American Civil War

The four volumes of The Complete Medal of Honor present the full citations of the 3,537 awards granted to 3,517 men (nineteen were double recipient...

How Reconstruction-era political battles reflected global struggles over the era's core ideals Exporting Reconstruction examines Ulysses S. Grant's...

The southern climate, with its heat, oppressive humidity, and stagnant marshland, accentuated disease and suffering for inhabitants of the Old Sout...

By the end of March 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant was at a crossroads in his military career. His bold attempts in the late fall 1862 and wi...

Rachel Moores and her husband David operated a cotton plantation in the bottoms of the Sulphur River in North East Texas. From that vantage point, ...

The waning days of 1862 marked a nadir in the fortunes of the Union. After major defeats at Fredericksburg in Virginia and Chickasaw Bayou in Missi...

William Marvel's The Confederate Resurgence of 1864 examines a dozen understudied Confederate and Union military operations carried out during the ...

Behind the familiar names of the military and political leaders whose names we all know--Lincoln, Davis, Lee, Grant, Sherman, and Jackson, are the ...

Between 1861 and 1865, northern voters fortified Abraham Lincoln's administration as it oversaw the end of the institution of slavery and an unprec...

Military operations in Fredericksburg, Virginia, were a significant part of the Chancellorsville Campaign, but they are overshadowed by what occurr...

Two decades after the end of the Civil War, former Confederate officer Riddick Gatlin bewailed the lack of a history of the famous Branch-Lane Brig...

Most studies of the Mississippi River focus on Union campaigns to open and control it, while overlooking Southern attempts to stop them. Neil Chate...

This book describes and illustrates the uniforms and personal equipment of the troops fielded by the Midwestern and Western states that fought for ...

One of the best-known quotes of the American Civil War is Admiral David Farragut's defiant order at the Battle of Mobile Bay, Damn the torpedoes, f...

The Maps of Second Bull Run: An Atlas of the Second Bull Run/Manassas Campaign from the Formation of the Army of Virginia Through the Battle of Cha...

The bloody two-week siege of Spanish Fort, Alabama (March 26-April 8, 1865) was one of the final battles of the Civil War. Despite its importance a...

May and June 1864 in Virginia witnessed some of the most brutal and bloody fighting of the Civil War. After the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court Hous...

George Washburn joined the New York Tribune as a rookie reporter soon after the American Civil War broke out in 1861. He was assigned to follow the...

For the Cherokee Nation, the Civil War was more than a contest between the Union and the Confederacy. It was yet another battle in the larger strug...

The National Tribune was the premier Union veterans newspaper of the post-Civil War era. Launched in 1877 by a New York veteran to help his comrade...

The importance of political moderation in preserving the UnionHolding the Political Center in Illinois charts the political trajectory of Illinois ...

Much has been written about the Unites States air forces during the Second World War, but little has been written about the early days of American ...

Lesser Civil Wars: Civilians Defining War and the Memory of War is an edited volume that surveys three hundred years of the Memory of war and the W...

The scene of incessant battles, campaigns, and occupations, Virginias Shenandoah Valley had been touched by the Civil Wars cruel hand during four y...

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

Lesser Civil Wars: Civilians Defining War and the Memory of War is an edited volume that surveys three hundred years of the Memory of war and the W...

This book details Lees life from Gettysburg to his death just five years after the Souths surrender at Appomattox. Rather than retreating bitterly ...

Frequently surprising, sometimes bloody, and always absorbing, Behind Enemy Lines offers up tales of espionage, hit-and-run raids, and guerrilla wa...

The Battle of Bull Run took place in July 1861 and although when all was said and done, its impact was relatively limited, it did have a far-reachi...

A True Cold Mountain from the Northern PerspectiveMore than 150 years ago, 27-year-old Irish immigrant Josiah Moore met 19-year-old Jennie Lindsay,...

Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true s...