Civil War Scholarship:

Paul Escott, After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978).

Drew Gilpin Faust, "Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives of War," in Divided Houses: Gender and the American Civil War, Eds. Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).

Gary Gallagher, The Confederate War (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1997).

Pedagogical References:

Julie Miller, "Power Thinking, Reading, and Writing" (Presentation for Kalispell Schools, MT, March 1985).

J.E. Sparks, Write for Power (Los Angeles: Communication Associates, 1982).