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The Civil War and Reconstruction Era

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Abraham Lincoln


Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Team of rivals: the political genius of Abraham Lincoln
E457.45 .G66 2005

Harris, William C.
Lincoln's rise to the presidency
E457.3 .H37 2007

Wills, Gary
Lincoln at Gettysburg: the words that remade America
E475.55 .W54 1992

Antebellum United States


Foner, Eric
Free soil, free labor, free men: the ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War
E436 .F6 1970

Henderson, Timothy J.
A glorious defeat: Mexico and its war with the United States
E407 .H46 2008

Mach, Thomas S.
"Gentleman George" Hunt Pendleton: party politics and ideological identity in nineteenth-century America
E415.9 .P4 M33 2007

Ohrt, Wallace
Defiant peacemaker: Nicholas Trist in the Mexican War
E415.9 .T84 O39 1997

Wheelan, Joseph
Invading Mexico: America's continental dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848
E404 .W44 2007

The Civil War


Adams, Ephraim Douglass
Great Britain and the American Civil War
E469 .A25 1958

Coulter, Ellis Merton
The Confederate States of America, 1861-1865
E487 .C83 1950

Freehling, William W.
The road to disunion, 2 vols.
E468.9 .F84 1990

Leckie, Robert
None died in vain: the saga of the American Civil War
E468 .L45 1990

Reconstruction


Current, Richard Nelson
Those terrible carpetbaggers
E668 .C985 1988

DeWitt, David Miller
The impeachment and trial of Andrew Johnson, seventeenth President of the United States; a history
E667 .D52 1967

Ferrell, Claudine L.
Reconstruction
E668 .F39 2003

McKitrick, Eric L.
Andrew Johnson and reconstruction
E668 .M156

Slavery and Abolitionism


Bailey, Hugh C.
Hinton Rowan Helper, abolitionist-racist
E449 .H485 1965

Berlin, Ira
Many thousands gone: the first two centuries of slavery in North America
E446 .B49 1998
[Also available as an e-book]

Colaiaco, James A.
Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July
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Davis, David Brion
Inhuman bondage: the rise and fall of slavery in the New World
E441 .D2495 2006
[Also available as an e-book]

Ford, Lacy K.
Deliver us from evil: the slavery question in the old south, 1787-1840
E446 .F67 2009

Jackson, Maurice
Let this voice be heard: Anthony Benezet, father of Atlantic abolitionism
E446 .J33 2009

Oakes, James
The radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the triumph of antislavery
E449 .D75 O15 2008

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