Virginia Military Institute Alumni in the Civil War by Richard M. McMurry

Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830–1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2000. North Over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era. Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War. 'An Excess of Democracy: The Civil War and the Social Process' in David Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era, 2d ed. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2008. The Causes of the Civil War: The Political, Cultural, Economic, and Territorial Disputes between North and South. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2008. Did Lincoln and the Republican Party Create the Civil War?: An Argument. What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History. Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. It emphasizes cultural studies, memory, diaries, southern literary writings, and famous novelists. The most recent guide to literary and non-military topics is A History of American Civil War Literature (2016) edited by Coleman Hutchison. The most comprehensive guide to the historiography annotates over a thousand major titles, with an emphasis on military topics. The books on major campaigns typically contain their own specialized guides to the sources and literature. Many specialized topics such as Abraham Lincoln, women, and medicine have their own lengthy bibliographies. There is no complete bibliography to the war the largest guide to books is over 40 years old and lists over 6,000 of the most valuable titles as evaluated by three leading scholars. Perhaps a hundred thousand books have been published about the Civil War.' Authors James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier stated in 2012, 'No event in American history has been so thoroughly studied, not merely by historians, but by tens of thousands of other Americans who have made the war their hobby. There are over 60,000 books on the war, with more appearing each month. The American Civil War bibliography comprises books that deal in large part with the American Civil War.

Virginia Military Institute Alumni in the Civil War by Richard M. McMurry