January 24, 2011
United States Civil War
In the News: 2011 is the 150th anniversary of the United States Civil War. The FAU Libraries has a plethora of resources devoted to this subject, but here are just a few of our newly acquired titles – and some of our not-so-new DVDs.
Wait! Before you review the list, don’t forget about a few electronic resources we have devoted exclusively to the Civil War:
- American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
- American Civil War Research Database
- Illustrated Civil War Newspaper and Magazines
- Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera
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At Death’s Door: A Yankee Soldier’s Story of Survival in Confederate Captivity
By Jasper Newton Hall. Blue Acorn Press, 2010
Call Number: E615 .H355 2010
Baring the Iron Hand: Discipline in the Union Army
By Steven J. Ramold. Northern Illinois University Press, 2010
Call Number: E491 .R36 2010
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Freemasonry in the American Civil War
By Michael A. Halleran. University of Alabama Press, 2010
Call Number: HS529 .H357 2010
The Birth of a Nation (DVD)
Directed by D. W. Griffith. Kino, 2002
Call Number: PN1997 .B55 2002 (Boca Raton Media Center Reserve)
Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War
By David Williams. New Press, 2010
Call Number: F214 .W564 2010
Border War: Fighting Over Slavery Before the Civil War
By Stanley Harrold. University of North Carolina Press, 2010
Call Number: E449 .H2985 2010
The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War
By Williamjames Hull Hoffer. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010
Call Number: E434.8 .H64 2010
The Civil War (Online video)
Directed by Ken Burns. PBS, 1989
Call Number: Available online via American History in Video
Cold Mountain (DVD)
Directed by Anthony Minghella. Miramax, 2004
Call Number: PN1997.2 .C643 2004 (Boca Raton Media Center)
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
By Stephanie McCurry. Harvard University Press, 2010
Call Number: E487 .M18 2010
Do They Miss Me at Home?: The Civil War Letters of William McKnight, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry
Edited by Donald C. Maness and H. Jason Combs. Ohio University Press, 2010
Call Number: E525.6 7th .M35 2010
The First Vermont Cavalry in the Civil War: A History
By Joseph D. Collea, Jr. McFarland & Co., 2010
Call Number: E533.6 1st .C655 2010
Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake: George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons
By John Gary Maxwell. Arthur H. Clark Co./U of Oklahoma Press, 2010
Call Number: F826 .M28 M396 2010
Glory (DVD)
Directed by Edward Zwick. TriStar, 2000 (released 1989)
Call Number: PN1997. G.56 2000 (Boca Raton Media Center)
The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War
By Donald Stoker. Oxford University Press, 2010
Call Number: E470 .S87 2010
The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln’s War
By William Marvel. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010
Call Number: E471 .M366 2010
The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies
By Victoria E. Bynum. University of North Carolina Press, 2010
Call Number: F215 .B956 2010
Manifest Destinies: America’s Westward Expansion and the Road to the Civil War
By Steven E. Woodworth. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010
Call Number: E179.5 .W65 2010
The New York Times Complete Civil War, 1861-1865
Edited by Harold Holzer & Craig L. Symonds. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., 2010
Call Number: E464 .N49 2010
Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts
Edited by Richard M. Reid. University of Massachusetts Press, 2010
Call Number: E513.5 .55th .W55 2010
Shiloh: The War is Civil No More (DVD)
Directed by Shane Seley & Bret Bolton. Wide Awake Films, 2006
Call Number: E473.54 .S555 2006
A Small But Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia
By Zack C. Waters and James C. Edmonds. University of Alabama Press, 2010
Call Number: E558.4 .W38 2010
Strangling the Confederacy: Coastal Operations of the American Civil War
By Kevin Dougherty. Casemate, 2010
Call Number: E591 .D66 2010
Trailing Clouds of Glory: Zachary Taylor’s Mexican War Campaign and His Emerging Civil War Leaders
By Felice Flanery Lewis. University of Alabama Press ,2010
Call Number: E405.1 .L49 2010
Union Combined Operations in the Civil War
Edited by Craig L. Symonds. Fordham University Press, 2010
Call Number: E491 .U4817 2010
War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914
By Cynthia Wachtell. Louisiana University Press, 2010
Call Number: PS169 .W27 W33 2010