Thanks to all of you who joined me for my latest Office Hours. In this video I offer some suggestions as to where you might begin your study of Civil War military history.
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Here is a list of the books that I referenced:
Edda Fields Black, Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Bruce Catton, The Army of the Potomac Trilogy (Library of America, 2022).
D. Scott Hartwig, I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023).
Earl J. Hess, In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat (University of North Carolina Press, 2011).
Kenneth W. Noe, The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War (Louisiana State University Press, 2023).
Bennett Parten, Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation (Simon and Schuster, 2025).
George Rable, Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (University of North Carolina Press, 2002).
Carol Reardon, Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory (University of North Carolina Press, 1997).
Future live chats will focus on reading suggestions on Reconstruction, Civil War soldiers, the Black military experience, and the Confederacy.
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