Confederate States of America/Bibliography

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• Current, Richard N., ed. Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (4 vol), 1993. 1900 pages, articles by scholars.
• Coulter, E. Merton. The Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 (1950), highly detailed overview
• Faust, Patricia L. ed, Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War, 1986.
• Heidler, David S., et al. Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, 2002. 2400 pages (ISBN 0-393-04758-X)
• Steven E. Woodworth, ed. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research, 1996. 750 pages of historiography and bibliography online edition

Economic history

• Andreano, Ralph L. ed. The Economic Impact of the American Civil War, (2d ed. 1967)
• Bell, Walter F. "Civil War Texas: a Review of the Historical Literature." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 2005 109(2): 204-232. Issn: 0038-478x
• Black, Robert C., III. The Railroads of the Confederacy, 1988. online edition
• Campbell, Jacqueline Glass. When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front. U. of North Carolina Pres, 2003. 177 pp.
• Davis, William C. and Robertson, James I., Jr., eds. Virginia at War, 1861. U. Press of Kentucky, 2005. 241 pp.
• DeCredico, Mary A. "Patriotism for Profit: Georgia's Urban Entrepreneurs and the Confederate War Effort" Journal of Amwerican History 9/91:678 in JSTOR
• Goldin, Claudia D., and Frank D. Lewis, "The Economic Cost of the American Civil War: Estimates and Implications," Journal of Economic History 35#2 (June 1975), pp. 299-326 in JSTOR
• Mackey, Robert R. The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865. U. of Oklahoma Press, 2004. 288 pp.
• Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Refugee Life in the Confederacy (2001)
• Morgan, Chad. Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia. (2005). 164 pp.
• Paskoff, Paul F. "Measures of War: A Quantitative Examination of the Civil War's Destructiveness in the Confederacy," Civil War History 54.1 (March 2008) 35-62 in Project Muse
• Ransom, Roger L. "The Economics of the Civil War," EH.Net Encyclopedia, ed. Robert Whaples (Aug. 25, 2001), online edition
• Thomas, Emory M. The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience, 1992.
• Wallenstein, Peter and Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, eds. Virginia's Civil War. (2005) 303 pp. excerpt and text search
• Wilson, Harold S. Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War. 412 pp. ISBN 978-1-57806-462-5. online review

Social History

• Ash, Stephen V. "White Virginians Under Federal Occupation, 1861-1865." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 98 (Apr 1990) 169-192.
• Ash, Stephen V. When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 (1995)
• Bailey, Fred A. Class and Tennessee's Confederate Generation (1987)
• Barrett, John G. The Civil War in North Carolina (Chapel Hill, 1963)
• Clinton, Catherine, and Silber, Nina, eds. Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War, 1992.
• Crofts, Daniel W. Old Southampton: Politics and Society in a Virginia County, 1834-1869 (1992)
• Dabney, Virginius. Richmond: The Story of a City. Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8139-1274-1.
• Durrill, Wayne K. War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion (1990)
• Escott, Paul D. "'The Cry of the Sufferers': The Problem of Welfare in the Confederacy." Civil War History 23 (1977): 228-40.
• Escott, Paul D. "Poverty and Governmental Aid for the Poor in Confederate North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 61 (Oct 1984) 462-80.
• Faust, Drew Gilpin. Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War (1992)
• Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, 1996.
• Faust, Drew Gilpin. The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South, 1988.
• Gallagher, Gary W. "Home Front and Battlefield: Some Recent Literature Relating to Virginia and the Confederacy." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 98 (Apr 1990) 135-68.
• Gordon, Lesley J. and Inscoe, John C., eds. Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas. Louisiana State U. Press, 2005. 381 pp.
• Grimsley, Mark. The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861–1865 [1995), concludes "the extent to which houses and towns were burned during Sherman's March to the Sea thus turns out to be much exaggerated"
• Jones, J. B. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital (1935)
• Lentz, Perry Carlton. Our Missing Epic: A Study in the Novels about the American Civil War, 1970.
• Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Bonnet Brigades: American Women and the Civil War, 1966.
• Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Refugee Life in the Confederacy, 1964.
• Rable, George C. Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism, 1989.
• Ramsdell, Charles. Behind the Lines in the Southern Confederacy, 1994.
• Roark, James L. Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction, 1977.
• Rubin, Anne Sarah. A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868, 2005. A cultural study of Confederates' self images.
• Sutherland, Daniel. Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861-1865 (1996), on Culpeper County, Virginia
• Thomas, Emory M. The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience, 1992.
• Waghelstein, John D. and Chisholm, Donald. "The Road Not Taken: Conflict Termination and Guerrillaism in the American Civil War." Journal of Strategic Studies (2006) 29(5): 871-904. Issn: 0140-2390 Fulltext: in Ebsco
• Wallenstein, Peter and Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, eds. Virginia's Civil War. (2005) 303 pp. excerpt and text search
• Wiley, Bell Irwin. Confederate Women, 1975.
• Wiley, Bell Irwin. The Plain People of the Confederacy, 1944.
• Wiley, Bell Irvin. Embattled Confederates (1964)
• Woodward, C. Vann, ed. Mary Chesnut's Civil War, 1981.

Politics

• Alexander, Thomas B., and Beringer, Richard E. The Anatomy of the Confederate Congress: A Study of the Influences of Member Characteristics on Legislative Voting Behavior, 1861-1865, 1972.
• Boritt, Gabor S., et al, Why the Confederacy Lost, 1992.
• Cooper, William J, Jefferson Davis, American, 2000. Standard biography.
• Coulter, E. Merton. The Confederate States of America, 1861-1865, 1950.
• Davis, William C. Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America (2003)
• Eaton, Clement. A History of the Southern Confederacy, 1954.
• Eckenrode, H. J., Jefferson Davis: President of the South, 1923.
• Gallgher, Gary W., The Confederate War, 1999.
• Neely, Mark E., Jr. Confederate Bastille: Jefferson Davis and Civil Liberties, 1993. online edition
• Neely, Mark E., Jr. Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism (1999) excerpt and text search
• Paskoff, Paul F. "Measures of War: A Quantitative Examination of the Civil War's Destructiveness in the Confederacy," Civil War History 54.1 (March 2008) 35-62 in Project Muse
• Rembert, W. Patrick. Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet, 1944.
• Rable, George C., The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics, 1994. online edition
• Ransom, Roger L. "The Economics of the Civil War," EH.Net Encyclopedia, ed. Robert Whaples (Aug. 25, 2001), online edition
• Roland, Charles P. The Confederacy, 1960. brief
• Rubin, Anne Sarah. A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868. U. of North Carolina Pr., 2005. 319 pp.
• Thomas, Emory M. Confederate Nation: 1861-1865, 1979. Standard political-economic-social history
• Waghelstein, John D. and Chisholm, Donald. "The Road Not Taken: Conflict Termination and Guerrillaism in the American Civil War." Journal of Strategic Studies (2006) 29(5): 871-904. Issn: 0140-2390 Fulltext: in Ebsco
• Wakelyn, Jon L. Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy Greenwood Press ISBN 0-8371-6124-X
• Wallenstein, Peter and Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, eds. Virginia's Civil War. (2005). 303 pp. excerpt and text search
• Williams, William M. Justice in Grey: A History of the Judicial System of the Confederate States of America, 1941.
• Yearns, Wilfred Buck. The Confederate Congress, 1960.

Primary sources

• Carter, Susan B., ed. The Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition (5 vols), 2006; online at many universities
• Davis, Jefferson, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (2 vols), 1881.
• Harwell, Richard B., The Confederate Reader (1957)
• Jones, John B. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, edited by Howard Swiggert, [1935] 1993. 2 vols.
• Richardson, James D., ed. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Confederacy, Including the Diplomatic Correspondence 1861-1865, 2 volumes, 1906.
• Yearns, W. Buck and Barret, John G.,eds. North Carolina Civil War Documentary, 1980.
• Confederate official government documents major online collection of complete texts in HTML format, from U. of North Carolina
• Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 (7 vols), 1904. online