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Vol. 8, No. 4

At the height of the war's epic battle, George Meade convened his senior commanders and posed a critical question: Should they retreat or stay and fight?

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BURLINGAME (ed.): Sixteenth President-in-Waiting (2018)

Book Reviews

Villard's newspaper dispatches are a rich resource for students of the Secession Winter.

GOTTFRIED: The Maps of Fredericksburg (2018)

Book Reviews

A top-notch operational study that benefits from Gottfried's judicious insights and experience as a military historian.

TETERS: Practical Liberators (2018)

Book Reviews

Teters parses and explains well the complexity of how emancipation played out on the ground, making his book a valuable contribution to the...

New Year's Eve in Camp

In the First Person

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"...

SAUERS: The National Tribune Civil War Index (2018)

Book Reviews

...immediately takes its place on the short shelf of indispensable Civl War reference works.

WILLIAMS & KUTZLER (eds.): Prison Pens (2018)

Book Reviews

[R]eveals how two members of the Civil War generation struggled with imprisonment...including that which did not take place behind prison...

Emancipation on Stage

Stereoscope

One weekend last October, my husband and I drove several hours to Portland, Maine, to see a play about lawyer and Civil War general Benjamin...

ROBERTS (ed.): 'This Infernal War' (2018)

Book Reviews

Editor Timothy Roberts deserves high marks...makes for good reading, and researchers will find it equally rewarding.

The Best Civil War Books of 2018

Articles

With the help of a handful of Civil War historians and enthusiasts, here is our compilation of their favorite Civil War books published in 2...

MITCHAM: Vicksburg (2018)

Book Reviews

Vicksburg ... is a book for popular audiences ... particularly those seeking a perspective more sympathetic to the Confederates.

Interview: Emerging Scholars at American Civil War Museum

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As proud sponsors of American Civil War Museum’s upcoming Emerging Scholars program—set to occur next May during the grand opening of...

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