ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Collections of Teaching Materials	Teacher Guide
A Road They Did Not Know, by Larry McMurtry
America as a Gun Culture, by Richard Hofstadter	Guide
America’s Oddest Election, by Harold Holzer	Guide
Hollywood History, by Mark C. Carnes	Guide
How The Frontier Shaped The American Character, by Ray Allen Billington	Guide
Lincoln, the Orator by Harold Holzer	Guide
Slaughter on Cemetery Ridge, by Stephen Sears	Guide
Susan B. Anthony Cast Her Ballot And Was Arrested, by Godfrey D. Lehman	Guide
The Father of American Terrorism, by Ken Chowder	Guide
The Slaves Freed, by Stephen Oates	Guide
Who Was Wyatt Earp? by Allen Barra	Guide
Why The Civil War Still Matters, by James McPherson	Guide

Essays from This Era

Title	Author	Issue
Billy the Barber Shaves Lincoln	Steve Inskeep
Salmon Chase Saves the Union	Walter Stahr	Spring 2024
“With Malice Toward None”	Jon Meacham	Winter 2023
Lincoln Walks a Tightrope	David S. Reynolds	Spring 2022
Lincoln's Thoughts on the “Mobocratic Spirit”	Bruce Watson	February/March 2021
Lincoln Warned About Mobs and Demagogues	David S. Reynolds	February/March 2021
Lincoln and Presidential Character	David S. Reynolds	October 2020
Congress Fights the Civil War	Fergus M. Bordewich	Spring 2020
President Lincoln's Disastrous First Month	James M. McPherson	Spring 2020
Lincoln's Corrupt War Department	Stephen B. Oates	February/March 2021
“Let Us Die to Make Men Free”	Richard M. Gamble	Summer 2019
Lincoln's Boys	Joshua Zeitz	Spring 2018
The Struggles of Edwin Stanton	Walter Stahr	Fall 2017
Convention Surprises	Edwin S. Grosvenor
"Oh doctor, do what you can!"	Edwin S. Grosvenor	Summer 2012
Baltimore Riot		Spring 2011
Lincoln Inaugurated		Spring 2011
A Spirit and Power Far Beyond Its Letter	Harold Holzer	Summer 2010
A Graceful Exit	Jay Winik	Winter 2010
“The Tide is Setting Strongly Against Us”	Edward L. Ayers	Winter 2010
Lincoln As Commander in Chief	James M. McPherson	Winter 2009, Summer 2025
Lincoln’s Home Away from Home Reopens	Ann Geracimos	Spring/Summer 2008
Showdown at Sumter	James M. McPherson	Winter 2010
Was Jefferson Davis Captured in a Dress?	James L. Swanson	Fall 2010
The Imperial Congress	Thomas Fleming	Fall 2010
America's Oddest Election	Harold Holzer	Fall 2010
Lincoln’s Plan For Reconstruction	James G. Randall \| Richard N. Current	June 1955
The Boy In The Window	Stefan Lorant	June 1955
“To Open The Door”	Milton S. Eisenhower	April 1955
Riding The Circuit With Lincoln	Willard King	February 1955
The Speech That Made The Man	Harold Holzer	Winter 2010, Summer 2025
If Lincoln Hadn’t Died...	Eric Foner	Winter 2009
Lincoln the Orator	Harold Holzer	Winter 2009
Lincoln and the Navy	Craig L. Symonds	Winter 2009
Lincoln’s Legacy	Harold Holzer	Winter 2009
Lincoln & Frederick Douglass	Stephen Kendrick \| Paul Kendrick	Winter 2009
Time Machine	Frederic D. O'Brien	April/May 2007
1832 - Lincoln the Indian Fighter	Frederic D. O'Brien	April/May 2007
Resources		November/December 2006
The Gettysburg Gospel	Harold Holzer	November/December 2006
The Three Faces of George Washington	Frederick E. Allen	November/December 2006
The Buyable Past	David Lander	November/December 2006
History Now		November/December 2006
The Madness of Mary Lincoln	Jason Emerson	June/July 2006
The Other Lincoln Family Home	Harold Holzer	February/March 2006
America’s Most Famous Letter	Jason Emerson	February/March 2006
“As Bad As She Could Be”	Harold Holzer	February/March 2006
The Best Civil War Books	Stephen W. Sears	November/December 2004
“What is Hell to One Like Me...?”	Richard Lawrence Miller	August/September 2004
Still A Great Hall After All	Harold Holzer	April/May 2004
“Your Brave and Early-Fallen Child…”	Kevin Baker	February/March 2004
The Test of Reconciliation in Terrible Times	James M. McPherson	November/December 2001
The Trouble With the Bixby Letter	Michael Burlingame	July/August 1999
How I Met Lincoln	Harold Holzer	July/August 1999
Is That Lincoln in Phil-del, as He Called It?	Harold Holzer	February/March 1998
Unlike Clinton's Rich Guests, Lincoln Never Slept in "The Lincoln Bedroom"	Harold Holzer	July/August 1997
The Return of "The Peacemakers," Minus Lincoln	Harold Holzer	February/March 1996
The San Patricios	James Callaghan	November 1995
The Forgotten Triumph of the Paw Paw	Richard W. Kaeuper	October 1995
Who’s Who?	James G. Barber	July/August 1995
Westward on the Old Lincoln Highway	Philip Langdon	April 1995
How Did Lincoln Die?	Richard A. R. Fraser, M.d.	February/March 1995
Abraham Lincoln Again	Geoffrey C. Ward	February/March 1995
Clio and the Clintons	Carl Sferrazza Anthony	December 1994
Tales of a Gettysburg Guide	James W. Wensyel	April 1994
“A Most Abandoned Hypocrite”	Douglas L. Wilson	February/March 1994
Dear Mr. Lincoln …	Geoffrey C. Ward	February/March 1994
The Destruction of Fighting Joe Hooker	Gene Smith	October 1993
Presidents on Presidents	Thomas Fleming	November 1992
The Booth Obsession	Gene Smith	September 1992
The Conversion of Harry Truman	William E. Leuchtenburg	November 1991
John Wilkes Booth’s Other Victim	Richard Sloan	February/March 1991
“Most Americans Don’t Know What Lincoln Really Represents”	William E. Leuchtenburg	December 1990
The Fires of Norfolk	Ivan Musicant	March 1990
A War That Never Goes Away	James M. McPherson	March 1990
A. Lincoln, Writer	Geoffrey C. Ward	September/October 1989
The House at Eighth and Jackson	Geoffrey C. Ward	April 1989
How We Got Lincoln	Peter Andrews	November 1988
God’s Chosen Instrument	Stephen W. Sears	July/August 1988
Lincoln Fiction & Fact	Arthur Schlesinger Jr.	December 1987
101 More Things Every College Graduate Should Know About American History	John A. Garraty	December 1987
A Few Parchment Pages Two Hundred Years Later	Richard B. Morris	May/June 1987, Summer 2025
An Epitaph For Mr. Lincoln	H. Wayne Morgan	February/March 1987
I Love Washington	David McCullough	April/May 1986
101 Things Every College Graduate Should Know about American History	John A. Garraty	December 1986
History Still Matters	Bill Moyers	December 1985
Matters Of Fact	Geoffrey C. Ward	August/September 1984
Targets Of Opportunity	Geoffrey C. Ward	April/May 1984
Where Have All The Great Men Gone?	Richard D. Brown	February/March 1984
“If I Had Another Face, Do You Think I'd Wear This One?”	Harold Holzer	February/March 1983
The Plot To Steal Lincoln’s Body	Peggy Robertson	April/May 1982
Lincoln’s Life Preserver	Charles B. Strozier	February/March 1982
Two Cheers For Optimism	Robert Bendiner	December 1982
Lincoln’s Lost Love Letters	Don E. Fehrenbacher	February/March 1981
Five Minutes To Freedom		December 1981
The Slaves Freed	Stephen B. Oates	December 1980
America: Experiment or Destiny?	Arthur Schlesinger Jr.	June 1977, Summer 2025
Say Who’s That Tall, Homely Feller In The Stovepipe Hat?		February 1977
Mallet, Chisel, And Curls	Lee Roderick	February 1976
Mrs. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper	Lynne Cheney	October 1975
Garibaldi And Lincoln	Herbert Mitgang	October 1975
Pistols For Two … Coffee For One	James R. Webb	February 1975
The Miracle That Saved The Union	Scarritt Adams	December 1975
Lincoln As Poet		October 1974
The Lincoln Highway	Joe McCarthy	June 1974
The Relief Of Fort Pickens	James Cooley	February 1974
As Well As The Art Of Diplomacy, There Are Also The Arts Of Diplomacy	Virginia Cardwell Purdy	February 1974
The Vice President Flees	William C. Davis	October 1973
Lincoln Saves A Reformer	Curtis Dahl	October 1972
“Better For Us To Be Separated”	Michael Harwood	December 1972
Another Assassination, Another Widow, Another Embattled Book	Marion Wefer	August 1967
An American In Paris	Stephen Hess	February 1967
“There I Grew Up”	William E. Wilson	October 1966
ASSASSINATION!	Philip B. Kunhardt Jr.	April 1965
Journey’s End: 1865	Walter Havighurst	February 1962
Faces From The Past—IV	Richard M. Ketchum	October 1961
Lincoln Takes Charge	Allan Nevins	October 1960
New York’s Bloodiest Week	Lawrence Lader	June 1959
He Did Hold Lincoln’s Hat	Allan Nevins	February 1959
Our Two Greatest Presidents	Clinton Rossiter	February 1959
Lincoln’s Second Inauguration	Philip Van Doren Stern	February 1958
Ghosts In The White House	Claude M. Fuess	December 1958
The Unknown Conspirator	Philip Van Doren Stern	February 1957
The Controversial Career of Col. Corcoran	Joseph Connor	November/December 2024
Bruce Catton Recalls the Emotional 1913 Reunion at Gettysburg	Bruce Catton	Fall 2024
Longstreet’s Dramatic Change of Heart	Elizabeth R. Varon
Billy the Barber Shaves Lincoln	Steve Inskeep
Salmon Chase Saves the Union	Walter Stahr	Spring 2024
Did Johnny Come Marching Home With PTSD?	David O. Stewart	May 2023
Antietam: America's Bloodiest Day	Justin Martin	September 2022
Massacre at Fort Pillow	Fergus M. Bordewich	November/December 2021
Wrapped in Glory: Black Troops of the Civil War	Douglas R. Egerton	Spring 2021
Juneteenth!	Bruce Watson	June 2020
Confederates in Congress: Heritage or Hate?	Edwin S. Grosvenor	June 2020
Confederates Honored by the U.S. Army	Edwin S. Grosvenor \| Chase Brush	June 2020
Congress Fights the Civil War	Fergus M. Bordewich	Spring 2020
President Lincoln's Disastrous First Month	James M. McPherson	Spring 2020
The Frémonts Open the West	Steve Inskeep	Winter 2020
Corruption and Treason in the Buchanan Cabinet	Michael F. Holt	February/March 2021
Lincoln's Corrupt War Department	Stephen B. Oates	February/March 2021
“Let Us Die to Make Men Free”	Richard M. Gamble	Summer 2019
The Importance of Mill Springs	Jack Hurst	Winter 2019
Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Heart Touched By Fire	Ronald Collins	Spring 2019
Lincoln's Boys	Joshua Zeitz	Spring 2018
The Struggles of Edwin Stanton	Walter Stahr	Fall 2017
Bruce Catton's America	Edwin S. Grosvenor	September 2023
Grant Splits Dixie	Jack Hurst	Summer 2017
High Stakes at Antietam	Stephen W. Sears	Summer 2012
Bruce Catton	David W. Blight	Spring 2012
From Civil War to Civil Rights	Henry Louis Gates Jr.	Summer 2010
Battle of Ball's Bluff		Fall 2011
Cherokee Loyalties		Fall 2011
African Americans In Combat		Fall 2011
About The Civil War		Spring 2011
General Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan		Spring 2011
Baltimore Riot		Spring 2011
Fort Sumter Falls		Spring 2011
Why the Civil War Still Matters	James M. McPherson	Spring 2011
In the Defense of the Republic	James Oliver Horton	Summer 2010
A Spirit and Power Far Beyond Its Letter	Harold Holzer	Summer 2010
The South’s Mighty Gamble On King Cotton	Gene Dattel	Summer 2010
A Graceful Exit	Jay Winik	Winter 2010
The Last Confederate Prison	The Editors	Fall 2010
The First To Secede	James W. Loewen	Winter 2011
Three Years with Grant	Benjamin P. Thomas \| Sylvanus Cadwallader	October 1955
The Blockade That Failed	Daniel O’flaherty	August 1955
Lincoln’s Plan For Reconstruction	James G. Randall \| Richard N. Current	June 1955
If Lincoln Hadn’t Died...	Eric Foner	Winter 2009
What Happened At Fort Pillow?	Andrew S. Ward	August/September 2005
Trading Up	John Steele Gordon	August/September 2005
“Ride With The Devil”		April/May 2005
Bringing Camels to the Southwest in 1855	Frederic D. O'Brien	February/March 2005
General Longstreet and the Lost Cause	Stephen W. Sears	February/March 2005
The Best Civil War Books	Stephen W. Sears	November/December 2004
The Ten Best Civil War Films	Bruce Chadwick	August/September 2004
The Tariff of Abominations	Frederic D. O'Brien	November/December 2003
The Blood on the Photo		April/May 2003
The Race Riots in Manhattan in 1863	Kevin Baker	March 2003
Creating the Ultimate Civil War Resource	Dennis K. Berman	July/August 2001
Secrets Of The ‘hunley’		April 2001
Frederick, Maryland: A Civil War Crossroads		September 2000
Alternatives to That Odious Flag?	Kevin Baker	July/August 2000
Gettysburg, 1862	James M. McPherson	September 1999
Caning Senator Sumner Nearly to Death in the Senate	Kevin Baker	September 1999
War Correspondent	Nancy Caldwell Sorel	May/June 1999
Civil War General	Stephen W. Sears	May/June 1999
Following Georgia's Antebellum Trail		April 1999
Jillian’s Story	Richard F. Snow	February/March 1999
Richmond’s Black Heroes	The Editors	September 1998
The Consequences of the Skirmish at Lewis Farm	Alfred W. Crosby	July/August 1998
Stonewall Jackson’s Deadly Calm	Robert K. Krick	December 1996
The New Civil War	Richard F. Snow	October 1996
Civil War Essays		May/June 1996
Civil War Women		May/June 1996
Our Civil War Cd-rom	Richard F. Snow	February/March 1996
Editors’ Choice		February/March 1996
A Rebel Remembers	Geoffrey C. Ward	November 1995
Lee’s Last Stand	Frederic D. O'Brien	October 1995
Screen Rights	Richard F. Snow	September 1995
The Selling of Libby Prison	William B. Meyer	November 1994
The Warfare State	Bruce D. Porter	July/August 1994
Build-down	T. A. Heppenheimer	December 1993
Dr. Lauderdale Goes to War	Geoffrey C. Ward	December 1993
Hero of the 20th	Geoffrey C. Ward	November 1992
Disenthralling Ourselves	Geoffrey C. Ward	April 1992
All for the Union	Geoffrey C. Ward	May/June 1991
Financial Folklore	John Steele Gordon	February/March 1991
The Civil War In Review		May/June 1990
Lee’s Greatest Victory	Robert K. Krick	March 1990
The Rock of Chickamauga	Peter Andrews	March 1990
A War That Never Goes Away	James M. McPherson	March 1990
Paying for the War	John Steele Gordon	March 1990
A. Lincoln, Writer	Geoffrey C. Ward	September/October 1989
The Civil War’s Greatest Scoop	James Weeks	July/August 1989
The Children of Gettysburg	Elizabeth Daniels	May/June 1989
The Terrible Price of Freedom	Stephen W. Sears	April 1989
The South’s Inner Civil War	Eric Foner	March 1989, Summer 2025
God’s Chosen Instrument	Stephen W. Sears	July/August 1988
“We Will Not Do Duty Any Longer for Seven Dollars per Month”	Otto Friedrich	February 1988
The New Sherman Letters	Joseph H. Ewing	July/August 1987
Enlisted for Life	Hiller B. Zobel	June/July 1986
Longwood: The Untimely Octagon	Roger G. Kennedy	October/November 1985
The First News Blackout	Stephen W. Sears	June/July 1985
Death March		June/July 1985
Images of Disorder and Early Sorrow	Geoffrey C. Ward	February/March 1985
Military Medicine		October/November 1984
A Confederate Odyssey	Charles C. Hemming	December 1984
The New View Of Reconstruction	Eric Foner	October/November 1983
Painting The Southland		June/july 1983
Hell And The Survivor		October/November 1982
Captain Newcomb And The Frail Sisterhood		June/july 1982
The Best Girl Scout Of The Mall	Martha Saxton	June/july 1982
American Characters	Richard F. Snow	April/May 1982
Old Ring		April/May 1982
Between The Battles		February/March 1982
A Postage Stamp History Of The U.S. In The Twentieth Century	Judson Mead	December 1982
Shadows Of The Storm		June/July 1981
Making History	Bernard A. Weisberger	April/May 1981
A Bulwark Against Mighty Woes		February/March 1981
“Rocked in the Cradle of Consternation”	Reverend Henry M. Turner	October/November 1980
War Correspondent, 1864: The Sketchbooks Of James E. Taylor	Oliver Jensen	August/September 1980
Belle Boyd	Richard F. Snow	February/March 1980
The Slaves Freed	Stephen B. Oates	December 1980
The Sinister Corps Of William O. Bourne		June/July 1979
A Gallant Company		February/March 1979
Four Brothers In Blue, Or Sunshine And Shadows Of The War Of The Rebellion	Barbara Klaw	February/March 1979
Gunboat War At Vicksburg	Daniel F. Kemp	August/September 1978
The Day The Civil War Ended	Bruce Catton	June/July 1978
From Atlanta To The Sea	James Royal Ladd	December 1978
Ethics & Armaments	Bruce Catton	August 1977
The Great Locomotive Chase	Stephen W. Sears	December 1977
The Siege Of Vicksburg	Richard Wheeler	June 1976
Garibaldi And Lincoln	Herbert Mitgang	October 1975
The Miracle That Saved The Union	Scarritt Adams	December 1975
The Relief Of Fort Pickens	James Cooley	February 1974
Surgeon Thompson’s Separate Peace	Allan L. Damon	December 1974
Stars And Bars And … Flags That Never Flew		October 1973
The Vice President Flees	William C. Davis	October 1973
The Burning Of Chambersburg	Liva Baker	August 1973
The End Of The Alabama	Norman C. Delaney	April 1972
“We Are Going To Do Away With These Boys …”	Pete Daniel	April 1972
“New York Is Worth Twenty Richmonds”	Nat Brandt	October 1971
The Old Vets	Robert Merrill Dewey	April 1971
Of Noble Warriors And Maidens Chaste	Irene M. Patten	April 1971
Asa Smith Leaves The War	Bruce Catton	February 1971
The Miracle On Missionary Ridge	Bruce Catton	February 1969, Summer 2025
The Trial Of John Brown	Thomas Fleming	August 1967
“Mother, I Do Not Hate To Die”	James Cameron Phifer	February 1967
The Army Of The Cumberland: A Panorama Show By William B. T. Travis	Bruce Catton	December 1967
On Writing About The Civil War	Bruce Catton	April 1966
Mississippi: The Past That Has Not Died	Walter Lord	June 1965
TALE OF A TABLE	Mary A. Benjamin	April 1965
A Civil, And Sometimes Uncivil, War	Bruce Catton	October 1964
Heritage Of The War	Bruce Catton	December 1963
“Bull Run” Russell	Joseph L. Gardner	June 1962
Lincoln Takes Charge	Allan Nevins	October 1960
The Bloodiest Man In American History	Albert Castel	October 1960
“See Those Men! They Have No Flag!”		October 1960
There Was Another South	Carl N. Degler	August 1960
Narrative Of An Escape From A Rebel Prison Camp	Morris C. Foote	June 1960
A Royal Welcome For The Russian Navy	Marshall B. Davidson	June 1960
Grant At Shiloh	Bruce Catton	February 1960
New York’s Bloodiest Week	Lawrence Lader	June 1959
Crisis At The Antietam	Bruce Catton	August 1958
“Tonight For Freedom”	Saunders Redding	June 1958
Classmates Divided	Mary Elizabeth Sergent	February 1958
Lincoln’s Second Inauguration	Philip Van Doren Stern	February 1958
Two Civil War Letters		October 1957
"I Fired The First Gun And Thus Commenced The Great Battle”	S. Dana Greene	June 1957
The Peaceable Ambassadors	Arnold Whitridge	April 1957
Hayfoot, Strawfoot!	Bruce Catton	April 1957
The Needless Conflict	Allan Nevins	August 1956
Legend Of The South	Cornelia Barrett Ligion	June 1956
The River Houses	Clarence John Laughlin	June 1956
What They Did There	Bruce Catton	December 1954