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Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
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Jon Grinspan
Bloomsbury Publishing (2024)
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
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Justene Hill Edwards
W. W. Norton (2024)
Holding the Political Center in Illinois: Conservatism and Union on the Brink of the Civil War
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Ian T. Iverson
Kent State University Press (2024)
Between Extremes: Seeking the Political Center in the Civil War North
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Jack Furniss
LSU Press (2024)
Conservative Americanism: Nativism, Unionism, and Slavery in Border South Politics, 1854-1861
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Jesse George-Nichol
Rowman & Littlefield (2024)
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
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Elizabeth R. Varon
Simon & Schuster (2023)
Abolitionist Civil War
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Frank J. Cirillo
Louisiana State University Press (2023)
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia
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Tamika Y. Nunley
University of North Carolina Press (2023)
The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861
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Lauren N. Haumesser
University of North Carolina Press (2022)
True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction
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Clayton J. Butler
Louisiana State University Press (2022)
Bloody Flag of Anarchy: Unionism in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis
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Brian C. Neumann
Louisiana State University Press (2022)
Here and Everywhere Else: Small-Town Maine and the World
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Andrew Witmer
University of Massachusetts Press (2022)
At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.
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Tamika Y. Nunley
University of North Carolina Press (2021)
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America
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Caroline E. Janney
University of Georgia Press (2021)
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox
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Caroline E. Janney
University of North Carolina Press (2021)
The Age of Acrimony
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Jon Grinspan
Bloomsbury Publishing (2021)
Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815-1870
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Jeffrey L. Zvengrowski
Louisiana State University Press (2020)
Colossal Ambitions
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Adrian Brettle
University of Virginia Press (2020)
The Autobiography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren
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Peter Luebke
Government Publishing Office (2019)
Soldiers of the Cross, the Authoritative Text
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William B. Kurtz
University of Notre Dame Press (2019)
Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis
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Cynthia Nicoletti
Cambridge University Press (2018)
The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War
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Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Harvard University Press (2018)
Frederick Douglass: America's Prophet
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D. H. Dilbeck
University of North Carolina Press (2018)
Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia
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Caroline E. Janney
University of North Carolina Press (2018)
Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps
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Amy Murrell Taylor
University of North Carolina (2018)
The Law School at the University of Virginia: Architectural Expansion in the Realm of Thomas Jefferson
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Philip Herrington
University of Virginia Press (2017)
Northern Character: College-Educated New Englanders, Honor, Nationalism, and Leadership in the Civil War Era
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Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai
Fordham University Press (2016)
A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War
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Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh
Princeton University Press (2016)
A More Civil War: How the Union Waged a Just War
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D. H. Dilbeck
University of North Carolina Press (2016)
Shantytown, USA
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Lisa Goff
Harvard University Press (2016)
The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century
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Jon Grinspan
University of North Carolina Press (2016)
An Agrarian Republic
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Adam W. Dean
University of North Carolina Press (2015)
Cold Harbor to the Crater: The End of the Overland Campaign
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Caroline E. Janney
University of North Carolina Press (2015)
The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860
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Calvin Schermerhorn
Yale University Press (2015)
Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850
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Andrew J. Torget
University of North Carolina Press (2015)
Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America
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William B. Kurtz
Fordham University Press (2015)
Between Sovereignty and Anarchy: The Politics of Violence in the American Revolutionary Era
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Brian D. Schoen
University of Virginia Press (2015)
So Conceived and So Dedicated: Northern Intellectuals in the Civil War Era
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Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai
Fordham University Press (2015)
Claiming the Union: Citizenship in the Post-Civil War South
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Susanna Michele Lee
Cambridge University Press (2014)
Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration among Civil War Veterans
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M. Keith Harris
Louisiana State University Press (2014)
To Live and Die in Dixie: Native Northerners Who Fought For the Confederacy
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David Ross Zimring
University of Tennessee Press (2014)
A Companion to the U.S. Civil War
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Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Wiley-Blackwell (2014)
The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It
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Aaron Sheehan-Dean
The Library of America (2014)
Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South
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Jaime Martinez
University of North Carolina Press (2013)
Nature’s Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia
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Kathryn Shively Meier
University of North Carolina Press (2013)
Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation
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Caroline E. Janney
University of North Carolina Press (2013)
Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War
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Rachel Shelden
University of North Carolina Press (2013)
A Political Nation: New Directions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political History
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Rachel Shelden
University of Virginia Press (2012)
The Revolution of 1861
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Andre Fleche
University of North Carolina Press (2012)
Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery
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Calvin Schermerhorn
University of Virginia Press (2012)
Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860
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Watson W. Jennison
University Press of Kentucky (2012)
The Story of a Thousand: A History of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
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Peter Luebke
Kent State University Press (2011)
The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It
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Aaron Sheehan-Dean
The Library of America (2011)
Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum
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Calvin Schermerhorn
Johns Hopkins University Press (2011)
The Old South’s Modern Worlds: Slavery, Religion, and Nation in the Age of Progress
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Brian D. Schoen
Oxford University Press (2011)
A Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early Republic
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George W. Van Cleve
University of Chicago Press (2010)
West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace
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Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh
University of North Carolina Press (2009)
The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War
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Brian D. Schoen
Johns Hopkins University Press (2009)
Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War
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Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Oxford University Press (2008)
Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause
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Caroline E. Janney
University of North Carolina Press (2008)
The View From the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers
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Aaron Sheehan-Dean
University Press of Kentucky (2007)
Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia
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Aaron Sheehan-Dean
University of North Carolina Press (2007)
Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration
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Andrew J. Torget
University of Virginia Press (2006)
Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War
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Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Osprey (2006)
The Divided Family in Civil War America
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Amy Murrell Taylor
University of North Carolina Press (2005)
The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory
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Scot A. French
Houghton Mifflin (2004)