American Civil War

'My dear, I don't give a damn.'Margaret Mitchell’s page-turning, sweeping American epic has been a classic for over eighty years. Beloved and thoug...

During the battle of Gettysburg, as Union troops along Cemetery Ridge rebuffed Pickett's Charge, they were heard to shout, ""Give them Fredericksbu...

The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic co...

In the aftermath of the Civil War, Republicans and Democrats who advocated conflicting visions of American citizenship could agree on one thing: th...

Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Millions of tourists flo...

The American Civil War is often seen as the first modern war, not least because of its immense suffering. Yet unlike later conflicts, it did not pr...

Abraham H. Galloway (1837-1870) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the mos...

Bold, brash, and full of ambition, George Brinton McClellan seemed destined for greatness when he assumed command of all the Union armies before he...

Houses Divided provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral questi...

On April 15th 1861, the day after the fall of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers to enlist for three months...

In April 1861, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus along the military line between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. Th...

The Civil War is often portrayed as the most brutal war in America's history, a premonition of twentieth-century slaughter and carnage. In challeng...

Texas was the South's frontier in the antebellum period. The vast new state represented the hope and future of many Southern cotton planters. As...

In the eyes of many historians, Union general George B. McClellan single-handedly did more damage to the Union war effort than any other individ...