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Vol. 8, No. 4

At the height of the war's epic battle, George Meade convened his senior commanders and posed a critical question: Should they retreat or stay and fight?

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WERT: Civil War Barons (2018)

Book Reviews

Wert's skill in weaving together historical argument and satisfying narrative are on full display...

"A Lady of Excellent Worth"

In the First Person

Nearly twenty years after the end of the Civil War, Union army veteran Melvin Grigsby traveled south in hopes of locating the local woman...

ULLRICH & CRAIG: General E.A. Paine in Western Kentucky (2018)

Book Reviews

...a notable effort to raise the eponymous Union officer from [the] realm of 'folklore and myth.'

LANG: In The Wake of War (2017)

Book Reviews

Lang's deeply researched account...is relevant for understanding not just the Civil War, but war in our own time.

WHITE: New Bern and the Civil War (2018)

Book Reviews

The Union occupation of New Bern began in early 1862, when Major General Ambrose Burnside captured the river port.

Currier and Ives on Lincoln

Photo Essays

During the Civil War, the prominent lithography firm Currier and Ives produced inexpensive prints of the conflict and its participants based...

BLIGHT: Frederick Douglass (2018)

Book Reviews

This biography is an essential text that will shape academic scholarship...and perhaps even inspire a Broadway musical.

Jackson the Magician

American Iliad

Understanding the myth surrounding the man known as "Stonewall" ...

CROON (ed.): The War Outside My Window (2018)

Book Reviews

LeRoy's diary charts both his own painful physical disintegration and death and the Confederacy's equally tortuous path to destruction and...

Interview: Animatronic Lincoln at Lincoln Memorial Shrine

Interviews

“Reflections of the Face of Lincoln,” a new exhibit that features an impressive animatronic bust of the 16th president, recently opened...

EMERSON (ed.): "Don't tell father I have been shot at" (2018)

Book Reviews

The publication of the letters and diaries of Civil War officers and men appears to continue unabated.

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COLLINS: A Crooked River (2018)

Book Reviews

Collins pays particular attention to the U.S. Civil War, the French Intervention in Mexico, Reconstruction, and cattle rustling.

The Best Gettysburg Books

Articles

What are the five best books about the Battle of Gettysburg (nonfiction or fiction)? We asked six Civil War historians for their answers.

The Eisenhower Farm during the Battle of Gettysburg

Articles

While not commonly looked upon as part of the battlefield, the Eisenhower Farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, played a significant role during...

The Best Civil War Books of All Time

Analysis

For our latest newsstand-only special issue, The Civil War Almanac, we asked a panel of Civil War historians--J. Matthew Gallman, Matthew C....

The Dead of Antietam

Photo Essays

"Mr. Brady has done something to bring home to us the terrible reality and earnestness of war. If he has not brought bodies and laid them in...

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...