Published: 2/26/21Letters Home: Correspondence from Men at WarBy: Peter S. CarmichaelCategory: The Front Line Frank Leslie’s illustrated Newspaper Union soldiers take a moment to write home on the hurricane deck of the U.S. transport North Star while on campaign in the Gulf of Mexico...
Published: 12/28/20Goodbye to All ThatBy: Mark GrimsleyCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Lieutenant Robert Pryor James, Co. E, 20th North Carolina Infantry This will be my final column for the “American Iliad” series, a project I undertook five years...
Published: 12/21/20Extra Voices: CoffeeBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line USAHEC A coffee cup used during the Civil War In the Voices section of the Winter 2020 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate...
Published: 12/7/20The Best Civil War Books of 2020By: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2020 issue contains our annual roundup of the year’s best Civil War titles. As usual, we enlisted the help of a handful...
Published: 11/17/20“The Good Lord Bird”: Episode 7By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: The Front Line On October 4, 2020, The Good Lord Bird, a 7-part miniseries about the life of abolitionist John Brown—based on the award-winning novel of the same name by James McBride—premiered on...
Published: 11/11/20“The Good Lord Bird”: Episode 6By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: The Front Line On October 4, 2020, The Good Lord Bird, a 7-part miniseries about the life of abolitionist John Brown—based on the award-winning novel of the same name by James McBride—premiered on...
Published: 11/3/20“The Good Lord Bird”: Episode 5By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: The Front Line On October 4, 2020, The Good Lord Bird, a 7-part miniseries about the life of abolitionist John Brown—based on the award-winning novel of the same name by James McBride—premiered on...
Published: 10/27/20“The Good Lord Bird”: Episode 4By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: The Front Line On October 4, 2020, The Good Lord Bird, a 7-part miniseries about the life of abolitionist John Brown—based on the award-winning novel of the same name by James McBride—premiered on...
Published: 10/23/20The Five Best Books on the Confederate HomefrontBy: Anne Sarah RubinCategory: The Front Line Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper In a New Orleans cemetery in 1863, a woman and her daughters adorn the graves of loved ones killed during the war. For decades, books about...
Published: 10/20/20“The Good Lord Bird”: Episode 3By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: The Front Line On October 4, 2020, The Good Lord Bird, a 7-part miniseries about the life of abolitionist John Brown—based on the award-winning novel of the same name by James McBride—premiered on...