American Civil War

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...

On the evening of February 17, 1864, the Confederacy's H. L. Hunley sank the Union's formidable sloop of war the USS Housatonic and became the firs...

Court Carney's Reckoning with the Devil grapples with the troubled, complex legacy of Nathan Bedford Forrest a slave trader, Confederate general, a...

Disasters threatened Vicksburg on both ends of the Mississippi River early in the war. South of the mighty bastion, New Orleansone of the Confedera...

Gettysburg for Kids and Grown-ups, Too! is a book like no other. It is a family-friendly story of the Battle of Gettysburg for everyone, no matter ...

Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular cu...

Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular cu...

The epic final year of the Civil War in Alabama and its effects on Alabama politics today To understand Alabama today, it's necessary to understand...

Abraham Lincolns November 19, 1863, Gettysburg Address is generally recognized as one of the greatest leadership speeches ever written. The Ultimat...

The storied Iron Brigade carved out a unique reputation during the Civil War. Its men fought on many hard fields, but they performed their most leg...

The Gettysburg Campaign has been examined in minute detail from nearly every aspect but one; the key role played by Richard Ewells Second Corps dur...

The bloodstains are gone, but the worn floorboards remain. The doctors, nurses, and patients who toiled and suffered and ached for home at the Army...

The history of the modern U.S. Capitol, the iconic seat of American government, is also the history of America's most tumultuous years. As the maje...

In 1861, Union Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon marched to St. Louis in the divided slave state Missouri to arrest a state militia unit at Camp ...

In two preceding volumes, Forts Henry and Donelson and Fort Donelsons Legacy, Benjamin Franklin Cooling offered a sweeping portrayal of war and soc...

I will always be somebody. This assertion, a startling one from a nineteenth-century woman, drove the life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only Am...

What happens if we reconsider the literature of the Civil War North in light of the transformation of the federal state's power? While literary sch...

An authoritative and superbly illustrated exploration of the events of July 3, 1863, incorporating new interpretations that have arisen in the past...

July 1863 was a momentous month in the Civil War. News of the Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg electrified the North and devastated the ...

Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing AwardCivil War Supply and Strategy stands as a sweeping examination of the decisive ...

A full account of the Wilderness to the James River, including Grant's rise to high command, the condition of the armies going into the critical 18...

A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction addresses the key topics and themes of the Civil War era, with 23 original essays by top scholars i...

Authors J. David Petruzzi and Steven Stanley use clear and concise writing with original maps, modern and historic photographs, tables, charts, and...

This volume narrates the major battles and campaigns of the conflict, conveying the full military experience during the Civil War. The military enc...

Who were the greatest commanders of the American Civil War, and what made them so? In The Great Commanders of the American Civil War, the best mili...

The Maps of the Wilderness: An Atlas of the Wilderness Campaign, May 2-7, 1864 continues Bradley M. Gottfrieds efforts to study and illustrate the ...

Vicksburg, nicknamed the Gibraltar of the Confederacy, was vital to Confederate supply lines, troop movements, and access to port cities on the Gul...

A narrative history of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference, the bipartisan, last-ditch effort to prevent the Civil War, an effort that nearly aver...

Integrates the political, social, military, and economic forces of the Civil War Absorbing and accessible, This Terrible War : The Civil War and I...

The battle of Chickamauga brought an early fall to the Georgia countryside in 1863, where men fell like autumn leaves in some of the heaviest fight...