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Published: 6/14/22
Grand Opening of American Civil War Museum’s Robins Theater
American Civil War Museum We recently asked Jeniffer Maloney, director of marketing and public relations at American Civil War Museum, about their new Robins Theater opening this month. She gave...Published: 6/13/22
Ticks in Camp
The Diary of a Young Officer Serving with the Armies of the United States During the War of the Rebellion (1909) Josiah M. Favill, 57th New York Infantry Josiah M....Published: 6/8/22
Gettysburg’s Lost Love Story (2022)
History is replete with heart-rending stories of star-crossed lovers. Marc Anthony and Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex, Admiral Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton, General John Reynolds...Published: 6/3/22
Eyewitness to Cold Harbor
Meade’s Headquarters, 1863–1865 (1922) Colonel Theodore Lyman Between May 31 and June 12, 1864, the armies of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee clashed near Mechanicsville, Virginia, in the...Published: 6/1/22
Love & Duty (2022)
Historian Angela Esco Elder’s debut monograph joins a growing body of scholarship probing the lived consequences of the Civil War. Complementing recent work by Diane Miller Sommerville, Brian Craig Miller,...Published: 5/25/22
Salmon P. Chase (2022)
Following up on his popular biographies of Secretary of State William Seward [2012] and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton [2017], Walter Stahr’s most recent book tells the story of Lincoln’s...Published: 5/23/22
Quick Picks: Civil War Photography Books
Library of Congress A Civil War photographer and his tent. Looking for good books on Civil War photography? We asked Ronald S. Coddington, author and publisher of Military Images magazine,...Published: 5/18/22
Back From Battle (2021)
“Camp Discharge never got its monument,” writes Jim Remsen. “If it weren’t for the military records, memoirs, and news clippings, one could think the place never existed.” Fortunately for the...Published: 5/11/22
Hell’s Half-Acre (2022)
The discovery of the remains of at least a dozen murder victims on a homestead plot in Labette County, Kansas, in 1873, launched a manhunt across the Western prairie and...Published: 5/4/22
Harriet Tubman (2022)
Throughout the nineteenth and early-twentieth-centuries, Harriet Tubman was undoubtedly one of the most influential abolitionists and women’s rights activists. Her historical experience, as demonstrated by recent debates over replacing Andrew...Published: 4/28/22
The Books That Built Me: Brian Matthew Jordan
SHAWNA SHERRELL Brian Matthew Jordan I suppose you could say that I started researching my recently published book, Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War, when I was...Published: 4/20/22
First Fallen (2021)
In this work, Meg Groeling explores Elmer Ellsworth, the first Union Civil War hero. Most historians know Ellsworth for the end of his life, when he was shot and killed...11