Stephen A. Goldman, M.D., a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, has decades of experience in academic and clinical medicine, and public health, including treating and working with veterans. His ongoing study of the Civil War and postwar American society, race, and combat’s multifaceted effects led to the critically acclaimed One More War to Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause (2023). The only physician to serve on the Abraham Lincoln Institute Board of Directors, Dr. Goldman’s thought-provoking findings have been welcomed on television, radio, podcasts, and other venues.

• Foreword (John R. Sellers, PhD)IntroductionShouldering “The Unfinished Work”Getting Political: The Midterm Elections and the Fourteenth AmendmentReconstruction and African American EqualityDoing Battle with the Ku Klux Klan and the End of ReconstructionThe Fight Against Jim Crow and the Grand Army of the RepublicThe Grand Army of the Republic Keeps the FaithReconciliation, Resistance to the Lost Cause, and LynchingCommemoration and Controversy: How to Honor the Civil War DeadBetrayal, Remembrance, and Standing FastThe Lee Statue: The Grand Army’s Last StandIn AppreciationEndnotesIndexAbout the Author

Stephen Goldman’s One More War to Fight is an in-depth examination of the actions of Union veterans in the post–Civil War era as they united and fought for Black equality in both the North and South. Extensivelyresearched and eloquently written, Goldman’s book argues that numerous white veterans continued their fight after the Civil War, one they fought forwell into the twentieth century.