Select Bibliography

Students interested in further investigation of themes found on this website will find helpful the list of resources that follow.

Aley, Ginette and J.L. Anderson, eds. Union Heartland: The Midwestern Home Front During the Civil War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.

Benz, Charmaine M. and R. Todd Wiliamson, eds. Diba Jimooyung, Telling Our Story: A History of the Saginaw Ojibwe Anishinabek. Mt. Pleasant: Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, 2005.

Blackbird, Andrew J. History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan. Ypsilanti: Ypsilantian Job Printing, 1887.

Brockett, Linus P. and Mary C. Vaughan. Woman's Work in the Civil War. Philadelphia: Zeigler, McCurdy & Co., 1867.

Cimbala, Paul A. and Randall M. Miller, eds. Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002.

Clinton, Catherine and Nina Silber. Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Clinton, Catherine and Nina Silber, eds. Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Danziger, Edmund J. Jr. Great Lakes Indian Accommodation and Resistance During the Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009.

Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

Gallman, J. Matthew. Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Giesberg, Judith, Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Giesberg, Judith and Randall M. Miller, eds. Women and the American Civil War: North-South Counterpoints. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2018.

Hauptman, Laurence M. Between Two Fires: American Indians in the Civil War. New York: The Free Press, 1995.

Hess, Earl J. Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020.

Hoffman, Mark. My Brave Mechanics: The Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007.

Lauck, Jon K. The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800–1900. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022.

Leonard, Elizabeth D. Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1994.

McCurry, Stephanie. Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2019.

Moore, Frank. Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice. Hartford: S.S. Scranton & Co., 1866.

Quist, John W., ed. Michigan’s War: The Civil War in Documents. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019.

Rhoades, Nancy L. and Lucy E. Bailey, eds. Wanted – Correspondence: Women's Letters to a Union Soldier. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009.

Scott, Sean A. A Visitation of God: Northern Civilians Interpret The Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Shaw, Anna Howard. The Story of a Pioneer. New York: Harper Brothers, 1915.

Silber, Nina. Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Walker, Sally M. Deadly Aim: The Civil War Story of Michigan’s Anishinaabe Sharpshooters. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2019.

White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 2011.

Woodworth, Steven E. While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001.