The American Civil War bibliography comprises books that deal in large part with the American Civil War. There are over 60,000 books on the war, with more appearing each month. James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier stated in 2012, "No event in American history has been so thoroughly studied, not merely by historians, but by tens of thousands of other Americans who have made the war their hobby. Perhaps a hundred thousand books have been published about the Civil War."
There is no complete bibliography to the war; the largest guide to books is over 40 years old and lists over 6,000 of the most valuable titles as evaluated by three leading scholars. Many specialized topics such as Abraham Lincoln, women, and medicine have their own lengthy bibliographies. The books on major campaigns typically contain their own specialized guides to the sources and literature. The most comprehensive guide to the historiography annotates over a thousand major titles, with an emphasis on military topics. The most recent guide to literary and non-military topics is A History of American Civil War Literature (2016) edited by Coleman Hutchison. It emphasizes cultural studies, memory, diaries, southern literary writings, and famous novelists.
Video Bibliography of the American Civil War
Causes of the war
Secession
Maps Bibliography of the American Civil War
American Civil War battles and campaigns
Ironclads
Confederate raiders
Unit histories
- Brown, J. Willard. The Signal Corps in the War of the Rebellion. Boston, Massachusetts: U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Association, 1896.
- Glatthaar, Joseph T. Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served Under Robert E. Lee. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8078-3492-3.
- Tennesseans in the Civil War: A Military History of Confederate and Union Units with Available Rosters of Personnel, two volumes. Nashville, Tennessee: Civil War Centennial Commission, 1964.
- Williams, George Forrester (1883). Bullet and shell : war as the soldier saw it; camp, march, and picket; battlefield and bivouac; prison and hospital. New York : Fords, Howard, & Hulbert.
Union military units
Confederate military units
Strategy and command
Technology, weapons, logistics
Reconstruction
- See Reconstruction: Bibliography for complete guide
Medical
Primary sources
Constitutional and legal
Slavery and emancipation
International affairs
Collected biographies
Military leaders
Soldiers and sailors
Prisoners
Homefront
States, regions, and local
Guerillas
Ethnic groups
African Americans
Primary sources
- Adair, Lyle, and Glenn Robins. They Have Left Us Here to Die: The Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2011.
American Indians
Primary sources
Women
National
North
Black South
White South
Primary sources
Ideology, rhetoric, religion
Veterans
Historiography
Surveys and reference books
Maps, photographs, environment
Bibliographies
Newspapers in the Civil War
Art and music
Popular culture, novels, films
Tour guides
Monuments, battlefields, and battlefield preservation
Government publications
Primary sources
Memoirs
For the most recent surveys see:
- Guelzo, Allen C. Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-984328-2.
- Fellman, Michael et al. This Terrible War: The Civil War and its Aftermath (2nd. ed. 2007).
- Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. ISBN 978-0-684-84944-7.
- Donald, David et al. The Civil War and Reconstruction. 2001.
- McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0-19-503863-7.
- Sheehan-Dean, ed., Aaron (2014). A Companion to the U.S. Civil War. New York: Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 1-44-435131-1.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) , 2 vol. 1232pp; 64 topical chapters by experts; emphasis on historiography.
Other
Further reading
For a guide to the bibliography see:
- Woodworth, Steven E.; ed. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Greenwood Press, 1996.
- Eicher, David J. The Civil War in Books An Analytical Bibliography. 1997.
- Murdock, Eugene C. Civil War in the North: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. Garland, 1987.
- Sheehan-Dean, ed., Aaron (2014). A Companion to the U.S. Civil War (2 vol. 2014) comprehensive 98 page bibliography is online free
For a guide to web sources see:
- Carter, Alice E.; Jensen, Richard. The Civil War on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites--Completely Revised and Updated. 2003.
For an older short survey that is online and won the Pulitzer Prize (1918), see:
- Rhodes, James Ford. A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865.
See also
- Bibliography of Ulysses S. Grant
Notes
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