American History Sale — Civil War

The War That Made America

Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher

Caroline E. Janney, Peter S. Carmichael, Aaron Sheehan-Dean

Arguing until Doomsday

Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy

Michael E. Woods

This Is Our Home

Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations

Whitney Nell Stewart

A Man of Bad Reputation

The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction

Drew A. Swanson

A Republic in the Ranks

Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac

Zachery A. Fry

Theater of a Separate War

The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865

Thomas W. Cutrer

A New History of the American South

W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Laura F. Edwards, Jon F. Sensbach

Citizens of a Stolen Land

A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States

Stephen Kantrowitz

The Demands of Justice

Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia

Tamika Y. Nunley

Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America

Leslie A. Schwalm

Ends of War

The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox

Caroline E. Janney

The Democratic Collapse

How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861

Lauren N. Haumesser

Administering Freedom

The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau

Dale Kretz

At War with King Alcohol

Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War

Megan L. Bever

Proving Pregnancy

Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America

Felicity M. Turner

The Women's Fight

The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

Thavolia Glymph

A Contest of Civilizations

Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era

Andrew F. Lang

Raising the White Flag

How Surrender Defined the American Civil War

David Silkenat

The Whartons' War

The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton and Anne Radford Wharton, 1863–1865

William C. Davis, Sue Heth Bell, Peter S. Carmichael

The Heart of Hell

The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle

Jeffry D. Wert

Benjamin Franklin Butler

A Noisy, Fearless Life

Elizabeth D. Leonard

Count the Dead

Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It

Stephen Berry

Love and Duty

Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss

Angela Esco Elder

Bonds of War

How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union

David K. Thomson

Spectacle of Grief

Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era

Sarah J. Purcell

Searching for Black Confederates

The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth

Kevin M. Levin

Gettysburg 1963

Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America's Most Famous Small Town

Jill Ogline Titus

Choctaw Confederates

The American Civil War in Indian Country

Fay A. Yarbrough

To Address You as My Friend

African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln

Jonathan W. White, Edna Greene Medford

Rites of Retaliation

Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War

Lorien Foote

The Generals' Civil War

What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today

Stephen Cushman

Ends of War

The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox

Caroline E. Janney

The Record of Murders and Outrages

Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction

William A. Blair

A Union Indivisible

Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South

Michael D. Robinson

Apostle of Union

A Political Biography of Edward Everett

Matthew Mason

Meade at Gettysburg

A Study in Command

Kent Masterson Brown, Esq.

West of Slavery

The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire

Kevin Waite

No Common Ground

Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

Karen L. Cox

Southern History across the Color Line, Second Edition

Nell Irvin Painter

The Colored Conventions Movement

Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century

P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, Sarah Lynn Patterson

Radical Sacrifice

The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter

William Marvel

At the Threshold of Liberty

Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.

Tamika Y. Nunley

Braxton Bragg

The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy

Earl J. Hess

The Ordeal of the Reunion

A New History of Reconstruction

Mark Wahlgren Summers

Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery

The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union

Daniel W. Crofts

The War for the Common Soldier

How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies

Peter S. Carmichael

Colored Travelers

Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

The Men of Mobtown

Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation

Adam Malka

Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century

Libra R. Hilde

Fighting for Citizenship

Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War

Brian Taylor

Visualizing Equality

African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Aston Gonzalez

Embattled Freedom

Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps

Amy Murrell Taylor

Illusions of Emancipation

The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery

Joseph P. Reidy

Fighting for Atlanta

Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War

Earl J. Hess

This War Ain't Over

Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America

Nina Silber

The Battle of Peach Tree Creek

Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta

Earl J. Hess

An Environmental History of the Civil War

Judkin Browning, Timothy Silver

Men Is Cheap

Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America

Brian P. Luskey

Soul Liberty

The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia

Nicole Myers Turner

The Women's Fight

The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

Thavolia Glymph

Gathering to Save a Nation

Lincoln and the Union's War Governors

Stephen D. Engle

The Stormy Present

Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865

Adam I. P. Smith

A More Civil War

How the Union Waged a Just War

D. H. Dilbeck

Frederick Douglass

America's Prophet

D. H. Dilbeck

Stonewall's Prussian Mapmaker

The Journals of Captain Oscar Hinrichs

Richard Brady Williams, Robert K. Krick

Living by Inches

The Smells, Sounds, Tastes, and Feeling of Captivity in Civil War Prisons

Evan A. Kutzler

Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America

Thomas J. Brown

The Second American Revolution

The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic

Gregory P. Downs

Rebel Richmond

Life and Death in the Confederate Capital

Stephen V. Ash

The Virgin Vote

How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century

Jon Grinspan

Bonds of Union

Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland

Bridget Ford

The Loyal Republic

Traitors, Slaves, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America

Erik Mathisen

Conquered

Why the Army of Tennessee Failed

Larry J. Daniel

Civil War Places

Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians

Gary W. Gallagher, J. Matthew Gallman, Will Gallagher

Illusions of Emancipation

The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery

Joseph P. Reidy

Private Confederacies

The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers

James J. Broomall

France and the American Civil War

A Diplomatic History

Stève Sainlaude, Jessica Edwards, Don H. Doyle

The Yankee Plague

Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy

Lorien Foote

With Malice toward Some

Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era

William A. Blair

Midnight in America

Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War

Jonathan W. White

Sex and the Civil War

Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality

Judith Giesberg

Embattled Freedom

Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps

Amy Murrell Taylor

This War Ain't Over

Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America

Nina Silber

War Matters

Material Culture in the Civil War Era

Joan E. Cashin

Fighting for Atlanta

Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War

Earl J. Hess

River of Death--The Chickamauga Campaign

Volume 1: The Fall of Chattanooga

William Glenn Robertson

Aberration of Mind

Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South

Diane Miller Sommerville

Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism

College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America

J. Brent Morris

Reconstruction's Ragged Edge

The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains

Steven E. Nash