American Civil War

In this new and expanded third edition of Unburdened by Conscience, Anthony W. Neal forcefully argues that influential historians have been unable ...

After Major General William Tecumseh Shermans forces ravaged Atlanta in 1864, Ulysses S. Grant urged him to complete the primary mission Grant had ...

Lincoln and the Democrats describes the vexatious behavior of a two-party system in war and points to the sound parts of the American system which ...

Character is destiny wrote Greek Philosopher Heraclitus more than twenty-five centuries ago. Douglas Southall Freeman, the Army of Northern Virgini...

A New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceIn 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S....

In 2014, Eric J. Wittenberg published The Devils to Pay: John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour, an award-winning study of Union cav...

The Civil War in the Eastern Theater during the late summer and fall of 1863 was anything but inconsequential. Generals Meade and Lee continued whe...

Richard Snow, who writes with verve and a keen eye (The New York Times Book Review), tells the thrilling story of the naval battle that changed the...

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

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

Robert E. Lee gave Joseph E. Johnston an impossible task. Federal armies under Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had rampaged through Georgia on ...

An Alphabetical Listing of the Officers and Batteries of the Confederacy, 18611865 is a remarkable, immensely useful, and exceedingly rare book con...

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