The Bookshelf

Assessing the medium from the 1860s through the Gilded Age and beyond, Brown produces one of the most comprehensive explorations on Civil War monuments to date.

Evan Kutzler's "Living By Inches" shows that Robert Penn Warren was right; the Civil War is our 'felt' history.

Anna Gibson Holloway and Jonathan W. White's "Our Little Monitor" offers cutting-edge maritime archaeology and thorough historical research....

As Jon D. Schaff's "Abraham Lincoln's Statesmanship and the Limits of Liberal Democracy" shows, there is no discernible slowdown in the publication of books on the sixteenth president.

Sue Thibodeau has produced a work that encourages sightseers to temporarily ditch modern means of viewing the field in favor of traversing the south-central Pennsylvania countryside on a bike.

In Steven R. Stotelmyer's "Too Useful to Sacrifice," George B. McClellan has now received his day in court.

"William Gregg’s Civil War" is brisk and lively as the guerrilla moves through his many experiences serving under William Quantrill.

Christopher Lyle McIlwain Sr.'s "The Million-Dollar Man Who Helped Kill a President" does an admirable job ...

"The narrative comes to life" in Ralph Peters' Darkness at Chancellorsville, one "of the best-written battle sequences I've ever read."

S.C. Gwynne's "Hymns of the Republic" is "a readable narrative that carries readers from Ulysses S. Grant’s arrival in the Eastern Theater to the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House."