The Bookshelf

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

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

The publication of the letters and diaries of Civil War officers and men appears to continue unabated.

...a look at Confederate unit that has commanded precious little attention from historians and scholars.

Americans could be convinced to address their national sin through systematic action: the deaths of hundreds of thousands of citizens on the battlefield.

Hardy lays out the complex politics of loyalty along the East Tennessee-Western North Carolina state line...

Appalachia...is central to understanding North Carolina's Reconstruction.

Combining rigorous research an an innovative organization...demonstrates what an exceptional unit history can teach us about the Civil War.

Graves crest Marye's Heights, and Union soldiers now occupy the land they could not reach in December 1862.

Lloyd weaves a story of the political intricacies of Spanish Cuba, which served as a base for shipping munitions...through the federal blockade of southern ports during the Civil War.