Civil War Books for High School Students
Discover the best Civil War books for high school students! Explore engaging historical fiction, biographies, and primary sources to deepen your understanding of this pivotal era in American history.
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Eyewitness to the Civil War
by Stephen Garrison Hyslop
Records the military, political, social, and cultural history of the Civil War through photographs, artifacts, period illustrations, maps, essays by historians, and firsthand accounts.
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Civil War Curiosities
by Webb B. Garrison
This fascinating collection explores the unusual and often bizarre persons,#xD;attitudes, and events of the Civil War. Illustrated and indexed.
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Gods and Generals
by Jeff Shaara
The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic The Killer Angels In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War. Here is Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, a hopelessly by-the-book military instructor and devout Christian who becomes the greatest commander of the Civil War; Winfield Scott Hancock, a captain of quartermasters who quickly establishes himself as one of the finest leaders of the Union army; Joshua Chamberlain, who gives up his promising academic career and goes on to become one of the most heroic soldiers in American history; and Robert E. Lee, never believing until too late that a civil war would ever truly come to pass. Profound in its insights into the minds and hearts of those who fought in the war, Gods and Generals creates a vivid portrait of the soldiers, the battlefields, and the tumultuous times that forever shaped the nation.
