This landmark series of sixteen volumes—written by some of today’s most respected Civil War historians—covers the War from the earliest rumblings of disunion through to its devastating conclusion and Reconstruction. To be published between 2008 and 2018, these books will provide a comprehensive narrative of that defining event in United States history.
A joint project of the University of North Carolina Press and the Littlefield Fund for Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Series Editors
Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia
T. Michael Parrish, Baylor University
Theater of a Separate War
The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865
Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
Published: May 2023
The Women's Fight
The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
Published: August 2022
A Contest of Civilizations
Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era
Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
Published: August 2022
The Ordeal of the Reunion
A New History of Reconstruction
Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
Published: February 2021
The War for the Common Soldier
How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
Published: February 2021
Illusions of Emancipation
The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
Published: August 2020
With Malice toward Some
Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era
Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
Published: February 2019
Remembering the Civil War
Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation
Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
Published: August 2016
War on the Waters
The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865
Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
Published: February 2015
The Civil War in the West
Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi
By Earl J. Hess
Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
Published: February 2015