Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Toward Sumter and Pearl: Comparing the Origins of the Civil War and World War II -- 2. Grant and Eisenhower -- 3. Military Intelligence: Unmasking Those Fearsome Apparitions -- 4. Battle in Two Wars: The Combat Soldier's Perspective -- 5. Gendering Two Wars -- 6. Fighting on Two Fronts: War and the Struggle for Racial Equality in Two Centuries -- 7. War and the Constitution: Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt -- 8. To Preserve a Nation: Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt as Wartime Diplomatists -- 9. Retelling the Tale: Wars in Common Memory -- 10. The Necessity of Force: The Civil War, World War II, and the American View of War -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors.