Civil War & Reconstruction

To Save Us All from Slavery's Power
Republican Alarms, Southern Terrors, and the Plunge into Civil War
Mark Wahlgren Summers

Freedom in the Age of Slavery
A History of Free People of Color in Virginia
Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.

Out of Virginia
Black Americans' Search for Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Liberia
Joseph P. Stinnett

Reconstructing the Campus
Higher Education and the American Civil War
Michael David Cohen

Words Colliding
The Debate over Slavery and Black Exclusion in Nineteenth-Century America
Andrew F. Hammann

After the Fire
Richmond in Defeat
Nelson D. Lankford

Students to Soldiers
Secret Military Education at Elite Schools, 1815–1945
John F. Morris

From Dakota to Dixie
George Buswell's Civil War
George W. Buswell, edited by Jonathan W. White and Reagan Connelly. Foreword by Gary W. Gallagher

Race, Politics, and Reconstruction
The First Black Cadets at Old West Point
Edited by Rory McGovern and Ronald G. Machoian

Bitter Fruits of Bondage
The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865
Armstead L. Robinson. Introduction by Joseph P. Reidy

Lynching in Virginia
Racial Terror and Its Legacy
Edited by Gianluca De Fazio. Afterword by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Civil War Talks
Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard and His Fellow Veterans
George S. Bernard. Edited by Hampton Newsome, John Horn, and John G. Selby

Justice for Ourselves
Black Virginians Claim Their Freedom after Slavery
John G. Deal, Marianne E. Julienne, and Brent Tarter. Foreword by Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan

Confederate Visions
Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War
Ian Binnington

After Emancipation
Racism and Resistance at the University of Virginia
Edited by Kirt von Daacke and Andrea Douglas

Reconstruction beyond 150
Reassessing the New Birth of Freedom
Edited by Orville Vernon Burton and J. Brent Morris

Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies
Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era
James Hill Welborn III

The Civil War Political Tradition
Ten Portraits of Those Who Formed It
Paul D. Escott

Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause
Confessions of a Southern Church
Christopher Alan Graham. Foreword by the Reverend Melanie Mullen

Marching Masters
Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army during the Civil War
Colin Edward Woodward

The Weaker Sex in War
Gender and Nationalism in Civil War Virginia
Kristen Brill

Young America
The Transformation of Nationalism before the Civil War
Mark Power Smith

Colossal Ambitions
Confederate Planning for a Post–Civil War World
Adrian Brettle

Black Suffrage
Lincoln’s Last Goal
Paul D. Escott

The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted : Digital Edition
Frederick Law Olmsted. Edited by Charles E. Beveridge, David Schuyler, and Jane Turner Censer

The False Cause
Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory
Adam H. Domby

My Work among the Freedmen
The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss
Harriet M. Buss. Edited by Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis

The Cacophony of Politics
Northern Democrats and the American Civil War
J. Matthew Gallman

Gold and Freedom
The Political Economy of Reconstruction
Nicolas Barreyre. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Correspondence of James K. Polk : Digital Edition
James K. Polk. Edited by Herbert Weaver, Wayne Cutler, Tom Chaffin, Michael David Cohen

Newest Born of Nations
European Nationalist Movements and the Making of the Confederacy
Ann L. Tucker

The Papers of Andrew Johnson : Digital Edition
Andrew Johnson. Edited by Paul H. Bergeron, Leroy P. Graf and Ralph W. Haskins

The Worst Passions of Human Nature
White Supremacy in the Civil War North
Paul D. Escott

Slavery and War in the Americas
Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870
Vitor Izecksohn

American Abolitionism
Its Direct Political Impact from Colonial Times into Reconstruction
Stanley Harrold

Gettysburg Contested
150 Years of Preserving America's Cherished Landscapes
Brian Black. With a battle narrative by Richard B. Megraw

Becoming Lincoln
William W. Freehling

A Strife of Tongues
The Compromise of 1850 and the Ideological Foundations of the American Civil War
Stephen E. Maizlish

The Papers of Daniel Webster : Digital Edition
Daniel Webster. Edited by Charles M. Wiltse

The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant : Digital Edition
Ulysses S. Grant. Edited by John Marszalek and John Y. Simon

The War Hits Home
The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia
Brian Steel Wills

Daydreams and Nightmares
A Virginia Family Faces Secession and War
Brent Tarter

Lincoln's Dilemma
Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era
Paul D. Escott

Apostles of Disunion
Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
Charles Dew

The First Republican Army
The Army of Virginia and the Radicalization of the Civil War
John H. Matsui

War upon Our Border
Two Ohio Valley Communities Navigate the Civil War
Stephen I. Rockenbach

A Saga of the New South
Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia
Brent Tarter

The Papers of Andrew Jackson : Digital Edition
Andrew Jackson. Edited by Michael E. Woods, Tom Coens, and Laura-Eve Moss

Longstreet's Aide
The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J Goree
Thomas W. Cutrer

Intimate Reconstructions
Children in Postemancipation Virginia
Catherine A. Jones

Designing Dixie
Tourism, Memory, and Urban Space in the New South
Reiko Hillyer
A Fine Body of Men
The Orleans Light Horse, Louisiana Cavalry, 1861–1865
Donald Peter Moriarty, II
A Fine Body of Men
The Orleans Light Horse, Louisiana Cavalry, 1861–1865
Donald Peter Moriarty, II

Frederick Douglass
A Life in Documents
Frederick Douglass. Edited by L. Diane Barnes

Worth a Dozen Men
Women and Nursing in the Civil War South
Libra R. Hilde

A Separate Civil War
Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South
Jonathan Dean Sarris

The Struggle for Equality
Essays on Sectional Conflict, the Civil War, and the Long Reconstruction
Edited by Orville Vernon Burton, Jerald Podair, and Jennifer L. Weber

America on the Eve of the Civil War
edited by Edward L. Ayers and Carolyn R. Martin

The Enemy Within
Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North
Michael Thomas Smith

Radical Reform
Interracial Politics in Post-Emancipation North Carolina
Deborah Beckel

The Big House after Slavery
Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment
Amy Feely Morsman

Showdown in Virginia
The 1861 Convention and the Fate of the Union
edited by William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson

What Reconstruction Meant
Historical Memory in the American South
Bruce E. Baker

Take Care of the Living
Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families in Virginia
Jeffrey W. McClurken

Civil War Petersburg
Confederate City in the Crucible of War
A. Wilson Greene

Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era
At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism
Stuart Streichler

Lincoln's Tragic Admiral
The Life of Samuel Francis Du Pont
Kevin J. Weddle

The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War
Frank Towers

Murder, Honor, and Law
Four Virginia Homicides from Reconstruction to the Great Depression
Richard F. Hamm

Freedom's Promise
Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation
Elizabeth Regosin

Two Novels by Mary Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut and Elizabeth Muhlenfeld. introduction by Elizabeth Han

Ashe County's Civil War
Community and Society in the Appalachian South
Martin Crawford

Exile in Richmond
The Confederate Journal of Henri Garidel
Michael Bedout Chesson and Leslie Jean Roberts, eds.

Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900
Mary Ellen Curtin

Bloody Promenade
Reflections on a Civil War Battle
Stephen Cushman

Southern Rights
Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism
Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Lee's Young Artillerist
William R.J. Pegram
Peter S. Carmichael
Lee's Young Artillerist
William R.J. Pegram
Peter S. Carmichael

Louisa S. McCord
Selected Writings
Richard C. Lounsbury, ed.

Yankee Correspondence
Civil War Letters between New England Soldiers and the Home Front
Nina Silber and Mary Beth Sievens

Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia
Ervin L. Jordan, Jr.

An Evening When Alone
Four Journals of Single Women in the South, 1827–67
Michael O'Brien, ed.

Civil War Virginia
Battleground for a Nation
James I. Robertson, Jr.

The Edge of The South
Edward L. Ayers
Vicksburg, Southern City Under Siege
William Lovelace Foster’s Letter Describing the Defense and Surrender of the Confederate Fortress on the Mississippi
Edited by Kenneth Trist Urquhart
Vicksburg, Southern City Under Siege
William Lovelace Foster’s Letter Describing the Defense and Surrender of the Confederate Fortress on the Mississippi
Edited by Kenneth Trist Urquhart