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The Civil War

Oxford University Press is one of the leading publishers of Civil War history. Here are just a few of our acclaimed works on America's great cataclysm.

The Gettysburg Nobody Knows

Gabor S. Boritt
$19.99
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Paperback,  Feb 1999 ISBN13: 9780195129069ISBN10: 0195129067 A fresh look at the greatest battle in American military history

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Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine

The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign
Thomas A. Desjardin
$19.99
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Paperback,  Jan 2001 ISBN13: 9780195140828ISBN10: 0195140826 A new edition of a stirring account of the pivotal Gettysburg campaign, told from the perspective of the soldiers of the 20th Maine Regiment
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Why the Civil War Came

Gabor S. Boritt
$19.99
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Paperback,  Mar 1997 ISBN13: 9780195113761ISBN10: 0195113764 An illuminating look at the onset of the Civil War
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Lincoln, the War President

The Gettysburg Lectures
Gabor S. Boritt
$29.99
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Paperback,  Apr 1994 ISBN13: 9780195089110ISBN10: 0195089111
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Why the Confederacy Lost

Gabor S. Boritt
$19.99
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Paperback,  Aug 1993 ISBN13: 9780195085495ISBN10: 0195085493 "A stimulating, authoritative, and persuasive contribution to Civil War historiography."--Kirkus Reviews
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Lincoln's Sanctuary

Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home
Matthew Pinsker
$30.00
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Hardback,  Jul 2003 ISBN13: 9780195162066ISBN10: 0195162064 A poignant look at how Lincoln the man shouldered the burden of being Lincoln the president
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The Private Mary Chesnut

The Unpublished Civil War Diaries
Mary Boykin Chesnut, C. Vann Woodward, Elizabeth Muhlenfeld
$39.99
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Paperback,  Nov 1984 ISBN13: 9780195035131ISBN10: 0195035135
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Intimate Strategies of the Civil War

Military Commanders and Their Wives
Carol K. Bleser, Lesley J. Gordon
$60.00
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Hardback,  Sep 2001 ISBN13: 9780195115093ISBN10: 0195115090 A rare and fascinating look at a critical aspect of Civil War commanders' lives--their marriages
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Jefferson Davis's Generals

Gabor S. Boritt
$55.00
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Hardback,  Jun 1999 ISBN13: 9780195120622ISBN10: 0195120620 Provocative new essays on Confederate leadership and strategy by eight leading Civil War historians

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Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi

Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860
Christopher J. Olsen
$95.00
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Hardback,  Sep 2000 ISBN13: 9780195131475ISBN10: 0195131479
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The Better Angel

Walt Whitman in the Civil War
Roy Morris
$39.99
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Paperback,  Oct 2001 ISBN13: 9780195147094ISBN10: 019514709X The first full account of Whitman's Civil War years sheds new light on the man, his poetry, and the treatment of the war's sick and wounded.
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Virginia's Private War

Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865
William Blair
$35.00
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Paperback,  Aug 2000 ISBN13: 9780195140477ISBN10: 0195140478 "...must surely rank among the best studies of a Confederate state at war."--Times Literary Supplement
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The Civil War

A History in Documents
Rachel Filene Seidman
$39.95
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Hardback,  Dec 2000 ISBN13: 9780195115581ISBN10: 0195115589 Rachel Seidman brings together an array of primary sources--the letters, diary entries, memoirs, and testimony of blacks, Native Americans, women, children, farmers, and foot soldiers--that bring the Civil War to life.

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Southern Families at War

Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South
Catherine Clinton
$50.00
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Paperback,  Jul 2000 ISBN13: 9780195136845ISBN10: 0195136845 A collection of little-known and often incredible stories about Southerners during the Civil War
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The Civil War and Reconstruction

A Student Companion
William L. Barney
$65.00
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Other Bk Format,  Apr 2001 ISBN13: 9780195115598ISBN10: 0195115597 A single volume encyclopedia with 245 entries on all facets of the conflicted era.

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