UW Press titles for the American Civil War sesquicentennial

April 2011 begins the sesquicentennial cycle of the American Civil War, with several national events over the course of the next few years. Here are several UW Press titles of interest in this area.

During our 75th anniversary sale, from April 13th to May 31st, all of these titles are 30% off.

Civil War titles

Letters Home to Sarah
The Civil War Letters of Guy C. Taylor, Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers
Selected and Edited by Kevin Alderson and Patsy Alderson

A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie
Civil War Letters of James K. Newton
Selected and Edited by Stephen E. Ambrose

A Woman's Civil War
A Diary with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862
Cornelia Peake McDonald
Edited, with an Introduction by Minrose C. Gwin

A Muslim American Slave
The Life of Omar Ibn Said
Omar Ibn Said
Translated from the Arabic, edited, and with an introduction by Ala Alryyes
Forthcoming July 2011

For Labor, Race, and Liberty
George Edwin Taylor, His Historic Run for the White House, and the Making of Independent Black Politics
Bruce L. Mouser

Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories
Jean M. Humez

Lincoln and the Radicals
T. Harry Williams

The Blind African Slave
Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace
Jeffrey Brace as told to Benjamin F. Prentiss, Esq.
Edited and with an introduction by Kari J. Winter

The Woman in Battle
The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier
Loreta Janeta Velazquez
Introduction by Jesse Aleman

The Flags of the Iron Brigade
Howard Michael Madaus and Richard H. Zeitlin
Distributed for the Wisconsin Veterans Museum Store

The Grandmothers
A Family Portrait
Glenway Wescott
With a New Introduction by Sargent Bush

Witnessing Slavery
Frances Smith Foster

Diary of Caroline Seabury, 1854–1863
Caroline Seabury
Edited with an Introduction by Suzanne L. Bunkers

Custer Legends
Lawrence A. Frost
A Popular Press imprint

Atlantic Slave Trade
A Census
Philip D. Curtin