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Published: 5/27/24
Sailing in the Air
“If we may believe the poets and fabulists, the idea of sailing in the air is no new one. Every school-boy knows the story of Daedalus and his son Icarus,...
Published: 1/3/24
The Creation of a Crusader (2023)
Thomas Morris, a one-term U.S. senator from Ohio and Liberty Party vice presidential nominee, has often been a footnote in antislavery politics. No historian has attempted a book-length study, and...
Published: 12/29/23
A Man by Any Other Name (2023)
In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, historians of a much earlier American conflict began to see similarities between the guerilla warfare that played out in the dense jungles of Southeast Asia and the irregular fighting that characterized the Civil War experience in places like Missouri and Kansas.
Published: 12/21/23
Twelve Days (2023)
Historical consensus has long held that the greatest threat to Washington, D.C., during the Civil War came during Confederate General Jubal A. Early’s invasion culminating at the Battle of Fort...
Published: 12/19/23
Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War (2023)
For more than 100 years, the go-to reference book about Jewish soldiers in the Civil War was Simon Wolf’s The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier, and Citizen. Wolf wrote it...
Published: 12/13/23
Reading Confederate Monuments (2022)
Confederate monuments continue to permeate the discourse on Civil War memory, especially in its public sphere. While historians have provided a thorough historical context, meaning, and interpretations on Civil War...
Published: 12/11/23
The Best Civil War Books of 2023
The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2023 issue contains our annual roundup of the year’s best Civil War titles. As usual, we’ve enlisted a handful of Civil War...
Published: 12/6/23
Oracle of Lost Causes (2023)
Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War chronicles the many twists and turns in the life of its eponymous character, John Newman Edwards. Edwards gained...
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Published: 11/23/23
Thanksgiving Day
“It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do...
Published: 11/22/23
The Governor’s Pawns (2023)
On April 28, 1863, a detail of Union soldiers took George W. Thompson, the sheriff of Barbour County, Virginia, into custody by order of Francis H. Pierpont, then governor of...
Published: 11/15/23
Shipwrecked (2023)
Jonathan W. White offers an enthralling and deeply researched account of the astonishing career of Appleton Oaksmith, a Civil War era sea captain, slaver, and politician. Although he was born...
Published: 11/8/23
A New History of the American South (2023)
A New History of the American South delivers a sweeping synthesis and historiographical review of southern history, from its pre-colonial roots in the Indigenous Americas to the present. Of particular...
Published: 11/1/23
A Constant Reminder to All (2022)
The historian E. Merton Coulter famously quipped that Kentucky “waited until after the war to secede from the Union.” Though neighboring West Virginia “seceded from secession” during the Civil War—adding...
Published: 10/25/23
July 22 (2023)
Atlanta. Crown jewel of the Confederacy and Gate City into the Deep South. Atlanta. The prize of a four-month red dirt minuet between the relentless advance of three Union armies—100,000...
Published: 10/18/23
Sand, Science, and the Civil War (2023)
It is always refreshing to see a novel approach to a topic as endlessly studied as the Civil War, and this is precisely what Scott Hippensteel has delivered in Sand,...
Published: 10/1/23
Published: 9/25/23
Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 8
DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University Soldiers of the Texas Brigade Putting this series together has been enjoyable but also frustrating. None of the retrospective literature created by soldiers in the...
Published: 8/25/23
Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 7
A LIFE OF GEN. ROBERT E. LEE (1876) In a postwar illustration, Robert E. Lee is depicted leading his men at Gettysburg. Three books containing Robert E. Lee’s testimony provide...