The Bookshelf

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.

Women, enslaved African Americans, and upper-class planters determined the parameters within which the Confederate military effort would succeed or fail on the battlefield.

The end of the Civil War ultimately brought no peace to the Indian Territory....

Wills' study...underscores the sheer ubiquity of death that descended upon the nation between 1861 and 1865.

The massacre at Mother Emanuel simultaneously underscores the endurance of Civil War memory in the contemporary United States and the extent to which Americans still struggle, often violently, to control the fundamental meanings of those memories.

Historic turning points can hinge on the stroke of a pen or a turn in the road.