Free History Ebooks

The Historical Archive from time to time produces free ebooks on specific subjects for you to enjoy. This page details the ebooks that are currently available for free to our viewers. We hope you enjoy our historical publications. Be sure to check back often for new additions.

All our ebooks are in pdf format.

Stories of the Civil War Volume 1

Table of Contents of Stories of the Civil War Volume 1

• A House Divided - The Winter of Secession
• Jefferson Davis - Forgotten President of the Confederacy
• Quantrill's Raiders
• Slavery and the Civil War
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• The Battle of Gettysburg - the Turning Point of the War
• Nathan Bedford Forrest
• William Tecumseh Sherman - Total War
• Deadlier Than the Male: Female Spies During the Civil War
• Unconditional Surrender - Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War
• The H.L. Hunley - Civil War Submarine
• Thomas Jonathan Jackson - Stonewall of the Confederacy
• Arlington - from Plantation to Cemetery
• War on the Border
• The Almost-Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis Howell
• A Nation's Shame - Desertion During the Civil War
• Fort Fisher - the Last Major Stronghold of the Confederacy
• Captured New Orleans
• Colonel Elmer Ellsworth and the Zouave Regiments
• The Boys' War
• Hard Times - Civilian Life During the Civil War
• Kearny the Magnificent
• The Old War Horse: James Longstreet
• Jim Limber and the Davis Family

Stories of the Civil War Volume 2

Table of Contents of Stories of the Civil War Volume 2

• The Court-Martial of Fitz John Porter, Part 1
• The Court-Martial of Fitz John Porter, Part II
• Bless the Beasts - Animals of the Civil War
• Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight - The Draft and the Civil War
• George McClellan - A Mystery of the War
• Morgan's Raid
• Joseph Hooker - the Reluctant "Fightin' Joe"
• The Suspension of Habeas Corpus During the Civil War
• Susie King Taylor
• Vivandieres and Cantinieres - Ladies of the Regiment
• A.P. Hill
• African-American Troops and the Civil War
• King Cotton - White Gold and the Civil War
• Edwin Stanton - Master of War
• Carnton Plantation and the "Widow of the South" - the True Story, pt. 1
• Carnton Plantation and the "Widow of the South" - the True Story, pt. 2
• Newspapers During the Civil War
• Demon Rum - Alcohol, Drugs, and the Civil War
• Braxton Bragg
• The "Lost" State of Nickajack
• "Worth His Weight in Gold:" Philip Henry Sheridan - pt. 1
• "Worth His Weight in Gold:" Philip Henry Sheridan - pt. 2
• The Confederados
• The Conspiracy
• Hired Soldiers - Substitutes During the Civil War
• Clement Laird Vallandigham - the Man Without a Country