Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction

Ordeal by Fire blends the most up-to-date scholarship with interpretations based on decades of teaching, research, and writing, to tell an important story--that of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Written by a leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, this text describes the social, economic, political, and ideological conflicts that led to a unique, tragic, and transitional event in American history. The fourth edition welcomes the addition of coauthor James Hogue of University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Hogue brings his Reconstruction expertise to the third section of the book, bringing more up-to-date scholarship and interpretations to the story of repairing a nation.

• Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction: Documents and Essays (Major Problems in American History Series)
• For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
• Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
• A Short History of Reconstruction, Updated Edition (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
• All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (Harc Global Change Studies; 1)
• Celia, A Slave
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library)
• Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution
• The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Collection