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Behind the cloak-and-dagger relationship between detective Allan Pinkerton and Army of the Potomac commander George B. McClellan

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Letters Home: Correspondence from Men at War

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We would like to believe that Civil War letters transport us back to the historical reality of the camp and the battlefield. These letters...

SEIDULE: Robert E. Lee and Me (2021)

Book Reviews

An effective antidote to the Lost Cause, Ty Seidule's "Robert E. Lee and Me" deserves both a wide readership and a place on undergraduate...

MUELLER: Ambitious Honor (2020)

Book Reviews

In "Ambitious Honor," James Mueller has managed to find something new to say about George Armstrong Custer.

WRIGHT: Bonds of Salvation (2020)

Book Reviews

With "Bonds of Salvation," Ben Wright has convincingly demonstrated the importance of religious denominations to the lives of early ...

ARRINGTON: The Last Lincoln Republican (2020)

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Benjamin T. Arrington's "The Last Lincoln Republican" is a superb new study of Garfield's dark horse race for the Executive Mansion.

HOOD: Patriots Twice (2020)

Book Reviews

Stephen M. Hood's "Patriots Twice" seeks to highlight the postwar lives and accomplishments of 220 Confederate veterans.

POWELL & WITTENBERG: Tullahoma (2020)

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The diligent, robust scholarship found on the pages of David A. Powell and Eric J. Wittenberg's "Tullahoma" has expanded the historiography...

SMITH: The Thin Gray Line (2019)

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Michael Smith's "The Thin Gray Line" offers a new look at the darker side of the war.

CURRAN: Women Making War (2020)

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Readers and scholars with wide-ranging interests will find Thomas F. Curran's "Women Making War" useful and fascinating.

SADLER: Absalom Hazlett (2020)

Book Reviews

In "Absalom Hazlett," Spencer Sadler has unearthed and conveyed a valuable story about a captivating and overlooked subject.

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American Iliad

A southerner finds clarity in a tangle of loyalties ...

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Extra Voices: Coffee

Articles

In the Voices section of the Winter 2020 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about the...

The Best Civil War Books of 2020

Articles

With the help of a handful of Civil War historians and enthusiasts, here is our list of the best Civil War books of 2020.

An Infernal Machine

Image of the Day

In the July 27, 1861, issue of Harper's Weekly, the editors published a small story about an "infernal machine" recently removed from the ...

New Year's Eve in Camp

In the First Person

On New Year's Eve 1862, 24-year-old William Thompson Lusk, a captain in the 79th New York Infantry—a regiment known as the "Highlanders"...

Winter is Coming

Photo Essays

With the winter season nearly upon us, we thought it the perfect time to compile Civil War scenes—in photos and sketches—that invoke the...

The Best Civil War Books of All Time

Analysis

What are the best Civil War books ever published? We asked a panel of Civil War historians—J. Matthew Gallman, Matthew C. Hulbert, James ...