The Civil war is a subject on which much has been researched and written. It would be impossible to list every single important work on this conflict. This page instead highlights a few select works for students to get started with. If you are interested in finding more in our collection, take a look in CUNY+.
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Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution
by James McPherson
Stacks - E 457.2 .M4758 1991
The Atlas of the Civil War
Reference Index Area - G1201 .S5 A85 1994
Battle Cry of Freedom: the Civil War Era
by James McPherson
Stacks - E470 .M16 1989
What They Fought For 1861-1865
by James McPherson
Stacks - E 459 .M24 1994
A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln
by Eric Foner
Stacks - E415.7 .F66 1990
Robert E. Lee A Biography
by Emory Thomas
Stacks - E 467.1 .L4 T48 1995
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: the Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
by Eric Foner
Stacks - E436 .F6 1971
Memoirs and Selected Letters of U.S. Grant
by Ulysses S. Grant
Stacks - E 660 .G7562 1990
The Autobiographies
by Frederick Douglass
Stacks - E 449 .D749 1994b
The Civil War, A Narrative
by Shelby Foote
Stacks - E 468 .F7 1986
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For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
by James McPherson
Stacks - E 492.3 .M38 1997
The Negro's Civil War; how American Negroes felt and acted during the war for the Union
by James McPherson
Stacks - E540.N3 M25
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
by James McPherson
Stacks - E457.2 .M478 2008
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
by Eric Foner
Stacks - E457.2 .F66 2010
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
by Eric Foner
Stacks - E 668 .F66 1988
Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
by William Tecumseh Sherman
Stacks - E 467.1 .S55 A3 1990