{{Short description|American historian (born 1932)}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2016}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} '''Stephen Ward Sears''' (born July 27, 1932) is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War.
==Early life and education == Sears is a graduate of Oberlin College.
==Career == As an author, he has concentrated on the military history 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hmhco.com/bookstore/authors/Stephen-Sears/2229795|title=Stephen Sears Books - Browse Book List and Buy Now!|website=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt}}</ref>
==Personal life == Sears resides in Connecticut.<ref>Sears, Stephen W., Gettysburg, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston-New York, 2004, rear cover</ref>
==Bibliography== * [https://books.google.com/books?id=s7ICAAAAMAAJ ''Air War Against Hitler's Germany''], American Heritage Publishing Company, Harper & Row, 1964; I Books, 2005, {{ISBN|0743493303}} * [https://books.google.com/books?id=iTZ5AAAAIAAJ&q=inauthor%3A%22Stephen%20W.%20Sears%22 ''Desert War in North Africa''], American Heritage Publishing Company, Harper & Row, 1967; I Books, 2006, {{ISBN|1596873019}} * [https://books.google.com/books?id=g6zEmhw30JYC ''The American Heritage history of the automobile in America''], Simon & Schuster, 1977, {{ISBN|0671229869}} *''Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam'', Houghton Mifflin, 1983. *''George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon'', Ticknor & Fields, NY, 1988. *[https://books.google.com/books?id=3CJ5GPV5y-MC ''The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860–1865''], Ticknor & Fields, New York (edited by Sears, 1989), {{ISBN|0395663601}} *''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. {{ISBN|0395867614}} *''Lincoln's Lieutenants: the High Command of the Army of the Potomac'', Houghton Mifflin, 2017. {{ISBN|9780618428250}}
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==External links == *[https://www.c-span.org/person/?stephensears C-span appearances]
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