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Across the country, Confederate symbols are coming down. We enlisted a panel of top historians to help make sense of it all.
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Michael Smith's "The Thin Gray Line" offers a new look at the darker side of the war.
Readers and scholars with wide-ranging interests will find Thomas F. Curran's "Women Making War" useful and fascinating.
In "Absalom Hazlett," Spencer Sadler has unearthed and conveyed a valuable story about a captivating and overlooked subject.
A southerner finds clarity in a tangle of loyalties ...
Comprehensive is perhaps the best adjective to describe Neil P. Chatelain's "Defending the Arteries of Rebellion."
In the Voices section of the Winter 2020 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about the...
James Lee McDonough's "William Tecumseh Sherman" is a capable and often moving biography of a worthy subject.
Internal division within the Confederacy, Jeffrey Zvengrowski claims, had less to do with class and more to do with politics...
With the help of a handful of Civil War historians and enthusiasts, here is our list of the best Civil War books of 2020.
Earl Hess' "Storming Vicksburg" is an effective battle history that moves beyond strategy and tactics to embrace the broader mosaic of the ...
"The Maps of the Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign" makes excellent use of primary accounts penned by Union and Confederate cavalrymen....
In the July 27, 1861, issue of Harper's Weekly, the editors published a small story about an "infernal machine" recently removed from the ...
On New Year's Eve 1862, 24-year-old William Thompson Lusk, a captain in the 79th New York Infantry—a regiment known as the "Highlanders"...
With the winter season nearly upon us, we thought it the perfect time to compile Civil War scenes—in photos and sketches—that invoke the...
What are the best Civil War books ever published? We asked a panel of Civil War historians—J. Matthew Gallman, Matthew C. Hulbert, James ...
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