Published: 6/4/19The Best Civil War Movies of All TimeBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Alamy A scene from the movie “Cold Mountain” For our recent newsstand-only special issue The Civil War Almanac, we asked a number of Civil War historians for their opinions on...
Published: 5/17/19A Bright FutureBy: Ronald S. CoddingtonCategory: The Front Line Ronald S. Coddington Collection Captain Thomas Bartlett Griffith This Union officer sporting stylish spectacles with tinted glass and a second pair of lenses is Captain Thomas Bartlett Griffith, a prosperous...
Published: 4/29/19Emerging Scholars SpeakersBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line The American Civil War Museum The new American Civil War Museum, scheduled to open on May 4, 2019 As proud sponsors of the American Civil War Museum’s upcoming Emerging Scholars...
Published: 3/22/19Map QuestBy: Jenny JohnstonCategory: The Front Line Jimell Greene Scott Roland stands on a corner of the fabled Gettysburg electric map in its new home in Hanover, Pennsylvania. It was a sight that stopped traffic: a 10,000-pound...
Published: 3/4/19Extra Voices: Avid ReadersBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress A Union soldier holds reading material in camp In the Voices section of the Spring 2019 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted first-person quotes about...
Published: 2/18/19Announcing Emerging Scholars Program SpeakersBy: Zethyn McKinleyCategory: The Front Line The American Civil War Museum The new American Civil War Museum, scheduled to open in May 2019 The Civil War Monitor is proud to sponsor The American Civil War Museum’s...
Published: 2/15/19A Menu of Historic ProportionsBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line On March 6, 1865, two days after he delivered his second inaugural address to a massive crowd gathered on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, Abraham Lincoln hosted a “Presidential...
Published: 12/31/18New Year’s Eve in CampBy: William Thompson LuskCategory: The Front Line War Letters of William Thompson Lusk (1911) William Thompson Lusk, 79th New York Infantry On New Year’s Eve 1862, 24-year-old William Thompson Lusk, a captain in the 79th New York...
Published: 12/17/18Emancipation on StageBy: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: The Front Line Aaron Flacke Ron Orbach (left) plays Major General Benjamin Butler and Cornelius Davidson portrays Shepard Mallory, an enslaved man who has taken refuge in Union-held Fortress Monroe, in “Ben Butler,”...
Published: 12/9/18The Best Civil War Books of 2018By: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2018 issue contains our annual roundup of the year’s best Civil War titles. As usual, we enlisted the help of a handful...