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Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! is William Faulkner's 1936 Random House novel about Thomas Sutpen's Mississippi plantation dynasty, told through layered narrators including Rosa Coldfield and Quentin Compson, as an allegory of the South's legacy of slavery.
Cold Mountain (novel)
Cold Mountain is a 1997 Civil War novel by Charles Frazier, telling of a wounded Confederate deserter walking home through North Carolina to Ada, the woman he loves.
If the South Had Won the Civil War
If the South Had Won the Civil War is MacKinlay Kantor's 1961 alternate history novella, first in Look magazine (November 22, 1960). Grant dies May 12, 1863; the Confederacy wins, abolishes slavery, and the divided American nations reunify in the 1960s.
Lincoln (novel)
Lincoln: A Novel is Gore Vidal's 1984 Random House historical novel (657 pages) about Abraham Lincoln's presidency, part of his Narratives of Empire cycle, adapted by NBC in 1988 and disputed by Lincoln scholars over factual accuracy.
The Killer Angels
The Killer Angels is Michael Shaara's 1974 historical novel of the Battle of Gettysburg, told through real commanders such as Lee, Longstreet, and Chamberlain; it won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and inspired the 1993 film Gettysburg.