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
Tried by War
Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
History
Civil War
Biography
The Demon of Unrest
A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
History
Civil War
Politics
The Second Founding
How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
History
American History
Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage
Classics
Historical Fiction
War
Grant
History
Biography
Civil War
Walt Whitman
A Life
Biography
Poetry
History
Personal Memoirs
History
Biography
Civil War
Attack and Die
Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage
Civil War
History
American Civil War
The Republic for Which It Stands
The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
History
American History
Politics
The Lincoln Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—and Why It Failed
History
Politics
Biography
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
History
Biography
Civil War
Blood on the Moon
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
History
Civil War
American History
The Widow of the South
Historical Fiction
Civil War
Historical
March
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Civil War
