The American Civil War bibliography comprises books that deal in large part with the American Civil War. There are over 60,000 books on the war, with more appearing each month. There is no complete bibliography to the war; the largest guide to books is over 40 years old and lists over 6,000 titles selected by leading scholars. Many specialized topics such as Abraham Lincoln, women, and medicine have their own lengthy bibliographies. The books on major campaigns typically contain their own specialized guides to the sources and literature. The most comprehensive guide to the historiography annotates over a thousand titles.
Contents
- Maps photographs environment
- Naval history
- Ironclads
- Confederate raiders
- Unit histories
- Strategy and command
- Technology weapons and equipment
- Medical
- Primary sources
- Causes of the war
- Secession
- Constitutional and legal
- Slavery and emancipation
- International affairs
- Collected biographies
- Soldiers and sailors
- Prisoners
- Guerillas
- Ethnic groups
- African Americans
- American Indians
- National
- North
- Black South
- White South
- Ideology rhetoric religion
- Veterans
- Popular culture novels films
- Historiography
- Bibliographies
- Newspapers in the Civil War
- Art and music
- Tour guides
- Monuments battlefields and battlefield preservation
- Reconstruction
- Government publications
- Other
- References
For a guide to the bibliography see:
For a guide to web sources see:
For an older short survey that is online and won the Pulitzer Prize (1918), see:
For the most recent surveys see:
Maps, photographs, environment
- Volume I: Shadows of the storm.. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1981. ISBN 978-0-385-15466-6.
- Volume II: The Guns of '62. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1982. ISBN 978-0-385-15467-3.
- Volume III: The Embattled Confederacy. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1982. ISBN 978-0-385-15468-0.
- Volume IV: Fighting for Time. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1983. ISBN 978-0-385-18280-5.
- Volume V: The South Besieged. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1983. ISBN 978-0-385-18281-2.
- Volume VI: The End of an Era. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1984. ISBN 978-0-385-18282-9.
- Davis, William C. and William A. Frassanito. Touched by Fire: A Photographic Portrait of the Civil War. Volume One. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1985. ISBN 978-0-316-17661-3.
- Davis, William C. and William A. Frassanito. Touched by Fire: A Photographic Portrait of the Civil War. Volume Two. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1986. ISBN 978-0-316-17664-4.