American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 14: THE CIVIL WAR

Bibliography

Books

General Studies. Bruce Catton, This Hallowed Ground (1956). James M. McPherson, What They Fought For, 1861-1865 (1994); Ordeal by Fire, rev. ed. (1985); Battle Cry of Freedom (1988). Allan Nevins, The War for the Union, 4 vols. (1959--1971). James G. Randall and David Donald, The Civil War and Reconstruction, rev. ed. (1969). Russell F. Weigley, A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865 (2000).

The Secession Crisis. William L. Barney, The Road to Secession (1972); The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860 (1974). Steven A. Channing, Crisis of Fear (1970). Daniel W. Crofts, Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis (1989). Richard N. Current, Lincoln and the First Shot (1963). Charles B. Dew, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War. (2001). Michael P. Johnson, Toward a Patriarchal Republic (1977). David Potter, Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis (1942). Kenneth M. Stampp, And the War Came (1950). Ralph A. Wooster, The Secession Conventions of the South (1962).

Lincoln. Gabor Boritt, ed., The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon (2001). Robert V. Bruce, Lincoln and the Tools of War (1956). Harry J. Carman and Reinhard Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage (1943). LaWanda Cox, Lincoln and Black Freedom (1981). William C. Davis, Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation (1999). David Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era (2nd ed., 1956); Lincoln (1995). Allen C. Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (1999). William B. Hesseltine, Lincoln and the War Governors (1948). Howard Jones, Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War (1999.) James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution (1990). Mark E. Neely, The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (1991); The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America (1993). Stephen B. Oates, With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1979). Phillip Shaw Pauldan, The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1994). Merrill D. Peterson, Lincoln in American Memory (1994). James G. Randall, Lincoln the President, 4 vols. (1945--1955), the final volume completed by Richard N. Current. Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln, 6 vols. (1929--1939). Barry Schwartz, Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory (2000). Benjamin Thomas, Abraham Lincoln (1952). Ronald C. White, Jr., Lincoln's Greatest Speech - The Second Inaugural (2002). Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg (1993). T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals (1941); and Lincoln and His Generals (1952).

Politics and Society in the North. Daniel Aaron, The Unwritten War (1973). Iver Bernstein, The New York City Draft Riots (1990). John P. Bugardt, ed., Civil War Nurse (1980). Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, Divided Houses (1992). Adrian Cook, The Armies of the Streets: The New York City Draft Riots of 1863 (1974). David Donald, Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man (1970). Martin Duberman, Charles Francis Adams (1961). Alice Fahs, The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865 (2001). Eric Foner, Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War (1980). George Fredrickson, The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union (1965). J. Matthew Gallman, The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front (1994). Paul G. Gates, Agriculture and the Civil War (1965). Wood Gray, The Hidden Civil War (1942). Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., The Civil War in the American West (1991). Frank L. Klement, The Copperheads in the Middle West (1960); Dark Lanterns: Secret Political Societies, Conspiracies, and Treason Trials in the Civil War (1984). Elizabeth D. Leonard, Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War (1994). Mary E. Massey, Bonnet Brigades: American Women and the Civil War (1966). William Q. Maxwell, Lincoln's Fifth Wheel: The Political History of the United States Sanitary Commission (1956). James H. Moorhead, American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War (1978). Grace Palladino, Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840--1868 (1990). Philip Shaw Paludan, "A People's Contest": The Union and the Civil War, 1861--1868 (1988). James G. Randall, Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln (1926). Mitchell Reid, The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home (1993). Susan M. Reverby, Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945 (1987). Robert P. Sharkey, Money, Class, and Party (1959). Lyde Cullin Sizer, The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 (2000). Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman, Stanton (1962). Glyndon Van Deusen, William Henry Seward (1967). Wendy Hamand Venet, Neither Ballots nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War (1991). Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore (1962).

African Americans and Emancipation. Ira Berlin, et al., eds., Free At Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom and the Civil War (1992). Ira Berlin, Leslie Rowland, et al., eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, Series I-II (1982-1993). Ira Berlin, et al., Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War (1992). John W. Blassingame, Black New Orleans (1973). Patricia C. Click, Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867 (2001). Dudley T. Cornish, The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army (1966). Joseph T. Glatthaar, Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers (1990). Peter Kolchin, First Freedom (1972). Ervin Jordan, Jr., Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia (1995). Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979). David Long, The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-Election and the End of Slavery (1994). James M. McPherson, The Struggle for Equality (1964); The Negro's Civil War (1965). Clarence L. Mohr, On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia (1986). Benjamin Quarles, Lincoln and the Negro (1962); The Negro in the Civil War (1953). Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (1998).

The Confederacy. Thomas B. Alexander and Richard E. Beringer, The Anatomy of the Confederate Congress (1972). Stephen V. Ash, When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 (1995); E. Merton Coulter, The Confederate States of America (1950). William Davis, "A Government of Our Own": The Making of the Confederacy (1994); The Union that Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens (2001). Clement Eaton, A History of the Southern Confederacy (1954); Jefferson Davis (1978). Paul D. Escott, After Secession (1978); Slavery Remembered (1979); Many Excellent People (1985). Alice Fahs, The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865 (2001). Drew Gilpin Faust, The Creation of Confederate Nationalism (1988); Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996). William W. Freehling, The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War (2001). A. James Fuller, Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South (2000). Eugene D. Genovese, A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South. (1998). Mark Grimsley and Brooks D. Simpson, ed., The Collapse of the Confederacy (2001). Wallace Hettle, The Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War (2001). John C. Inscoe and Robert C. Kenzer, ed., Enemies of the Country: New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South (2001). Ella Lonn, Desertion During the Civil War (1928). William Marvel, Andersonville: The Last Depot (1994). Mark E. Neely, Jr., Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism (1999). Frank L. Owsley, State's Rights in the Confederacy (1952). George C. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (1991); The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics (1994). James L. Roark, Masters Without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (1978). Charles P. Roland, The Confederacy (1960). Hudson Strode, Jefferson Davis, 3 vols. (1955--1964). Daniel E. Sutherland, Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Southern Community, 1861-1865 (1995); Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence on the Confederate Home Front (1999). Georgia Lee Tatum, Disloyalty in the Confederacy (1934). Emory Thomas, The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience (1971); The Confederate State of Richmond (1971); The Confederate Nation (1979). Bell I. Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb (1943); The Plain People of the Confederacy (1943). C.Vann Woodward, ed., Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1982). W.Buck Yearns, The Confederate Congress (1960).

Gender. Jeanie Attie, Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War (1998). Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon, ed., Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives (2001). Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996). Judith Ann Giesberg, Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition (2000). Mary E. Massey, Bonnet Brigades: American Women and the Civil War (1966). Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease, A Family of Women: The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War (1999). George C. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (1991). Lyde Cullin Sizer, The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 (2000). Wendy Hamand Venet, Neither Ballots nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War (1991). C.Vann Woodward, ed., Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1982).

Diplomacy. Stuart L. Bernath, Squall Across the Atlantic: American Civil War Prize Cases and Diplomacy (1970). David P. Crook, Diplomacy During the American Civil War (1975); The North, the South, and the Powers, 1861--1865 (1974). Howard Jones, Union in Peril: The Crisis over British Intervention in the Civil War (1992). Frank L. Owsley and Harriet Owsley, King Cotton Diplomacy, rev. ed. (1959). Gordon H. Warren, Fountain of Discontent: The Trent Affair and Freedom of the Seas (1981).

Military Histories. Richard E. Beringer etal., Why the South Lost the Civil War (1986). Lindley S. Butler, Pirates, Privateers, and Rebel Raiders of the Carolina Coast (2000). John Carpenter, Ulysses S. Grant (1976). Bruce Catton, Mr. Lincoln's Army (1951); Glory Road (1952); A Stillness at Appomattox (1954); America Goes to War (1958); Banners at Shenandoah (1956); Grant Moves South (1960). Thomas L. Connelly, The Marble Man (1977). Burke Davis, Sherman's March (1980). David Donald, ed., Why the North Won the Civil War (1960). Michael Fellman, Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War (1989). Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative, 3 vols. (1958-1974). Douglas Southall Freeman, Robert E. Lee, 4 vols. (1934-1935). Gary W. Gallagher, Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath (1996); Douglas Southall Freeman, Robert E. Lee, 4 vols. (1934--1935). Kent Gramm, Gettysburg (1994). Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones, How the North Won (1983). Archer Jones et al., Why the South Lost the Civil War (1986). Alvin M. Josephy, The Civil War in the American West (1991). Thomas Keneally, American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles (2002). Lee Kennett, Marching Through Georgia: The Story of Soldiers and Civilians during Sherman's Campaign (1995). Gerald F. Linderman, Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War (1987). Thomas L. Livermore, Numbers and Losses in the Civil War in America (1957). C.E.MacCartney, Mr. Lincoln's Admirals (1956). William McFeely, Grant (1981). James M. McPherson, What They Fought For, 1861-1865 (1994). David A. Mindell, War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor (2000). John Niven, Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy (1973). William Gerrett Piston and Richard W. Hatcher III, Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. (2000). Dennis J. Ringle, Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy (1998). Charles Royster, The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans (1991). Stephen W. Sears, George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon (1988); Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam (1983). Brooks D. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity 1822-1865 (2000). William N. Still, Jr., Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads (1971); Confederate Shipbuilding (1969). Emory Thomas, Robert E. Lee (1995). Jeffry Wert, General James Longstreet (1993). Richard S. West, Jr., Mr. Lincoln's Navy (1957). Bell Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank (1952). Kenneth P. Williams, Lincoln Finds a General, 4 vols. (1949--1952). T.Harry Williams, McClellan, Sherman, and Grant (1962); P.G.T.Beauregard, Napoleon in Gray (1955). Steven E. Woodworth, ed., Grant's Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg (2001).

State and Regional Histories. Dale Baum, The Shattering of Texas Unionism: Politics in the Lone Star State During the Civil War Era (1998). William Blair, Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865 (1998). Victoria E. Bynum, The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War. (2001). Martin Crawford, Ashe County's Civil War: Community and Society in the Appalachian South. (2001). W. Todd Groce, Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870 (1999). Harold Holzer, ed., State of the Union: New York and the Civil War (2002). John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney. The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War. (2000). Mark A. Weitz, A Higher Duty: Desertion among Georgia Troops during the Civil War (2000). David Williams, Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley (1998).

Films

The American Story, No. 11: The Eve of Conflict, No. 12: The Blue and the Grey, and No. 13: The Road to Appomattox (1985). The Civil War: Anguish of Emancipation (1972). Civil War Journal. Civil War Legends (1989). Clara Barton (1995). The Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts. Ken Burns's The Civil War (1989).

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