Reviews, Interviews, News, Commentaries, Excerpts, My Top 5 Books, Wilson's Bookmarks, Book AwardsMy Top 5 Books on the Civil War
By Allen C. Guelzo, author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
[ posted 10/19/2007 8:32AM ]
The American Civil War
Peter J. Parish
The finest single-volume survey of the Civil War, complete with attention to civilian as well as military conflicts in American society. Gorgeously well written by, surprisingly, a British historian.
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
Mark A. Noll
For all its brevity (216 pages), the best account and interpretation of how Christian ideas shaped, and were shaped by, the Civil War. Not, thankfully, a religious history or a church history, but a theological history.
Battle Tactics of the Civil War
Paddy Griffith
Another British historian, this time a military one, whose utterly fresh-faced look at the tactics, weapons, and combat experience of the Civil War amaze on every page. Your favorite myths about rifled muskets and total war deflate like a shot balloon.
On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia
Clarence l. Mohr
Despite the increased outflow of Civil War "social history" over the last 20 years, Mohr's book remains the model for interpreting the home-front experiences of Civil War Southerners, black and white.
Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox
J. Tracy Power
The most ambitious and innovative history of Civil War soldiers on offer, focusing on the final campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Related Elsewhere:
Christianity Today and Books & Culture articles on the Civil War include:
Christian History Corner: Reports of the Revival | The Confederate camp became a school of Christ. (November 1, 2004)
Books & Culture's Book of the Week: Divinely Decreed? | Re-fighting the Battle of Gettysburg (June 1, 2003)
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Johann
If evangelicals knew history, they would not only be Catholics, but they would realize that the Civil War was a wicked war of aggression waged to crush a democratically elected nation that was only upholding the Revolutionary tradition of Washington, Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers.
j
good books on our history
Granny Fran
Thanks for this list; I like the idea of studying the Civil War from an Evangelical Christian viewpoint as well as that of an American Citizen.