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WAITE: West of Slavery (2021)

Book Reviews

"West of Slavery" by Kevin Waite weaves together the stories of the South and the West to tell a continental narrative of political ambition...

After Fort Wagner

In the First Person

On July 20, 1863, Lewis Douglass, 22, a member of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry—and son of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass—wrote...

The 54th Massachusetts at Fort Wagner

Photo Essays

On July 18, 1863, Union troops commanded by Brigadier General Quincy Gillmore launched an attack on Fort Wagner, the Confederate bastion...

Bully Boys

Articles

How a word with rough origins came to represent good times to the troops.

TRAMMELL & TERRELL: Civil War Richmond (2021)

Book Reviews

Jack Trammell and Guy Terrell's "Civil War Richmond" is the latest in a recent spate of monographs, essay collections, and guidebooks...

STAHL & BORDERS: Faces of Union Soldiers at South Mountain & Harpers Ferry (2021)

Book Reviews

Joseph Stahl and Matthew Borders' "Faces of Union Soldiers at South Mountain & Harpers Ferry" achieves very well its objective of...

BIELSKI: A Mortal Blow to the Confederacy (2021)

Book Reviews

Mark F. Bielksi's "A Mortal Blow to the Confederacy" engages debates about where the Civil War was won and lost.

Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 1

Articles

Between fall 2013 and summer 2016, I contributed seven short essays to The Civil War Monitor as “Voices From the Army of the Potomac.” ...

KENNING: Abandoned Coastal Defenses of Alabama (2021)

Book Reviews

"Abandoned Coastal Defenses of Alabama" suggests the historical and military importance of Fort Gaines and Fort Morgan.

HESS: Civil War Supply and Strategy (2020)

Book Reviews

In "Civil War Supply and Strategy," Earl Hess contends that victory rode on the work of quartermasters and commissaries.

DUNKERLY & CRENSHAW: Embattled Capital (2021)

Book Reviews

Robert M. Dunkerly and Doug Crenshaw's "Embattled Capital" provides proper context and reasoned interpretation to readers, rising above the...

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LEVINE: Thaddeus Stevens (2021)

Book Reviews

Bruce Levine's "Thaddeus Stevens" is the first major biography of The Great Commoner in nearly a quarter century.

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.

The Seven Days Battles

Photo Essays

Between July 25 and July 1, 1862, George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia battled on the...

Extra Dossier: J.E.B. Stuart

Articles

We recently asked a panel of Civil War historians a series of questions about Major General James Ewell Brown "J.E.B." Stuart—a way of...

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 ...

Eyewitness to Bull Run

In the First Person

A week after the Battle of Bull Run--a humiliating defeat for Union forces--23-year-old officer William Thompson Lusk of the 79th New York ...