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S.C. Gwynne's "Hymns of the Republic" is "a readable narrative that carries readers from Ulysses S. Grant’s arrival in the Eastern Theater to the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House."

A different look at the words Abraham Lincoln used in his iconic Gettysburg Address.

A look at William T. Sherman's Special Field Orders 120, which set the tone for the March to the Sea ...

Larry J. Daniel's "Conquered: Why the Confederacy Failed" is a convincing original argument, a comprehensive historiographical essay, and a compelling narrative.

In "Lincoln's Spies," Douglas Waller provides colorful detail on the lives and careers of Civil War spies...there is much material with which to work.

Brian R. Dirck's "The Black Heavens" is the first book-length treatment of the sixteenth president's long relationship with death.

Brooks Blevins' "The Conflicted Ozarks" is superb study of a fascinating region during a tumultuous period of destruction and rebuilding.

A look at Cincinnati, Ulysses S. Grant's favorite war horse

In "Africans in the Old South," Randy J. Sparks offers new perspectives about the slave trade, the Old South, and the Atlantic World.

A look at Traveller, Robert E. Lee's famed war horse

To what extent did the abolitionist movement bring about the end of slavery in the United States?

An illustrated look at the clashes between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee during the Overland Campaign

Duped soldiers and Quaker guns are the focus of Julian Scott's painting "Sold."

Conyngham observed many chaplains at work...an important historical artifact.

Frank Leslie’s Illustrated History of the Civil War, published in 1895, contained a broad collection of sketches that had appeared during the conflict in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. One of these (shown above) captured an unlikely incident that occurred during the Battle of Shiloh.

...a very detailed account of this often-overlooked campaign.

Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, Mary Livermore, a 40-year-old native of Boston, volunteered to work for the United States Sanitary Commission in hopes of being of assistance to the Union war effort. She soon became an agent at the organization's Chicago branch (where she would eventually be promoted to co-director), in which capacity she organized a variety of aid socities and...

A look at the legacy of Union general George H. Thomas, the "Rock of Chickamauga"

George Armstrong Custer is a heroic yet tragic figure in the pantheon of America's military past...

Mertz and the Emerging Civil War Series have given us excellent history in guidebook format.