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World War II

• Order of Battles of WWII

Hardbooks

Civil War

• 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

• 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

Online Sources

• Biography and Autobiography at Googlebooks Beta
• Political Science at Googlebooks Beta
• History at Googlebooks Beta
• Bartleby Books and Quotes Online
• Constitution Society Homepage
• Online Books Page at UPenn.com
• ExClassics
• The Online Books Page
• Digital Book Index
• Project Gutenburg

General Sources

• The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States

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

Classic Texts

• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Classic text on general politics

• Discourses on Livy

Classic text on political history

• The Republic by Plato

Classic text on political philosophy

• Politics by Aristotle

Classic text on political philosophy

• The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli

Classic text on how to fight a war

• 36 Strategies

Classic text on how to win a war

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Classic text of the French invasion of Russia

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Classic text on how to fight a war

• On War by Carl von Clausewitz

Classic text on how to fight a war

Early American History

• The Federalist Papers

Writings in support of the Constitution of the United States by 3 major proponents

• Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer

Military history of the American Revolutionary War from the point of General George Washington

• The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

Pamphlet in support of Independence

• Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth by Randall M. Miller, William Pencak

General history of Pennsylvania through 1988

Civil War

• The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research By Steven E. Woodworth

General and detailed bibliography of the Civil War

• Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson

General history of the Civil War, one of the most popular books covering the Civil War

• The Civil War by Bruce Catton

General history of the Civil War

• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America by Garry Wills

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

• April 1865: The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik

History of the month of April, 1865

• Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3

Commanders and Commands of the Civil War

• Fox, William F., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, reprinted by Morningside Bookshop, Dayton, Ohio, 1993, ISBN 0-685-72194-9

History of the Civil War, with major units, armies, corps, casuaties, and general information

• Longstreet, James, From Manassas to Appomattox, 2nd ed., Lippincott, 1912

General Longstreet's outlook on the Civil War

• Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders By Ezra J. Warner

Biography of Union Commanders

• Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders By Ezra J. Warner

Biography of Confederate Commanders

• History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 By James Ford Rhodes

General history of the causes of the Civil War through the end of the war

• The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States By Joel Tyler Headley

General history of the Civil War

• Billy Yank and Johnny Reb: Soldiering in the Civil War By Susan Provost Beller

General history of the common soldier in the Civil War

• Brycchan Carey

Texts and essays on slavery as related to the Civil War

• Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History By David Stephen Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler, Editors

General history of the Civil War, encompassing all facets of it

• The Causes of the Civil War by Kenneth Milton Stampp

Causes of the civil war

• The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War By Edward L. Ayers, Anne S. Rubin

History of 2 counties, one in Pennsylvania, one in Virginia, during the Civil War

Civil War Era Texts

• Instruction for Field Artillery By United States War Dept, William Henry French, William Farquhar Barry, Henry Jackson Hunt

How to use artillery in the Civil War years, from 3 of the most prominent artillerists in the United States Army

• The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies at Making of America, Cornell University

Dispatches and letters from commanders and common soldiers in the Civil War

• Report of the Engineer and Artillery Operations of the Army of the Potomac From its Organization to the close of the Peninsula Campaign By John Gross Barnard, William Farquhar Barry

Campaign history of the Peninsula Campaign and organization of the Army of the Potomac

• Army Life in Virginia: The Civil War Letters of George C. Benedict

Letters written by a common soldier

• American Annual Cyclopaedia for 1861 (N.Y.: Appleton's, 1864)

Year Book for 1861

Union Unit Histories

• Regimental Histories

General History

• History of the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Vol. Infantry By Charles D. Page

14th Connecticut Infantry

• History of the 13th Infantry Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers During the Great Rebellion

13th Connecticut Infantry

• History of the Second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry from Organization to Muster-Out

2nd Illinois Infantry

• Services of the Tenth New York volunteers, national Zouaves, in the war of the Rebellion By Charles W. Cowtan

10th New York Infantry

• History of the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Vol. Infantry By Charles D. Page

14th Connecticut Infantry

• The Second Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 1861-1865 By Paul G. Zeller

2nd Vermont Infantry

• The Wilderness Campaign By Gary W. (ed.) Gallagher

The Wilderness Campaign

Confederate Unit Histories

• History of the First Regiment Alabama Volunteer Infantry C.S.A.

1st Alabama Infantry

Biography

• Medical Histories of Union Generals By Jack D. Welsh

Medical history of the Union Generals

• A Diary of Battle: The Personal Journals of Colonel C.S. Wainwright 1861 - 1865 By Charles S. Wainwright

Biography of Colonel C.S. Wainright

• The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War By Brent Nosworthy

The ways and hows of fighting in the Civil War

• Quite Ready to Be Sent Somewhere: The Civil War Letters of Aldace Freeman Walker edited by Thomas LeDoux

Letters of a common soldier

• Civil War to the Bloody End: The Life & Times of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman By Jerry D. Thompson

Biography of Major General S.P. Heintzelman

WWII

• Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley

History of the Iwo Jima Flag Raisers

• Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose

History of "E" Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, United States Army, in Europe

• The Greatest Generationby Tom Brokaw

General history of the people who fought in WWII

• Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 by Evan Thomas

History of Halsey, Kurita, Ukagi, and Evans in WWII

• The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan

Detailed history of the Normandy Landings

• In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary by Doug Stanton

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

• of United States Naval Operations in World War II by Samuel Eliot Morison

Detailed history of Naval Operations in WWII, 16 volumes

9/11

• The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on by Thomas H. Kean, Lee Hamilton

The final governmental sponsored report on 9/11

• 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn

What happened inside the World Trade Center from the first crash to the collapse

• What's So Great about America by Dinesh D'Souza

Opinions on the American way after 9/11

Politics

• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Classic text of the beginnings of the American Experiement in Democracy

• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

Classic text on the causes of the fall of the greatest Republic in world history

• The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation by Diane Ravitch

Speeches and essays on America

• The Imperial Presidency by Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr

History of American Presidents

Biography

• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson

Biography of Albert Einstein

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Frederick Douglass

Autobiography of Frederick Douglass

• My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Autobiography of Frederick Douglass

• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson

Biography of Benjamin Franklin

• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

• John Adams by David McCullough

Biography of John Adams

• Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Biography of Booker T. Washington

• I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World by Martin Luther King

Speeches by Martin Luther King

• Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers

Biography of Mark Twain

• Bush at War by Bob Woodward

Presidential biography of George W. Bush

• State of Denial by Bob Woodward

Presidential biography of George W. Bush

• to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During WWII by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Biography of a victim of the Japanese internment during World War II

• Douglas Southall Freeman: R. E. Lee

Standard biography of Confederate General Robert E. Lee

• Abraham Lincoln: A History By John George Nicolay, John Hay

Biography of Abraham Lincoln written by his personal aide and secretary

• Recollections of the Civil War: With the Leaders at Washington and in the Field in the Sixties By Charles Anderson Dana

Autobiography of Charles Anderson Dana

Other

• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

The "real story" of American History

• A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

Standard history of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond

The basics of war

• America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins

Woman's history