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

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ...

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. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...

Career

As an author, he has concentrated on the

military history Military history is the study of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, cultures and economies thereof, as well as the resulting changes to local and international relationships. Professional historians norma ...

of the American Civil War, primarily the battles and leaders of the

Army of the Potomac The Army of the Potomac was the principal Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. It was created in July 1861 shortly after the First Battle of Bull Run and was disbanded in June 1865 following the surrender of the Confedera ...

. He was employed as editor of the Educational Department at the

American Heritage Publishing Company ''American Heritage'' is a magazine dedicated to covering the history of the United States for a mainstream readership. Until 2007, the magazine was published by Forbes.

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''

Harper & Row Harper is an American publishing house, the flagship imprint of global publisher HarperCollins based in New York City. History J. & J. Harper (1817–1833) James Harper and his brother John, printers by training, started their book publishin ...

, 1964; I Books, 2005,
''Desert War in North Africa''

, 1967; I Books, 2006,
''The American Heritage history of the automobile in America''

Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster () is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of Paramount Global. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was the third largest publ ...

, 1977, *''Landscape Turned Red:

The Battle of Antietam The Battle of Antietam (), or Battle of Sharpsburg particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union ...

'',

Houghton Mifflin The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , ''asteriskos'', "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 voc ...

, 1983. *''

George B. McClellan George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was an American soldier, Civil War Union general, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician who served as the 24th governor of New Jersey. A graduate of West Point, McCl ...

: 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 would publish many 19th century American authors including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, ...

, 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'', 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