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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.

HARDY: General Lee's Immortals (2018)

Book Reviews

Combining rigorous research an an innovative organization...demonstrates what an exceptional unit history can teach us about the Civil War.

PFANZ: Where Valor Proudly Sleeps (2018)

Book Reviews

Graves crest Marye's Heights, and Union soldiers now occupy the land they could not reach in December 1862.

LLOYD: Harbor of Spies (2018)

Book Reviews

Lloyd weaves a story of the political intricacies of Spanish Cuba, which served as a base for shipping munitions...through the federal...

LOPERFIDO (ed.): Death, Disease, and Life at War (2018)

Book Reviews

Loperfido has done the study of Civil War medicine a valuable service....

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.

“Martyrs” to Their Cause: John Brown, Edmund Ruffin, and Harpers Ferry

Articles

Long before the tumult and rage in Charlottesville last year over the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from a city park, and a fear that...

TAGG: The Generals of Shiloh (2017)

Book Reviews

Tagg has not written a stand-alone book on the Battle of Shiloh, but rather a superb supplement that also reads well from cover to cover.

MALAVASIC: The F Street Mess (2017)

Book Reviews

Since Congress began debating the Kansas-Nebraska Act, it has inspired torrents of words, from polemics and conspiracy theories to insider...

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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...