Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era)
By: Caroline E. Janney
4.08
Format: 451 pages, Hardcover
As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shapi…
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1. To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
By: Tera W. Hunter
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end… read more
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2. The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
By: Michael Shaara
4.33
Format: 345 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two drea… read more
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"Never let them see you run."-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
"Southern women like their men religious and a little mad."-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
"He was one of those, like Stuart, who looked on war as God's greatest game."-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
"…[W]e have a country here where the past cannot keep a good man in chains, and that's the nature of the war."-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
3. Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
By: Grace Elizabeth Hale
3.97
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such… read more
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4. Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture
By: Karen L. Cox
4.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have e… read more
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5. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America
By: Kirk Savage
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The United States of America originated as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their … read more
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6. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
By: James L. Swanson
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
A fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through … read more
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7. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
By: Christopher R. Browning
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more
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"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
8. The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865
By: Mark Grimsley
3.91
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
The Hard Hand of War explores the Union army's policy of destructive attacks on Southern property a… read more
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9. After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War
By: None
3.31
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
On April 8, 1865, after four years of civil war, General Robert E. Lee wrote to General Ulysses S. … read more
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10. What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
By: Chandra Manning
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root… read more
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11. Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage
By: Grady McWhiney , None
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"In the first twenty-seven months of combat 175,000 Southern soldiers died. This number was more th… read more
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12. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
By: Tony Horwitz
4.50
Format: None pages,
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle … read more
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13. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In… read more
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14. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
By: Daina Ramey Berry
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and b… read more
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15. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
By: Edward E. Baptist
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but… read more
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16. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
By: Thavolia Glymph
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender … read more
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17. The Princess of Las Vegas
By: Chris Bohjalian
3.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game … read more
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18. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of f… read more
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19. Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
By: Ty Seidule
4.42
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty… read more
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"When we identify our history, we can change the narrative."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"Whenever Lee made a decision regarding enslaved people he chose profit over human decency."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"History is always changing. We link the past to our conception of the present and we always have."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"When people have no political outlet nor means of changing a racist society, rioting is their only voice."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
20. Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
By: Donald L. Miller
4.41
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksb… read more
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21. The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
By: Joanne B. Freeman
4.09
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
In The Field of Blood, the historian Joanne B. Freeman offers a new and dramatically rendered portr… read more
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22. South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
By: Alice L. Baumgartner
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial rol… read more
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23. Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era)
By: Caroline E. Janney
4.08
Format: 451 pages, Hardcover
As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shapi… read more
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24. Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
By: Ethan J. Kytle
4.39
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, a deeply researched book that uncovers … read more
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25. The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory
By: Adam H. Domby
4.27
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and flourished in the early twentieth cent… read more
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26. Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth (Civil War America)
By: Kevin M. Levin
4.31
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations… read more
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27. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War
By: Heather Cox Richardson
3.93
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. I… read more
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28. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
By: Kidada E. Williams
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From a groundbreaking scholar, a heart-wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the … read more
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29. Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--and Then Got Written Out of History
By: Howell Raines
3.59
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alaba… read more
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30. The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
By: Gary W. Gallagher
4.52
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary … read more
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31. Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams During the Civil War (Civil War America)
By: Jonathan W. White
3.97
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
The Civil War brought many forms of upheaval to America, not only in waking hours but also in the d… read more
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