Books and Discussions
Published: 10/2/24
The Top Five Books on Johnny Reb
Matthew Christopher Hulbert offers his picks for the best books about the common Confederate soldier.
Published: 10/2/24
Q&A with Alan Taylor
Historian Allen Taylor discusses his 2024 book "American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850–1873."
Published: 10/2/24
Our Ancient Faith (2024)
Allen Guelzo's "Our Ancient Faith" is at once thought-provoking, learned, and eminently readable.
Published: 10/1/24
Lincoln Prize Lecture 2024
An exclusive Q&A with the featured speakers at The American Civil War Museum's 2024 Lincoln Prize Lecture, Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant.
Published: 9/25/24
Lincoln’s Lost Colony (2023)
"Lincoln's Lost Colony" is a tragic yet fascinating chapter of Civil War history.
Published: 9/18/24
High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac (2024)
"High-Bounty Men" breaks new ground and makes an historiographical intervention by reclaiming the honor of late-war recruits.
Published: 9/11/24
America’s Imagined Revolution (2024)
Tomos Wallbank-Hughes's "America's Imagined Revolution" provides Reconstruction scholars with plenty new to ponder.
Published: 9/4/24
The Abraham Lincoln Book of Quotes (2023)
In "The Abraham Lincoln Book of Quotes," editor Travis Hellstrom presents some of the sixteenth president's "most loved wisdom.”
Published: 8/28/24
The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism (2024)
In "The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism," Niels Eichhorn and Duncan Campbell offer a convincing study of how the Civil War fit into broader international movements.
Published: 8/21/24
“Tell Mother Not to Worry” (2024)
Kirkwood’s study will undoubtedly appeal to Gettysburg aficionados. However, its utility should extend far beyond students of the conflict’s largest and costliest engagement.
Published: 8/14/24
Texas Coastal Defense in the Civil War (2024)
William Nelson Fox’s new book supplies an introduction to military operations along the Texas Gulf Coast during the U.S. Civil War.
Published: 8/7/24
Wide Awake (2024)
Jon Grinspan's "Wide Awake" is a must-read for 2024.
Published: 8/2/24
Q&A with Erik Larson
Author Erik Larson discusses his book "The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War."
Published: 8/2/24
Essential Reading on Chancellorsville
Historian John Hennessy on his top five books about the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Published: 7/24/24
A Fire Bell in the Past, Vol. II (2021)
The contributors to this volume have interrogated new themes and examined old issues with new lenses.
Published: 7/22/24
Reporting on the Defeated South
Travel accounts from the immediate aftermath of the Civil War illuminate social, economic, and political conditions in the former Confederacy. Among the best are John Richard Dennett’s The South As...
Published: 7/17/24
We Shall Conquer or Die (2024)
With his debut book, Derrick Lindow has depicted an element of the war that certainly deserves more attention.
Published: 7/10/24
Convicting the Mormons (2023)
Janiece Johnson's "Convicting the Mormons" offers an engaging account of the narrative nineteenth century Americans created about the Mountain Meadows Massacre.