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The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).

Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

American Journey [with Joyce Appleby, and Alan Brinkley] (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998).

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).

Civil War and Reconstruction (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999).

Coming of War, Volume 1 (New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, 1991).

Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War(New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Gettysburg: The Paintings of Mort Kunstler [with Mort Kunstler] (Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1997).

How Lincoln Won the War with Metaphors (Fort Wayne: Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum, 1985).

Is Blood Thicker than Water?: Crises of Nationalism in the Modern World (New York: Vintage Books, 1999).

Lincoln and the Strategy of Unconditional Surrender (Gettysburg: Gettysburg College, 1984).

Marching Toward Freedom: Blacks in the Civil War 1861-1865 (New York: Facts on File, 1991).

Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992).

The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).

What They Fought for 1861-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995).


Edited Works

The American Heritage New History of the Civil War, by Bruce Catton (New York: Viking, 1996).

American Political Leaders, ed. with Steven O'Brien, et al (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1991).

Anti-Slavery Crusade in America, ed. with Richard Gottlieb, (North Stratford: Ayer, 1970).

The Atlas of the Civil War (New York: Macmillan, 1994).

Battle Chronicles of the Civil War, Vols. 1-6, ed. with Richard Gottlieb (New York: Macmillan, 1989).

Encyclopedia of Civil War Biographies (Armonk: Sharpe Reference, 2000).

Lamson of the Gettysburg: The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamson, U.S. Navy by Roswell H. Lamson, ed. with Patricia R. McPherson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, ed. with John M. Murrin, et al (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999).

Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union (New York: Ballantine Books, 1991).

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, by U. S. Grant (New York: Penguin Books, 1999).

An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, Alias Pt. Lyons Wakeman, by Sarah R. Wakeman, ed. with Lauren C. Burgess (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).

Region, Race and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward, ed. with Morgan Kousser (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982).

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, by Jefferson Davis (New York: DaCapo Press, 1990).

We Cannot Escape History: Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1995).

Why the Confederacy Lost (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books), ed. wth G. S. Boritt (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand, ed. with William J. Cooper (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998).


Articles and Other Contributions

"The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans," in The New York Review of Books, Volume 38, No. 18, November 7, 1991.

"The Feats of the First Reconstruction," in Center Magazine, Volume 11, November-December 1978.

"Foreword," in Civil War Battlefields: A Touring Guide, by David J. Eicher (Dallas: Taylor Publishing Co., 1995).

"Foreword," in The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and Their Brothers, by John C. Waugh (New York: Ballantine Books, 1999).

"Foreword," in To Die Game: The Story of the Lowry Band, Indian Guerrillas of Reconstruction, by William M. Evans (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995).

"Foreword," in The Ferocious Engine of Democracy: A History of the American Presidency, from Theodore Roosevelt through George Bush, Volume 2, by Michael P. Riccards (Blue Ridge Summit: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1995).

"Foreword," in A Gentleman and an Officer: A Military and Social History of James B. Griffin's Civil War, ed. Judith N. McArthur, et al (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

"Foreword," in Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership, by Lawanda C. F. Cox (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994).

"Foreword," in Paving over the Past: A History and Guide to Civil War Battlefield Preservation, ed. Georgie Boge, et al (Covelo: Island Press, 1993).

"Foreword," in The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volumes 1 & 2, by Jefferson Davis (New York: DaCapo Press, 1990).

"Foreword," in The Union Preserved: A Guide to the Civil War Records in the New York State Archives, ed. Harold Holzer (New York: Fordham University Press, 1999).

"Gettysburg, 1862 (Alternate History's Approach to Changing Historical Events as They Really Happened)," in American Heritage, September 1999.

"The 'Glory' Story: The 54th Massachusetts and the Civil War," in The New Republic, Volume 202, Nos. 2-3, January 8, 1990.

"Grant or Greeley? The Abolitionist Dilemma in the Election of 1872," in American Historical Review, Volume 71, October 1965.

"History of Black Americans: From the Compromise of 1850 to the End of the Civil War," in Journal of American History, Volume 71, September 1984

"History: It's Still About Stories," in The New York Times Book Review, September 19, 1999.

"Horace Greeley," in American Historical Review, Volume 71, October 1965.

"Introduction," in The American Heritage New History of the Civil War, by Bruce Catton (New York: Viking , 1996).

" Introduction," in Andersonville: The Complete Original Screenplay, by David W. Rintels (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996).

"Introduction," in Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts, ed. Thomas W. Higginson (New York: DaCapo Press, 1998).

"Introduction," in Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War, ed. Catherine Clinton, et al (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

"Introduction," in Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command, ed. Douglas S. Freeman, et al (New York: Scribner, 1998).

"Introduction," in Ordeal of the Union: The Improvised War 1861-1862: War Becomes Revolution 1862-1863, ed. Allan Nevins, (Detroit: Gale Group, 1992).

"Introduction," in The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps, ed. Joshua L. Chamberlain (New York: Bantam Books, 1993).

"Introduction," in Reveille in Washington 1860-1865, by Margaret Leech (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1991).

"Introduction," in Turned Inside Out: Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac, ed. Frank Wilkeson (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997).

"Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History," in The New York Review of Books, Volume 38, No. 18, November 7, 1991.

"Modernization and Sectionalism," in The Causes of the Civil War, ed. Kenneth M. Stampp (New York: Touchstone Books, 1992).

"Quebec Whistles Dixie (Canadian Separation)," in Saturday Night, Volume 113, No. 2, March 1998.

"The Whole Family of Man: Lincoln and the Last Best Hope Abroad," in The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim, ed. Robert E. May, et al (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1999).

"A War That Never Goes Away." In American Heritage, Volume 41, No. 2, March 1990.

Prepared by Donna McClish of the NEH Library.