This landmark series interprets broadly the history and culture of the Civil War era through the long nineteenth century and beyond. Drawing on diverse approaches and methods, the series publishes historical works that explore all aspects of the war, biographies of leading commanders, and tactical and campaign studies, along with select editions of primary sources. Together, these books shed new light on an era that remains central to our understanding of American and world history.
Series Editors
Caroline Janney, University of Virginia
Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Louisiana State University
UNC Press Sponsoring Editor
Mark Simpson-Vos, Senior Executive Editor
mark_simpson-vos@unc.edu

A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater
By A. Wilson Greene Foreword by Gary W. Gallagher
Civil War America
Published: February 2025

France and the American Civil War
A Diplomatic History
By Stève Sainlaude , Jessica Edwards Foreword by Don H. Doyle
Civil War America
Published: February 2025

Men Is Cheap
Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America
Civil War America
Published: February 2025

Radical Sacrifice
The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter
Civil War America
Published: February 2025

Exceptionalism in Crisis
Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era
Civil War America
Published: April 2025

A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
Volume 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill
Civil War America
Published: April 2025

The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War
The Biography of a Regiment
By James Marten
Civil War America
Published: April 2025

Storming Vicksburg
Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863
By Earl J. Hess
Civil War America
Published: August 2024

Arguing until Doomsday
Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy
Civil War America
Published: February 2024

The War That Made America
Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher
Edited by Caroline E. Janney , Peter S. Carmichael , Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Civil War America
Published: March 2024