This page brings together free online books and topic searches related to United States Civil War history, including battles, military campaigns, political events, slavery, reconstruction, and historical biographies. The materials range from older public domain works to modern scholarly studies.
The Topics section below helps readers find books and documents within the huge Internet Archive collection, which includes periodicals and other materials, from older historical works to recent publications. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Browsing the topics and selecting those of interest is usually easier and more effective than searching Internet Archive directly.
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The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related to the United States Civil War. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable books, periodicals, and other documents. For some subjects, Internet Archive also contains other media, such as images, audio, or video files. These can be selected from the media options above the search results. Filters on the left side of Internet Archive pages can help narrow search results by year, language, or related subjects.
US Civil War Books
- Confederate Women Stories
- Jefferson Davis, 1808-1889
- Destruction and Pillage
- Economic aspects
- Fiction
- Foreign Public Opinion
- Juvenile Fiction
- Robert E. Lee, 1807-1870
- Naval operations
- Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910
- NYPL Regimental Histories
- Participation by African Americans
- Personal Narratives
- Poetry
- Public Opinion
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