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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.

THOMAS: Wade Hampton's Iron Scouts (2018)

Book Reviews

...a look at Confederate unit that has commanded precious little attention from historians and scholars.

Varina

Stereoscope

A young woman in an unhappy marriage whose rise to first lady makes her both exhilarated and uncomfortable. Her much older husband, loyal...

GURA: Man's Better Angels (2017)

Book Reviews

Americans could be convinced to address their national sin through systematic action: the deaths of hundreds of thousands of citizens on the...

HARDY: Kirk's Civil War Raids Along the Blue Ridge (2018)

Book Reviews

Hardy lays out the complex politics of loyalty along the East Tennessee-Western North Carolina state line...

NASH: Reconstruction's Ragged Edge (2016)

Book Reviews

Appalachia...is central to understanding North Carolina's Reconstruction.

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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...