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Published: 6/7/13
An Interview with Ron Maxwell
Our conversation with Ron Maxwell, director of the forthcoming film “Copperhead.” In this interview, Ron discusses the motivation behind filming this work and its similarities and differences to his...
Published: 6/5/13
A Misplaced Massacre (2013)
November 29, 2014, will mark the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre. On that day in 1864, elements of the 1st and 3rd Colorado volunteer regiments slaughtered more than...
Published: 6/3/13
Friends Across the Color Line
David Cornwell, formerly an infantryman in the 8th Illinois Infantry and a veteran of Shiloh, was serving with Battery D, 1st Illinois Artillery, in the summer of 1862. Stationed not...Published: 5/31/13
An Interview with Michael David Cohen
Our conversation with Michael David Cohen, an assistant research professor of history at the University of Tennessee and author of Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil...
Published: 5/29/13
They Have Left Us Here To Die (2011)
Glen Robins’ transcription and analysis of Sargent Lyle G. Adair’s prison diary provides insight into the Civil War prison camp experience. In They Have Left Us Here to Die, Robins...
Published: 5/29/13
Unholy Sabbath (2012)
Discussion of the skirmishes fought on the mountain passes of western Maryland in mid-September 1862 is usually met with wide eyes. Although South Mountain is traditionally written off as an...
Published: 5/29/13
Divided Loyalties (2012)
In this concise volume, James Finck, a professor at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, offers a reconsideration of white Kentuckians decision to remain neutral—and then ultimately join...
Published: 5/27/13
Captain Kit Dalton on Guerrilla Memory, Civility, and the Rules of War
In spring 1880, more than a decade after his famous—or perhaps infamous, locale depending—“March to the Sea,” Union General William Tecumseh Sherman observed of a large gathering in Columbus, Ohio,...Published: 5/24/13
An Interview with John Marszalek
Our conversation with Dr. John Marszalek, the Executive Director and Managing Editor of the Ulysses S. Grant Association and Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library. Dr. Marszalek is also the Giles...
Published: 5/22/13
America on the Eve of the Civil War (2010)
At first glance, America on the Eve of the Civil War: A Virginia Sesquicentennial Signature Conference stands apart from most edited volumes both in aim and in organization. Essentially a transcription...
Published: 5/22/13
Andrew Johnson’s Civil War (2011)
Few Presidents have witnessed as drastic a historiographical shift as Andrew Johnson. Hailed in the early twentieth-century as both a defender of the Constitution and a steadfast barrier to Congressional...
Published: 5/22/13
Mending Broken Soldiers (2012)
The American Civil War acted like a battering ram on the human body. Debilitating diseases incapacitated soldiers for weeks and months. Gleaming bayonet blades, soaring shrapnel and shells and leaden...
Published: 5/20/13
Grant and the Forgotten Court of Inquiry
During the siege of Vicksburg, General U. S. Grant had to deal with racial problems, but those problems were always a lower priority than his main goal—the capture of Vicksburg....Published: 5/17/13
An Interview with William A. Link
Our conversation with William A. Link, author of Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War’s Aftermath published by the University of North Carolina...
Published: 5/15/13
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (2013)
When I received my review copy of Allen C. Guelzo’s Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, I asked myself, “does the world need another one-volume history of Gettysburg?” Recent fine monographs on...
Published: 5/13/13
“The Most Fatal of All Acute Diseases:” Pneumonia and the Death of Stonewall Jackson
Library of Congress As night fell and a full moon rose in the sky, Lieutenant General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson was becoming increasingly impatient. Although he had just orchestrated one...
Published: 5/10/13
An Interview with CWI’s Peter Carmichael
Our conversation with Peter Carmichael, the Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. Pete offers his thoughts on the...
Published: 5/8/13
Becoming Confederates (2013)
Much of the work of the historian comes down to explaining what drove historic actors to behave as they did. For Civil War historians the questions are unusually thorny, and...