10 bestCivil War Booksof February 2026

The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It (LOA #212) (Library of America: The Civil War Collection)

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library)

Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library)

Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library)

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Race & Reunion – The Civil War in American Memory

The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

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The Civil War: A History (Signet Classics)