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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)

  • Author:
    Dennison, Brad
    Summary:

    The first in a series of novellas featuring Jeff Boon, a Confederate Civil War veteran who returns home after the war to find home is not the way he remembered it. Union raiders struck his home town, burning buildings and killing...

  • Author:
    Brooks, Geraldine
    Summary:

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize—a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character...

  • Author:
    Mitchell, Margaret
    Summary:

    Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time—has been heralded by readers everywhere as the great American novel. Widely considered the great...

  • Author:
    Whitman, Walt
    Summary:

    Walt Whitman experienced first-hand the ravages of the Civil War as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals of Washington DC. During that time, he filled notebooks with "impromptu jottings" that became the basis of two works: Drum-Taps, a...

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