 | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $6.49 Extremely well-informed, sagacious, clearly and smoothly written; a masterpiece. If you're going to read only one book on the subject, read this one.
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 | Civil War Command And Strategy: The Process Of Victory And Defeat by Archer Jones
Buy used from: $6.29 Uses key battles to illustrate some of the principal strategic and tactical principles that shaped the war's conduct.
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 | Two Great Rebel Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History by Richard M. McMurry
Buy new: $20.95 / Used from: $6.48 Eye-opening explanation of why Confederate armies did so well in the East and so badly in the West.
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 | Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox by J. Tracy Power
Buy new: $39.95 / Used from: $3.64 A deeply researched and illuminating account of life in the Army of Northern Virginia during the war's final year.
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 | Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac by Stephen W. Sears
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $1.48 Applies wisdom, erudition, and clarity to some of the war's key military episodes and figures.
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 | Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $12.00 How Americans remembered (and chose to forget) the bond between the Civil War and slavery during the first half-century after the war.
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 | Masters Without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction by James L. Roark
Buy new: $18.69 / Used from: $1.51 A revealing portrait of how slave-owners reacted to slavery's destruction.
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 | Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War
Buy new: $17.56 / Used from: $2.75 A documentary account of slavery's wartime breakdown.
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 | Bitter Fruits Of Bondage: The Demise Of Slavery And The Collapse Of The Confederacy, 1861-1865 (Carter G Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies) by Armstead L. Robinson
Buy new: $28.63 / Used from: $27.40 Argues that slavery itself was the chief cause of the Confederacy's defeat.
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 | Why the Confederacy Lost (Gettysburg Civil War Instutute Books)
Buy new: $16.15 / Used from: $1.48 A good, readable introduction to the debate on this question.
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 | Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
Buy used from: $6.80 A lively study of the war's impact on women of the planter class.
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 | The Confederate War by Gary W. Gallagher
Buy new: $15.75 / Used from: $5.78 Emphasizes the Confederacy's success in maintaining its citizens' loyalty down to the wire.
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 | The South Vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War by William W. Freehling
Buy new: $14.21 / Used from: $7.80 Stresses divisions among the southern population; a short but spirited reply to Gallagher and others.
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 | Slavery and the Making of America by James Oliver Horton
Buy new: $20.86 / Used from: $3.09 A fine introduction to the institution that caused the Civil War.
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 | Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War by Bruce Levine
Buy used from: $4.10 This and the next title are my own modest contributions
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 | Half Slave and Half Free, Revised Edition: The Roots of Civil War by Bruce Levine
Buy new: $14.40 / Used from: $7.19 An updated edition
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