For the past few year's I've shared my reading list from that year. I thought I would do the same this year. As I think I've mentioned before, my reasoning for doing this is to hopefully bring a
previously unknown or overlooked book to someone’s attention, or just maybe, a
listed title will strike enough curiosity in someone to encourage them to seek
it out and read it.
This year I bested last year’s total by
thirteen books to make a total of 72.
Like last year, I’ve bolded the titles of
the books that I found particularly interesting or enlightening, offered a
fascinating argument, or challenged me to think about new ideas.
Here’s hoping you see something you will
want to read.
1. Awaiting the Heavenly County: The Civil War
and America’s Culture of Death by Mark S. Schantz
2. I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife: African
American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era by Rita Roberts
3. Pursuing John Brown: On the Trail of a
Radical Abolitionist by Joyce Dyer
4. The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown,
Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom by H. W. Brands
5. Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in
Gilded Age America, edited by James Marten and Caroline Janney
6. Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost
Dream of an American Utopia by Thomas Healy
7. Edward
A. Wild and the African Brigade in the Civil War by Frances H. Casstevens
8.
Faces of Civil War Nurses by Ronald
S. Coddington
9. Plowshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and
Identity in Gabriel’s Virginia, 1730-1810 by James Sidbury
10. William
Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia by William C.
Kashatus
11. Jumping
the Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual
by Tyler D. Parry
12. A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings
and Madisons by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
13. Beyond
Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture,
1890-1930, edited by W. Fitzhugh Bundage
14. Incidents
in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent (Harriet Jacobs)
15. How Race is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and
the Senses by Mark M. Smith
16. Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its
Aftermath, edited by Gary W. Gallagher
17. Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and
Freedom’s Mail by Candice Shy Hooper
18. Scars on the Land: An Environmental History
of Slavery in the American South by David Silkenat
19. The Blue, the Gray, and Green: Toward an
Environmental History of the Civil War, edited by Brian Allen Drake
20. Untouched
by the Conflict: The Civil War Letters of Singleton Ashenfelter, Dickinson
College, edited by Jonathan W. White and Daniel Glenn
21. Stephen
Dodson Ramseur: Lee’s Gallant General by Gary W. Gallagher
22. The
Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War by Aaron
Sheehan-Dean
23. All Quiet on the Rappahannock: The Civil War
Letters of Lt. Peter Hunt, 1861-1864, 1st Rhode Island Artillery,
edited by Sandra A. Turgeon
24.
A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
by Jonathan W. White
25. James
Montgomery: Abolitionist Warrior by Robert C. Conner
26. Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the
Civil War Era by Frances Clark and Rebecca Jo Plant
27. Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and
Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess
28. At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking
and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan Bever
29. Through Blood and Fire: The Civil War
Letters of Maj. Charles J. Mills, 1862-1865, edited by J. Gregory Acken
30. When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of
Antietam and Its Impact on the Civilians Who Called it Home by Stephen
Cowie
31. Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The
Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons by Jill L. Newmark
32. Battle:
The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat, edited by Kent Gramm
33. Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men
in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All, edited by James
M. Scythes
34. When This Cruel War is Over: The Civil War
Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster, edited by David W. Blight
35. Private No More: The Civil War Letters of
John Lovejoy Murray, 102 USCI, edited by Sharon A. Roger
36. I
Never Again Want to Witness Such Sights: The Civil War Letters of Lt. James A.
Thomas, Adj. 107th Pennsylvania, edited by Mary Warner Thomas
and Richard Sauers
37. Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance
before the Civil War by Matthew J. Clavin
38. John
Brown’s Raid: Harpers Ferry and the Coming of the Civil War by Jon-Erik
Gilot and Kevin Pawlak
39. The
Civil War Soldier and the Press, edited by Katrina J. Quinn and David B.
Sachsman
40. Mr.
Lincoln’s Army by Bruce Catton
41. Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the
Birth of Death as We Know It by Stephen Berry
44. Silencing
the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
43. African
Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom: Dying during the Civil War and
Reconstruction by Ashley Towle
44. Glory
Road by Bruce Catton
45. Blue
and Gray in Black and White by Brayton Harris
46. New Perspectives on Civil War Era Kentucky,
edited by John David Smith
47. No Place for a Woman: Harriet Dame’s Civil
War by Mike Pride
48. A
Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
49. From
Western Virginia with Jackson to Spotsylvania with Lee: The Civil War Diaries
and Letters of St. Joseph Tucker Randolph by Peter C. Luebke
50. The
Bone Ring: Civil War Journals of Colonel William James Leonard, edited by
Gari Carter
51. Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia
by Karida L. Brown
52. Georgia
Boys with “Stonewall” Jackson: James Thomas Thompson and the Walton Infantry,
edited by Aurelia Austin
53. A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime:
Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond by John Banks
54.
Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves,
edited by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White
55. From
Binghampton to the Battlefield: The Civil War Letters of Rollin B. Truesdell,
edited by Amy J. Truesdell
56. Faces
of Union Soldiers at Culp’s Hill: Gettysburg’s Critical Defense by Joseph
Stahl and Matthew Borders
57. The
Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and Search for a Southern Identity by
William A. Link
58. Dear Sarah: Letters to Home from a Soldier
of the Iron Brigade, edited by Coralou Peel Lassen
59. Like Grass Before the Scythe: The Life and
Death of Sgt. William Remmel, 121st New York Infantry, edited by
Robert Patrick Bender
60. Fugitive
Slave on Trial: The Anthony Burns Case and Abolitionist Outrage by Earl M.
Maltz
61. Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the
Emotional Politics of Loss by Angela Esco Elder
62. Letters Home: Henry Matrau of the Iron
Brigade, edited by Marcia Reid-Green
63. Letters
of a Civil War Surgeon, edited by Paul Fatout
64. Georgia
Sharpshooter: The Civil War Diary and Letters of William Rhadamanthus
Montgomery, edited by George Montgomery, Jr.
65. The
14th U.S. Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War: John Young
Letters, edited by C. Russell Hunley
66. Charlie’s Civil War: A Private’s Trial by
Fire in the 5th New York and 146th New York, edited
by Charles Brandagee Livingstone
67. Ted Barclay, Liberty Hall Volunteers:
Letters from the Stonewall Brigade, edited by Charles W. Turner
68. “This
War is an Awful Thing. . . “: Civil War Letters of the National Guard – The 19th
and 90th Pennsylvania Volunteers, edited by James Durkin
69.
To Address You As My Friend: African Americans’ Letters to Abraham Lincoln,
edited by Jonathan W. White
70. The Civil War Letters of George Washington
Beidelman, edited by Catherine H. Vanderslice
71. The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and
the Struggle to Transform the Union by Frank J. Cirillo
72. Across
Five Aprils by Irene Hunt