Course Readings
Undergraduate Section
Students in the undergraduate section of the course will be required to purchase one of the four other books listed here. You will read and consult with the textbook throughout the semester.
Textbook:
Allen C. Guelzo, Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), ISBN: 978-0-19-984328-2.
Monographs (choose one to buy and review):
Chandra Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (New York: Random House, 2007). ISBN: 978-0-307-26482-4.
Drew Gilpin Faust This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (New York: Vintage Books, 2008). ISBN: 978-0-307-26858-7.
Megan Kate Nelson, Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012). ISBN: 978-0-8203-3397-7.
Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman, Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War (New York: Hill and Wang, 2015). ISBM: 978-0-374-60804-0.
Graduate Section
Students in the graduate section will be required to read all books listed below. You can choose between Cassidy or Yarbrough’s book.
Textbook:
Allen C. Guelzo, Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), ISBN: 978-0-19-984328-2.
Monographs:
Elizabeth Varon, Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2010). ISBN: 978-0-8078-7159-1.
Chandra Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (New York: Random House, 2007). ISBN: 978-0-307-26482-4.
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (New York: Vintage Books), 2008. ISBN: 978-0-307-26858-7.
Stephanie McCurry, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012). ISBN: 978-0-674-06421-8
Fay A. Yarbrough, Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country (UNC Press, 978-1-4696-6511-5)
OR
Michelle Cassidy, Michigan’s Company K: Anishinaabe Soldiers, Citizenship, and the Civil War (Michigan State University Press, 978-1-6118-6463-2).