Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the Society of Civil War Historians.
Scroll through our newest releases!
We’re looking forward to getting together at the conference. But in case you won’t be traveling this year, we’re bringing our book exhibit to you.
From virtually anywhere, you can browse our list of new and recent titles, chat with our editor Andrew Kinney, and more.
Check out what’s new in these award-winning book series:
- Civil War America
- The Steven & Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
- Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
And, check out The Journal of the Civil War Era too.
All of our books (in fact, our entire site) are available now at our 40 percent SCWH conference discount. Plus if your order totals $75, domestic U.S. shipping is FREE! Just use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout.
Follow the links below for information on submitting a book proposal, ordering desk or examination copies (even free digital exam copies), classroom permissions, disability resources, and more. We’ve even created a handy FAQ document, with answers to the most-asked questions we get at exhibit booths.
Titles on Display
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Policing American Slavery
Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom
Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era
George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory
Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920
Mary Bickerdyke, Civil War–Era Nurse
Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians
Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era
Black Countermemory and the Legacy of the Lowcountry's Lost Political Generation
Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865
Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis
A History of African American Health and Labor
How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War
Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848–1867
The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform
How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War
The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation after the Civil War
An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic
Same-Sex Romance, Disunion, and Reunion in the Civil War Era
Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era
A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
Volume 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill
The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War
The Biography of a Regiment
A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater
France and the American Civil War
A Diplomatic History
African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln
Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America
The American Civil War in Indian Country
The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter
The End of the Overland Campaign
A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery
Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile
A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region
The Life and Times of a Remarkable African American Physician
Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863
Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher
Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy
Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations
The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction
Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac
The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865
Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia
A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States
The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox
How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861
The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau
Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War
Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era
How Surrender Defined the American Civil War
The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton and Anne Radford Wharton, 1863–1865
The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle
A Noisy, Fearless Life
Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It
Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss
How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union
Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era
Searching for Black Confederates
The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America's Most Famous Small Town
African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln
Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War
What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today
The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox
The Record of Murders and Outrages
Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction
Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South
A Political Biography of Edward Everett
A Study in Command
The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire
Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
The Colored Conventions Movement
Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century
The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter
Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.
The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy
A New History of Reconstruction
Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War
Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation
The War for the Common Soldier
How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery
The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union
Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War
African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps
Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America
Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War
The Battle of Peach Tree Creek
Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta
The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia
Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America
Lincoln and the Union's War Governors
America's Prophet
The Journals of Captain Oscar Hinrichs
Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865
How the Union Waged a Just War
The Smells, Sounds, Tastes, and Feeling of Captivity in Civil War Prisons
Life and Death in the Confederate Capital
How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century
Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland
Traitors, Slaves, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America
Why the Army of Tennessee Failed
Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians
The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers
France and the American Civil War
A Diplomatic History
Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy
Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War
Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era
Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality
Material Culture in the Civil War Era
River of Death--The Chickamauga Campaign
Volume 1: The Fall of Chattanooga
Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South
The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains
Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism
College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America