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Vol. 13, No. 1

Southerners vilified Union general Benjamin Butler for his wartime actions. Did he deserve it?

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Extra Voices: Battle Fatigue

Articles

In the Voices section of our Spring 2023 issue we highlighted quotes about the onset of battle fatigue among soldiers in the Union and ...

KENT: Lincoln: The Fire of Genius (2022)

Book Reviews

David J. Kent's "Lincoln: The Fire of Genius" supplies strong evidence that Lincoln was a thoughtful and curious man who defied stereotypes....

TROTTI: The End of Public Execution (2022)

Book Reviews

With "The End of Public Execution," Michael Ayers Trotti gives us yet another perspective on how the world white Southerners envisioned and...

Eyewitness to the Battle of Hampton Roads

In the First Person

During the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862--where the ironclad warships USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (Merrimac) fought to a draw--...

ROTHERA: Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas (2022)

Book Reviews

Evan Rothera's "Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas" shifts focus away from Europe and centers the interconnected civil wars and...

"When the Boys Come Home"

From the Archives

In June 1864, Harper's Weekly published the following poem by John Hay, one of two personal secretaries to President Abraham Lincoln. Hay, 2...

CHERVINSKY & COSTELLO (eds.): Mourning the Presidents (2023)

Book Reviews

Students of Civil War history have much to grapple with in "Mourning the Presidents," edited by Lindsay M. Chervinsky and Matthew R. ...

The Books That Built Me: Joan Waugh

Articles

Narrowing down a list of “books that built me” was surprisingly difficult. The books finally selected, four biographies and one...

KRETZ: Administering Freedom (2022)

Book Reviews

Dale Kretz's "Administering Freedom" begins where some scholars have ended their accounts: the shuttering of the Freedom's Bureau in 1872.

WOOD: Lady Rebels of Civil War Missouri (2022)

Book Reviews

In "Lady Rebels of Civil War Missouri," Larry Wood takes readers into the most complex and contentious period of the state's history...

Civil War Emojis

From the Archives

The May 23, 1863, issue of Harper's Weekly ran the following ad by E.P. Gleason, a New York-based manufacturer. The ad, which promoted ...

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The Best Civil War Books of 2022

Articles

The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2022 issue contains our annual roundup of the year's best Civil War titles. As usual, we've...

Gettysburg Photo Mystery Solved?

Commentary

With the help of an Artificial Intelligence-based, computerized color identifier and cutting-edge software that created a 3D rendering of Mc...

The Mountain Campaigns in Georgia

Photo Essays

Published in 1890, "The Mountain Campaigns in Georgia"--a slim volume devoted to telling the story of the battles fought along the Western &...

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 ...

Bowdoin's Other Civil War Sons

Analysis

Discussions surrounding Bowdoin College and the Civil War invariably return to Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine. But another...

Fantasizing Lee as a Civil Rights Pioneer

Analysis

There's a tale widely told these days about how Robert E. Lee, soon after the war, reached out in Christian fellowship to a black worshiper...