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Published: 3/16/20
History in the Digital Age
Michaela Levin Historian Kevin M. Levin In November 2005 I created the website Civil War Memory, which included a blog. I had recently completed a master’s degree in history and...
Published: 3/13/20
Extra Voices: Payday
Firsthand quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about their reactions to receiving their monthly wages.
Published: 3/7/20
On the Trail of John Wilkes Booth
Visit sites along the way the of the escape route John Wilkes Booth took from Ford’s Theatre after assassinating Abraham Lincoln.
Published: 3/7/20
Dissatisfaction, Dissent, and Fragmentation
Editorial thoughts and reflections from the Spring 2020 issue of The Civil War Monitor.
Published: 3/7/20
Spring 2020 | Dispatches
Reader questions and comments published in the Spring 2020 issue of The Civil War Monitor.
Published: 3/7/20
The B&A Q&A Megan Kate Nelson
Megan Kate Nelson discusses her book, The Three-Cornered War, and why she felt it important to focus on the Civil War in the West.
Published: 3/7/20
Abolitionists at War
Read how anti-slavery reformers’ reaction to the Civil War helped transform the conflict into one for emancipation—and provoked their movement's collapse.
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Published: 3/7/20
The Great Dissenter
The rise and fall of Clement Vallandigham, the Democratic congressman who became the Lincoln administration’s most strident opponent.
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Published: 3/7/20
Little Mac’s Big Fall
An inside look at the decision to remove George B. McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac.
Published: 3/7/20
History in the Digital Age
Historian and educator Kevin Levin takes a look at how historians are engaging scholars, enthusiasts, and the public in the digital age.
Published: 3/7/20
An Early Image of War
A photo shows the Trapier Mortar Battery on Morris Island just days after it launched shells that inflicted heavy damage on Fort Sumter.
Published: 3/7/20
Robert E. Lee and Traveller Tintype
A tintype of Robert E. Lee and Traveller may be "the last original photograph of Lee in private hands." Learn how much it earned at auction.
Published: 3/7/20
Lightening Their Load
Civil War soldiers regularly jettisoned personal effects in an effort to lighten their loads. Read what was dropped during the Chancellorsville Campaign.
Published: 3/7/20
A Steadfast Rebel
Emma Kline would be little remembered today if not for a photograph taken in 1864 showing her standing defiantly after her arrest for smuggling.
Published: 3/7/20
Virtual Reality Meets the Civil War
Civil War 1864: A Virtual Reality Experience lets users experience how it may have looked, felt, and sounded to be a Civil War soldier.
Published: 3/7/20
Pay Day
Read first-hand accounts from Civil War soldiers about their reaction to pay day during the war.
Published: 3/6/20
The Fashion Trends of 1864
View examples of men's fashions in 1864 as published in an illustration from Harper's Weekly.
Published: 2/20/20
A Goodbye Gift
While attending services at St. Paul’s Church in Richmond on Sunday, April 2, 1865, Confederate president Jefferson Davis received word that Confederate forces had begun evacuating Petersburg in the wake...