The Most Read Books of the 2024 Reading Challenge (So Far)

UnCivil Wars Series

21 primary works • 21 total works
UnCivil Wars is a series dedicated to new ways of seeing and telling the American Civil War. Building on the Press’s strengths in the fields of gender, environment, and culture, authors in the series are encouraged to focus on unconventional social types and to think deeply about narrative strategy, telling their stories through memory, reverse chr…
Weirding the War: Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges
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4.03 · 30 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2011 · 7 editions
“It is well that war is so terrible,” Robert E. Le…

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    Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War
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    4.15     · 99 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2012 · 7 editions
    During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and…

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    America's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2014 · 5 editions
    James Tanner may be the most famous person in nine…

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    The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War
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    4.38     · 8 Ratings · published 2015 · 3 editions
    The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a…

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    Empty Sleeves: Amputation in the Civil War South
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    4.15     · 26 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2015 · 3 editions
    The Civil War acted like a battering ram on human …

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    Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War
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    4.30     · 64 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2015 · 3 editions
    Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading h…

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    Driven from Home: North Carolina's Civil War Refugee Crisis
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    4.25     · 4 Ratings · published 2016 · 5 editions
    Examining refugees of Civil War-era North Carolina…

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    The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West
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    3.40     · 10 Ratings · 3 Reviews · 4 editions
    The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast seq…

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    Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation
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    4.12     · 17 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 4 editions
    This collection of eleven original essays interrog…

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    The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade
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    3.82     · 22 Ratings · 8 Reviews · 4 editions
    Long-lost letters tell the story of an illegal sla…

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    The Lost President: A. D. Smith and the Hidden History of Radical Democracy in Civil War America
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    0.00     · 4 editions
    Though few people have heard of A.D. Smith (1811-6…

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    Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North
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    4.46     · 35 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2019 · 4 editions
    In the popular imagination, Civil War disability i…

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    Visions of Glory: The Civil War in Word and Image
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images…

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    Household War: How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War
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    4.38     · 8 Ratings · 4 editions
    Household War restores the centrality of household…

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    Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America
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    4.75     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the w…

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    The War After the War: A New History of Reconstruction
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    4.30     · 33 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2022 · 5 editions
    The War after the War is a lively military history…

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    The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice
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    4.07     · 15 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 3 editions
    Seeing the Civil War as part of African Americans …

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    Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 5 editions
    The influence of sedimentary geology on the strate…

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    Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves
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    5.00     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    Final Resting Places brings together some of the m…

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    A Man by Any Other Name: William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood
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    0.00     · 3 editions
    Few men of the Civil War era were as complicated o…

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    A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2024 · 1 edition
    From 1845 to 1865 the Gulf of Mexico was at the ce…

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