American Civil War

Although the Civil War and the Great War were fought only fifty years apart, the perceived time between these two cataclysmic events seems far long...

This book offers a unique firsthand account of the experiences of a teenage officer in America’s Civil War. Second Lieutenant Thomas James Howell w...

Most observers and historians rarely acknowledge the history of civil rights predating the twentieth-century. The book Black Rights in the Reconstr...

Historians of the American Civil War have debated a wide range of questions raised by the war and its outcome. None have been more vigorously argue...

The sesquicentennial of the American Civil War presents a unique opportunity to consider the motivation behind General Robert E. Lee’s efforts to d...

Through informative case studies, this illuminating book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in whic...

The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot: The Fort Stevens Story recounts the story of President Abraham Lincoln’s role in the Battle of Fort Stevens in Jul...

The Diary of a Civil War Marine: Private Josiah Gregg is a rare firsthand account of a United States Marine during the Civil War, written within ho...

The U.S. Army built Fort Phil Kearny in the foothills of Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains in 1866 to protect travelers on the Bozeman Trail headed to Mo...

Generations of Americans have debated the meaning of Abraham Lincoln's views on race and slavery. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and suppo...

A free region deeply influenced by southern mores, the Lower Middle West represented a true cultural and political median in Civil War–era America....

This book offers a unique firsthand account of the experiences of a teenage officer in America’s Civil War. Second Lieutenant Thomas James Howell w...

Nearly 250 years after ninety-five-year-old Elder Thomas Faunce got caught up in the mythmaking around Plymouth Rock, his great-great-great-great-g...

So remarkable was the fighting to the east of Atlanta on July 22, 1864, that it earned its place as the only engagement of the Civil War to be wide...

Lewis George Clarke published the story of his life as a slave in 1845, after he had escaped from Kentucky and become a well-regarded abolitionist ...

Unlike most books about the Civil War, which address individual battles or the war at the national level, States at War: A Reference Guide for Mich...

Finalist for the 2011 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize "A seminal work. . . . One of the best examples of new, sophisticated scholarship on the socia...

At its core, the Civil War was a conflict over the meaning of citizenship. Most famously, it became a struggle over whether or not to grant rights ...

From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as b...

For years the Ewing family of Ohio has been lost in the historical shadow cast by their in-law, General William T. Sherman. In the era of the Civil...

This unique history of the Civil War considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to as well as the course of t...

At the height of the Civil War in 1863, the Union instated the first-ever federal draft. Patriotism By Proxy develops a new understanding of the co...

Lincoln and Leadership offers fresh perspectives on the 16th president—making novel contributions to the scholarship of one of the more studied fig...

The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale ne...

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in U.S. history. It continues to attract enormous and inten...

Drawing on records of about 5,500 soldiers and veterans, Shades of Green traces the organization of Irish regiments from the perspective of local c...

Empire and Liberty brings together two epic subjects in American history: the story of the struggle to end slavery that reached a violent climax in...

Gideon Welles’s 1861 appointment as secretary of the navy placed him at the hub of Union planning for the Civil War and in the midst of the powerfu...