"[2] There is no complete bibliography to the war; the largest guide to books is more than 50 years old and lists over 6,000 of the most valuable titles as evaluated by three leading scholars.
[3] Many specialized topics such as Abraham Lincoln,[4] women,[5] and medicine[6] have their own lengthy bibliographies.
The most comprehensive guide to the historiography annotates over a thousand major titles, with an emphasis on military topics.
[7] The most recent guide to literary and non-military topics is A History of American Civil War Literature (2016) edited by Coleman Hutchison.
It emphasizes cultural studies, memory, diaries, southern literary writings, and famous novelists.