Steven E. Woodworth

This Great Struggle

by Steven E. Woodworth

Hardcover

Woodworth's masterful synthesis of the Civil War delivers a crisp chronological narrative, and also details the war’s central themes, from the centrality of slavery to the preservation of representative government.

Manifest Destinies

by Steven E. Woodworth

Hardcover

A sweeping history of the 1840s that captures America’s enormous sense of possibility, and shows how the expansion of territories forced the nation to come to grips with the deep rift that would bring war a decade later.