Civil War Research Guide

By nyplmmhist

Books

General

The American Civil War / Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin, book editors.

The Civil War: opposing viewpoints / William Dudley, book editor.

The American Civil War: a hands-on history / Christopher J. Olsen.

The American Civil War / Adam I.P. Smith.

Blood brothers: a short history of the Civil War / Frank E. Vandiver.

Origins/Causes

The outbreak of the Civil War / Jean Alice Elster, book editor.

Days of defiance: Sumter, secession, and the coming of the Civil War / Maury Klein.

Cry havoc!: The crooked road to Civil War, 1861 / Nelson D. Lankford.

The Causes of the Civil War / edited by Kenneth M. Stampp.

On the brink of Civil War: the Compromise of 1850 and how it changed the course of American history / John C. Waugh.

Women in the Civil War

Women in the Civil War / by Mary Elizabeth Massey; introduction to the Bison Book edition by Jean V. Berlin.

They fought like demons: women soldiers in the American Civil War / DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook.

Women in the Civil War: extraordinary stories of soldiers, spies, nurses, doctors, crusaders, and others / Larry G. Eggleston.

All the daring of the soldier: women of the Civil War armies / Elizabeth D. Leonard.

Women of the war: their heroism and self-sacrifice : true stories of brave women in the Civil War / Frank Moore.

Medicine during the Civil War

Civil War medicine: challenges and triumphs / Alfred Jay Bollet.

Civil War medicine: care & comfort of the wounded / Robert E. Denney.

Gangrene and glory: medical care during the American Civil War / Frank R. Freemon.

Civil War medicine, 1861-1865 / by C. Keith Wilbur.

Databases

Academic Search Premier

Facts On File History Database Center

History Resource Center: U.S.

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