The American Civil War bibliography comprises books that deal in large part with the American Civil War. There are over 60,000 books on the war, with more appearing each month.In 2001, Jonathan Sarna estimated that over 50,000 books had already appeared, with 1,500 more appearing annually. American Jewish History 89.3 (2001) 335–337. There is no complete bibliography to the war; the largest guide to books is over 40 years old and lists over 6,000 titles selected by leading scholars.See Allan Nevins, Bell Irvin Wiley, and James I. Robertson, Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography (2 vol, 1970) Many specialized topics such as Abraham Lincoln,Burkhimer, Michael. 100 Essential Lincoln Books (2003) women,McDevitt, Theresa. Women and the American Civil War: An Annotated Bibliography (2003) and medicineFreemon, Frank R. Microbes and Minie Balls: An Annotated Bibliography of Civil War Medicine (1993) have their own lengthy bibliographies. The books on major campaigns typically contain their own specialized guides to the sources and literature. The most comprehensive guide to the historiography annotates over a thousand titles.Woodworth, Steven; et al., eds. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research (1996)

For the history of North and South see Union (American Civil War) and Confederate States of America and the many articles linked there.

For a guide to the bibliography see: *Woodworth, Steven E.; ed. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Greenwood Press, 1996. Eicher, David J. The Civil War in Books An Analytical Bibliography. 1997. Murdock, Eugene C. Civil War in the North: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. Garland, 1987.

For a guide to web sources see: Carter, Alice E.; Jensen, Richard. The Civil War on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites—Completely Revised and Updated. 2003.

Note: This article forms part of Bibliography of the American Civil War.

Overviews Current, Richard N., et al. eds. Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 Volume set; also 1 vol abridged version) () Heidler, David and Jeanne Heidler, eds, Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History (2002) 2740pp Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union (1970), vol 5. The Improvised War, 1861–1862; vo 6. War Becomes Revolution, 1862–1863; vol 7. The Organized War, 1863–1864; vol 8. The Organized War to Victory, 1864–1865; highly detailed coverage by a leading scholar. Resch, John P. et al., Americans at War: Society, Culture and the Homefront vol 2: 1816-1900 (2005) Soldiers of both sides

Carmichael, Peter S. The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies (UNC Press Books, 2018). online Frank, Joseph Allan, and George A. Reaves, eds. Seeing the Elephant: Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh (University of Illinois Press, 2003) online Hesseltine, William Best, ed. Civil War Prisons. (Kent State University Press, 1972). Linderman, Gerald. Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War (Free Press, 1987) Livermore, Thomas Leonard. Numbers and Losses in the Civil War in America, 1861-65 (Houghton, Mifflin, 1900). online McPherson, James M. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 1997) online Manning, Chandra. What This Cruel War Was Over. (Vintage, 2007) Uses letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to probe the world view of soldiers—black and white, Yankee and Rebel. interview with author Mitchell, Reid. Civil War Soldiers: Their Expectations and Their Experiences (Penguin, 1997). Robertson, James I. Soldiers Blue and Gray (U of South Carolina Press, 1988). Sheehan-Dean, Aaron, ed. The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers (University Press of Kentucky, 2006). online Shively, Kathryn J. Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia (UNC Press Books, 2013). online

Union homefront

Bak, Richard. A Distant Thunder: Michigan in the Civil War. Chelsea: Huron River, 2004. Berstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War. London: Oxford University Press, 1990. Gallman, J. Matthew, The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1994. Geary, James W. We Need Men: The Union Draft Riot in the Civil War. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1991. Green, Michael S. Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party during the Civil War. Fordham University Press, 2004. Hess, Earl J. Liberty, Virtue, and Progress: Northerners and Their War for the Union. New York: New York University Press, 1988. Mitchell, Charles W. "Maryland Voices of the Civil War," 2007. Onuf, Nicholas and Onuf, Peter. Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War. University of Virginia Press, 2006. Paludan, Philip S. The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. 1994. Paludan, Philip S. A People's Contest: The Union and Civil War, 1861-1865 (1996), detailed scholarly history Richardson, Heather Cox. The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War. 1997. Schecter, Barnet. The Devil's Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America. Walker Publishing Company, 2005. Smith, Michael Thomas. The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North. University of Virginia Press, 2011. Stampp, Kenneth M. Indiana Politics during the Civil War, 2nd edition. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1978. Thornton, Mark and Ekelund, Robert B., Jr. Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War. Scholarly Resources, 2004. Williams, David. A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom. New York: The New Press, 2005. Wilson, Mark R. The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865. Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2006.

Union politics Benton, Josiah Henry. Voting in the Field: A Forgotten Chapter of the Civil War. Boston, Massachusetts: privately published, 1915. Gray, Wood. The Hidden Civil War: The Story of the Copperheads. New York: Viking Press, 1942. Johnson, David Allen. Decided on the Battlefield: Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and the Election of 1864. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2010. Klement, Frank L. The Copperheads of the Middle West. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1960 Nelson, Larry E. Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric: Confederate Policy for the United States Presidential Contest of 1864. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1980. Silby, Joel H. A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 1860-1868. New York: Norton, 1977. Waugh, John C. Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency. New York: Crown Publishers, 1998. Weber, Jennifer L. Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Union civilian leaders Abbott, R. H. Ohio's Civil War Governors. Columbus, Ohio: no publisher listed, 1962. Ambler, Charles H. Francis H. Pierpont: Union War Governor of Virginia and Father of West Virginia. University of North Carolina Press, 1937. Cook, Robert J. Civil War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Goodwin, Doris K., Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. 2005. Hoogenboom, Ari. Gustavius Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Niven, John. Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Parrish, William E. Frank Blair: Lincoln's Conservative. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1998. . Plummer, Mark. Frontier Governor: Samuel J. Crawford of Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas: 1971. Steele, Janet E. The Sun Shines for All: Journalism and Ideology in the Life of Charles A. Dana. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1993. Thomas, Benjamin P. and Harold M. Hyman. Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1962. Vallandigham, James L. A Life of Clement L. Vallandigham. Baltimore, Maryland: no publisher listed, 1872. Waller, John L. Colossal Hamilton of Texas: A Biography of Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Militant Unionist and Reconstruction Governor. El Paso, Texas: Texas Western Press, 1968. Wardin, Robert B. An Account of the Private Life and Public Service of Salmon Portland Chase. Cincinnati, Ohio: Wilstach, Baldwin and Co., 1874. West, Jr., Richard S. Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Navy Department. New York: Bobbs–Merrill Company, 1943.

Abraham Lincoln Barr, John McKee. Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition From the Civil War to the Present. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2014. . Boritt, Gabor S. ed. Lincoln the War President (1994) Boritt, Gabor S. and Norman O. Forness, eds. The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory: Psychohistory, and History. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois State, 1988. . Brookhiser, Richard. Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln. Basic Books, 2014. Burton, Orville V. The Essential Lincoln: Speeches and Correspondence. New York: Hill & Wang, 2009. . Carwardine, Richard. Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power (2003) DiLorenzo, Thomas J. The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War. Roseville, California: Forum, 2002. attack on Lincoln from Libertarian economist Donald, David. Lincoln (1999) , Major scholarly biography Foner, Eric. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2011. Foner, Eric, ed. Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. . Gienapp, William E. Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America: A Biography 2002. . Goodrich, Thomas. The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy. (Indiana UP, 2005). . Goodwin, Doris. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. . Guelzo, Allen C. Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, (1999). . Holzer, Harold. Lincoln President–Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860–1861. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. . Holzer, Harold, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams, eds. The Lincoln Assassination: Crime and Punishment, Myth & Memory. Fordham University Press, 2010. McPherson, James M. Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution. 1992. McPherson, James M. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. New York: Penguin Books, 2008. . Miers, Earl S., ed. Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology: 1809–1865, three volumes. Washington, D.C.: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960. Neely, Mark E. The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia. New York: McGraw–Hill, 1984. Neely, Mark E. The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America. 1993. Paludan, Phillip Shaw. The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1994. . Major scholarly study Perret, Geoffrey. Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief. New York: Random House, 2004; Popular history Peterson, Merrill D. Lincoln in American Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Randall, James G. Lincoln the President. four volumes, 1945–55. a major scholarly study. Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, four volumes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. Schwartz, Barry. Abraham Lincoln in the Post–Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth–Century America. University of Chicago Press, 2009. Shaw, Archer H. The Lincoln Encyclopedia. New York: Macmillan, 1950. Steers, Jr., Edward. Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. .