Stephen Ward Sears (born July 27, 1932) is an American historian specializing in the

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and the Confederate States of A ...

Early life and education

Sears is a graduate of

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational lib ...

Career

As an author, he has concentrated on the

military history Military history is the study of War, armed conflict in the Human history, history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, cultures and economies thereof, as well as the resulting changes to Politics, local and international relationship ...

of the American Civil War, primarily the battles and leaders of the Army of the Potomac. He was employed as editor of the Educational Department at the American Heritage Publishing Company.

Personal life

Sears resides in Connecticut.Sears, Stephen W., Gettysburg, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston-New York, 2004, rear cover

Bibliography

''Air War Against Hitler's Germany''
American Heritage Publishing Company, Harper & Row, 1964; I Books, 2005,
''Desert War in North Africa''
American Heritage Publishing Company, Harper & Row, 1967; I Books, 2006,
''The American Heritage history of the automobile in America''

Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster LLC (, ) is an American publishing house owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts since 2023. It was founded in New York City in 1924, by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. Along with Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group US ...

, 1977, *''Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam'',

Houghton Mifflin The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , , "little star", is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often vocalize it as ...

, 1983. *'' George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon'',

Ticknor & Fields Ticknor and Fields was an American publishing company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded as a bookstore in 1832, the business published many 19th-century American authors, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, H ...

, NY, 1988.
''The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860–1865''
Ticknor & Fields, New York (edited by Sears, 1989), *''To the Gates of Richmond:

The Peninsula Campaign The Peninsula campaign (also known as the Peninsular campaign) of the American Civil War was a major Union (American Civil War), Union operation launched in southeastern Virginia from March to July 1862, the first large-scale offensive in the ...

'', Ticknor & Fields, New York, New York, 1992. *'' Chancellorsville'', Houghton Mifflin, 1996. *''Controversies & Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac'', Houghton Mifflin, 1999. *''Gettysburg'', Houghton Mifflin, 2003. *''Lincoln's Lieutenants: the High Command of the Army of the Potomac'', Houghton Mifflin, 2017.

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1932 births Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Historians of the American Civil War Oberlin College alumni Writers from Norwalk, Connecticut Historians from Connecticut American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub