American Civil War

All states are not created equal, at least not when it comes to their influence on American history. That assumption underlies Massachusetts and th...

General Shermans 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary militar...

Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute f...

Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute f...

This is the story of 150 of the most adventurous scouts, gold prospectors, gunslingers, buffalo hunters, and Civil War veterans of both sidesthey m...

In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I. P. Smith offers a new interpretation of the fa...

Winner of the Abraham Lincoln Institute of Washingtons 2019 book prize!A Renowned Historian Gives New Perspective on Statesmen at WarLewis E. Lehrm...

Though much has been written about the American Civil War itself, little has been written about the spy war that went on within. The chronicling of...

Get the lowdown on America's Bloodiest War-the Civil War-with this essential guide to 101 interesting and unexpected facts about this defining even...

George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental HistoryVSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in Am...

Manipulative Cabinet members, opportunistic hack congressmen, a people yearning for freedom-does this sound familiar?But we are not talking about p...

LeRoy Wiley Gresham was born into an affluent slave-holding family in Macon, Georgia. A horrific leg injury left him an invalid, but that didnt sto...

This ground-breaking series is a comprehensive history that traces the Presidential line of the Washingtons. Volume one begins with the immigrant J...

In this expansive history of South Carolina's commemoration of the Civil War era, Thomas Brown uses the lens of place to examine the ways that land...

Tens of thousands of books have been published on the Civil War. In an effort to list some of the most important titles, in 1997 the University of ...

In October 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland was besieged in Chattanooga, all but surrounded by familiar opponents: The Confederate Army of Te...

Union surgeon James Dana Benton witnessed firsthand the suffering and death brought about by the ghastly wounds, infections, and diseases that wrea...

The years after the Civil War were marked by bitter political fights betwen the Democrats and Radical Republicans over how to reunite the country, ...