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Villard's newspaper dispatches are a rich resource for students of the Secession Winter.

A top-notch operational study that benefits from Gottfried's judicious insights and experience as a military historian.

Teters parses and explains well the complexity of how emancipation played out on the ground, making his book a valuable contribution to the literature.

On New Year's Eve 1862, 24-year-old William Thompson Lusk, a captain in the 79th New York Infantry—a regiment known as the "Highlanders" for its predominently Scottish-American makeup—penned the following letter to his sister Lillie at the family home in Connecticut. In his ambivalence about the year gone by and the one to come, Lusk was not unlike countless thousands of other Civil War...

...immediately takes its place on the short shelf of indispensable Civl War reference works.

[R]eveals how two members of the Civil War generation struggled with imprisonment...including that which did not take place behind prison walls.

One weekend last October, my husband and I drove several hours to Portland, Maine, to see a play about lawyer and Civil War general Benjamin Franklin Butler. The stage was stacked with moving boxes, a rolled-up rug, several pieces of unhung artwork, and a large desk piled with papers. Brickwork archways soared overhead, bolstering the stage roof. Ben Butler, by playwright Richard Strand and staged...

Editor Timothy Roberts deserves high marks...makes for good reading, and researchers will find it equally rewarding.

With the help of a handful of Civil War historians and enthusiasts, here is our compilation of their favorite Civil War books published in 2018.

Vicksburg ... is a book for popular audiences ... particularly those seeking a perspective more sympathetic to the Confederates.