William. The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856 (1987) Green, Michael S. Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party during the Civil War. 2004. Onuf, Nicholas and Onuf, Peter. Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War. 2006. Paludan, Philip S. A People's Contest: The Union and Civil War 1861-1865 (1996). Richardson, Heather Cox. The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War (1997) Wilson, Mark. The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865. 2006. Southern Wartime Politics and Economy Davis, William C. Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour (1991). DeRosa, Marshall. Confederate Constitution of 1861: An Inquiry into American Constitutionalism (1991). Eaton, Clement. A History of the Southern Confederacy, 1954. Freehling, William W. South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War (2001). Neely, Mark E., Jr., Confederate Bastille: Jefferson Davis and Civil Liberties, 1993. Neely, Mark E. Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism (1999) Rable, George C., The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics, 1994. Rubin, Anne Sarah. A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868. 2005. Thomas, Emory M. The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience, 1992. 4 5 Lincoln Belz, Herman. Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era, (1998) Bennett, Lerone, Jr. Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream (2000). Carnahan, Burrus M.. Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War. 2007. Carwardine, Richard. Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power (2003) Gienapp William. Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America: A Biography (2002) Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005) Guelzo, Allen C. Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (1999) McPherson, James M. Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution (1992) Neely, Mark E. Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (1991). Neely, Mark E. The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America (1993) Randall, James G. Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln (1926) African Americans, Slavery, and Abolitionism Berlin, Ira Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South (1974) Cimprich, John. Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory. 2005. Deyle, Steven. Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life. 2005. Fehrenbacher, Don. The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (1978) Finkelman, Paul, ed., Defending Slavery. 2003. Glatthaar, Joseph T. Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers (2000) Glatthaar, Joseph T. The Civil War's Black Soldiers (1996) Hahn, Steven. A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (2003) 6 Huston, James L. Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War. (2003) Levine, Bruce. Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War. (2005). Maltz, Earl M. Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery_. 2007. McInerney, David. Fortunate Heirs of Freedom: Abolition and Republican Thought (1994) Morrison, Michael. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War (1997) Oakes, James. The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Antislavery. 2007. Reynolds, David. John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded the Civil Rights Movement (2006) Richards, Leonard, Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 (2000) Robinson, Armstead L. Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865. 2005. Russo, Peggy A. and Finkelman, Paul, eds. Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown. 2005. Siddali, Silvana R. From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861-1862 (2005). Soodalter, Ron. Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader. 2007. Stewart, James Brewer. Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery. 1996. Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery. 1971. Women, family, gender Berry, Stephen W., II. All that Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South. 2003. Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, 1996. Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. 2008. 7 Gardner, Sarah E. Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861- 1937. 2004. Jeffrey, Julie Roy. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. 1998. Marten, James. Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front. 2004. Mitchell, Reid. Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home (1993) Rable, George C.
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