American Civil War

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...

A Brief Moment in the Sun is the first scholarly biography of Francis Lewis Cardozo, one of the most talented and influential African Americans to ...

An insightful, detailed, and invaluable account of daily life in the Union Navy On May 18, 1862, Henry Willis Wells wrote a letter to his mother te...

Whether or not the United States won the war of 1812, two engagements that occurred toward the end of the conflict had an enormous influence on the...

Engineering Victory brings a fresh approach to the question of why the North prevailed in the Civil War. Historian Thomas F. Army, Jr., identifies ...

The first in-depth study of the Freemasons during the Civil WarOne of the enduring yet little examined themes in Civil War lore is the widespread b...

A comparison of the faith and politics of former Confederate chaplains with intriguing insights about the evolution of their postwar beliefs and th...

The Civil War was the greatest health disaster the United States has ever experienced, killing more than a million Americans and leaving many other...

A signal, violent event in the history of the United States Congress, the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor embodied the complex North-S...

Originally published in 1998, Like Men of War was a groundbreaking early study of Black troops in the Civil War that is still considered a major co...

In 1861, brothers Daniel and Pressley Boyd left their farm in Abbeville County, South Carolina to join the Confederate army. William, Thomas and...

One of the preeminent Black scholars of his era traces the life and bold aspirations of a man who devoted his life to opposing slavery at any cost....

The Civil War is a much plumbed area of scholarship, so much so that at times it seems there is no further work to be done in the field. However, t...

Anti-Catholicism has had a long presence in American history. The Civil War in 1861 gave Catholic Americans a chance to prove their patriotism once...

Although the British government declared its neutrality during the American Civil War, London nevertheless became an important center of Confede...

Because of its extraordinary consequences and because of Abraham Lincolns place in the American pantheon, the presidential election of 1860 is prob...

Named a Top Ten Book of 2023 by Civil War Books and Authors Agents of Empire expands the historiographical scope of Civil War studies to include th...

Slavery was at the heart of the South's agrarian economy before and during the Civil War. Agriculture provided products essential to the war eff...

Galvanized is a thought-provoking work well suited to the contemplative general reader.Kathryn A. McKee, North Carolina Historical ReviewEvery Civi...

In the fall of 1862 Julia Wilbur left her familys farm near Rochester, New York, and boarded a train to Washington, DC. As an ardent abolitionist, ...

One young woman's correspondence with her community's servicemen, maintaining connection and boosting morale throughout the Civil WarDuring the Ame...

In Lincoln's Trident, Coast Guard historian Robert M. Browning Jr. continues his magisterial series about the Union's naval blockade of the Confede...

The Battle of Petersburg was the culmination of the Virginia Overland campaign, which pitted the Army of the Potomac, led by Ulysses S. Grant and G...