American Civil War

Although it was the Civil Wars second-largest battle, few books have been written about Chickamauga, and nothing like the thousands penned about th...

Thirteen Months in Dixie, or, the Adventures of a Federal Prisoner in Texas, is a frolicking true tale of adventure, hardship, and heroism during t...

June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is underway. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia pushes west into the Shenandoah Valley and then north tow...

Just five weeks after its publication in January 1836, Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery, billed as an escaped nun's shocking exposé of c...

The 12th Virginia has an amazing history. John Wilkes Booth stood in the ranks of one of its future companies at John Browns hanging. The regiment ...

The present seems to be the most propitious time since the commencement of the war for the Confederate Army to enter Maryland, wrote Robert E. Lee ...

The Shenandoah Valley Campaign, often referred to as Jacksons Valley Campaign, saw Gen. Stonewall Jackson lead fewer than seventeen thousand Confed...

In The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti,...

What did it mean that in the world's first mass democracy only a minority ruled? Women--free and enslaved, white and Black, single and married--con...

They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton plantations. Wherever they lived, enslaved people...

Examining humor in depictions of the Civil War from the war years to the present, this review covers a wide range of literature, film and televi...

Apart from the presidents family, arguably no one was closer to Abraham Lincoln during his tenure in the White House than John George Nicolay. A Ge...

In this second volume of Michael Weeks' thoroughly researched guide to the battlefields of the Civil War, you will find complete tours of every maj...

In June of 1863, Col. William P. Sanders led a cavalry raid of 1,300 men from the Union Army of the Ohio through Confederate-held East Tennessee. T...

Ulric Dahlgren was a brilliant, ambitious young man who became the youngest full colonel in the United States Army at the age of twenty-one, yet di...

The wide-ranging and largely ignored operations around Petersburg, Virginia, were the longest and most extensive of the entire Civil War. The fight...

Often relegated to a backseat by action in the Eastern Theater, the Western Theater is actually where the Federal armies won the Civil War.   In ...

When Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland in early September 1862, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan moved his reorganized...

The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor continues Bradley M. Gottfried's efforts to study and illustrate the major campaigns of the Civil War'...

Fort Sumter. Charleston. April 1861. The bombardment and surrender of Sumter were only the beginning of the story.   Both sides understood the mi...

A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow. When ...