Drew Gilpin Faust's Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996) is my choice from another wonderfully deep subfield.ħ. His study of soldiers’ motivations is deeply researched and theoretically sophisticated.Ħ. McPherson could have many volumes on this list, including Battle Cry of Freedom. James McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997). Alcott’s Little Women (1868) is a close second.ĥ. Alcott’s wonderful autobiographical novel about her experiences as a wartime nurse. Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches (1863). Neely is yet another author who could have multiple titles on my list.Ĥ. This is not really a Lincoln book so much as it is a complex analysis of civil liberties in wartime. Neely Jr., The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (Oxford University Press). For more traditional Lincoln biographies, I think the best from a very long shelf of titles are the one-volume biographies by David Donald and by Richard Carwardine.ģ. I am a huge fan of Eric Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (2010). (Confederate artillerist Porter Alexander’s memoir would be a close second.)Ģ. President and the best memoir of the Civil War. Often described as the best book by a U.S. Grant, The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Space constraints prevented us from including their answers to one of the questions we posed: What are the 10 best Civil War books ever published (nonfiction or fiction)? Below are their responses.ġ. Hulbert, James Marten, and Amy Murrell Taylor-for their opinions on a variety of popular topics, including the war's most overrated and underratred commanders, top turning points, most influential women, and best depictions on film. For our latest newsstand-only special issue, The Civil War Almanac, we asked a panel of Civil War historians-J.
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