American Civil War

As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and wh...

Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playin...

A Press Divided provides new insights regarding the sharp political divisions that existed among the newspapers of the Civil War era. These newspap...

Comprehensive photographic study of surviving Battle of Little Big Horn artifacts with narratives authenticating each item. This book is a fir...

The power of the American press to influence and even set the political agenda is commonly associated with the rise of such press barons as Joseph ...

When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this grou...

The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed wes...

When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through wa...

As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

Following the suggestion of the historian Peter Parish, these essays probe the edges of slavery and the sectional conflict. The authors seek to rec...

Native Southerners lived in vibrant societies, rich in tradition and cultural sophistication, for thousands of years before the arrival of European...

This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans'...

For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently enslaved for a meaningful freedom and ...

This fresh examination of antebellum politics comprehensively examines the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures with...

The Battle of Gettysburg has probably been the subject of more books and articles than any other comparable event. Surprisingly, until this work, n...

Based on visitor descriptions of antebellum Mobile, Alabamas physical and social environment, this book captures a place and time that is particula...

Based on visitor descriptions of antebellum Mobile, Alabamas physical and social environment, this book captures a place and time that is particula...

The admired American painter Winslow Homer rose to national attention during the Civil War. But one of his most important early images remained unk...

In Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front, Timothy B. Smith examines Mississippi's Civil War defeat by both outside and inside forces. The in...

Almost 200,000 African Americans fought to save the Union, many believing that military service was the pathway to freedom. Yet, even after enlisti...