This is the final post I will make on Civil War and Reconstruction books offered for free during the Corona Crisis. These are e-books that various university presses have made free to the general public. Click on the title (not the image of the book) to be taken to the book’s page, then you can read them online or download them to your computer or device. If you want to see the other seven sets of books, just click on the image of the books to the right.
Today’s batch include some really interesting books from University of Nebraska, University of Virginia, Princeton, and others. They range from books on individual battles and leaders of the war to studies of abolitionists during Reconstruction. This is the most varied set I have posted so far and you should definitely check it out.
And, as my father would say, “Don’t say I never gave you anything.”
Please stay safe during the Pandemic. Flatten the Curve.
-Pat Young
- Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization
- Johns Hopkins University Press
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- The Big House after Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment
- University of Virginia Press
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- Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War
- University of Virginia Press
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- Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation
- University of Virginia Press
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- Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia’s Criminal Justice System
- University of Virginia Press
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- Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration
- University of Virginia Press
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- A Deed So Accursed: Lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881–1940
- University of Virginia Press
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- Designing Dixie: Tourism, Memory, and Urban Space in the New South
- University of Virginia Press
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- The First Republican Army: The Army of Virginia and the Radicalization of the Civil War
- University of Virginia Press
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- Freedom’s Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation
- University of Virginia Press
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- Radical Reform: Interracial Politics in Post-Emancipation North Carolina
- University of Virginia Press
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- A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South
- University of Virginia Press
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- Days of Destruction: Augustine Thomas Smythe and the Civil War Siege of Charleston
- University of South Carolina Press
- Living a Big War in a Small Place: Spartanburg, South Carolina, during the Confederacy
- University of South Carolina Press
- Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis
- University of South Carolina Press
- A Palmetto Boy: Civil War-Era Diaries and Letters of James Adams Tillman
- University of South Carolina Press
- Resolute Rebel: General Roswell S. Ripley, Charleston’s Gallant Defender
- University of South Carolina Press
- Shrill Hurrahs: Women, Gender, and Racial Violence in South Carolina, 1865-1900
- University of South Carolina Press
- South Carolina Fire-Eater: The Life of Laurence Massillion Keitt, 1824-1864
- University of South Carolina Press
- South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras: Essays from the Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association
- University of South Carolina Press
- South Carolina State University: A Black Land-Grant College in Jim Crow America
- University of South Carolina Press
- A South Carolina Upcountry Saga: The Civil War Letters of Barham Bobo Foster and His Family, 1860-1863
- University of South Carolina Press
- Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War: Letters of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore Families, 1853-1865
- University of South Carolina Press
- Romances of the White Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936
- Vanderbilt University Press
- American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling: A Comparative Study
- University of Nebraska Press
- Amiable Scoundrel: Simon Cameron, Lincoln’s Scandalous Secretary of War
- University of Nebraska Press
- Busy in the Cause: Iowa, the Free-State Struggle in the West, and the Prelude to the Civil War
- University of Nebraska Press
- Grant’s Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox
- University of Nebraska Press
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- Murdering the President: Alexander Graham Bell and the Race to Save James Garfield
- University of Nebraska Press
- Music Along the Rapidan: Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community during Winter Quarters, Virginia
- University of Nebraska Press
- Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and Eugenics
- University of Nebraska Press
- The Sharpshooters: A History of the Ninth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War
- University of Nebraska Press
- Sight Unseen: How Frémont’s First Expedition Changed the American Landscape
- University of Nebraska Press
- The Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War
- University of Nebraska Press
- The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854
- University of Nebraska Press
- Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory
- University of Nebraska Press
- When Baseball Went White: Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime
- University of Nebraska Press
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Using the Free Books:
If you follow the links to the free books you will see something like this:
Beneath the description of the book you will see “Table of Contents.”
Each chapter is a separate download. You click on the download and you can read the chapter online. You can also save the download onto your device. Ignore the “Save” button on the Project Muse page, though, it saves the chapter to your Muse cloud, which you probably don’t have.
Good luck and I will be back with more free books tomorrow.
