Civil War
The American Civil War's epic struggle between North and South comes alive through gripping battlefield accounts, penetrating leadership portraits, and stories of ordinary soldiers thrust into extraordinary times. These powerful books explore the war's political complexities, military strategies, and profound human cost as a divided nation fought to define its future and soul.
Civil War Book Summaries
Team of Rivals
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
History
Biography
Politics
The Demon of Unrest
A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
History
Civil War
Politics
Tried by War
Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
History
Civil War
Biography
The Red Badge of Courage
Classics
Historical Fiction
War
The Second Founding
How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
History
American History
Civil War
March
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Civil War
Amity
Historical Fiction
Historical
Literary Fiction
Grant
History
Biography
Civil War
The Widow of the South
Historical Fiction
Civil War
Historical
The Republic for Which It Stands
The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
History
American History
Politics
Cold Mountain
Historical Fiction
Historical
Romance
Personal Memoirs
History
Biography
Civil War
Walt Whitman
A Life
Biography
Poetry
History
Attack and Die
Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage
Civil War
History
American Civil War
Blood on the Moon
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
History
Civil War
American History
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
History
Biography
Civil War
American Brutus
John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
History
Civil War
Biography
The Lincoln Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—and Why It Failed
History
Politics
Biography
Booth
Historical Fiction
Historical
Civil War
The South Was Right!
History
Civil War
American History
How the South Won the Civil War
Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
History
Politics
American History
Yellow Wife
Historical Fiction
Historical
Book Club
Killing Lincoln
The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
History
Biography
Historical
The Wrath to Come
Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
History
Politics
American History
Reconstruction
America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
History
American History
Civil War
Ghosts of Belle Isle
Mystery
Adventure
Middle Grade
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
History
American History
Politics
This Vast Southern Empire
Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
History
American History
Politics
A Nation Without Borders
The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910
History
American History
Politics
The Book of Lost Friends
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Historical
The Death of Reconstruction
Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901
History
American History
Politics
Yankee Leviathan
The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877
History
American History
Politics
The Day Freedom Died
The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
History
American History
Politics
The Bloody Shirt
Terror After Appomattox
History
Civil War
American History
West of Slavery
The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire
American History
History
American Civil War
A Nation Under Our Feet
Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
History
American History
Race
The Unexpected Diva
Historical Fiction
Music
Historical
