The Bookshelf

Michael E. Woods' "Arguing Until Doomsday" is one of the most engaging and accessible histories of the pre-Civil War Democratic Party to date.

The contributors to "Vicksburg Besieged" supply welcome new perspectives on a pivotal moment in Civil War history.

In "The Three-Cornered War," Megan Kate Nelson accomplishes the rare feat of providing a new perspective on the Civil War...

Robert J. Wolz recalls the work of postwar northern women’s organizations in "Grand Army Women."

"Targeted Tracks" tells the Civil War story of the Cumberland Valley Railroad....

Heather Cox Richardson's "How the South Won the War" advances the field of Civil War studies and Civil War memory beyond the history of commemoration....

"Rebels in the Making" by William A. Barney is a recommended, in-depth primer to secession for academics and classrooms alike.

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.