David W. Blight, Race and reunion: the civil war in American memory (Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001) Gabor Boritt, The Gettysburg gospeclass="underline" the Lincoln speech that nobody knows (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006)
Michael Burlingame, The inner world of Abraham Lincoln (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1994)
Orville Vernon Burton, The age of Lincoln (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007) William L. Burton, Melting pot soldiers: the Union ethnic regiments. 2nd ed.
(New York: Fordham University Press, 1998)
Jacqueline Glass Campbell, When Sherman marched north from the sea: resistance on the Confederate home front (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003)
Richard Carwardine, Lincoln: a life of purpose and power (New York: Knopf Publishing Group, 2006)
Christopher Clark, Social change in America: from the revolution through the civil war (London: Ivan Dee, 2006)
Robert Cook, Civil War America: making a nation, 1848-1877 (London: Pearson/Longman, 2003)
Laura F. Edwards, Scarlett doesn’t live here anymore: southern women in the civil war era (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2000)
Drew Gilpin Faust, This republic of suffering: death and the American civil war (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008)
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 (New York: Harper and Row, i988)
Eugene D. Genovese, A consuming fire: the fall of the Confederacy in the mind of the white Christian South (Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1998)
William E. Gienapp, Abraham Lincoln and civil war America: a biography (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Joseph T. Glatthaar, Forged in battle: the civil war alliance of black soldiers and white officers (New York: Meridian, 1991)
Susan-Mary Grant, The war for a nation: the American civil war (New York: Routledge, 2006)
Daniel Walker Howe, What hath God wrought: the transformation of America, 1815-1848 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008)
Robert Hunt, The good men who won the war: Army of the Cumberland veterans and emancipation memory (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press,
20i0)
Caroline E. Janney, Burying the dead but not the past: ladies memorial associations and the lost cause (Chapel Hilclass="underline" The University of North Carolina Press,
2008)
Robert Walter Johannsen, The frontier, the Union, and Stephen A. Douglass (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989)
Bruce Levine, Confederate emancipation: southern plans to free and arm slaves during the civil war (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) Chandra Manning, What this cruel war was over: soldiers, slavery, and the civil war (New York: Vintage Books, 2007)
Russell McClintock, Lincoln and the decision for war: the northern response to secession (Chapel Hilclass="underline" University of North Carolina Press, 2008)
Stephanie McCurry, Confederate reckoning: power and politics in the civil war South (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010)
James M. McPherson, Battle cry of freedom: the civil war era (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988)
James M. McPherson, What they fought for, 1861-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, i994)
James M. McPherson, For cause and comrades: why men fought in the civil war (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
Michael A. Morrison, Slavery and the American west: the eclipse of manifest destiny and the coming of the civil war (Chapel Hilclass="underline" University of North Carolina Press, i997)
John R. Neff, Honoring the civil war dead: commemoration and the problem of reconciliation (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005)
Peter J. Parish, The American civil war (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1975)
W. Scott Poole, Never surrender: Confederate memory and conservatism in the South Carolina upcountry (Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 2004)
David M. Potter, The impending crisis, 1848-1861 (New York: Harper and Row,
i976)
George C. Rable, Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002)
Brian Holden Reid, The origins of the American civil war (Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1996)
Charles Royster, The destructive war: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans (1991. Reprint. New York: Random House, 1993) Julie Saville, The work of reconstruction: from slave to wage laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870 (1994. Paperback Reprint. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, i996)
Mark Schantz, Awaiting the heavenly country: the civil war and America’s culture of death (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2008)
Harry S. Stout, Upon the altar of the nation: a moral history of the civil war (New York: Penguin Books, 2006)
Elizabeth R. Varon, Disunion!: the coming of the American civil war, 1789-1859 (Chapel Hilclass="underline" The University of North Carolina Press, 2008)
Bell Irvin Wiley, The life of Johnny Reb: the common soldier of the Confederacy (1943. Reprint. Baton Rouge. Louisiana State University Press, 1989)
Bell Irvin Wiley, The life of Billy Yank: the common soldier of the Union (1952. Reprint. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989)
The West
Stephen Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer: the parallel lives of two American warriors (New York: Doubleday, 1975)
Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American west (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996) Pekka Hamalainen, The Comanche empire (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008)
Patricia Nelson Limerick, The legacy of conquest: the unbroken past of the American west (New York and London: W.W. Norton and Company, 1987)
Dean L. May, Three frontiers: family, land, and society in the American west, 1850-1900 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
William G. Robbins, Colony and empire: the capitalist transformation of the American west (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994)
Richard Slotkin, Fatal environment: the myth of the frontier in the age of industrialization, 1800-1890 (New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1985)
Henry Nash Smith, Virgin land: the American west as symbol and myth (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1950)
Richard White, “It’s your misfortune and none of my own": a new history of the American west (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991)
Donald Worster, Under western skies: nature and history in the American west (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
The Gilded Age/Progressive Era
Sven Beckert, The monied metropolis: New York City and the consolidation of the American bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Edward J. Blum, Reforging the white republic: race, religion, and American nationalism, 1865-1898 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005) John M. Cooper, Jr., Pivotal decades: The United States, 1900-1920 (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1990)
Steven J. Diner, A very different age: Americans of the progressive era (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998)
Judith N. McArthur, Creating the new woman: the rise of women’s progressive culture in Texas, 1893-1918 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press,
1998)
Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon: the United States, 1877-1919 (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1987)
Stephen Skowronek, Building a new American state: the expansion of national administrative capacities, 1877-1920 (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982)
Robert Wiebe, The search for order, 1877-1920 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1980)
America between the wars
Michael C.C. Adams, The best war ever: America and World War II (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994)
Anthony J. Badger, The New Deaclass="underline" The Depression years, 1933-1940 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989)