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The diligent, robust scholarship found on the pages of David A. Powell and Eric J. Wittenberg's "Tullahoma" has expanded the historiography and helped to further balance perspectives on the relative importance of the Western Theater.

Michael Smith's "The Thin Gray Line" offers a new look at the darker side of the war.

Readers and scholars with wide-ranging interests will find Thomas F. Curran's "Women Making War" useful and fascinating.

In "Absalom Hazlett," Spencer Sadler has unearthed and conveyed a valuable story about a captivating and overlooked subject.

A southerner finds clarity in a tangle of loyalties ...

Comprehensive is perhaps the best adjective to describe Neil P. Chatelain's "Defending the Arteries of Rebellion."

In the Voices section of the Winter 2020 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about the importance of coffee to the troops. Unfortunately, we didn't have room to include all that we found. Below are those that didn't make the cut.

James Lee McDonough's "William Tecumseh Sherman" is a capable and often moving biography of a worthy subject.

Internal division within the Confederacy, Jeffrey Zvengrowski claims, had less to do with class and more to do with politics...

With the help of a handful of Civil War historians and enthusiasts, here is our list of the best Civil War books of 2020.