Blogs

Lloyd weaves a story of the political intricacies of Spanish Cuba, which served as a base for shipping munitions...through the federal blockade of southern ports during the Civil War.

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

Collins pays particular attention to the U.S. Civil War, the French Intervention in Mexico, Reconstruction, and cattle rustling.

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 white supremacists and antifa militants would turn any future confrontation into a bloodier event there, Virginia was braced for an even deadlier showdown in the fall of 1859. Thousands of troops had poured into Jefferson County, on orders to repel with force...

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.

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

The Battle of Peach Tree Creek by Earl Hess is a solid work that fits neatly into the growing historiography of the Atlanta Campaign.

To say that Greene's research is exhaustive does not quite do it justice...this first volume certainly establishes itself as essential reading for future scholars of the Petersburg Campaign.

What are the five best books about the Battle of Gettysburg (nonfiction or fiction)? We asked six Civil War historians for their answers.

Steve French sheds light on an understudied Confederate partisan ranger unit: John and Jesse McNeill's Rangers.

Public history is presented in museums and historical societies; at monuments or national, state, and local parks. John Coski writes about how this public history message, particularly that of the Civil War, is changing.

A comprehensive history of the most complicated, diverse, and misunderstood part of the American Civil War.

...a balanced and solid biography of one of the Civil War's more obscure figures.

Women, enslaved African Americans, and upper-class planters determined the parameters within which the Confederate military effort would succeed or fail on the battlefield.

The end of the Civil War ultimately brought no peace to the Indian Territory....

Wills' study...underscores the sheer ubiquity of death that descended upon the nation between 1861 and 1865.

The massacre at Mother Emanuel simultaneously underscores the endurance of Civil War memory in the contemporary United States and the extent to which Americans still struggle, often violently, to control the fundamental meanings of those memories.

Historic turning points can hinge on the stroke of a pen or a turn in the road.

“My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on General Lee, for I will have none.” So said Major General Joseph Hooker in mid-April 1863 to a group of Union officers about his strategy for defeating Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. Hooker,

In the aftermath of his army’s defeat at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee welcomed a brother of Secretary of War James Seddon to Army of Northern Virginia headquarters. Curious