The Bookshelf

Mertz and the Emerging Civil War Series have given us excellent history in guidebook format.

Powell adds nuance and depth to a well-studied campaign.

The broad selection of scholars here...challenges readers to expand their own perspective on the conflict.

When Lincoln spoke about 'binding up the nation's wounds,' he almost certainly counted the landscape among them.

If surrender never quite 'defined' the war, this book makes clear that it unquestionably suffused it.

In his latest book, "Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth" (to be published this fall by the University of North Carolina Press), Boston-based historian and educator Kevin M. Levin tackles the enduring

Bierle never loses sight of the fact that the battle did not occur in some remote hinterland, but rather in a larger community.

Chickamauga was a grim first outing for the Alabamians.

Reidy does not see a single point, a single event, or a single historical figure as responsible for emancipation.

Unable to compel Sherman to attack, Hood trundled west into Alabama and changed his objective.