FURTHER READING
- Antebellum Political Culture
- Antebellum Southern Culture
- Lincoln's Presidency
- Ideological & Political Basis of Secession
- Common Soldiers
- Foreign Policy & European Responses to the Civil War
- Civil War in Nineteenth Century Comparative Perspective
- Politics in the Confederacy
- The Confederate Homefront
- Medical Treatment & Disease
- Religion During the Civil War
- Northern Homefront & Women Volunteers
- Wartime Politics in the North
- Civil War's Effects on American Nationalism
- Popular Culture During the Civil War
- Military History of the Civil War
- Desertion & Guerilla War
- The End of Slavery
- Reconstruction
- Memory of the Civil War
- Civil War Novels
- Civil War on Film
Antebellum Political Culture
Tyler G. Anbinder, Nativism & Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s (1990).
Jean Baker, Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1983).
William L. Barney, The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1869 (2000).
Richard J. Carwardine, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America (1993).
Robin L. Einhorn, American Taxation, American Slavery (2006)
Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology Of The Republican Party Before the Civil War (1970).
Ronald P. Formisano, The Birth of Mass Political Parties: Michigan, 1827–1861 (Princeton, N.J., 1971)
William E. Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856 (1987).
Susan-Mary Grant, North Over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era (2000)
Michael Holt, The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (1999).
James L. Huston, Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War (2003).
Allen Nevins, Ordeal of the Union, vol. 2, The Fruits of Manifest Destiny, 1847-1852 and v. 3 A House Divided, 1847-57, (1947-1971).
David Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 (1976).
Joel H. Silbey, The Partisan Imperative: The Dynamics of American Politics Before the Civil War (1995).
Elizabeth R. Varon, We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (1998).
Eric H. Walther, The Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s (2004).
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Antebellum Southern Culture
John B. Boles, ed., Masters & Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, 1784-1870 (1988).
Victoria E. Bynum, Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Political Control in the Old South (1990).
Catherine Clinton, The Plantation Mistress: Women's World in the Old South (1982).
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (1988).
Kenneth S. Greenberg, Honor and 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 (1996).
Martha Hodes, White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the 19th-Century South (1997).
Walter Johnson, Soul By Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (1999).
Suzanne Lebsock, The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 (1984).
James Oakes, Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South (New York, 1990).
Brenda Stevenson, Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (1996).
Steven M. Stowe, Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters (1987).
William R. Taylor, Cavalier and Yankee: The Old South and American Character (1961).
Bertram Wyatt Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (1982).
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Lincoln's Presidency
The literature on Lincoln is vast. Begin with William E. Gienapp, Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America: A Biography (2002) or
Robert W. Johannsen, The Frontier, the Union and Stephen A. Douglas (1989) and consult footnotes for further sources. I've just listed a few additional sources here
Brian Dirck, Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865 (2001)
David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (1995) [A great read: won the Pulitzer Prize for History]
Daniel Farber, Lincoln's Constitution (2003)
George P. Fletcher, Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy (2001).
Mark E. Neely, The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America (1993).
John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, and Dawn Vogel, eds., Lincoln Revisited: New
Insights from the Lincoln Forum (New York, 2007).
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Ideological & Political Basis of Secession
Jonathan M. Atkins, Parties, Politics and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861 (1997).
Edward Ayers, What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History (2003)
Robert B. Bonner, "Roundhead Cavaliers? The Context and Limits of a Confederate Racial Project," Civil War History 48:1 (2002): 34-59.
Gabor S. Boritt, ed., Why The Civil War Came (1996).
Daniel W. Crofts, Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis (1989).
John Patrick Daly, When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, And The Causes Of The Civil War (2002).
Charles B. Dew, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (2001).
Drew Gilpin Faust, The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South (1988).
Lacy K. Ford, Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860 (1988).
William W. Freehling, The Road To Disunion vol. 1: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 (1990); and The Road to Disunion, vol. 2: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861 (2007).
James L. Huston, Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War (2003).
John Insoe, Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina (1989).
William A. Link, Roots Of Secession: Slavery And Politics In Antebellum Virginia (2003).
John McCardell, The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830-1860 (1979).
Michael A. Morrison, Slavery And The American West: The Eclipse Of Manifest Destiny And The Coming Of The Civil War (1997).
Mitchell Snay, Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South (1993).
Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr., Yeoman versus Cavalier: the Old Southwest's Fictional Road to Rebellion (Baton Rouge, 1993).
Jonathan Daniel Wells, The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861 (2004).
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Common Soldiers
Michael Barton, Goodmen: The Character of Civil War Soldiers (1981).
Michael Barton and Larry M. Logue, eds., The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader (2002).
William Burton, Melting Pot Soldiers: The Union's Ethnic Regiments (1988).
Paul Cimbala and Randall M. Miller, eds., Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front (2002).
Richard N. Current, Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy (1992).
Larry J. Daniel, Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee: A Portrait of Life in a Confederate Army (1991).
Joseph Allan Frank, With Ballots and Bayonet: The Political Socialization of American Civil War Soldiers (1998).
Joseph Allan Frank and George A. Reaves, "Seeing the Elephant": Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh (1989).
Joseph T. Glatthaar, The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolina Campaigns (1985).
Lesley J. Gordon and John C. Inscoe, eds., Inside the Confederate Nation:
Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas (Louisiana State UP, 2005).
Earl J. Hess, The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat (1997).
Larry M. Logue and Michael Barton, eds., The Civil War Veteran: A Historical Reader (2007).
Thomas P. Lowry, The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War (1994).
Reid Mitchell, Civil War Soldiers: their Expectations and Experiences (1988).
Reid Mitchell, The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home (1993).
Jason Phillips, Diehard Rebel: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility
(Athens, 2007)
James I. Robertson, Soldiers Blue and Gray (1952).
Elizabeth D. Leonard, All the Daring of a Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies (1999).
Ella Lonn, Foreigners in the Union Army and Navy (1951).
Noah Andrew Trudeau, Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865 (1999).
Aaron Sheehan-Dean, ed. The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War
Soldiers (2007).
Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War
Virginia (Chapel Hill, 2007).
Keith P. Wilson, Campfires of Freedom: The Camp Life of Black Soldiers During the Civil War (2000).
Mark A Weitz, More Damning than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army (2005).
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Foreign Policy & European Responses to the Civil War
H.C. Allen, Great Britain and the U.S.: A History of Anglo-American Relations (1955).
James J. Barnes and Patience P. Barnes, eds., The American Civil War Through British Eyes: Dispatches from British Diplomats, Vol. 1 (2005)
Stuart L. Bernath, Squall Across the Atlantic: American Civil War Prize Cases and Diplomacy (1970)
R.J.M. Blackett, Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War (2001).
Duncan Campbell, English Public Opinion and the American Civil War (2004).
Lynn M. Case and Warren F. Spencer, The United States and France: Civil War Diplomacy (1970).
Martin Crawford, The Anglo-American Crisis of the Nineteenth Century: The Times and America, 1850-1862 (1987).
David P. Crook, The North, the South and the Powers, 1861-1865 (1974).
Coy F. Cross, II, Lincoln's Man in Liverpool: Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships (2007).
Charles P. Cullop, Confederate Propaganda in Europe (1969).
Norman Ferris, Desperate Diplomacy: William H. Seward's Foreign Policy, 1861 (1976).
Philip S. Foner, British Labor and the American Civil War (1981).
Charles M. Hubbard, The Burden of Confederate Diplomacy (1998).
Brian Jenkins, Britain and the War for the Union , 2 vols. (1974-80).
Howard M. Jones, Union in Peril: The Crisis Over British Intervention in the Civil War (1992).
Edwin de leon, The Secret History of Confederate Diplomacy
Dean B. Mahin, One War at a Time: The International Dimensions of the American Civil War (1999).
Frank Owsley, King Cotton Diplomacy (1959)
Kevin Philipps, The Cousin's War: Religion, Politics & the Triumph of Anglo-America
Frank Thistlewaite, America and the Atlantic Community: Anglo-American Aspects, 1790-1850 (1959)
See also: Hugh Brogan, ed., The Times Reports on the American Civil War (extracts from the London Times)
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Civil War in Comparative Context
Omer Bartov, Murder in Our Midst (Oxford 1996).
David Bell, The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know it (Boston, 2007).
Winfried Baumgart, The Crimean War, 1853-1856 (London, 1999).
Jeremy Black, European Warfare, 1815-2000 (New York, 2002).
Manfred F. Boemeke, et. at., eds., Anticipating Total War: The German & American Experience, 1871-1914 (New York, 1999).
Roger Chickering, A World At Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937-1945 (Cambridge 2005).Roger Cooter, War, Medicine & Modernity (Stroud, 1999).
Roger Cooter, ed., Medicine & Modern Warfare (Amsterdam, 1999).
Stig Forster and Jorg Nagler, eds., On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871 (1997).
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford, 1975)
Edward Hagerman, The American Civil WAr and the Origins of Modern Warfare (Indiana, 1988).
Rupert Hall, ed., Science & Society: Historical Essays on the Relations of Science, Technology & Medicine (London, 1994).
Ulrich Keller, The Ultimate Spectacle: A Visual History of the Crimean War (London, 2001).
Philip Knightley, The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq (Baltimore, 2004).
Scott Hughes Myerly, British Military Spectacle: From the Napoleonic Wars through the Crimea (Cambridge, 1996)
Geoffrey Parker, ed., The Cambridge History of Warfare (Cambridge, 2005).
Dennis Showalter, Wars of German Unification (London, 2004).
Leonard B. Smith, Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War (Cornell, 2007)
Charles Townshend, The Oxford History of Modern War (Oxford, 2005).
Geoff Wawro, The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871 (Cambridge, 2003).
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Politics in the Confederacy
Thomas B. Alexander and Richard E. Beringer, The Anatomy of the Confederate Congress (1972).
Brian R. Dirk, "Posterity's Blush: Civil Liberties, Property Rights, and Property Confiscation in the Confederacy," Civil War History 48:3 (2002): 237-256.
William J. Cooper Jr, Jefferson Davis, American (2000).
William C. Davis, A Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy (1994).
William S. Freehling, The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War (2001).
Gary W. Gallagher, The Confederate War (1977).
George C. Rable, The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics (1994).
Emory M. Thomas, The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience (1971).
LeeAnn Whites, Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South
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The Confederate Homefront
Steven V. Ash, When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 (1995).
James Alex Baggett, The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (2003).
William Blair, Virginia's Private Civil War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865 (1998).
Jacqueline Glass Campbell, When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front (2003).
Catherine Clinton, ed. Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South (2000).
Martin Crawford, Ashe County's Civil War: Community and Society in the Appalachian South (2002).
John C. Inscoe and Robert C. Kenzer, eds., Enemies of the Country: New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South (2001).
John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney, the Heart of the Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War (2000).
Mary Elizabeth Massey, Ersatz in the Confederacy: Shortages and Substitutes on the Southern Homefront (1952).
Philip S. Paludan, Victims: A True Story of the Civil War (1981).
George C. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (1989).
Jonathan Dean Sarris, A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South (2006).
Daniel E. Sutherland, Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861-1865 (1995).
Lee Ann Whites, The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender: Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890 (1995).
David Williams, Teresa Crisp Williams and David Carlson, Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia (2002).
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Medical Treatment & Disease
George W. Adams, Doctors in Blue: the Medical History of the Union Army (1952).
Stewart Brooks, Civil War Medicine (1966).
H.H. Cunningham, Doctors in Gray: the Confederate Medical Service (1959).
Elizabeth D. Leonard, Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War (1994).
Glenna Shroeder-Lein, Confederate Hospitals on the Move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee (1994).
Lisa A. Long, Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War (2004).
Jane Schultz, Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America (2004).
Paul E. Steiner, Disease in the Civil War (1968).
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Religion During the Civil War
Warren B. Armstrong, For Courageous Fighting and Confident Dying: Union Chaplains in the Civil War (1998).
Kent T. Dollar, Soldiers of the Cross: Soldier-Christians and the Impact of the War on Their Faith (2005)
Eugene Genovese, A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South (1998).
Victor B. Howard, Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860-1870 (1990).
Julie Roy Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (1998).
John R. McKivigan, The War Against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830-1865 (1984).
Randal M. Miller et. al., eds., Religion and the American Civil War (1998).
James Moorhead, American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860-1869 (1978).
Mark A. Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (2006).
Gardiner Shattuck, A Shield and a Hiding Place: The Religious Life of the Civil War Armies (1987).
Terrie Dopp Aamodt, Righteous Armies, Holy Cause:Apocalyptic Imagery and the Civil War , 2002.
Steven E. Woodworth, While God is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (2001).
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The Northern Homefront and Women Volunteers
Jeannie Attie, Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War (1998).
Robert H. Bremner, The Public Good: Philanthropy and Welfare in the Civil War Era (1980).
Thomas Curran, Soldiers Of Peace Civil War Pacifism And The Postwar Radical Movement (2003)
Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, eds., Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (1992) [includes South]
George M. Fredrickson, The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union (1965).
J. Matthew Gallman, Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War (1990).
J. Matthew Gallman, The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front (1994).
James W. Geary, We Need Men: The Union Draft in the Civil War (1991).
Louis S. Gerteis, Civil War St. Louis (2001).
Judith Ann Giesberg, Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition (2000).
Randall C. Jimerson, The Private Civil War: Popular Thought During the Sectional Crisis (1988). [includes Confederacy]
Frank L. Klement, Dark Lanterns: Secret Political Societies, Conspiracies, and Treason Trials in the Civil War (1984).
Melinda Lawson, Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North (2003).
Mary Elizabeth Massey, American Women and the Civil War (1966) [includes Confederacy]
Eugene Murdoch, One Million Men: The Civil War Draft in the North (1971).
Grace Paladino, Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania (1990).
Nina Silber, Daughters of the Union, Northern Women Fight the Civil War (2005)
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Wartime Politics in the North
See also Further Reading: Northern Homefront.
Richard F. Bensel, Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central Authority in America, 1859-1877 (1990).
Baker, Jean H. Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1983).
Belz, Herman. A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedmen’s Rights, 1861-1866 (1978).
Allan G. Bogue, The Congressman's Civil War (1989).
Leonard P. Curry, Blueprint for Modern America: Non-military Legislation of the First Civil War Congress (1968).
George P. Fletcher, Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy (Oxford 2001)
William B. Hesseltine, Lincoln and the War Governors (1948).
Erick McKitrick, “Party Politics and the Union and Confederate War Efforts,” in The American Party Systems, ed. William N. Chambers and Walter Dean Burnham, pp. 117-51
Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War North (2002).
Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era (2005).
Phillip S. Paludan, A People's Contest: the Union and Civil War, 1861-1865 , 2nd ed. (2001).
Grace Palladino, Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-1868 (1990).
Peter J. Parish, The North and the Nation in the Era of the Civil War (2003).
Heather Cox Richardson, The Greatest Nation on Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War (1997).
Joel Silbey, A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era (1977).
Harry S. Stout, Upon the Alter of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War (2006)
Bruce Tap, Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War (1998).
Jennifer L. Weber, Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North (2006)
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Civil War's Effects on American Nationalism
Much of the work in the above two sections deals with this topic. See also,
Melinda Lawson, Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North (2002)
Harold Hyman, A More Perfect Union: The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the Constitution (1973).
Cecilia Elizabeth O'Leary,To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism (1999)
Popular Culture During the Civil War
(see also books listed under "The Memory of the Civil War" below)
Daniel Aaron, The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War (1973).
Alice Fahs, The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865.
Lisa A. Long, Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War (2004)
Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the Civil War (1966).
Kent Gramm, Somebody's Darling: Essays on the Civil War (2002).
Franny Nudelman, John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War (2004).
Timothy Sweet, Traces Of War: Poetry, Photography, And The Crisis Of The Union (1990).
Cheryl A. Wells, Civil War Time: Temporality and Identity in America, 1861-1865.
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Military History
Obviously, there are more books written on this topics than on any others. I've included only a tiny selection of material available in Fisher Library. See also the "Civil War in Comparative Perspective" above.
Benjamin W. Bacon, Sinews of War: How Technology, Industry, and Transportation Won the Civil War.
Thomas L. Connelly, Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, 1862-65 (1971).
Larry J. Daniel, Shiloh: The Battle that Changed the Civil War (1997).
Stig Forster and Jorg Nagler, eds., On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871 (1997).
Thomas J. Goss, The War Within the Union High Command: Politics and Generalship During the Civil War (2003).
Edward Hagerman, The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare (1988).
Joseph L. Harsh, Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-62 (1998).
Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones, How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War (1983).
Mark E. Neely, Jr., "'Civilized Belligerents': Abraham Lincoln and the Idea of 'Total War'", in New Perspectives on the Civil War: Myths and Realities of the National Conflict , ed. John Y. Simon & Michael E. Stevens
Charles Royster, The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson and the Americans (1991).
Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam (1983).
Russell Weighley, A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865 (2000).
Kenneth P. Williams, Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War , 5 vols. (1949-59).
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Desertion & Guerrilla Warfare
(See also books listed under "The Confederate Homefront" above)
Stephen V. Ash, When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 (2002).
Ella Lonn, Desertion During the Civil War (1928).
Mark A. Weitz, A Higher Duty: Desertion Among Georgia Troops During the Civil War (2000).
Richard S. Brownlee, Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy: Guerrilla Warfare in the West, 1861-1865 (1958).
Michael Fellman, Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War (1989).
Noel C. Fisher, War at Every Door: Partisan Politics and Guerrilla Violence in East Tennessee, 1860-1869 (1997).
Thomas Goodrich, Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861-1869 (1995).
Robert Tracey McKenzie, Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the
American Civil War (New York, 2006).
Sean Michael O'Brien, Mountain Partisans: Guerrilla Warfare in the Southern Appalachians, 1861-1865 (1999).
Daniel E. Sutherland, ed., Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence on the Confederate Home Front (1999).
Gregory J.W. Urwin, ed. Black Flag Over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War (2004).
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The End of Slavery
John Cimprich, Slavery's End in Tennessee, 1861-1865 (1985).
Patricia C. Click, Time Full of Trial: the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1861-1867 (2001).
Lawanda Cox, Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership (1981).
Noralee Frankel, Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi (1999).
Louis S. Gerteis, From Contraband to Freedman: Federal Policy Toward Southern Blacks, 1861-1865 (1973).
William B. Holberton, Homeward Bound: The Demobilization of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1865-1866 (2001).
James McPherson, The Negro's Civil War (1991).
Clarence L. Mohr, On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia (1986).
Willie Lee Rose, Rehearsal for Reconstruction: the Port Royal Experiment (1964).
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Reconstruction
Richard H. Abbott, The Republican Party and the South, 1855-1877 (1986).
Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction (1992).
Peter W. Bardaglio, Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South (1995).
James Alex Baggett, The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (2003). ORDERED FOR FISHER 11/07/08
Bess Beatty, A Revolution Gone Backward: The Black Response to National Politics, 1876-1896 (1987).
Ronald E. Butchart, Northern Schools, Southern Blacks, and Reconstruction: Freedmen's Education, 1862-1875 (1980).
Paul A. Cimballa and Randall Miller, eds., The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction (1999).
Paul A. Cimbala, The Freedmen's Bureau: Reconstructing the American South After the Civil War (2005)
William Cohen, At Freedom's Edge: Black Mobility and the Southern White Quest for Racial Control, 1861-1915 (1991).
Richard N. Current, Those Terrible Carpetbaggers: A Reinterpretation (1988).
Edmund Drago, Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure (1982).
Laura F. Edwards, Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (1997).
Michael W. Fitzgerald, Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the
American South (Chicago, 2007).
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988).
Edward L. Gambill, Conservative Ordeal: Northern Democrats and Reconstruction, 1865-1869 (1981).
Lawrence Grossman, The Democratic Party and the Negro: Northern and National Politics, 1868-1892 (1976).
James K. Hogue, Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise
and Fall of Radical Reconstruction (Baton Rouge, 2006).
Tera W. Hunter, To 'Joy My Freedom': Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War (1997).
Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979).
Gordon H. McKinney, Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community (1978).
Eric L. McKitrick, Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction (1960).
John C. Mohr, ed., Radical Republicans in the North (1976).
Robert C. Morris, Reading 'Ritng', and Reconstruction: Freedmen's Education in the South, 1865-1870 (1981).
Otto H. Olsen, ed., Reconstruction and Redemption in the South (1980).
Michael Perman, The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1879 (1984).
George C. Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence n the Politics of Reconstruction (1984).
Howard N. Rabinowitz, Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (1977).
Howard N. Rabinowitz, Southern Black Leaders of the Reconstruction (1982).
James L. Roark, Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction , (1977).
Elizabeth Rogosin, Freedom's Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation (2002).
Heather Cox Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (2001).
Julie Saville, The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870 (1994).
Leslie A. Schwalm, A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (1997).
Daniel E. Sutherland, The Confederate Carpetbaggers (1988).
Daniel Stowell, Rebuilding Zion: The Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863-1877 (1998).
Mark W. Summers, Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity: Aid under the Radical Republicans, 1865-1877 (1984).
Hans L. Trefousse, Historical Dictionary of Reconstruction (2001).
Allen Trelease, White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction (1971).
Ted Tunnell, Crucible of Reconstruction: War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana, 1863-1877 (1984).
Michael Vorenberg, Final Freedom: the Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment (2001).
Richard Zuczek, Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era, 2 vols. (2006)
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The Memory of the Civil War
Peter Applebome, Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics and Culture (1997).
David W. Blight, Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory (2001).
David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass' Civil War (1989).
Catherine Clinton, Tara Revisited (1995)
Karen L. Cox, Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture (2003.
Thomas L. Connelly, The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society (1977).
Thomas L. Connelly and Barbara L. Bellows, God and General Longstreet: The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind (1982).
James Dawes, The Language Of War: Literature And Culture In The U.S. From The Civil War Through World War II ( 2002).
Kathleen Diffley, Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories And Constitutional Reform, 1861-1876 (1992).
David Eicher, Mystic Chords of Memory (1998).
Alice Fahs & Joan Waugh, eds., The Memory Of The Civil War In American Culture (2004).
Gains M. Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South (1987).
Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan, eds., The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History (2000).
Sarah E. Gardner, Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 (2004).
David Goldfield, Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History (2002).
Stuart McConnell, Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865-1900 (1992).
J. Michael Martinez et. al., eds., Confederate Symbols in the Contemporary South (2001).
James Mayo, War Memorials as Political Landscape (1988).
John R. Neff, Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation (2005).
Alan T. Nolan, Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee And Civil War History (1991).
Carol Reardon, Pickett's Charge in History and Memory (1997).
Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers and Kneeling Slaves: Race, War and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (1997).
Donald R. Shafer, After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans (2004).
Nina Silber, The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900 (1993).
John Simon and Michael E. Stevens, eds., New Perspectives on the Civil War: Myths and Realities of the National Conflict (2002).
Charles Reagan Wilson, Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 (1980).
Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore: Studies In The Literature Of The American Civil War (1962).
Jim Weeks, Gettysburg: Memory, Market and an American Shrine (2003).
Andrew Ward, River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War (2005)
Elizabeth Young, Disarming The Nation: Women's Writing And The American Civil War (1999).
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Classic Civil War Novels
Steven Vincent Benet, John Brown's Body [not the sort of poetry anyone reads anymore, but was considered a high literary achievement at the time]
Howard Bahr, The Black Flower
Ambrose Bierce, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1890s)
Geraldine Brooks, March (2005)
Rita Mae Brown, High Hearts [female soldier]
Stephen Crane, Red Badge of Courage
John W. De Forest, Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (1860s) and A Union Officer in the Reconstruction (reprint ed. James H. Croushore and Davis Morris Potter, 1868).
Anna Dickinson, What Answer (1868) [bi-racial love affair; deals with NY Draft riots]
E.L. Doctorow, The March (2005)
William Faulkner, The Unvanquished (1955) and Absalom, Absalom! (1936) [explorations of southern culture]
Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain (1997)
Ellen Glasgow, The Battle Ground (circa 1901)
Kent Gramm, Somebody's Darling Thomas Keneally , Confederates (1979)
Herman Melville, Battle Pieces (ed. Hennig Cohen, 1964; originally published 1860s)
Peter Quinn, Banished Children of Eve (1998) [NY Draft riots]
Michael Shaara, Killer Angels (1997)
Allen Tate, The Fathers (1938) [looks at southerners at the outset of the war]
Robert Penn Warren, The Legacy of the Civil War (1961) [ok, not really a novel, but a series of insights]
Sam Watkins, Co. Aytch [one of the most famous Civil War memoirs - highly readable account from a Confederate infantryman]
Walt Whitman, Drum Taps (1860s)
Stark Young, So Red the Rose
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The Civil War on Film
Note: Not all of these films are available in Fisher Library. I've only ordered a selection, although you may find others at video stores.
* = in Fisher on DVD
^ = in Fisher on Videocassette
* ^ Birth of a Nation (1915)
Genre: Drama
Dir. D.W. Griffith
Stars Lillian Gish
The Littlest Rebel (1935)
Genre: Children
Dir. David Butler
Stars: Shirley Temple
* ^ Gone With the Wind (1939)
Genre: Romance
Dir. Sam Wood
Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh
A Southern Yankee (1948)
Genre: Comedy
Dir. Edward Sedgwick
Stars: Red Skelton
* The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
Genre: Drama
Dir. John Huston
Stafs: Audie Murphy
Drums of the Deep South (1951)
Genre: B-Grade Drama
Dir. William Cameron Menzies
Bungles in the Afternoon (1950s)
Genre: Western
Dir. Roy Rowland
Start: Ray Milland
Savage Wilderness (1956)
Genre: Western
Dir. Anthony Mann
Stars: Victor Mature, Robert Preston
* The Horse Soldiers (1959)
Genre: Civil War as Western
Dir. John Ford
Stars: John Wayne
Johnny Shiloh (1963)
Genre: Children
Dir. James Neilson
* Shenandoah (1965)
Genre: Drama
Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Jimmy Stewart
Mosby’s Marauders (1967)
Genre: Drama
Dir. Michael O’Herlihy
* Alvarez Kelly (1966)
Genre: Western
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Stars: William Holden
The Desperados (1969)
Genre: Western
Dir. Henry Levin
Stars: Vince Edwards, Mack Parlance
Rio Lobo (1970)
Genre: Western
Dir. Howard Hawks
Stars: John Wayne
* The Andersonville Trial (1970)
Genra: Drama
Dir. George Scott
* The Beguiled (1970)
Genre: Gothic Melodrama
Dir. Dan Siegal
Stars: Clint Eastwood
The Blue and the Gray (1982)
Genre: Drama (made for TV miniseries)
Stars: Stacy Keech
* Glory (1989)
Genre: Drama
Dir. Edward Zwick
Stars Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington
* Andersonville (1990)
Genre: Drama
Dir. John Frankenheimer
The Rose and the Jackal (1990)
Genre: Romance
Dir. Jack Gold
Stars: Christopher Reeve and Madolyn Osborne
* Ghost Brigade (1993)
Genre: Horror
Original Title: The Killing Box
Dir. George Hickenlooper
Stars: Corbin Bernson, Cynda Williams
* Gettysburg (1993)
Genre: Drama
Dir. Ronald F. Maxwell
Stars Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen
North and South (1995)
Genre: Romance (made for TV miniseries)
North and South Part 2. (1996)
Stars: Patrick Swayze, Leslie Ann Down
* Buffalo Soldiers (1997)
Genre: Drama
Dir. Charles Haid
* Ride With the Devil (1999)
Genre: Drama
Dir. Ang Lee
Stars: Skeet Ulrich
The Hunley (1999)
Drama: Submarine warfare (made for TV movie)
Dir. John Gray
* Gods and Generals (2003)
Genre: Drama
Dir. Ronald F. Maxwell
Stars: Jeff Daniels
* Wicked Spring (2003)
Genre: Independent (Drama)
Dir. Kevin Hershberger
Stars Brian Merrick
* Cold Mountain (2003)
Genre: Romance
Dir. Anthony Minghella
Stars: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman
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