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Published: 7/1/20
NELSON: The Three-Cornered War (2020)
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson. Scribner, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1591152542. $28.00. Since the origins of the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/WOLZ-361x600.png)
Published: 6/24/20
WOLZ: Grand Army Women (2020)
Grand Army Women: The GAR and Its Female Organizations by Robert J. Wolz. Key West Publishing, LLC, 2020. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0-9778528-5-7. $39.95. As the largest fraternal order for Union veterans, the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1336431647-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 6/17/20
MINGUS & WINGERT: Targeted Tracks (2019)
Targeted Tracks: The Cumberland Valley Railroad in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Scott L. Mingus, Sr., and Cooper H. Wingert. Savas Beatie, 2019. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611214611. $32.95. The Civil War is often...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/baseball-600x600.jpg)
Published: 6/15/20
Extra Voices: Camp Sports
Library of Congress Union prisoners play a game of baseball while in confinement at Salisbury, North Carolina. In the Voices section of the Summer 2020 issue of The Civil War...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GRANT1-600x600.jpg)
Published: 6/12/20
History’s “Grant” Considered
History.com Long anticipated and much ballyhooed, History Channel’s May 2020 release of Grant, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Grant’s most recent biographer, Ron Chernow, as executive producers (no Lin-Manuel Miranda here),...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/OG6LDETSVQI6VBOLQZYFPG4GHU-600x600.jpg)
Published: 6/10/20
RICHARDSON: How the South Won the Civil War (2020)
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson. Oxford University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0190900908. $27.95. At...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1536765625-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 6/3/20
BARNEY: Rebels in the Making (2020)
Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy by William A. Barney. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-19007-608-5, $34.95. Rebels in the Making,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/ac3cc62700c612c6e8946b2c546aff4e.jpeg)
Published: 5/29/20
The Best Books About Ulysses S. Grant
We recently asked a number of top Civil War historians to let us know their favorite books about Ulysses S. Grant. The results are below. The books are ranked in...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/71fAU-Cle9L-600x600.jpg)
Published: 5/27/20
HANNA: Abraham Among the Yankees (2020)
Among the Yankees: Lincoln’s 1848 Visit to Massachusetts by William F. Hanna. Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-0-8093-3779-8. $14.50. In September 1848, a virtually unknown, thirty-nine-year-old Illinois congressman named...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/rable-600x600.jpg)
Published: 5/22/20
The Rable Method—Time and Again
Bryan Hester, The University of Alabama Historian George C. Rable Few scholars have produced as many groundbreaking works as Civil War historian George C. Rable. Since his retirement from teaching...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/pinkertons-600x600.jpg)
Published: 5/20/20
STEWART: Pinkertons, Prostitutes, and Spies (2019)
Pinkertons, Prostitutes and Spies: The Civil War Adventures of Secret Agents Timothy Webster and Hattie Lawton by John Stewart. McFarland & Company, 2019. Paper, ISBN: 978-1476679075. $29.95. John Stewart seeks to...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Shelby_Foote-600x600.jpg)
Published: 5/18/20
The Greatest Bards: Part 1
Alamy Author Shelby Foote Asked to name the writer whose work had the greatest influence on their early love for the Civil War, most lay students of the conflict would...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/combat-600x600.jpg)
Published: 5/15/20
The Five Best Books on Civil War Combat
Library of Congress “Spare Cartridges” by Alfred R. Waud In considering the vast literature on combat in the Civil War, one is hard-pressed to limit a selection of the best...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/914351794-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 5/13/20
RYAN & SCHAUS: “Lee Is Trapped, and Must Be Taken” (2019)
“Lee is Trapped, and Must Be Taken”: Eleven Fateful Days After Gettysburg, July 4-14, 1863 by Thomas J. Ryan and Richard R. Schaus. Savas Beatie, 2019. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-61121-459-8. $32.95. Historians have...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/91Rdkd9ZBxL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 5/6/20
CONNON: Iowa Confederates in the Civil War (2019)
Iowa Confederates in the Civil War by David Connon. Arcadia Publishing, 2019. Paper, ISBN: 978-1634991551. $24.99. By most estimates, approximately three million soldiers served during the Civil War. The border states...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/917yXp5E3qL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 4/29/20
HUGHES: Confederate Soldiers in the American Civil War (2019)
Confederate Soldiers in the American Civil War: Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages by Mark Hughes. Savas Beatie, 2019. Paper, IBSN: 978-1611213416. $15.95. Savas Beatie has continued to solidify its reputation...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/276306976-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 4/22/20
DOMBY: The False Cause (2020)
The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby. University of Virginia Press, 2020. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0813943763. $29.95. Historians have long understood that the Lost Cause,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/336179121-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 4/15/20
FLOTOW: In Their Letters, In Their Words (2019)
In Their Letters, In Their Words: Illinois Civil War Soldiers Write Home edited by Mark Flotow. Southern Illinois University Press, 2019. Paper, ISBN: 978-0809337637. $26.50. Editor Mark Flotow’s inspiration for this book...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Leefarewell-600x600.jpg)