Suggested Reading for Further Study

Causes behind the Civil War:

Gallagher, Gary. The Union War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.

Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

McPherson, James M. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Simpson, Brooke D., Stephen W. Sears, and Aaron Charles Sheehan-Dean, eds. The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It. New York: The Library of America, 2011.

Slavery, Abolition, and Race:

Andrews, William L., and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds., Slave Narratives. New York: The Library of America, 2000.

Blight, David, ed. A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Books, 2007.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed. Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies. New York: The Library of America, 1994.

Horton, James Oliver, and Lois E. Horton. Slavery and the Making of America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Edited by L. Maria Child. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Oakes, James. The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007.

Women in the War and on the Home Front:

Blanton, DeAnne, and Lauren M. Cook. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.

Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

Giesberg, Judith Ann. Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Military History:

Bearss, Edwin C. Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2006.

Groom, Winston. Shiloh, 1862. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2012.

Hyslop, Stephen. Atlas of the Civil War: A Complete Guide to the Tactics and Terrain of Battle. Edited by Neil Kagan. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2009.

Keegan, John. The American Civil War: A Military History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

McFeely, Mary Drake, and William S. McFeely, eds. Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters. New York: The Library of America, 1990.

Lincoln and His Legacy:

Boritt, Gabor S. The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Carwardine, Richard. Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Donald, David Herbert, and Harold Holzer. Lincoln in the Times: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, as Originally Reported in the New York Times. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.

Fehrenbacher, Don E., ed. Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, New York: The Library of America, 1989.

Foner, Eric. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Guelzo, Allen C. Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999.

Holzer, Harold, ed. The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now. New York: The Library of America, 2009.

Lehrman, Lewis. Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point: Getting Right with the Declaration of Independence. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2008.

McPherson, James M. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. New York: Penguin Press, 2008.

Neely, Mark E., Jr. The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Swanson, James L. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer. New York: Harper Perennial, 2007.

Williams, Frank J. Judging Lincoln. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.

Wilson, Douglas L. Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

General Overview:

Gallagher, Gary, Stephen D. Engle, Joseph T. Glatthar, and Robert K. Krick. The American Civil War: This Mighty Scourge of War. Oxford: Osprey, 2003.

McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Sears, Stephen W., ed. The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It. New York: The Library of America, 2012.