This list of books is meant to introduce people interested in the Civil War to the various themes, issues, events and people that comprise not only the war itself but also how the war came to happen and some on the aftermath of the war.
I would suggest reading the first three books below first and then reading anything on the list that interests you.
Civil War Overviews
Berlin, Ira. Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (2004) 328 pages.
More books on slavery
McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988, 2005)
Sheehan-Dean, Aaron. Concise Historical Atlas of the Civil War (2009)
The South / the Confederacy
Glatthaar, Joseph. General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse (2008).
Daniel Sutherland. Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861-1865 (1995)
Phillips, Jason. Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility (2010)
Inscoe, John (ed.). Enemies of the Country: New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South (2004) This book is a collection of essays.
Ash, Steven. When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 (1999)
The North / the Union (the U.S.)
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2006) 994 pages.
Gallagher, Gary. The Union War (2012) 256 pages.
Etcheson, Nicole. A Generation at War: The Civil War Era in a Northern Community (2011) 384 pages.
North and South (Non-Military)
Bowman, Shearer. At the Precipice: Americans North and South during the Secession Crisis (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) (2009) 392 pages.
Rable, George. God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) (2010) 556 pages.
Jones, Howard. Blue and Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) (2010) 428 pages.
North and South (Military)
McPherson, James. War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) (2012) 272 Pages.Hess, Earl. The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) (2012)
Women & Gender in the Civil War
Civil Liberties Union and Confederate
Irregular warfare (guerrillas) & Union "hard war" policies
Grimsley, Mark. The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy towards Southern Citizens (1997)
Sutherland, Daniel. A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War (2009)
Mackey, Robert. The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865 (2004)
Mountcastle, Clay. Punitive War: Confederate Guerrillas and Union Reprisals (2009)
Pre-War Topics and Events.
Overviews
Varon, Elizabeth. Disunion!: The Coming ofy the American Civil War, 1789-1859 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) (2008) 472 pages.
Morrison, Michael. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny (1999) 456 Pages.
Baptist, Edward. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (2014) 528 pages.
Baptist, Edward. Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War (2013)
Abolitionism, Slave Revolts & Fugitive Slave Issues
Civil War Aftermath
Reconstruction
Civil War Memory
Blight, David. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2002) 528 Pages.
Janney, Caroline. Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) (2013) 464 pages.
Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008)
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