Summary Books & Resources

This section of the website lists general reference works.

• Single or Multi-Volume Histories
• Seminal Works
• Civil War Encyclopedias
• Civil War Dictionaries
• Civil War Atlases
• Websites
• Other Resources

Single or Multi-Volume Histories

Introduction A Name for the American Struggle of the 1860's

Introduction Sesquicentennial: A Retrospective on the Civil War

Introduction Twenty Good Reasons to Study the Civil War

Printer Friendly List of Single and Multi-Volume Histories

• Bruce Catton, The Centennial History of the Civil War: The Coming Fury, Terrible Swift Sword, Never Call Retreat. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1961.
• William C. Davis, Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America. New York: Free Press, 2002.
• William C. Davis Ed., The Image of War 1861-1865. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1981.
• Frederic M. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
• Thomas H. Flaherty, Ed., The Civil War: An Illustrated Guide. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1987.
• Gary W. Gallagher, The Confederate War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
• Alfred H. Guernsey & Henry M. Alden, Eds., Harper’s Pictorial History Of The Great Rebellion. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866.
• Terry L. Jones, The American Civil War. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.
• Louis P. Masur, The Civil War: A Concise History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Cary, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
• James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Knopf, 1982.
• Francis T. Miller and Robert S. Lanier, eds., The Photographic History of the Civil War. New York: Review of Reviews, 1911.
• Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947.
• James G. Randall & David H. Donald, The Civil War and Reconstruction. Boston: Heath, 1937.
• James Ford Rhodes, History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final Restoration of Home Rule in the South in 1877. New York: NY Macmillan Co., 1900.
• Charles P. Roland, An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1981.
• Time-Life, Eds., Time-Life Collector’s Library of the Civil War. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1981-1985.
• Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns and Ken Burns, The Civil War: An Illustrated History. New York: Knopf, 1990.

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