* Wiley, Bell Irvin. ''Southern Negroes: 1861-1865'' (1938)
* Clinton, Catherine & Nina Silber, eds. Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (1992), provocative essays [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=65196022 online edition]
* Faust, Drew. ''This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War'' (2008), Pulitzer prize [http://www.amazon.com/This-Republic-Suffering-American-Vintage/dp/0375703837/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231241330&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Faust, Drew. ''Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Mothers-Invention-Slaveholding-American-Morrison/dp/0807855731/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231241330&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Harper, Judith E. ''Women during the Civil War: An Encyclopedia.'' (2004). 472 pp.
* Massey, Mary. ''Bonnet Brigades: American Women and the Civil War'' (1966), excellent overview; reissued as ''Women in the Civil War'' (1994)
* Rable, George C. ''Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism'' (1989), excellent
===Culture, religion and values===
* Faust, Drew. ''This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War'' (2008), Pulitzer prize [http://www.amazon.com/This-Republic-Suffering-American-Vintage/dp/0375703837/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231241330&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Miller, Randall M., Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson, eds. ''Religion and the American Civil War'' (1998) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=78824365 online edition]
* Miller, Robert J. ''Both Prayed to the Same God: Religion and Faith in the American Civil War.'' (2007). 260pp
* Noll, Mark A. ''The Civil War as a Theological Crisis.'' (2006). 199 pp.
* Stout, Harry S. ''Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War.'' (2006). 544 pp.
* Wills, Garry. ''Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America'' by ISBN 0-671-86742-3
* Wilson, Edmund. '' Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War'' (1962)