American Civil War

On July 20, 1864, the Civil War struggle for Atlanta reached a pivotal moment. As William T. Sherman's Union forces came ever nearer the city, the ...

Fight for the Final Frontier uses the concepts associated with irregular warfare to offer new insights for understanding the nature of strategic co...

The Civil War and Reconstruction periods in United States history are widely viewed as a second founding of the nation, one that sought to bring th...

'No two nations have ever existed on the face of the earth which could do each other so much good or so much harm'President Buchanan, State of the ...

The Red River Campaign of 1864 was a bold attempt to send large Union army and navy forces deep into the interior of Louisiana, seize the Rebel cap...

This Civil War sourcebook organizes the crucial details of the war in an inventive format designed to enhance the reader's knowledge base and bi...

In the mid-1800s, Spain experienced economic growth, political stabilization, and military revival, and the country began to sense that it again co...

In May 1863, eighteen-year-old William Brooke Rawle graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and traded a genteel, cultured life of privilege ...

This work is a witty, unique exploration of the eerie similarities between the assassinations of presidents Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy that h...

Civil War Supply and Strategy stands as a sweeping examination of the decisive link between the distribution of provisions to soldiers and the stra...

Countering the powerful myth that the civil war in Russia was largely between the Whites and the Reds, Vladimir Brovkin views the struggle as a mul...

The Maps of Antietam breaks down the entire operation into 21 map sets or action-sections enriched with 124 full-colour original full-page maps. Th...

In early July 1864, a quickly patched together force of outnumbered Union soldiers under the command of Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace prepared for a last-d...

Thousands of books and articles have been written about Gettysburg, but the operation remains one of the most complex and difficult to understand. ...

Now available in paperback, The Last Battle of Winchester is the first serious study to chronicle the largest, longest, and bloodiest battle fought...

Lieutenant General James Longstreets deployment to East Tennessee promised a chance to shine. The commander of the First Corps of the Army of North...

The American Civil War left indelible marks on America's imagination, collectively and as individuals. In the century and a half since the war, mu...

The Battle of Wises (Wyse) Forks, March 7-11, 1865, has long been thought of as nothing more than an insignificant skirmish during the final days o...