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Websites

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Civil War

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World War II

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Hardbooks

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Civil War

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  • John D. Billings. Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887)
  • Boatner, Mark M. III, The Civil War Dictionary: Revised Edition, David McKay Company, Inc., 1984.
  • Cozzens, Peter, ed. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Vol. 6. U. of Illinois Press., 2004. 608 pp
  • Eicher, David J., The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War, (2001), ISBN 0-684-84944-5.
  • Eicher, David J., The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War, (2001), ISBN 0-684-84944-5.
  • Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative (3 volumes), (1974), ISBN 0-394-74913-8.
  • Freeman, Douglas S., Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command (3 volumes), (1946). vol 1 from 1861 to the Seven Days' Battles; Vol 2 from Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville, August 1862-May 1863; vol 3 to end of war.

WWII

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  • Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War. (6 volumes). (1948–1953). ISBN 978-0395416853
  • Dunnigan, James. Dirty Little Secrets of World War II: Military Information No One Told You About the Greatest, Most Terrible War in History, William Morrow & Company, 1994. ISBN 0-688-12235-3
  • Keegan, John. The Second World War (1989)
  • Prange, Gordon. At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor (1981), ISBN 0-07-050669-8
  • Prange, Gordon. Miracle at Midway (1982), ISBN 0-07-050672-8
  • Prange, Gordon. Target Tokyo: The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring (1984), ISBN 0-07-050677-9 in which the authors detail the undercover operations of the spy ring headed by Richard Sorge and Hotsumi Ozaki which transmitted highly secret information from Tokyo to the Soviet Union between 1933 and 1941
  • Prange, Gordon. Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History (1986), ISBN 0-07-050668-X
  • Prange, Gordon. December 7, 1941: The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor (1988), ISBN 0-07-050682-5

Online Books

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Online Sources

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General Sources

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Biography of every major and many minor people in the history of America through 1895

Classic Texts

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Classic text on general politics
Classic text on political history
Classic text on political philosophy
Classic text on political philosophy
Classic text on how to fight a war
Classic text on how to win a war
Classic text of the French invasion of Russia
Classic text on how to fight a war
Classic text on how to fight a war

Early American History

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Writings in support of the Constitution of the United States by 3 major proponents
Military history of the American Revolutionary War from the point of General George Washington
Pamphlet in support of Independence
General history of Pennsylvania through 1988

Civil War

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General and detailed bibliography of the Civil War
General history of the Civil War, one of the most popular books covering the Civil War
General history of the Civil War
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
History of the month of April, 1865
Commanders and Commands of the Civil War
History of the Civil War, with major units, armies, corps, casuaties, and general information
General Longstreet's outlook on the Civil War
Biography of Union Commanders
Biography of Confederate Commanders
General history of the causes of the Civil War through the end of the war
General history of the Civil War
General history of the common soldier in the Civil War
Texts and essays on slavery as related to the Civil War
General history of the Civil War, encompassing all facets of it
Causes of the civil war
History of 2 counties, one in Pennsylvania, one in Virginia, during the Civil War

Civil War Era Texts

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How to use artillery in the Civil War years, from 3 of the most prominent artillerists in the United States Army
Dispatches and letters from commanders and common soldiers in the Civil War
Campaign history of the Peninsula Campaign and organization of the Army of the Potomac
Letters written by a common soldier
Year Book for 1861

Union Unit Histories

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General History
14th Connecticut Infantry
13th Connecticut Infantry
2nd Illinois Infantry
10th New York Infantry
14th Connecticut Infantry
2nd Vermont Infantry
The Wilderness Campaign

Confederate Unit Histories

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1st Alabama Infantry

Biography

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Medical history of the Union Generals

Biography of Colonel C.S. Wainright

The ways and hows of fighting in the Civil War
Letters of a common soldier
Biography of Major General S.P. Heintzelman

WWII

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History of the Iwo Jima Flag Raisers
History of "E" Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, United States Army, in Europe
General history of the people who fought in WWII
History of Halsey, Kurita, Ukagi, and Evans in WWII
Detailed history of the Normandy Landings

History of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis at the end of WWII

Detailed history of Naval Operations in WWII, 16 volumes

9/11

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The final governmental sponsored report on 9/11
What happened inside the World Trade Center from the first crash to the collapse
Opinions on the American way after 9/11

Politics

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Classic text of the beginnings of the American Experiement in Democracy
Classic text on the causes of the fall of the greatest Republic in world history
Speeches and essays on America
History of American Presidents


Biography

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Biography of Albert Einstein
Autobiography of Frederick Douglass
Autobiography of Frederick Douglass
Biography of Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Biography of John Adams
Biography of Booker T. Washington
Speeches by Martin Luther King
Biography of Mark Twain
Presidential biography of George W. Bush
Presidential biography of George W. Bush
Biography of a victim of the Japanese internment during World War II
Standard biography of Confederate General Robert E. Lee
Biography of Abraham Lincoln written by his personal aide and secretary
Autobiography of Charles Anderson Dana

Other

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The "real story" of American History
Standard history of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic
The basics of war
Woman's history