Georgia Historical Society

NEH Summer Seminar Reading List

Required reading (these books will be sent to all participants in advance of the workshop):

 

Chandra Manning

What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery,

& the Civil War

 

 

 

 

   

Elizabeth Brown Pryor

Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters

(Knopf, 2007)

 

 

 

 

 

 

David W. Blight

A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

(Harcourt, 2008)

 

 

 

 

 

David W. Blight

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

(Harvard University Press, 2001)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Excerpts from the following (these will be sent to all participants in advance of the workshop as part of a coursepack):

 

David Williams, Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War (The New Press, 2008)

 

Christopher J. Einolf, George Thomas, Virginian For the Union (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2007)

 

Stephen V. Ash, Firebrand of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments That Changed the Course of the Civil War (W. W. Norton, 2008)

 

Jacqueline Jones, Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War (Knopf, 2008)

 

William Lee Miller, President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman (Knopf, 2008)

 

Charles B. Dew, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (University of Virginia Press, 2002)

 

William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of William T. Sherman

 

David Goldfield, Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History