Books and Discussions
Published: 7/17/13
The Fall of the House of Dixie (2013)
In The Fall of the House of Dixie, Bruce Levine sets out to reintroduce the Civil War to the American public not as a series of battles but as a...
Published: 7/10/13
A Surgeon’s Tale (2011)
The American Civil War was a veritable bloodbath for the men who waged it. More than 400,000 Billy Yanks were wounded throughout the conflict—245,000 of those casualties were gunshot wounds....
Published: 7/10/13
River of Dark Dreams (2013)
Walter Johnson opens River of Dark Dreams with a bang and a dream: the 1850 explosion of the steam boat Anglo-Norman at New Orleans and Thomas Jefferson’s “empire of liberty” dream....
Published: 7/5/13
An Interview with Timothy Wesley
Our conversation with Timothy Wesley, a lecturer in history and religious studies at Penn State University and affiliate of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center. In...
Published: 7/3/13
A Field Guide to Gettysburg (2013)
This is the second collaboration between Carol Reardon, a professor of military history at Penn State University, and Tom Vossler, a retired Army colonel and licensed Gettysburg battlefield guide since...
Published: 7/3/13
The Gettysburg Campaign in Numbers and Losses (2013)
Civil War veterans were obsessed with numbers and losses. Regimental historians corresponded with their former comrades for decades, hoping to render an “accurate” depiction of their wartime travails. Grand Army...
Published: 6/28/13
An Interview with Caroline Janney
Our conversation with Caroline Janney, an associate professor of history at Purdue University and author of Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation published by the...
Published: 6/26/13
The Election of 1860 Reconsidered (2013)
This series of essays on the election of 1860 had its origins in the third annual symposium of the Civil War Study Group, hosted by the University of Indianapolis, in...
Published: 6/21/13
An Interview with J.P. Terry
Our conversation with J.P. Terry, CEO of Smartdoc Technologies and the developer of the Gettysburg150 app. In this interview, Terry discusses the features of the Gettysburg150 app as well as...
Published: 6/14/13
An Interview with Allen Guelzo
Our conversation with Allen Guelzo, the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College and author most recently of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, published by...
Published: 6/12/13
What the Yankees Did to Us (2012)
General William Tecumseh Sherman was a very bad man. This is the main point of Stephen Davis’ exhaustive history of the Union capture of Atlanta in 1864. Davis makes his...
Published: 6/9/13
Grant at Vicksburg (2013)
Grant at Vicksburg is much more than a biography or campaign study. The depth of Michael Ballard’s research into Grant’s correspondence and routine make it a study in command, control,...
Published: 6/7/13
An Interview with Ron Maxwell
Our conversation with Ron Maxwell, director of the forthcoming film “Copperhead.” In this interview, Ron discusses the motivation behind filming this work and its similarities and differences to his...
Published: 6/5/13
A Misplaced Massacre (2013)
November 29, 2014, will mark the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre. On that day in 1864, elements of the 1st and 3rd Colorado volunteer regiments slaughtered more than...
Published: 5/31/13
An Interview with Michael David Cohen
Our conversation with Michael David Cohen, an assistant research professor of history at the University of Tennessee and author of Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil...
Published: 5/29/13
They Have Left Us Here To Die (2011)
Glen Robins’ transcription and analysis of Sargent Lyle G. Adair’s prison diary provides insight into the Civil War prison camp experience. In They Have Left Us Here to Die, Robins...
Published: 5/29/13
Unholy Sabbath (2012)
Discussion of the skirmishes fought on the mountain passes of western Maryland in mid-September 1862 is usually met with wide eyes. Although South Mountain is traditionally written off as an...
Published: 5/29/13
Divided Loyalties (2012)
In this concise volume, James Finck, a professor at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, offers a reconsideration of white Kentuckians decision to remain neutral—and then ultimately join...