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Wert's skill in weaving together historical argument and satisfying narrative are on full display...

Nearly twenty years after the end of the Civil War, Union army veteran Melvin Grigsby traveled south in hopes of locating the local woman who had aided him and other northern soldiers held at Castle Morgan prison in Cahaba, Alabama. As the following account, gleaned from Grigsby's postwar memoir, The Smoked Yank, explains, the old soldier found the woman, Amanda Gardner, living with her daughter...

...a notable effort to raise the eponymous Union officer from [the] realm of 'folklore and myth.'

Lang's deeply researched account...is relevant for understanding not just the Civil War, but war in our own time.

The Union occupation of New Bern began in early 1862, when Major General Ambrose Burnside captured the river port.

During the Civil War, the prominent lithography firm Currier and Ives produced inexpensive prints of the conflict and its participants based on original drawings by some of the country’s leading artists.

This biography is an essential text that will shape academic scholarship...and perhaps even inspire a Broadway musical.

Understanding the myth surrounding the man known as "Stonewall" ...

LeRoy's diary charts both his own painful physical disintegration and death and the Confederacy's equally tortuous path to destruction and defeat.

“Reflections of the Face of Lincoln,” a new exhibit that features an impressive animatronic bust of the 16th president, recently opened at the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands, California.