The Bookshelf

In September 1848, a virtually unknown, thirty-nine-year-old Illinois congressman named Abraham Lincoln lurched north on an urgent political errand.

John Stewart did a yeoman job of searching the archives for "Pinkertons, Prostitutes, and Spies."

Exhaustive research, keen analysis, and lively narrative marks "Lee Is Trapped, and Must Be Taken" as a definitive contribution to the field.

David Connon's is an intimate and thought-provoking work which challenges notions of Northern hegemony...

Mark Hughes' "Confederate Soldiers in the American Civil War" is a short but comprehensive guide on the Confederate soldier...it should be added to every Civil War enthusiast's bookshelf.

A thoroughly engaging read, Adam Domby's "The False Cause" exposes the outrageous falsehoods that underpinned the Lost Cause.

Editor Mark Flotow’s "In Their Letters, In Their Words" is a valuable read for those interested an the on-the-ground perspective of the war.

In "Gold and Freedom," Nicolas Barreyre seeks to broaden the scope, geographic as well as temporal, of Reconstruction.

In "Mississippi Bishop William Henry Elder and the Civil War," Ryan Starrett has produced an excellent, if limited local history...

Clint Crowe's "Caught in the Maelstrom" shows that the Indian Territory is a fertile field for future research....