READING LIST FOR THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865
Laurence Schiller
The following is the suggested text.
James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom
This may be ordered from the book store in Norris or is available through Amazon.
“I do recommend the McPherson to be read as we go along, as it is, in my opinion, the best one volume work on Mid-19th Century America. The rest are on a variety of topics that will add to your understanding of the broad colors that we must paint in covering so much territory in just 10 lectures. Further, I have only included a couple of military histories. If you are interested in specific battles, leaders, or units, see David J. Eicher. The Civil War in Books and other internet sources….” Laurence Schiller
The following are books and films that relate to the topic of the week.
MARCH 29: Introduction (Louis Room)
James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom
Webb Garrison, The Encyclopedia of Civil War Usage.
Carol Berkin, A Brilliant Solution: Inventing The American Constitution
Stephen B. Oates, The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861
William C. Davis, The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy
William W. Freehling, The Road To Disunion: Vol. 1: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
FILM: Ken Burns, The Civil War (PBS Series)
APRIL 5: Arguing About Slavery
William Lee Miller, Arguing About Slavery
James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, Slavery and the Making of America
Solomon Northup, Twelve Years A Slave
James Oakes, The Ruling Race
William L. Andrews and Henry Louis Gates Jr., Slave Narratives
Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
APRIL 12: The Meteor of the Age (Barber Theater)
Edward L. Ayers, In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Stephen B. Oates, The Whirlwind of War: Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
William W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion: Vol. 2: Secessionists Triumphant
William C. Davis, A Government of our Own: The Making of the Confederacy
Drew Gilpin Faust, The Creation of Confederate Nationalism
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
Phillip Shaw Paludan, The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
Norman B. Ferris, Desperate Diplomacy: William H. Seward’s Foreign Policy, 1861
William C. Davis, Battle at Bull Run
APRIL 26: 1862: The War Turns Serious (Barber Theater)
Brent Nosworthy, The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War
Russ A. Pritchard Jr., Civil War Weapons and Equipment
Time-Life Books, Echoes of Glory
Richard Current, Lincoln’s Loyalists
O. Edward Cunningham, Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862
Stephen Sears, To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign
Kathleen Ernst, Too Afraid to Cry: Maryland Civilians in the Antietam Campaign
Stephen Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
May 3: 1863: The Pivotal Year
Edwin B. Coddington, The Gettysburg Campaign
Gregory A. Coco, A Strange and Blighted Land: Gettysburg: The Aftermath of a Battle
Garry Wills, Lincoln At Gettysburg
Steven E. Woodworth, Davis & Lee at War
Michael B. Ballard, Vicksburg
Michael R. Bradley, Tullahoma
Peter Cozzens, This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga
Wiley Sword, Mountains Touched with Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863.
Bell Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank
Bell Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb
FILM: Gettysburg
MAY 10: The Home Fronts Josephine Louis Theater
Daniel E. Sutherland, Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community
Paul Z. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller, An Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Home Front
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering
Daniel Sutherland, Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence on the Confederate Home Front.
Mary Livermore, My Story
George Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism
Mary Elizabeth Massey, Women in the Civil War
Catherine Clinton, The Women’s War in the South
Walter Sullivan, The War the Women Lived: Female Voices from the Confederate South
Iver Bernstein, The New York City Draft Riots
MAY 17: GLORY! Black Confederates and Afro Yankees (Barber Theatre)
Ervin Jordan, Black Confederates and Afro Yankees in Civil War Virginia
Robert Gould Shaw, (Russell Duncan, ed.) Blue Eyed Child of Fortune.
Dudley Cornish, The Sable Arm
Joseph T. Glatthaar, Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers
FILM: Glory!
MAY 24: 1864: Total War!
Charles Royster, The Destructive War
Albert Castel, Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864
William A. Frassanito, Grant and Lee: The Virginia Campaigns of 1864-1865
Wiley Sword, Embrace an Angry Wind: The Confederacy’s Last Hurrah – Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
MAY 31: 1865: “Victory Sits on the Flag of the Free”
Anthony Pitch, They Have Killed Papa Dead
Jay Winik, April 1865
Joseph T. Glatthaar, The March to the Sea and Beyond
William Davis, Jefferson Davis: the Man and His Hour
Andre Trudeau, The Last Citadel: Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864-April 1865
JUNE 7: Reconstruction and Conclusion
Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
James McPherson, The Struggle for Equality
James McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction
Eric Foner, Reconstruction
Eric Foner, Forever Free
Victor Hicken, Illinois in the Civil War
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