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After a crushing defeat at Second Bull Run, Union leaders looked for someone to blame. They soon found their man.
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Ben Nussbaum's "Gettysburg" features an impressive collection of short essays by several scholars.
Dillon J. Carroll's "Invisible Wounds" is a fascinating study that unequivocally illustrates the links between the Civil War and mental...
Abraham Lincoln was not a military man, yet in March 1861 he became commander in chief of forces that would soon face the task of...
"Spectacle of Grief" by Sarah J. Purcell is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the paradoxes of American nationalism,...
We recently asked Jeniffer Maloney, director of marketing and public relations at American Civil War Museum, about their new Robins Theater...
Josiah M. Favill, a young officer in the 57th New York Infantry, kept a detailed diary during the Civil War. In one entry, dated May 16, 186...
"Gettysburg's Lost Love Story" by Jeffrey J. Harding is told with verve and a keen eye for descriptive detail.
Between May 31 and June 12, 1864, the armies of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee clashed near Mechanicsville, Virginia, in the Battle of ...
"Love & Duty" by Angela Esco Elder demonstrates that not all Confederate widows midwifed the Lost Cause.
"Salmon P. Chase" by Walter Stahr is an admirable treatment of an oft-forgotten nineteenth century politician.
Looking for good books on Civil War photography? We asked Ronald S. Coddington, author and publiser of Military Images magazine, for three...
With the help of a handful of Civil War historians, here is our list of the best Civil War books of 2021.
With the help of an Artificial Intelligence-based, computerized color identifier and cutting-edge software that created a 3D rendering of Mc...
Published in 1890, "The Mountain Campaigns in Georgia"--a slim volume devoted to telling the story of the battles fought along the Western &...
What are the best Civil War books ever published? We asked a panel of Civil War historians—J. Matthew Gallman, Matthew C. Hulbert, James ...
Discussions surrounding Bowdoin College and the Civil War invariably return to Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine. But another...
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...
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