Here is my fifth selection of free e-books from scholarly presses on the Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
There are some great books in here like Piston’s assessment of James Longstreet and the fantastic collection of letters by Robert Gould Shaw of the 54th Mass. You can read these online or download them a chapter at a time to read later. Most of the publishers are making the books free for you until the end of May or June, depending on the publisher.
- The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family
- University of Georgia Press
- Berry Benson’s Civil War Book: Memoirs of a Confederate Scout and Sharpshooter
- University of Georgia Press
- Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism
- University of Georgia Press
- Blind No More: African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War
- University of Georgia Press
- The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War
- University of Georgia Press
- City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763–1856
- University of Georgia Press
- The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain’s Story
- University of Georgia Press
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- Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South
- University of Georgia Press
- Contentious Liberties: American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866
- University of Georgia Press
- Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance
- University of Georgia Press
- Domesticating Foreign Struggles: The Italian Risorgimento and Antebellum American Identity
- University of Georgia Press
- Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson
- University of Georgia Press
- Gender and the Jubilee: Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri
- University of Georgia Press
- The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West
- University of Georgia Press
- The Greatest Trials I Ever Had: The Civil War Letters of Margaret and Thomas Cahill
- University of Georgia Press
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- Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South
- University of Georgia Press
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- The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852
- University of Georgia Press
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- Jekyll Island’s Early Years: From Prehistory through Reconstruction
- University of Georgia Press
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- Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow
- University of Georgia Press
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- Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1865-1900
- University of Georgia Press
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- Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857
- University of Georgia Press
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- The Politics of Black Citizenship: Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817–1863
- University of Georgia Press
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- Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War
- University of Georgia Press
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- Redeeming the Southern Family: Evangelical Women and Domestic Devotion in the Antebellum South
- University of Georgia Press
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- Rich Man’s War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
- University of Georgia Press
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- Little Women Abroad: The Alcott Sisters’ Letters from Europe, 1870-1871
- University of Georgia Press
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- Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance
- University of Georgia Press
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- Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
- University of Georgia Press
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- Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas
- University of Georgia Press
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- Shout Because You’re Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
- University of Georgia Press
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- Slavery and Freedom in Texas: Stories from the Courtroom, 1821–1871
- University of Georgia Press
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- Slavery on the Periphery: The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras
- University of Georgia Press
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- Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810
- University of Georgia Press
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- Sounds American: National Identity and the Music Cultures of the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1800–1860
- University of Georgia Press
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- Stepping Lively in Place: The Not-Married, Free Women of Civil-War-Era Natchez, Mississippi
- University of Georgia Press
- To Have and to Hold: Slave Work and Family Life in Antebellum South Carolina
- University of Georgia Press
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- To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class
- University of Georgia Press
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- Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity
- University of Georgia Press
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- The Trial of Democracy: Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860-1910
- University of Georgia Press
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- Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts
- University of Georgia Press
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- Up from the Mudsills of Hell: The Farmers’ Alliance, Populism, and Progressive Agriculture in Tennessee, 1870-1915
- University of Georgia Press
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- Upheaval in Charleston: Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim Crow
- University of Georgia Press
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- War upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War
- University of Georgia Press
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- What Virtue There Is in Fire: Cultural Memory and the Lynching of Sam Hose
- University of Georgia Press
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- William Gregg’s Civil War: The Battle to Shape the History of Guerrilla Warfare
- University of Georgia Press
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- Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893
- University of Georgia Press
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- Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau
- University of Georgia 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.
