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Grant's Cruel Summer

Vol. 8, No. 1

In June and July 1864, the Union's top soldier tried to defeat Robert E. Lee and capture Petersburg, Virginia. It didn't go so well.

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WILLS: Inglorious Passages (2017)

Book Reviews

Wills' study...underscores the sheer ubiquity of death that descended upon the nation between 1861 and 1865.

COOK: Civil War Memories (2017)

Book Reviews

The massacre at Mother Emanuel simultaneously underscores the endurance of Civil War memory in the contemporary United States and the extent...

MACKOWSKI & WHITE (eds.): Turning Points of the American Civil War (2017)

Book Reviews

Historic turning points can hinge on the stroke of a pen or a turn in the road.

Chancellorsville

Photo Essays

“My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on General Lee, for I will have none.” So said Major ...

Battlefield Echoes: MOPs, MOEs, and Chancellorsville

Articles

In the aftermath of his army’s defeat at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee welcomed a brother of Secretary of War James Seddon to Army of...

JORDAN (ed.): The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book (2018)

Book Reviews

[Charles Lamar's] correspondence is a particular boon for historians of the slave trade...

RHEA: On to Petersburg (2017)

Book Reviews

Fortunately, this classic campaign has a chronicler worthy of its singular importance to the Union's ultimate victory.

The Best Civil War Books of 2017

Articles

The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2017 issue contained our annual roundup of the year's best Civil War titles. As usual, we enlisted...

POWELL: Battle Above the Clouds (2017)

Book Reviews

Ulysses Grant famously described the Battle of Lookout Mountain as "all poetry."

BELCHER: The Cavalries at Stones River (2017)

Book Reviews

...an excellent addition to both western theater cavalry studies and the specifics of the battle of Stones River.

Beyond the White Man's Iliad

American Iliad

The Confederate monument controversy that has exploded in recent months raises fundamental questions about the American Iliad. The removal...

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AYERS: The Thin Light of Freedom (2017)

Book Reviews

Hindsight, Ayers understands, is often the enemy of understanding.

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 West's Missing War

Stereoscope

Why is the Civil War mostly absent in one of our most beloved film and television genres?

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 Water War

Photo Essays

Vastly smaller than the forces that fought the Civil War on land, the Union and Confederate navies have long been overlooked by history,...

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...