The Bookshelf

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.

Loperfido has done the study of Civil War medicine a valuable service....

Collins pays particular attention to the U.S. Civil War, the French Intervention in Mexico, Reconstruction, and cattle rustling.

Tagg has not written a stand-alone book on the Battle of Shiloh, but rather a superb supplement that also reads well from cover to cover.

Since Congress began debating the Kansas-Nebraska Act, it has inspired torrents of words, from polemics and conspiracy theories to insider exposés and scholarly studies.

The Battle of Peach Tree Creek by Earl Hess is a solid work that fits neatly into the growing historiography of the Atlanta Campaign.

To say that Greene's research is exhaustive does not quite do it justice...this first volume certainly establishes itself as essential reading for future scholars of the Petersburg Campaign.

Steve French sheds light on an understudied Confederate partisan ranger unit: John and Jesse McNeill's Rangers.

A comprehensive history of the most complicated, diverse, and misunderstood part of the American Civil War.

...a balanced and solid biography of one of the Civil War's more obscure figures.